pipelineaudio
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"No, I hold DIGITAL as the only medium in existence that reproduces sound without medium interference "
then you hold wrong. Theoretically a digitally stored signal CAN possibly be transfered to another digital storage unit with no medium interference yes.
You need to get into and out of the digital world though in order to record it and then reproduce it. If you look at the very earliest digital machines, you will see analog paths very much the size of an analog machine. Not everything in the world can be scaled down. There are great high performance Analog to Digital converters out there, but they are NOT cheap. Trying to stick all the required circuitry into itty bitty paths, or worse yet, offloading all of these tasks to an opamp type module has the EXACT same effect of trying to put a 1/2" four tracks' circuity into a tiny portastudio box. Garbage and a LOT of "medium interference".
The analog to digital conversion process and the digital to analog conversion process are both, by definition "medium interference". Now whether you like one flavor of "medium interference" better than another is an entirely different thing. The filtering your audio MUST go through in order to fit on a 44.1khz storage bin is at best cases a travesty and in most cases an abomination.
Thats the world we have to deal with now, and there ARE ways of dealing with it, but to blanketly dismiss one format and completely embrace another without even comprehending its flaws is pure folly.
Recording is philosophy just as much, and without an understanding of the philosophies involved and just blanket statements, the truly important parts cant possibly have been given much consideration, so we can in that case bank on a failure in micing techniques, mic choice, proper gain staging, proper device selection, and were not even getting into mixing yet.
then you hold wrong. Theoretically a digitally stored signal CAN possibly be transfered to another digital storage unit with no medium interference yes.
You need to get into and out of the digital world though in order to record it and then reproduce it. If you look at the very earliest digital machines, you will see analog paths very much the size of an analog machine. Not everything in the world can be scaled down. There are great high performance Analog to Digital converters out there, but they are NOT cheap. Trying to stick all the required circuitry into itty bitty paths, or worse yet, offloading all of these tasks to an opamp type module has the EXACT same effect of trying to put a 1/2" four tracks' circuity into a tiny portastudio box. Garbage and a LOT of "medium interference".
The analog to digital conversion process and the digital to analog conversion process are both, by definition "medium interference". Now whether you like one flavor of "medium interference" better than another is an entirely different thing. The filtering your audio MUST go through in order to fit on a 44.1khz storage bin is at best cases a travesty and in most cases an abomination.
Thats the world we have to deal with now, and there ARE ways of dealing with it, but to blanketly dismiss one format and completely embrace another without even comprehending its flaws is pure folly.
Recording is philosophy just as much, and without an understanding of the philosophies involved and just blanket statements, the truly important parts cant possibly have been given much consideration, so we can in that case bank on a failure in micing techniques, mic choice, proper gain staging, proper device selection, and were not even getting into mixing yet.
