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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 02:49
Originally posted by Solo Solo wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ *You* don't know what you're saying - CD is vastly superior in dynamics (undisputable fact), and 30khz ... well, if you believe in astrology you might also believe that the human ear can hear such high frequencies. But I'm sure that it cannot, and that the tape decks could *not* reproduce such frequencies reliably. Why should they - there are no sources which contain these frequencies!
 
I don't know how a cassette could possibly replay at 30khz.
 
I have a half inch 8 track that records at 15 IPS and still can only get to about 21khz.
 
That being said, you're wrong. In the 70's the worlds best 2" 30 ips machines could capture frequencies well into 48khz. Caputring frequencies that high is absolutely essential in creating something known as the hypersonic effect, which adds much missing detail and prestine quality which is missing from today's technology.
 
I'm NOT partial to analog machine JUST because it's 70's : keep in mind the very first compact disc as we know it was unveiled in 1979 - obivously a technology that had been in the works for many years prior.
 
CD's fail. Analog wins. That's all there is to it.
 
 
 


Why do you have to be so absolute about this? If you believe that adding inaudible frequencies enhances the audible quality of a recording, then you're free to do so ... but please don't expect me to adopt that theory.

BTW: SACD/DVD-Audio can reproduce frequencies in that range ... if this feature is responsible for the "analog effect", then how do you explain that audiophiles still don't accept that format?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 05:39

Originally posted by Easy Livin

Any more of that type of thing Oliver and you can expect to hear from me. Please keep it civil and friendly.
 
 
.....we should rename this section "tech wars"  LOL
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 10:21
^ with episodes like:

"The Digital Menace"
"The Revenge of the Objectivists"
"The Subjectivists Strike Back"
"The Return of the Analog"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 10:32
Review episodes: "The Return of the Analog" StarStarStarStarStar
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 10:54

"Digital strikes back" is in post-production. Big smile

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