[Vintage-Audio] Digital? He he he he he he....

[Robert J. McKee]

----- Original Message -----
From: Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer@usol.com>
To: <vintage-audio@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Digital? He he he he he he....


> Robert,
>
> On what do you base this? What is your background in this
area,
> what experience have you had using a high end DAT unit and
what
> do you believe is an adequate alternative?

Never leave the analog domain.  It is far superior.

> This is a Sony DTC ZA5 ES and it does a spectacular job as
far as
> I am able to determine.

Your ears are all that is important.  If you are happy then be
happy
and do not let anyone else cause you to doubt what YOU hear.

> I have compared the work with Revox B77 with outboard Dolby
> and Tandberg 10X, both fed with top of the line Macintosh
> amplifiers, control panels and using Bozak B-310 speakers.
> Now if I can't hear a difference with that system, I don't
think I
> am going to hear one Robert.

> Please give me some hard facts, supported by reviews by
> professionals, and let me know what the problem with the
high
> end DAT machine truly is. I would like to know how I was
> ripped off by Sony, as I have a lot of money sitting here
> invested in what you claim in essentially junk.
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF
>

Duane, as I just told another lister here, believe your own
ears.
To be unhappy because someone else comments is going to
make for frustration.

I wish I could sit you down and let you listen.  For what you
could hear would be an awakening to say the least, but I
can't.

The recording chain of commercial releases suffers from too
much garbage in the way of the signal.  Each bit of
electronics
takes something away from the signal, making it less and less
like the original.

I spent years in the industry investigating where problems
were
and hundreds of hours evaluating designs for my employer and
we did that using original master recordings.  NOT COPIES of
anything... the analog tape made by receiving signals from two
(or four when four channels) microphones.

My oldest son was exposed to these things from the time he
could walk.  Today he is a degreed recording engineer with
his major in recording technology.  He has worked with and
learned from the best from Telarc and spent time with David
Chesky listening to and commenting on each other's work.

He'll admit digital is so far away and yet so close in theory.
I'll listen to his latest digital work and play some analog
for
him resulting in the comment "I know dad, we've got a long
way to go."  BTW, DAT machines are lacking in quality
A/D and D/A conversion which is why everything is outboard
when trying to make the best digital recordings.

My advise to all is to buy the lowest cost thingie that makes
YOU happy.  You'll go broke trying to impress the world.

I could never be satisfied with any Bozak speaker system.
I would never own either Marantz or MacIntosh amplifiers
or preamplifiers as they just don't have what it takes.  But
you do not have to impress me, so why worry?  When your
ears are happy enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!
Bob McKee