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Subject: Re: Vinyl vs. CD recordings- a reasonably informed view...
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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 01:51:58 EDT
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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".