As there is no OT I will try to make this a short lived thread.

Ron Parker wrote:

> What, that old canard again?
>
> That's not why CDs are said to suck.  The impossibly gifted people who
> claim vinyl sounds better are claiming that the linear scale used to
> digitize the music is a poor match for the logarithmic scale our ears
> actually hear on.  This has nothing to do with roundoff error.

Aside from that, any mathematician will tell you the sample rate is
insufficient. The highest frequency a person can hear is around 20kHz. The
sample rate of a CD is 44kHz. It should be at least double that, 5x the
highest frequency. Think about it, you could be sampling near the zero
point every time.

And records sound better <g> ;)

Now if they could just make records that last a decent number of
playings...


> Followups to povray.off-topic. :)

;)

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