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