OT Audiophiles, was:[sdiy] Digital filtering (Oversampling anddownsampling)

[Bruce]

Good point Dave -
You are right - I should have said, 'critically listen to the quality of the
recording' of the music'...
I like it when a voice sounds like a real voice.  Or a piano sounds like a
real piano... Quality of reproduction matters greatly to me, I do what I can
to maximize it...but it doesn't trump content.
Most of us, including myself will listen to whatever quality source we can
to get the content we really want.

bruce
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David G. Dixon" <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca>
To: "'Bruce'" <bruce at psalm995.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:17 PM
Subject: RE: OT Audiophiles, was:[sdiy] Digital filtering (Oversampling
anddownsampling)


> Bruce,
>
> Which one of these does not belong?
>
> a) > appreciate a decent amp/speaker system,
> b) > abhor mp3's, or
> c) > critically listen to music?
>
> It is possible to "critically listen to music" even when you cannot hear
it
> perfectly, or must listen to it under less than ideal conditions.  I do it
> all the time!  Just think of all those musicians in the past who had to
> learn jazz by listening to scratchy 78's or a crystal radio set, or
> classical musicians who could only hear other composers' music by
> transcribing it on their own instruments or following the score and
hearing
> it in their heads!  For me, the quality of reproduction figures very
little
> in my appreciation of music (although I realize that this is highly
> subjective).
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>