MdntTrain wrote:
>> Cool.  I grew up with audio and have it in my blood.  My late father, Julian
>> Hirsch, was a well known audio reviewer and technical writer. 
After years of
>> striving for the utmost accuracy in analog reproduction, I think
he would have
>> found it somewhat upsetting to see devices using lossy compression
(e.g. iPod,
>> MP3 players, etc.) take over so much of the market.
> 
> Wouldn't he have also found it upsetting for you to copy your vinyl to
> CD?   That's also a lossy process, and I can definitely hear the
> difference between CD and vinyl.   The only CD that sounds decent is
> SACD.

He had no qualms about CDs.  The issue of "digital sound" with
CDs is starting 
to verge on religous issues or possibly something as serious as vi vs. emacs 
:-).  I'll stay away from the discussion of whether or not it's lossy.

> Digital sound is so grating on my ears, that I archive from vinyl to
> VHS HiFi.   Now THAT sounds good!

How is VHS HiFi not digital?  Granted, it may not use PCM encoding (ISTR it's 
delta-encoding), but there's still an ADAC transformation of some sort.
--- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32