2 Jan
2006
2 Jan
'06
11:47 a.m.
Scott Stevens wrote:
The principle of High Fidelity is perfect reproduction.
The
amplifier stages should introduce NOTHING into the signal.
'Better sound' means as near to an exact reproduction as
possible. Granted, this isn't possible for a lot of recordings
of music, where the whole recording is a collage of
faked/tweaked/doctored snippets. Listen to live recordings of
acoustic piano sometime. You want ALL the crap between you and
the original sound ripped out and thrown away.
I got a DVD player that has DVD Audio -- 24 bit @ 96? sampling but I
have yet
to buy a DVD out here in that format.
If it makes a recording sound subjectively
'nicer' to you then
that's fine. But that's just one step removed from a box that
'simulates' stereophonic sound from a monophonic recording.
Anything that changes or adulterates the signal runs against the
principles of High Fidelity. My Yamaha integrated Amp even has a
bypass switch on it that cuts out ALL the tone controls and
signal doctoring the Amp otherwise is capable of.
Now here is information on just what ALL the sonic controls are.
http://www.tubecad.com/articles_2002/Missing_Sonic_Controls/index.html