[geeks] PC motherboards - now with integrated tube preamps!

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Kris Kirby <kris at catonic.net> wrote:

> There is no quality boost; they are simply making it sound "warmer".

Couldn't you do that with a DSP ;^)
 
> There is still a bit of animosity out there in the audio world -- too
> many old analog guys that don't understand digital and don't fathom
> that sampling doesn't equal with MPEG-style compression.

Digital sampling is an approximation, a very, very good aproximation -
but it is not analog.

There are certain "audiophiles" that hang their hat on that difference,
and base most of their arguments against digital media in "well, yeah,
but its not the same..."

I await digital speakers (exponentially larger drivers, driven by a
binary feed ;^)...


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976