[net.audio] A new discovery in the search for a good CD

keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (11/07/86)

In article <77@paradise.UUCP> l-bolt@paradise.UUCP writes:
>...
>A transfer function is nothing but a plot of the output of
>a device on the y axis, vs. the input on the x axis.  In other words,
>the plot for a good (good will be used synonymously with "audiophile"
>throughout, as anything lesser is generally unacceptable) tube amplifier
>with none of the "hard edges" of some of the recent products looks like
>an 's' curve, with no hard edges and no straight lines.

Any "expert" who promulgates the notion that an "S" curve is the ideal
transfer function for an audio reprduction system is an "expert" who's
credibility is immediately and forever called into serious question.
He just plain doesn't know what he's talking about.

Such DRIVEL!!!!!

(Please note - I do not accuse the poster of the original message as
being that "expert" but instead the writer of the (magazine?) article
the poster was quoting. But I wish he hadn't placed such trash on the
net...)

keith ericson

edhall@randvax.UUCP (11/09/86)

This discussion of the obvious transfer function problems inherent in
the CD medium points up another weak link in the audio chain:

The transfer function of a short piece of wire is a hard-edged, ruler-
straight line, not a smooth S-shaped curve.  Perhaps if we replaced all
our connecting cables with wet string we'd come closer to the ideal
S-shaped transfer function.

		-Ed Hall
		decvax!randvax!edhall


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