Stan's New Dac - any reviews yet?

[Labarum]

I think PRAT is achieved from simply fast, accurate and adequately powerful electronics moving fast, accurate, nondistorting full-range speakers to mimic the PRAT of the artists recorded on the tape. NO easy task, mind you!

Agreed. If there is a tape!

Fast and accurate. As I was saying: look to the margins. Can the system follow when cymbals or tympani are bashed? What happens to the last dying detail of a vibrating string as the volume sinks through the noise floor? How does the system maintain phase integrity? This is all science and technology.

But the science of how and why a bow makes a difference to the sound of a stringed instrument beats me. It must, surely, be something to do with the rigidity of the bow - one particular wood has been found to do the job best - pernambuco.

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/violintro.html

http://www.theviolinsite.com/violin_bows/index.html