http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/200...l-revival.html
That's nice. Too bad the unnamed AP moron had to
insert 2 totally revealing paragraphs of
his personal knowledge, or lack thereof.
Namely:
Ignorant statement #1:
"Digital recordings capture samples of sound and place them very close
together as a complete package that sounds nearly identical to continuous
sound to many people."
Ignorant statement #2:
"Analog recordings on most LPs are continuous, which produces a truer
sound..."
The idiot's self-contradiction:
"...though paradoxically, some new LP releases are being recorded and mixed
digitally but delivered in analog."
Note that all of this weirdness slipped by Jenn, with her seeing nary a
problem.
But hey, it was well written.
Some people can write beautifully, some people understand science well.
There's a reason why the science classes for the arts curriculum has
traditionally been dumbed-down, if they even existed.
Yeah, we can only have accuracy or good writing, not
both, right?
That seems to be the nature of the human animal.
I think that's a misinterpretation of the Sailerian view. You have
been reading Bret's posts, I think, but that's excessive.
There are scientists and there are science writers. Science writers
are people who combine a fair intuitive grasp of physical and other
natural phenomena and the technologies that use them with a fair
ability to distill the essence of those ideas for some popular level
of comprehension.
I agree the wiriter of this piece got it wrong, but that is not a
necessary consequence of "the human animal". It is poor technical
knowledge or aptitude combined with sloppy fact checking.
However it is a fact, for different reasons, that _people like
vinyl_. It's a human friendly storage system for analog signal
content. People enjoy the vinyl experience, just as some enjoy
building speakers and amplifiers themselves when perfectly good ones
may be bought. Some people build cars and motorcycles and airplanes
too, although all those things are purchaseable cheaper off the rack.
Refusal to acknowledge that fact is just as obtuse as the writer's
inaccurate defense of vinyl superiority, if not even more so. Because
that reporter probably put fifteen minutes into that piece whereas
thinking and writing about these things is all you do, Arny. (Which is
also true of Bret.)