From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!hou5b!hou5c!hou5e!mat Newsgroups: net.audio Title: Re: NAD and digital ramblings Article-I.D.: hou5e.280 Posted: Sat Mar 12 20:53:48 1983 Received: Sun Mar 13 14:23:21 1983 References: utcsrgv.1151 Ken Newman says that all digital audio disk players will sound essentially alike. I agree to a point. The DIGITAL side should be the same, assuming that there are no subtle kinds of distortion that can be introduced by marginal tracking (by the laser beam of the disk) or by slight resonances in the drive motors, etc. I don't know enough about the subject to really be convinced one way or the other. The analog side is another story. Here we will probably continue to be blessed, at least in lower--priced units--with TIM, IM, slew limiting, dynamic range (noise floor vs. power headroom) considerations, and the like. Still, it should be improved vastly over what we have got now ... BTW, for those of you into either into ``good loud music'' or ``the high end experience'', Telarc released, a few months ago, a test--and--demo record set called the OMNIDISK. Most of the interesting tests apart from equalization require no aids other than a stopwatch and the screwdriver that fits your cartridge screws. The last side is devoted to a couple of ``real music'' demos: 1) B Britten's ``Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra'' with narrator -- a nice demonstration of strhereo imaging 2) A remake of the Beach Boys' ``Good Vibrations''. This is really stunning, but PLAY IT SOFTLY the first time, or you may turn you woofers into ICBMs. Well worth the cost. -hou5e!mat Duke of DeNet