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From: marcel@ecn.uucp (Marcel Bernards)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Something missing in digital recordings ??
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Date: 9 Oct 89 08:29:31 GMT
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Reply-To: marcel%ecn@nluug.nl (Marcel Bernards)
Organization: Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN Petten
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Hello DSP Guru's,

I have a question related to digital recorded music, CD's and a possible
lack of information in the reconstructed signal.

A few weeks agoo, there was an interview in a Duch paper about a studio
engineer who claimed that somethin _Very_ essential was missing
in digital recorded and mastered music.

He said that he had listened for a long period to analogue and digital
recorded music and strongly got the feeling that something was missing
in the sound. He felt that old recordings, even those from 20 years agoo
sounded more realistic and live than digital recordings, especially
classical solo piano music. Therefor he designed a 'black box' that
reconstructs the 'missing part' of the digital information.

As an electrical engineer and guitar player I'm very interested what
the missing part of the digital signal should be.
Maybe it's a Phase relation problem or some sampling problem ??

Is there someone who can explain what is _really_ missing ?
Or is this guy just a charlatan who wants to make a lot of money ??

Greetings,

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Marcel Bernards, UNIX & Net sysadm Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN
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