Steve Guttenberg Strikes Back

[NOMBEDES]

Yikes. Go the Stereophile and read "Accuracy is not the Answer" by Steve Guttenberg:

 

He states in part: Ten years later, with the debuts of the two higher-resolution digital formats, SACD and DVD-Audio at the turn of the century, it was déjà vu all over again. They clearly sounded better than CD, but didn't really get us closer to more believably realistic playback at home. If I had any lingering doubts that two-channel stereo was the reason recorded music never sounded realistic, the small but steady stream of 5.1-channel releases weren't any better. It took a while to dawn on me, but it was becoming increasingly clear that there was absolutely no correlation between higher-resolution digital recordings and more viscerally realistic reproduction of music. Differences, sure, but sound-quality preferences are just that: subjective preferences. Analog playback may be highly imperfect, but it still has that special something digital never quite achieves.

The entire article is quite interesting.

[firedog]

Yikes. Go the Stereophile and read "Accuracy is not the Answer" by Steve Guttenberg:

 

Differences, sure, but sound-quality preferences are just that: subjective preferences. Analog playback may be highly imperfect, but it still has that special something digital never quite achieves.

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The entire article is quite interesting.

 

Basically, there are people who like digital better and people who like analogue better (Or some who like both). Basically, all he's saying is that he prefers the sound of analogue. If you don't, then the article is sort of pointless.

[wgscott]

I think the point is that he is proposing something that is relevant to accurate music reproduction is lost through the process of digitization. But I didn't get anything else out of it.

[NOMBEDES]

As for Guttenberg's take on vinyl:

 

"Before 1982, when the Compact Disc arrived, I didn't love LPs. Analog was already very old tech, and while every trick in the book had been applied to turntables and LPs, they still wowed & fluttered at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute. Vinyl's deficiencies were legion: warped LPs were more common than truly flat ones; surface noise, clicks, and pops sang along with the tune; LPs rarely had perfectly centered spindle holes; inner-groove distortions popped up at inopportune moments; and each time an LP is played, its sound quality degrades, if only ever so slightly. The LP format? Imperfect sound forever."

[Audio_ELF]

Isn't he a mediocre actor (Police Academy, Three Men and a Baby, Cocoon and Short Circuit)?

 

Eloise

[wgscott]

I thought it was the guy who invented the CD press.

[NOMBEDES]

The Guttenberg audio bible. I hear it has chapter and verse on the sins of the audiophile. I also hear it is a very thick book.

[Hekowee]

I agree 100%. Let's initiate a campaign to calibrate ear drums.......