Mono/Stereo | Interview With Roger Sanders

Thanks for posting. His views and explanations are consistent with what I have read and understand previously. I continually get amused when I read comments by fellow audiophiles that they can hear better sound from LP's, 24/192kHz, and now DSD. I have my amplifier plugged directly into the wall socket and my 16/44.1kHz CD's faithfully reproduce the original source recording with lowest noise and highest S/N required.
 
I am tired of folks being all uptight about the ethics and standards of other folks in this industry. It sounds so defensive and paternalistic. Other than those Ralph Nader moments, it was a killer interview and I agree with almost everything that comes out of his mouth.
 
I know few who would disagree with Roger; over at WBF's dark cult. I can easily name a half dozen to a dozen.
One or four or more would be vocal about it, and between two and six would not dare to speak their mind.

* As an aside; amusing to see the 'lieutenant' popping up (sniff) today over there.
 
Bob, well done you old bastard, best post yet. You sir have achieved a very limited five thumbs up!!!!:coolyeah::coolyeah::coolyeah::coolyeah::coolyeah:
 
I think it was a terrific no-nonsense interview.

Gotta love Matej's interviews. His postings are so prolific and his access to industry insiders is unquestioned. That is why I cant resist his impassioned pleas for me to provide him with content.
 
This was very interesting. Definitely a good read. I find that some of the things he's said, such as, "As long as you use a data rate of 192 KBPS or higher, you cannot hear any difference between an MP3 recording and the original source." - not to be consistent with my personal tests provided the playback system is hi fidelity.

He is coming at the reproduction of music from a purely technical standpoint. Justifying why one thing sounds better than another based on specifications, and backing that opinion up based on data and technical findings. This is definitely one approach. In contrast, I found my conversations with Greg Roberts of Volti Audio who isn't an engineer by trade (he's actually a carpenter/wood worker) and uses his ears to voice his speakers, sub, crossover, etc.

If you are in the camp that believes "if it measures best, it will sound best", then you will agree with Roger.

Interesting.
 
Mr. Sanders interview was a very interesting article to read and I do adhere to the fact that digital may be true to the recording or what the engineer wanted to do of it but it does not address one variable, the human brain and how we perceive information as well as our hearing system's limitation. I for one could not listen to the dynamics of an orchestra for a full day but can listen to my sound system for hours on end, why would you ask, well I addressed some of the stresses of live music by adapting my sound system in a format I can live comfortably with. To make an analogy we have various lighting system that reproduce light in away similar to sunlight but we are still using incandescent lighting around the house! Reason why, we like the warmth of it. Why do we dim lights when we're listening to music, create a mood. Same goes for a fireplace. Why do we like analog, although there are limitations the warmth attracts us. For some it's the sound they grew on, whatever.

Second, as he so elequently mentioned, our hearing system is flawed either by design or by abuse. No two person hear the same information the same way. If you are sitting 50-100 feet from a band can you see the stages imaging as you see from your system, chances are if you're not using you eyes you can't to the same degree. Lastly there is no sound system with two speakers that can reproduce the dynamics of 100 musicians on stage so again our brain adapts to the information.

Not being an engineer I can't state that fact with certainty, but I suspect we don't yet have uncovered all the variables into the interelationship between music reproduction and our hearing system.

At the end of the day what's important is makes us happy, nothing else!

As an outside note it must be painful to rip 2000 records to digital files.

That's my opinion and remains just that, an opinion as I honestly don't believe in knowing the absolute truth.

Cheers
 
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