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On Nov 17, 5:35 pm, Sonnova wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:06:44 -0800, wrote
Doesn't all this assume perfect behavior of a D/A system?

Given the known fundamental resolution of the human
auditory periphery, "perfect" is simply irrelevant. "Practically
perfect" is achievable.

Seems to me that the question of "perfection" is mostly
irrelevant here.

Exactly.

The human auditory sense notwithstanding,

Uhm, last time anyone checked, the human auditory
PERIPHERY (please do not change the words: they
have a very specific and well-understood meaning)
is very germaine to the topic.

most people can instantly tell the difference between
"live" music (with no sound reinforcement) and canned,

Yes, and the reason has absolutely NOTHING to do with
the current discussion.

No commercially available sound reproduction system
comes even remotely close to being able to duplicating
the sound field present in a live venue. Whether the D/A
is "perfect" in a theoretical sense or practical sense,
you've solved 1%, maybe, of the difference between a live
and reproduced image of a live event. The remaining
99% is unsolved.

Many people feel that a well recorded, well mastered
LP conveys to the listener, more of the psychological
impact of live music than does a CD or any other digital
medium.

And, for LOTS of people, it does not.

If this is, indeed the case, (and say what you will, but
for lots of people this is true)

Say what YOU will, for lots is does not.

then obviously "accuracy" is not that important.

You bandy about the term "accuracy" as if it has a
universally agreed-upon definition. Tell me, why
would not one such definition be "fidelity to the
original listening experience?"

Whether one assigns the word "accuracy" to that
or not, whether it's LP or CD or Edison cylinder,
EVERYTHING falls FAR short of that goal. At which
which time, it becomes more an issue of a personal
preference of which bad reproduction is most preferable.

Be that all as it may, you have used the thread as a means
of launching into an irrelevant discussion. If you want to
about LP vs CD, go start yet another pointless, interminable
and unresolved thread on that topic and have at it.

The immediate point is that in THIS particular thread, a
number of specific technical assertions have been made,
many of them are just simply wrong, culminating to the
reference to the Consonance Linear 120, which is an
unfortunate but all-to-real existence proof of the high-end
audio worlds ability to sell total pig sh*t as caviar.