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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: New sample 24/96 downloads from HDTT
Post Subject: Fidelity of Sound instead of Fidelity of MusicPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/11/2008
 Paul S wrote:
… I am left to wonder just how good the originals might be, in terms of sonics as well as musical values, and my educated guess is, Priceless. Sure, it MAY be that the performances are so great that they simply overcome the problems. But I am generally pretty critical of sound, itself, and some of these old recordings, for all their obvious problems, somehow manage to get the musical message across in a very satisfying way…
Well, there is a completely different definition of quality of sound. The HDTT does not operate at this level of other definition. Low noise, wide bandwidth, good tone, is fine but it is still “no cigar sound”. To get there, into the level of “other definition of quality” it requires having very different tools, use different skills, slightly different objective and to have very different type of customers. The comfortably-numb sound that HDTT gets out of tapes is just a calm sound in term of audiophile quality (means the fidelity of Sound instead of fidelity of music) but it is not what I found interesting in Audio. That audiophile sound is good enough to make the Morons of Martin DeWulf level happy but it is about all that the audiophile sound is capable. I do not blame Bob in it – he juts supply demands. There are just no marketable demands in today audio for more interesting and more fertile sound, and there is unfortunately no rational time reimbursement of the people who would go to go into the real, or more serious Sound…

Rgs, The caT

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