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From: rayjay@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: severe beating
Message-ID: <470@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 11:30:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxr.470
Posted: Wed Jun 15 11:30:24 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jun-83 21:08:36 EDT
Organization: BTL Naperville, Il.
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I know that I am subjecting myself to possible severe abuse (only verbal
I hope) when I say that CDs are an unsatisfactory medium for me.  While
at the summer CES, I got a chance to listen to many versions of these units.
Aside from the lack of record noise and the expanded dynamic range there
was little else to reccomend them.  The upper midrange was terribly shifted
(upward) and the high end was downright brittle.  Except for electric piano
and guitar, everything seemed "processed".  People talk about increasing
the sample rate but will that ever make up for lack of third and fourth
order harmonics?
                                               
                                          J. K. Wray BTL-Naperville