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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:44 pm
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Xenu wrote:http://positive-feedback.com/Issue23/cjdiaries.htm
Xenu wrote:http://positive-feedback.com/Issue22/cjdiaries.htm
We had the interesting opportunity to compare the DAT to the CD in a treated room on a system with low distortion & huge bass & dynamic capacity. The DAT sounded so much better that it could pass as not only a different recording, but an entirely different performance. Really. Everyone present agreed on this.
Xenu wrote:Actually, the guy's writing style bugs me as much as anything else. That odd, schizoid, hyper-literate digressionary persecution complex approach is so UFo theorist.
How did you discover (stumble upon?) this technique?
Roger Sutor, an audiophile friend of mine, invited me to his home to hear his latest homebrew speaker system, and he played a CD-R copy of the Fairfield Four CD Standing in the Safety Zone that he'd made on his computer. We compared his original disc to my original disc, and for reasons I may not want to speculate about, we both agreed that my original disc sounded considerably better than his original disc, but his CD-R sounded the best. This got me thinking about the differences between original stamped CDs and CD-Rs. As the inventor of Finyl: The Digital Solution™, a surface and edge treatment for CDs, I realized that pit shape and its influence on the read mechanism might have something to do with the obvious sonic differences. A CD-R playing surface consists of different areas of reflectivity areas that, unlike the pits (bumps) on a stamped CD, don't deflect the laser light to the inner or outer edges of the CD-R and then back on the photo diode. Edge treatments thus have little effect on the playback quality of a CD-R, other than possibly reducing their static charge, because most of the laser's light is read back without secondary reflections.
Phil Elliott wrote:Hah - wish I'd left my post up there. His writing style forced me to give up on the articles, so this was all I could comment on...
Xenu wrote:Actually, the guy's writing style bugs me as much as anything else. That odd, schizoid, hyper-literate digressionary persecution complex approach is so UFo theorist.