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Much of this is cultural driven by a historical time when we didn't have the tools to measure this stuff, and reproduction was so bad that nearly anything that
by compiler-guy 8y ago
Much of this is cultural driven by a historical time when we didn't have the tools to measure this stuff, and reproduction was so bad that nearly anything that changed the sound in any way could be argued to be an improvement.
Those days are long gone, but the culture remains.
Getting good sound out of an old victrola--which were very expensive--truly is an art. Getting passable sound out of today's average off-the-shelf electronics doesn't take much at all. But many audiophiles act like are living in the late 1800s.
- blattimwind 8y ago> Much of this is cultural driven by a historical time when we didn't have the tools to measure this stuff, and reproduction was so bad that nearly anything that changed the sound in any way could be argued to be an improvement. [citation needed] State of the art distortion measuring techniques resolved something like 0.002 % in the 70s.
- jtbayly 8y agoWhich is quite a bit later than the timeframe the parent is referring to.
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