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Originally Posted by Kiwiburger Thanks Paul - i've been googling some of your stuff and it's changing my view of things ... |
I'm glad I can help in any way :-)
This basic misconception goes round and round, I have been fighting it for at least a decade, but it keeps resurfacing. The problem is that however wrong this misconception actually is, it's apparently so compelling and seemingly 'obvious' that it immediately poisons people's understanding of how digital audio works fundamentally. This causes terrible damage as it dictates the way that people actually work - and then (like catch 22) it provides it's own self justification by actually producing the very same bad results that convince people that digital audio is 'flawed' and suffers from limited 'resolution'.
It really is like some malevolent virus, in that it propagates with amazing ease (because it seems so obvious and people accept it so readily) despite being
completely wrong.
A few years ago (in one of my more depressed moments) the notion that people could be 'poisoned' on mass in such a fashion caused me some panic. I mean luckily this 'resolution virus' only affects digital audio. But what if someone came up with a similarly compelling idea that was similarly damaging, that was accepted immediately by everyone on first exposure to it (because it was so apparently obvious an indisputable) and yet it was destroying the whole of our society? But nothing and no one could oust the idea - whatever they said or did and however much evidence there was to show it was wrong and damaging - because applying the idea itself actually
caused the symptoms and produced the very damage that convinced people the idea was valid in the first place!!!!
Now this really is a plot for a Stephen King horror novel? Or is it happening already (that's another subject)?