Thursday, April 16, 2009
Ana vs Digita

Nice article today on Gizmodo about Michael Fremer, audiophile extraordinaire. Amazing that these guys exist, really:
Shouldn't a $350,000 stereo system be completely free of such impurities as pops and crackles?

"It's like when you go to the symphony, and the old men are coughing—same thing," Fremer says. Necessary impurities. Reminders of being in the real world.

Ha! I love it.

Fremer is a longtime reviewer for Stereophile magazine, but you can find his personal site here, which gets into not only component equipment but also music itself. Included among those reviews is this one on Deerhunter's Microcastle:

More fun than that though is this great video of Fremer on MTV News back in '93 discussing the merits of analog vs. digital--aka vinyl vs. cd--in music production. Not only is the video an interesting timepiece, but for whatever it explains more clearly and succinctly than I've ever seen before what the difference in these two mediums are and why analog people still wah-wah over wax.

Enjoy:




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