>>Comparing ADO to VFP DML reminds me alot of the CD vs Record player argument. CD's are cool, they don't wear out, they can be programmed, ect. Trouble is, they sound like crap. A good record player will always outperform a CD by a wide margin. After all, digital audio is nothing but an approximation of a complex sinewave, whereas a needle vibrating in a groove of a record is a sine true wave generator.
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>A true audiophile eh?
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>I know this is completely off of the subject, but:
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>there are a truly wide range of opinions on this: true, a real 'expert' can tell a record from a CD, but which one reproduces the sound more truly is totally subjective. Records have a 'sound' to be sure- but some (most?) audiophiles feel that the anti-CD crowd only misses the record sound, not the lack of true reproduction. Records have all sorts of problems that are truly audible (frequency response for one) to most people. The 'problems' (tinny, harsh or metallic) with CDs are only perceptible to a relatively narrow margin of people, and vary widely in perception from recording to recording.
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>There was an article a few years back (audiophile I think? I can't remember) that did an informal study- they recorded a certain classical piece from the master onto CD with a few 'tweaks' to degrade the sound some to make it sound 'warmer', and played it to a few people in the ant-CD camp, who were duped into thinking that it was a record. IOW, a CD can hold whatever you put on it.
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>IMO, if analysis equipment can't see the problem then the human ear can't hear it. I think it's all in your head dude. :-)
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>My .02.

Erik,

Well, I don't claim to be an audiophile but my Magnaplanars sure do sound nice after 20 years. <g>