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Re: Unfortunately there are those in the Audio World convincing us we are 'at war with east asia'

"Todd, I think its not the additional resolution causing the fatigue. Take analogue for instance. With a very good table-arm-cartridge combo and importantly a good phono preamp, analogue can sound to be fully resolved (high resolution), ie live sounding. It is better at resolving three dimensional space and objects within that space than the digital formats(not including multi-channel)."

It's not the resolution itself that's fatiguing, for I think vinyl is the least-fatiguing medium of all, due to the absence of RFI.

What makes hi-rez fatiguing to me is the intensive "number-crunching" going on, and the RFI by-product (generated by the high-time-density "bit switching" that occurs in digital devices- "0 to 1" and "1 to 0" for each bit, at a rate of the sample frequency- The switching "transition" contains components in the RF range) is what I think causes the fatigue. If this RFI can somehow be curbed or eliminated in future design, I'd definitely join the high-rez club. (I also think if this phenomenon is ever to be eliminated to a widespread degree, vinyl would truly become obsolete.)

Although there is still "number-crunching" going on with Redbook CD, I think the RFI generated in the best cases is low enough to be tolerable. I've yet to encounter such a case with high-rez playback.
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