Digital BW, The Print

Barry,

> Sorry to disagree with you. A CD does not produce a more complete
> reproduction of live sound.It produces an engineers interpretation of the
> sound and the engineer usually doesn't know a thing about music.

Why do you say that?  Most of the digital audio engineers I know are VERY
into music, in fact, and know quite a bit about it.  And, why would that be
any different than analog audio engineers?  I'd even say that digital audio
engineers can be more into music than most anyone, as I've had to understand
quite a lot about the actual signal that's produced in order to design the
electronics, and write the DSP code to process it.  It was far more
difficult and required far more understanding than any analog audio design I
ever did, not that I really did much analog audio design, except for input
and output stages.

> There are
> harmonics lost in digital reproductions.

Absolutely correct, but that takes more than a recording to reproduce such
subtlety that it actually effects the audibility of the music, as well as
environmental conditions.  Also, it usually takes a trained ear to even hear
the difference.

Regards,

Austin