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In the Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0
Post Subject: The Part of Analog, and ProgramPosted by Paul S on: 12/9/2013
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Interesting discussion. I am now thinking of John Wright, the guy who mods the (old...) Museatex DACs to get the best sound overall that I've heard from digital sources. Sure, he has his patent approach to deciphering digital, but John has always said his focus was on the "analog" part of the hardware, whatever that means. I think what it means is that the purely "mathematical" aspects of conversion, etc. will get us only so far, at least at this point. Or, it may be that the slippery algorithm is simply a functionally acceptable starting point, like pi, to a basically unresolvable equation.
As much as I would like to have unlimited access to some sort of a cloud library of music, I have not yet been motivated to go all out to hear more of the re-processed music I have heard so far. This is all the more frustrating for me since I have long owned digitally re-processed LPs that - somehow - sound acceptable to me. OTOH, just knowing what sounds good is hardly enough, since there has never been a way to convince everyone else to do everything the way I like it at every turn. Basically, I would try a lot harder at this if there were serious indications that there were musical rewards awaiting.
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