Blacknote CDP300 - DAGOGO maj 2009

I admit to being a digital hater.  I’ve always felt that digital never sounded as authentic as analog.  Interestingly, things are changing.  Over the last few years, I’ve started hearing digital sources that sound dimensional, have good overtones and don’t cause listening fatigue.  I’m not sure about the technical details behind the improvements.  The CD is still stuck with the same limitations, but CD players are getting better.  It is what it is: progress.

I have a hypothesis as to why the latest generation of CD players is closing the believability gap with analog.  Designers are finally using subjective measurements with their objective measurements to get closer to the goal. For the first 20 years or so of red book CD, designers and manufacturers were operating under the assumption that the 16bit/44.1kHz standard should create realistic sound when perfectly decoded.  Engineers looked at the specs; and being engineers, they felt that the specs were good enough to be equal to, or better than, analog.  They then did the best they could to design machines to accurately decode the digital data, with nothing added or taken away.  

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