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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: What does "distortion" sound like? - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 19-May-84 03:23:35 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 19 03:23:35 1984
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>Distortion: If it doesn't sound like the real thing (i.e., the actual
>performance), it's distorted.

I can't tell you all just how helpful I find some of the postings in this
group!  (If I told you, I'd have to use net.flame...)

So if I've never heard the real thing, does that mean that distortion is
nonexistent?  Or is it infinite?

How about albums like "Arc of a Diver", which were created by extensive
mixing?  If a note falls in the mixdown, does anyone hear it?  (Oops, move
that to net.philosophy...)

OK, suppose I have some idea that it doesn't sound like the real thing...so
what's going on, and why?  If you are an audiophile, and nothing else, you
are entitled to say that it doesn't matter...but then you're going to have
to find someone else to FIX the distortion for you - and THEY'RE going to
have to understand distortion - I mean what kinds there are, how to measure
them, which you can hear and which you can't, and so on.

I'm going on to read what fish wrote - I peeked ahead; it looks like he at
least tried to answer the question.   I don't see the point in Phil's non-
answer.
-- 
...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.		Dick Dunn
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