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Ah, sarcasm... "Last refuge of the imaginativley bankrupt." "The refuge of the weak." "The refuge of a shallow mind."
Take your pick.
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If anyone is wondering what DC is getting at, here are a few quotes from Mr Johnsen:
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I see I am being stalked by conventional wisdom -- a.k.a. received wisdom. These PC patrols are well known to me, as they have been nipping at my heels for decades. Pity they won't approach from the front with a stand-up-and-listen attitude, but then, these are hunters who believe, "I don't HAVE TO listen; I've read the book and I KNOW."
I must congratulate this particular trailsman on his wideranging sites, it must have been an enormous albeit satisfying effort to have gone through all the places my writing has appeared. But let's take a brief look at a couple of his finds.
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"Optrix ($18), a polish for the business side of a disc, dramatically increases low-level resolution. With old analogue originals the hiss level rises, always a good sign. Products such as Esoteric Mist and TM-16 and others do the trick too."
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Who could really believe that an optical polish on an optical medium could ever improve matters, eh? The effrontery of that Johnsen!
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"it [Audio Desk Systeme] consists of a tightly belt-driven 4-inch turntable on which the CD is firmly clamped, then a sharp cutting tool applied by hand through a pivoted horizontal lever. The result: A perfectly true disc with a 30° beveled edge on which an ink film may be applied. Then when you listen, Omigod!"
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What?! An off-center disc producing a strain on the read mechanism? Say it ain't so! THAT CAN'T BE! And reducing reflected light within the optical disc improves the reading? Please! You don't have to listen to know, THAT CAN'T BE!
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"While all the above serve to ameliorate the clattery, punishing aspect of CD audio, no one — credentialed academic, famous designer, prominent reviewer, experienced retailer nor myself — can say why. No one has the faintest notion."
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And they still mostly don't.
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Continue discussing at your own peril.
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No, the peril as always lies in refusing to listen.
clark