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On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Mike Miller wrote:
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
2. I got into a discussion on a music listening group, and they claim
that it is worth spending megabucks even for the solid-body electronics.
They were referring to the quality of analogue-digital conversion, which
they said was a lot more important than I would have thought.
What are "solid-body electronics?" Are they talking about guitars?
If so, there is no analog-digital conversion going on there -- it's all
analog from the pickup to the amp. If they are talking about the
digital hex pickups for synth guitars, they are probably quite right
but most people aren't playing synth guitars (though I'd like to get
one -- I had a Roland synth guitar back in 1984-1986 and it was OK but
they must be amazing now).
They were talking about CD players.
I see. My guess is that in a blinded trial, people can't tell the
difference between a $100 CD player and a $1000 CD player (if such a thing
even exists).
I hear a lot about how great certain audio things are, but then *evidence*
is almost always lacking. An example of this is in ideas about encoding
MP3 files. People will make all sorts of unsupported claims. They do
*unblinded* tests, which are a complete waste of time in my book.
Mike
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