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In article <1992Apr11.171059.4664@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
>In article <ku9ldkINNh0l@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> nemeth@helix.Eng.Sun.COM (Les Nemeth) writes:

>>A CD player can have .0001% distortion, but if it has a tinny sound who the
>>heck is gonna buy it. Probably the guy that doesn't take the time out to 
>>compare one player to the other...  Conversely, if another player has .001%
>>distortion but has a muddy sound, who the hecks gonna want it either. What
>>we are looking for is the one that sounds the most natural, regardless of
>>the distortion level, provided it's not around 10%.

>My dictionary defines distortion as a deviation from the orginal signal
>waveform. It doesn't define "muddy" in any useful way. When you get the
>same signal out of a recording that was put into it originally, that's
>no distortion. A machine with .03% total distortion is over 200 times
>more faithful to the orginal recording than a system with 7% distortion.
>Whatever "muddy" means, it has to show up in the total distortion figure,
>or you are describing the orginal signal, and there's no helping that.

What I was refering to was what I suppose would be termed as coloration
of the sound, not necessarily distortion. Or, does coloration show up as
some form of distortion? I think not... Something that has a warm sound
to it, could be considered to sound muddy. Just like something that has
cold/hard sound could be termed as tinny. In either case, you end up with
listener fatigue after only a short period of time. But, more so with 
the tinny effect.

Yes, I think a CD player can affect the way a certain CD sounds. It's all
in the electronics. And, even if it were to show up as distortion in the
specs, the amount of distortion would probably be a negligible amount. 
Maybe the amount of distortion present does have an effect on the resultant
sound. Like .0001 sounds too tinny, and .01 sounds too warm. Then I guess
what we need to do is find the happy medium. Maybe a CD player with variable 
distortion would be the answer.	That would be so that we could make up for
differences in the recording process.

/Les

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