Re: Aplogies to *** Pierce

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But here's what he has to say about the CD vs LP thread
on RAHE, or rather an excerpt from it.

The context is that some poor mislead soul wrote:

"Just as one example, I can hear the harmonic quality of intervals in
analog. A fifth on a harpsichord is a beautiful, stable interval, that
makes musical sense in context. On CD, this quality of beauty is lost."

<snip Pierece's explanation of how Harpsichords are tuned and played>

What this guy THOUGHT he heard, I have NEVER once heard
from ANY harpsichord from ANY position under ANY
circumstances. And I am quite sure that if he had ever heard a live
harpsichord
himself, neither would he.

IOW the OP made an exceptional claim, being that digital can't reproduce
certain harmonic qualities. I suspect that an incomplete understanding of
how digital works might lead to that conclusion. It is of course, completely
untrue.

The ability of digital recording to reproduce tones at various intervals is
identically the same as analog. This is one of the few things that analog
does as well as digital. In most other areas of reproduction, in accordance
with the so called "immutable laws of physics" (apologies to Paul Klipsch)
analog is inferior to digital.

The OP went wrong by carrying his mistaken belief about how digital audio
works into a poorly-informed and unscientific listening context: He compared
dissimilar recordings.

As to the rest of the original post, I will simply make the comment that
I find the assertions to be grossly
simplistic misrepresentations constructed for the purpose
of argumentation only, and thus I will at this point withdraw from any
further discussion.

In fact most vinyl bigots have picked up various bits of misinformation, or
a general aura of distrust, that they use to justify their out-dated belief
system. Dealing with vinyl and tube bigots is like dealing with
creationists. Some of them are otherwise good people, but boy are their
brains tied in knots!



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