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Originally posted by beats and beeps Jesus, how cheap are you and where do you live? I get my allowance on friday. Call me.

She's mine.

(Krysta... MSN? )

Yes, lets all have an orgy.

Ory, did I leave the astroglide at your house again, because I can't find it, and I need it for the John Gielen show tomorrow night.

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Originally posted by Aiwendil this isn't about which one is better. this is about SAVING YOUR LIFE ENERGY. FOR THE LOVE OF BUDDHA, WE MUST ALL SAVE OUR LIFE ENERGIES! NOT UNLIKE THE ENDING TO A FINAL FANTASY GAME!

Greatest thing I have ever read on TA...

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the article doesn't blame compression formats, it blames the pcm (wave) format, i would imagine mac aiff files are equally effected.

he argues that original sounds recorded directly to analogue media, eg. violin to phonographic record are stress relieving. conversely, 'digital fatigue' ie. putting the sound through the pcm code before its final format, even if it is analogue, induces stress.

however, i beleive this needs to be put into perspective... no matter the format or the mastering, you can't just listen to something with a lot of emotion and get annoyed. can't say i've seen fights breaking out when adagio for strings has been dropped on dancefloors because of it's digital creation

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when I really think about it, DSD doesnt seem very different from PCM. I mean, the 1 or zero tells it to go up or down by a certain increment, so there will still be quantization error, and that incremental rise and fall will still create something similar to the "resolution" of a PCM'ed wave. The only difference seems to be the transitions, DSD cant jump from zero to peak suddenly, it has to increment a bunch of times. In the end the only difference seems to be that DSD has a huge sample rate and PCM is slower. It seems like DSD is more of a different way of looking at PCM than it is actually a different process, I wonder what makes it less stressful, maybe it is in the gradual rising and falling instead of the sudden jumps that get joined together in weird ways.

I dunno, DSD doesnt seem all that different aside from the sample rate and smoother rise/fall, but then again I havent read very much about it. I think this analog romanticism stuff is just hilarious, I admit I am starting to question how valid this article really is.