[sdiy] Nifty Slider/Fader alert

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe The Peasant, from writings of Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:26:21AM -0600:
> Heh, we tried this back in the beginning, around 1980. Nobody seemed
> to care, instead they eagerly embraced the "perfect sound forever"
> mantra, not realising that they were really getting "mediocre sound
> forever". And then came MP3s, even worse, yuck, blech!!! It's a real

Which just goes to prove that P.T. Barnum was right about what's born
every minute.

> shame that most people don't really *listen* to music, the average
> person equates the sound of clipping to "loud".  And the newer
> generations are brought up to believe that this crap is quality,

But it is quality, namely poor quality!  When I look at specifications
for some consumer audio equipment and see "subwoofers" with a -3dB
point of 50Hz, I'm caught beween laughing hysterically and feeling a
sense of outrage over such ridiculous marketing practices.  Have
people's ears devolved in the past couple of decades so that
subharmonic frequencies now begin above 50Hz?  Heck, a low end of 50Hz
(can you say "muddy bass"?) is way too high for a reasonably good
woofer, let alone subwoofer.  Doesn't one expect a subwoofer to have a
low-end response well below 20Hz and have a large Xmax rating?
Surprisingly, one can also find some new consumer solid state
amplifiers rated at 0.1% THD (that sounds fine with tube amps, but
horrible with transistor amps!).

> having never heard good analog reproduction or live acoustic music
> themselves.  And don't even get me started on the horrible distorted
> wall-of-crap digitised guitar mush sound that all the new bands seem
> to prefer.

I know what you mean, and to think that some people have the audadicy
to call that noise rock and roll; why don't they call it what it truly
is, "mush and rattle"?  Too bad that rock and roll appears to have
died, and few appear to have noticed.  No telling what symphonies
sound like these days, haven't been to a live performance for a while;
do they still tune their instruments, or has that become passe with
the younger musicians as well?

> Oh well, digital *is* getting better, maybe someday it
> will actually start to sound like real music.

Yes, but it will undoubtedly make equipment modifications and repairs
more difficult and in some cases impossible.

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