You're assuming that incoded 2 channel material is being played through a
good decoder. Personally, I have only poor decoders, so going digital is
one means of trading with someone w/ better equipment. For discrete
stuff, I have CD-4, Q8, quad reel, DTS, and DVD-A, all of which play back
great through vintage amps. Digital now costs less than a nice quad reel
(from what I've seen), and digital surround systems are now showing up in
cars, I was even thinking of a dvd-a player at work, so there are other
factors to keep in mind.

Dan


On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, krnewman wrote:

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> If you decode it from analog and record the digital results you are
> stuck forever with that one decoding on that one decoder. Plus, you
> have to spend a whole lot of money on the equipment to encode multi-
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> But if you just do the best possible recording of analog to digital
> stereo of quad encoded material you then:
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> 1. save wear and tear on the original analog source material
> 2. have the option of listening to the material on a variety of
> differend decoders that you have now or might acquire on the future,
> plus you can change the settings if the your equipment changes.
> 3. Don't have to buy a super expensive sound card and encoding
> software.
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> Personally, I like to hear the same source material in different
> decoding environments. AT the moment, one of my favourites is to
> take stereo source material and use PLII to matrix it out to 6.1 and
> it would make no sense for me to do that once and record the results
> into digital 6.1, if for no reason other than the fact it would be
> ridiculously expensive and I would be stuck with that one particular
> set of PLII settings, concerning width, panorama, etc. But if I just
> digitize the raw analog, I can play with it forever in all the
> infinite variety of settings that I might chose down the road as my
> ears, equipment and furniture change.
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