Person A: 'Analogue is better than digital'
Person B: 'How would you define 'better'?
Person A: 'It sounds better to my ears'
Person B: 'How can you know that without blind testing?'
Person A: 'Blind testing is fundamentally flawed. I trust my ears.'
Person B: 'But your ears are easily fooled. Have a look at this You Tube video featuring Poppy Z Brite that proves this'
Person A: 'That video proves nothing. You only have to listen to hear that analogue is vastly superior to digital in capturing the emotion in a recording'
Person B: 'The emotion is in the music. It cannot be added by the system'
Person A: 'The emotion is conveyed via subtle timing and musical cues which are lost once digital components are introduced'
Person B: 'You do realise that any recordings made in the past 40 years include some digital elements? Have a read of this white paper by Professor Plum published in The Journal of Electrical Engineering way back in 1975'.
Person A: 'I bet Professor Plum wore a white lab coat and carried an oscilloscope'
[cont'd to page 94 and threadlock]
PS Can an interconnect costing $3,200 for a 1 metre pair be 'good value for money'?
Originally Posted by Marco
