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Analogic
Even more than two decades ago, so the propagandists of the new medium Compact Disc
wanted it, the record had retired. The number of sold records removed from year to year,
those of the CD’s increased, until apparently now eternally of yesterday ones and the
nostalgic people at unexplainable expenditure maintained and supplemented their record
collections and had still no CD player. Yes, in addition maintained they their record player
makes more music... and harvested a pitiful smile.
But parallel to this development remarkable happens - and the smiled at record lover and
convinced analogue fan formulated not without sneers:
“The claiming already in the year 1980 perfect CD player is constantly improved and to the
yardstick of this striving the music rendition becomes similar good analogue record player but
not only this. At public demonstrations once CDs were thrown in the surprised public for the
demonstration of the insensitivity by Compact Discs then today the realization made itself
broad that they want to be treated just as carefully as records, even more, demagnetised,
frozen, painted or ground and with coatings provides to sound only correct to be supposed. A
similarity or an agreement with living disk washing machines, pucks, disk platelayers and
needle cleaners is purely coincidental and not intended.
If the first CD Player made music apparently still in each situation in life and on each
underground perfectly, then its descendants received beside constantly improved
digital/analogue transducers always more complex housings, damping and, a beggar who
thinks bad thereby, sub chassis drives or belt drives.
Almost exorbitantly expensive CD drive assemblies with separate digital/analogue
transducers recruit for itself with the statement, now, finally, in such a way to sound like the
best record players. But the uneasiness, which in-crept in things CD in the course of the
years, seems remained. New digital formats, like SACD and DVD, urge on the market and
are to now reach, what was already promised twenty years ago: “SACD has a transmission
range as large up to 64 times as the CD. Thus results a refinement of the signal, which
corresponds to analogue technique. (dpa/dwe, 14.11.2001)
We consider the evaluation of memory procedures, which work with data reduction, before
this background simply renounce able. Rational at this newest stage of the development of
digital music storage media, which increases not the transmission range, but the scanning
rate, is the insight that people had underestimated substantially the quantity and quality of
musical information from the record groove, once again the new wasn’t even the. In the age
of the permanent announcement of technical sensations and revolutions we form an analogy:
High End Audio won’t invent each month again. Persistent, consistent advancement and
innovation in smaller and larger steps, which is relevant before the introduction on the
market, define High End for us at the last state of things.
What now? Sell all CDs as once unfortunately, the record collection? Perhaps the view
continues to help that tone carriers and their artful packing are more than only technical,
exchangeable canned goods. The speech is about cultural properties and time documents,
which are not to be excluded straight from the individual Biography. In this regard the record
already furnished the proof of their, also technical, longevity as canned goods, that of the CD
isn’t done yet. There it is nevertheless reassuring that in the year 2001 the number of the
sold records doubled itself to more than in relation to the previous year. (dpa/dwe,
14.11.2001).
The latter makes at the same time hope for a further creative next to each other, which we,
apart from the conservative aspect, agree with. Because like the attempt of the CD to be
finally records heir had lead to ever better CD-players, without which already in view of the
existing software only few can to do and want seriously, then the competition of the new
medium has the similar record rendering again accelerated and on, at the gloss times of the
old tone carrier,
