Re: Not your father's Applicard

[Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>]

MdntTrain wrote:
> > Cool.  I grew up with audio and have it in my blood.  My late father, Julian
> > Hirsch, was a well known audio reviewer and technical writer.  After years of
> > striving for the utmost accuracy in analog reproduction, I think he would have
> > found it somewhat upsetting to see devices using lossy compression (e.g. iPod,
> > MP3 players, etc.) take over so much of the market.
>
> Wouldn't he have also found it upsetting for you to copy your vinyl to
> CD?   That's also a lossy process, and I can definitely hear the
> difference between CD and vinyl.   The only CD that sounds decent is
> SACD.

He had no qualms about CDs.  The issue of "digital sound" with CDs is starting 
to verge on religous issues or possibly something as serious as vi vs. emacs 
:-).  I'll stay away from the discussion of whether or not it's lossy.

> Digital sound is so grating on my ears, that I archive from vinyl to
> VHS HiFi.   Now THAT sounds good!

How is VHS HiFi not digital?  Granted, it may not use PCM encoding (ISTR it's 
delta-encoding), but there's still an ADAC transformation of some sort.