Behold, Stewart Pinkerton scribed on tube chassis:

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 06:11:04 GMT, Gregg wrote:

Behold, robert casey scribed on tube chassis:

Fourier demonstrates that *any* waveform, including music, can be
represented as a series of superimposed sinewaves. Hence, Nyquist and
Shannon are correct in their postulations. While music may not
*appear* to be sinewaves, it can be so treated for the purposes of
reproduction. Bottom line of course is that digital audio works, and
reproduces music more accurately than any other system.


And after going through any compression, other than lossless (FLAC or
APE), makes the whoke kit-and-kaboodle math moot.

CDs don't use compression (mp3 sort or the sort of thing done by radio
stations). The sample frequency and bit depth was chosen such that
the errors fall outside normal human hearing ability.

I'm aware of that.

Even if you had the perfect CD (ie - a vinyl record),

Um, a vinyl record is *very* far from perfect! This is easily
demonstrated by recording vinyl onto CD-R - it sounds just like the
original vinyl. Now try cutting vinyl from a CD, and see what you
get................

Any professional recording engineer can tell you that CD is *much*
closer to the master tape than is vinyl.

That was sorta tongue-in-cheek ;-)

There are cases where vinyl is more accurate. Example is Rhino Records
embelleshed an "oldies sound" to the CD's, where the original recordings
sounded quite nice.

how many people
store that music as .wav?

Me, for one. A single 120GB disk can hold about 200 CDs.

Awesome!

I prefer FLAC, just to make more room and it's less CPU intensive in my
player, XMMS.

Lossless rocks :-)))))))

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