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In the Thread: Why I hate computer playback.

Post Subject: Here are some random causes of hatePosted by Romy the Cat on: 4/20/2012

Computer playback has no autobiographical value. CD, LP, tape etc have autobiographical value and sometime huge value. A location on HD has none of it.

Computer playback has no unified standard and no reference in virtual world. If a person uses some kind of CD player for instance, some kind of DAC and some kind of cables then knowing the ingredient it is possible to have idea what sound the person might have, at least from you’re his/her front end. In case of computer playback it is absolutely imposable as there are zillion valuables, there are no standards and there is huge opportunity for misuse computer playback.

Computer playback is unfortunately very fuckable. There are enormous reasons why a person never get result as it might get from given hardware/software and sine most of audio people are idiots or ignorant then never get that hat they might get. Again, in the environment where there is no reference and no assessment QA it is impossible to say what is going on.

Computer playback is too valuable for stupid abuse. There is no reason to make lat say wide bandwidth SET output transformers – the idiot might use any crappie transformers and then EQ sound making it to run from DC to megahertz. The problems deriding from DSP processing are absolutely not know to most of the audio idiots, I have seen the “big time reviewers”, or “deserved to be slaughtered idiots” in my vocabulary had reviewed audio by injecting digital correction to their crappy computer playback. This tendency will only spread wider, unfortunately…

There is no source material for computer playback. Unfortunately the downloadable 24 bit PCM never went big and there is practically nothing out there. The downloadable 24 bit material the IS out there is not really serious music. I have a lot of those file and they are not the level of performance the deserved to be played in my house. I do not even mention that fact that downloadable file are highly vulnerable to be destroyed by the industry fools or by the distribution channels - it what we see all over the world. So, the huge rise of computer playback did not bring arise of good downloadable music. To copy file from CD to computer and to call it a “computer playback” is too retarded even to consider. It is not that I am against copping CD to HH. I am also not against smelling rose in gas mask – some people just do not know any better…

Computer playback has no regulation. If one make a phonostage then there RIAA deviation, frequency response, phase shift, rise time and many other criteria the makers has comply by natural means. Of cause all of it has absolutely no assurance of any good sound but it set some base of expectation about results. In computer playback there is absolutely no baseline. You might have one file and 5 different file players. You might play the same file with each of them and you will have hugely different results, the results that will NOT be projectable to anything else. You can’t compare the file player as the result will not be interpretable. Different files, records by different ways will be preferable to be played by different file players and no one would be able to make any sense out of it.

There are many other factors that makes me do not like computer playback. Ironically I have been using computer playback from 2004. Well, I use computer playback only to record and to play my FM broadcasts and it is very pososble that if I were not involved in FM then I would not even have a computer playback as I truly do not see any need or use from it (with exception to my FM).

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