USA Today: Music lovers pursue technologies to return to high fidelity Options

[jamesbaud]

http://m.usatoday.com/article/tech/52963362

I thought this was interesting.

[wakibaki]

Digital recordings, on the other hand, are captured by computers, which record only certain slices of sound at split-second intervals that are then encoded into computer language. All those 1's and 0's end up representing a numeric interpretation of sound.

Uh, if you call an A/D converter a computer, what's so wrong about this statement?

This, in particular...

'which record only certain slices of sound at split-second intervals that are then encoded into computer language'

..is a misrepresentation of the digital recording process. It's weighted to suggest that 'only certain slices of sound ... are ... encoded'. It implies that certain other slices of sound are not encoded. Which, of course, is a misrepresentation in the case of PCM.

It's fascinating to see how much misinformation, distortion and evocation of prejudice can be crammed into a short text.

'All those 1's and 0's' - it's terrifying to think about them all running amok in there doing their disgusting digital thing

'end up' - they started out as good little normal alphanumerics but they ended up the same as all the rest

'representing a numeric interpretation of sound'. What a hideous conception. How could anybody in their right mind imagine that music, pure, sweet music, could be represented by philistine, crass numbers. It's like saying that an astrophysicist could play the guitar, Brian.

Veils lifted.