Doug Sax's 1982 article, The Flip Side of Digital... , that has been posted on the main (SF) page discusses amongst other things the concept of progress over time in audio reproduction. On that topic it seems the message is essentially quite negative if not downright depressing.
If one were to accept the argument then one should not be shocked by JGH's apparently dismal opinion of the hobby he had spent (wasted?) the better part of his life dedicated to, rather one should admit that his current opinion is largely a purely rational reaction.
However I would like to address the why of the apparent (to some) lack of progress. Holt seems to have pointed his finger at the nefarious influence of tooty fruity subjectivists, i.e. those guided by the quest for pleasant sound with their tooty fruity flea powered SET amplifiers and goodness knows what; BTW it
Doug Sax's 1982 article, The Flip Side of Digital... , that has been posted on the main (SF) page discusses amongst other things the concept of progress over time in audio reproduction. On that topic it seems the message is essentially quite negative if not downright depressing.
If one were to accept the argument then one should not be shocked by JGH's apparently dismal opinion of the hobby he had spent (wasted?) the better part of his life dedicated to, rather one should admit that his current opinion is largely a purely rational reaction.
However I would like to address the why of the apparent (to some) lack of progress. Holt seems to have pointed his finger at the nefarious influence of tooty fruity subjectivists, i.e. those guided by the quest for pleasant sound with their tooty fruity flea powered SET amplifiers and goodness knows what; BTW it