Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!schamberlain From: schamberlain@wateng.UUCP (Ray Chau) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Correct Sound? Message-ID: <900@wateng.UUCP> Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 15:51:47 EST Article-I.D.: wateng.900 Posted: Wed Apr 4 15:51:47 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Apr-84 00:40:06 EST References: <903@drufl.UUCP>, <811@ulysses.UUCP>, <2646@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 13 The current dilemma as to why better technolgy sounds worse and rationalizing that people like listening to distortion is akin to the one between active speakers sounding worse as a result of revealing in adequacies of in the analog chain. Finally, a note about distortion. In communication theory, the single most beneficial reduction in distortion for a chain of amplification is to improve the first section. Ray SiDev Group University of Waterloo