Oh I wish I had never said that...

[Martin Czech]

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:::*we* are the weirdos, collecting old moogs and building our own analogue 
:::stuff, and in that sense, we are closer in spirit to audiophiles using 
:::high-end separates to play their vinyl collections than we are to the likes 
:::of norman cook or the chemical brothers who happen to have appropriated some 
:::of our favourite sounds for their dreadful output.

Yes. Because we build audio circuits starting maybe with the age of 14,
we are able to tell the difference between an analog filter and it's
digital clone. Because we are used to listen to timbre.
And we know how to turn knobs to make the difference striking.

This was my greatest surprise in this respect:
Traditional trained musicians are very often not able to hear
what I can hear. They are very good in analysinfg chords and 
lines e.g. from a record, but sound or timbre is something they
are not so good at.

But I think the differences we are talking about  are generally
more obvious than CD players and audiophile CD playes (with
chilled CDs from the fridge, if you know what I mean).

m.c.