Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!mhtsa!mh3bs!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Phil Karn and other CD nuts, please read! Message-ID: <1670@randvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 16:23:12 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.1670 Posted: Mon Feb 6 16:23:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 02:37:34 EST References: <1043@drux3.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 21 -------------------------------- I think Tom Buckley is using a false analogy. Distinguishing and appreciating fine wine takes practice, patience, and perhaps talent, along with the frequent opportunity to sample fine wines. It ain't the same in audio. If realistic reproduction is the goal of audio, then we each have the epitome of that goal presented to our ears 24 hours a day. You don't need a sound system to be a careful listener. In fact, I have a certain distrust for the opinion of someone whose greatest exposure to music is through electronic reproduction, no matter how refined the equipment. So if you want to become a better judge of *reproduced* sound, develop a good familiarity with the real thing. Spend your money on concerts, not on the latest high-cost fads in synthetic sound. -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall (UUCP) edhall@rand-unix (ARPA)