[Arny Krueger]

"George Graves" wrote in message


Many here might be able to show that 16/44.1
PCM is theoretically technically perfect,

Not possible. It has well-known theoretical flaws. The most important thing
is that they are far less than any commercial analog record/playback systen,
and by a lot.

but the fact
that it doesn't bring home (to more than a few people)
either the intellectual or the emotional connection with
the music that music lovers say they want from their
stereo systems,

This is an effect that is well known to go away if you bother to do a proper
listening test. Let's follow the logic:

(1) Take a bunch of listeners who thoroughly believe that the CD format does
not provide
either the intellectual or the emotional connection with the music that the
LP and/or analog tape provide.

(2) Eliminate their foreknowlege of what they are listening to during the
listening test, except in the most general way.

(3) Watch the listeners uniformly fail to be able to use the purported
intellectual or the emotional connection with the music that the LP and/or
analog tape allegedly provides, to reliably detect the difference.

ells me that there is still something
about it (CD) that's not quite right.

This belief combined with the hopelessly flawed recitation of purely
imaginary "flaws" in digital speaks to a writer who has a lot of prejudices.

To blindly assume
that today's technology is perfect by ignoring those
dissenting voices and yelling "crackpot" at anyone who
disagrees with that opinion, is, in my humble opinion,
anyway, no way to advance any technology.

I agree, but nobody here is blindly assuming any such thing. The relevant
facts are easy to collect, and this has been done many times. The results
are consistently obtained. 44/16 digital is indistinguishable from the
proverbial straight wire when reproducing music or speech in any kind of
reasonable listening test that addresses listener bias.