--- Sez David Schmoll to All ---
 DS> I was just blown away by a revelation while listening to my A/V system
 DS> tonight. I recently bought the Beatles Anthology video collection and
 DS> I was commenting on the fantastic sound I was getting on my home
 DS> theater system, after upgrading...
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 DS> I then decided to compare the video quality to the same songs on
 DS> the CD collection after reading a few comments in this echo about high
 DS> quality tape being better than CD.
I doubt if mass-produced video tape is quite what was being referred to.
 DS> ...playing a few of the same songs,
 DS> at the same time, on both my CD player and my hi fi VCR, switching
 DS> between the two, and I found the VCR much fuller, more depth, more
 DS> clarity, more warmth, more brilliance, and more punch - the best
 DS> comparison was "Across the Universe".  I'll never listen to my CD's
 DS> again and assume they always sound the best...
Hmm, more treble, more midrange, more bass...  Would you say the VHS
was louder too?  ;->
 DS> I always loved the sound of CD'S before this occured, and now
 DS> that I'm aware of the real difference....
Perhaps you just need more expensive cables.  Personally, I'd like to
get a CD of a Very Expensive turntable with a Highly Esoteric cartridge
playing a completely blank Audiophile Japanese Virgin Vinyl LP...
Much of which is my way of saying that CD's are capable of delivering
a pretty damn accurate copy of the master tape to your living room.
What you do with the signal from that point is your own business,
but you can probably simulate any other medium pretty accurately by
ADDING noise, distortion, dynamic range and/or frequency response
aberrations...
Some Voodoophiles and terminal tweakers expend as many adjectives
rationalizing their expenditures as they expend dollars chasing
phantom improvements to their systems.  Personally, I recommend
listening to music instead of trying to listen to hardware.  And if
you discover everything sounds better to you when you push all 12
sliders of the equalizer up 3 dB, that's fine by me.  I certainly
won't respect you any less than the people who hear dramatic
improvements when using gold plated power cords...
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