Having heard CD's that sound worse is meaningless.

Posted by orpheus (A) on June 28, 2006 at 23:38:28

In Reply to: Your criticisms are valid, but..... posted by theaudiohiffle on June 28, 2006 at 03:36:52:

Simply equalizing away the sounds that make your ears bleed doesn't mean that he has a product that makes mp3's sound like analog. Have you tried equalizing the mp3's that you playback on your system? You might achieve similar results. Having heard a CD that sounds worse is a meaningless comment. Some CD's are very compressed and poorly mastered, and sound absolutely terrible. That the demonstration sounded better than the worst CD's is no compliment.

There were far too many factors at play for the demonstration to be anywhere close to valid. The recordings he played (as I recall, this was two years ago and a demo that I thought was bogus, and thus forgettable), were very poor old recordings, with a lot of hiss. If he truly believed in the product and thought that it was an obvious improvement, he would have used recordings that were familiar to most people in the room, or at least of a quality that enabled one to discern that the sound didn't seem to comprimised.

I have heard a reaction similar to yours from others and find it shocking enough to wonder if I was at the same demonstration.

As far as it sounding like live music, it wasn't even close.

I haven't read about anyone buying one of these things and switching their music collection over to mp3's, so perhaps that's the greatest indication of it's fallibility.

-Aaron.

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Topic - Computer-based audio format to rival Super Audio? - andyshedd 20:37:55 06/24/06 (12)

Burwein Bobcat demo by Mark Levinson very impressive... - theaudiohiffle 07:29:20 06/25/06 (11)

I didn't find it impressive at all. Has anyone bought one of these and what do you think? - orpheus 20:19:49 06/27/06 (10)

Your criticisms are valid, but..... - theaudiohiffle 03:36:52 06/28/06 (9)

Having heard CD's that sound worse is meaningless. - orpheus 23:38:28 06/28/06 (2)

I wonder too if it was the same demo..... - theaudiohiffle 11:39:40 06/29/06 (1)

I was in the same room, same setup... - orpheus 10:24:47 06/30/06 (0)

OK but..... - Kal Rubinson 08:39:46 06/28/06 (5)

Re: OK but..... - Joe Rasmussen 07:54:55 07/05/06 (4)

Nope. (NT) - Kal Rubinson 12:47:15 07/05/06 (3)

Brad Serhan - Orpheus Loudspeakers - nt - Joe Rasmussen 06:03:53 07/06/06 (2)

Re: Brad Serhan - Orpheus Loudspeakers - Kal Rubinson 10:36:56 07/06/06 (1)

Re: Brad Serhan - Orpheus Loudspeakers - Joe Rasmussen 16:54:30 07/06/06 (0)

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Having heard CD's that sound worse is meaningless. - orpheus 23:38:28 06/28/06 (2)

I wonder too if it was the same demo..... - theaudiohiffle 11:39:40 06/29/06 (1)

I was in the same room, same setup... - orpheus 10:24:47 06/30/06 (0)

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