wjm@whuxj.UUCP (MITCHELL) (03/29/84)
Bob Carver's box for improving the sound of CD's sounds intriguing - it appears to be an equalizer plus some ambience recovery circuitry. The real question is, does it make CD's sound more like live music? If so, it is worthwhile, and there is a lesson here for the producers of CD's about their equalization. I don't think the problem is digital recording per se, but rather that people have not yet learned how to use it to its full potential. --------> begin pro-Hirsch flame It is important to note that Carver, who is an engineer, has found effects that can be measured in the lab (non-flat frequency response, lower levels of L-R signals, etc) and has designed this box to correct them. We are not dealing with the non-quantifiable things one has heard discussed on the net about digital audio recording and reproduction. Julian Hirsch is right, there is some type of quantifiable behavior behind EVERY audible effect. However, we may not know what it is much less be able to measure it at the present time. Carver is taking the first (badly needed) steps to try to pin it down. Since we are dealing with a physical system and not voodoo, rest assured that there is SOMETHING causing these effects. Now the real question is to find it and figure out how to correct it ---------> end of flame Bill Mitchell Bell Communications Research, Inc. Whippany, NJ (whuxj!wjm)