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Date: 25 May 2024 04:33:40 GMT
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On Fri, 24 May 2024 23:45:36 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On 24 May 2024 22:56:10 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> I remember audiophiles from back in the day. They could hook up an o-
> scope
>> and prove their system was reproducing 22000 Hz signals flawlessly. I
>> suppose dogs appreciated it.
> 
> So the ones you met would actually *trust* oscilloscopes? Because the
> “true” audiophile didn’t like CDs because they could “hear the gaps
> between the samples”. You could hook an oscilloscope up to the audio
> outputs from your CD or DVD player and show that it was producing
> flawless continuous waveforms, but that wasn’t enough for them: their
> ears were hearing things that no mere electrical signal could reproduce!

CDs? Who said anything about that digital crap? I'm talking about an era 
with 20 lb turntables with built in strobe rings so you could get the 
speed exactly right. Styli cut from diamonds mined by virgins in South 
Africa. Tone arms with verniers on the counterweights so you could get the 
tracking force exactly right. Built in spirit levels in case the world was 
tilting.  Pure analog, baby.  

https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/at-lp7

That's a modern day version. Even those new-fangled cassette things had to 
prove their worth.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/749019831/the-voice-that-shattered-glass