[sdiy] RE: Oh I wish I had never said that...

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Martin Czech <czech at Micronas.Com>
Subject: RE: Oh I wish I had never said that...
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:07:13 +0100 (MET)

> SNIPPED
>  
> :::*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.

This is frightening, I can't really tell the diffrence between
filters, I mean, I can't just spot out "Moog", "EMS", "ARP"
etc... guess I've been too bussy learning other things... like
spotting it on a schematic...

> 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).

I assume that you mean that the aluminium or gold foil will be child
into the level that they can remain in superconducting state
throughout one song. Right?

Cheers,
Magnus