Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!newton2 From: newton2@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Vinyl vs. CD recordings- a reasonably informed view... Message-ID: <563@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 01:51:58 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.563 Posted: Fri Oct 5 01:51:58 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Oct-84 04:33:52 EDT References: <3050@watcgl.UUCP> <61@unc.UUCP> <829@opus.UUCP>, <1197@eagle.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Calif., Berkeley CA USA Lines: 22 I very much liked Adrian Freed's posting on the practical engineering aspects ofCD equipment, as well as the reasoned segregation of the inherent appealing virtues of a discrete storage medium from the constantly shifting vagaries of the recording/reproduction gadgets currently available. I'd like to see more discussion of this sort, on this plane, about many of the topics that exercise so many of us nutty audiophiles. More care in isolating and identifying what are the virtues we are seeking to maximize when we tout or trash some gismo or technology. For example, can anyone get a handle (epistomologically) on what this Sheffield person seems to be saying (in a recent squib in Studio Sound) when he asserts that some of the digital demons can be exorcised by recording CDs that are dubs of (his) analog masters? Does anyone else claim that "transistor sound" can be laundered away by passing the signal through a triode? Seemingly yes, since many people assert that the "improvement" of some element in a concatenated chain of equipment can eliminate crippling inadequacies caused by the nature of the replaced element, despite the presence of doezens of identical elements up and down the chain (transformers, copper wire with merely tinned connectors, class AB amplifier stages, what-have-you). Oh well, "there I go again".