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Originally Posted by
TMetzinger
There are LOTS of things worse than cheap digital. There's all the cheap analog. Hell, in terms of fidelity, there's lots of the expensive analog that doesn't hold a candle to low and midrange digital gear made today.
I'm curious - is it your opinion that the cheap sound would come from the preamps in this device or from the A/D conversion?
I'd love to do an experiment sometime where some really good mics and preamps were used and then the line level inputs were fed simultaneously to a really high-end AD converter and to something like this unit, at the same sampling rate and bit depth. Then play back the files through a high-end DA converter and amp/speakers, and see if people could reliably tell the two apart in blind A/B testing.
WHOA!!!! Somebody sure got testy in a hurry! Taking this a little personally, are we? Have too much money invested in the lie to let anyone else get away with telling the truth?
I'll leave the main issue at that and deal with one other item, it's a word you used...FIDELITY
I'm going out on a limb and guessing you were an old-school analog engineer who had their pants romanced off by digital early on.
Those were the engineers who thought "color" was a bad thing and spend their whole careers trying to make tape not sound like tape, it was their goal in life to achieve "Fidelity" and they put it ahead of everything else, digital seemed like a dream come true....that's is until consumer reaction kicked in and they realised their precious fidelity really only mattered to them and their engineer buddies.
It kills these guys to see people chasing the color and distortion they spent their lives trying to rid the world of, the tape emulators popping up everywhere are a prelude to their worst nightmare:
.....THE RETURN OF TAPE AND ANALOG RECORDING MEDIA
It's inevitable, the world agrees on one thing and only thing only, not politics not religion,....just this.......
digital audio sounds like s**t