wm@tekchips.UUCP (Wm Leler) (09/27/85)
Keywords:-) NEWS FLASH A group of audio perfectionists who, in their words are ``tired of the reactionary anti-digital attitudes promulgated by magazines such as TAS (The Absolute Sound)'' have formed an organization to ``espouse the digital revolution, the ultimate approach to the pure enjoyment of music''. The group, called TIS (That's Incredible Sound), is promoting the removal of all analog artifacts from the production of CD's. Their first move is to have a special designation for CD's that have been produced purely digitally, with no intervening analog steps. Taking a cue from experiments (previously reported in net.audio) where electrodes were implanted in listener's brains so that the digital music could be experienced ``in its pure form'', they are now experimenting with a technique that uses similar electrodes on singers and other musicians, to ``remove all encumberances of analog music production, such as the musician's ability, and other limitations due to the so-called physical laws''. Their ultimate goal is to remove all outside interference from the musical process, and use the same electrodes to both create and listen to music, allowing the ``golden head'' audiophile to ``step to the beat of their own drummer''. Record companies are reportedly alarmed, but audio equipment manufacturers are more optimistic. One such company, Dolby Labs, has admitted that they are planning on a new process, dubbed ``Dolby IQ'', that will improve musical enjoyment for the new generation of ``plugged in and turned on'' audiophiles by eliminating extraneous noises and thoughts. Wm Leler