POO: bold statements made by endearing old coots who think modern musical instruments are rubbish

Hardware synths are superior to softsynths.

^should be another option? There are so many confusing distinctions between analog, digital, hardware, and software, I've given up trying to keep track of what's what. I long for the good old days when a Moog was a Moog and this digital nonsense was the stuff of science fiction. Option #5 it is.

Are we supposed the pick the best or the worst statement?

The truest

But none of these are true.

Indeed, none of these are true in any generalisable sense. I went for 'analogue synths are better than digital synths', even though I play and love many digital synths, simply because the middle options are rubbish and don't even resemble anything approaching true. Thinking about it, I should have gone for 'handmade instruments are superior to mass-produced instruments', as this would suggest stuff like 'the tannerin is better than a guitar', or 'the car-horn organ is better than a saxophone', statements with which I agree wholeheartedly.

Indeed, none of these are true in any generalisable sense.

I don't know about other instruments but my experience with smaller-shop acoustics (eg Larrivee) vs. touted machine-intensive ones (recent Guilds) suggests that yes, "handmade" (deceptive term, nobody's carved a neck without some machine assistance in eons) acoustics are still many many degress better than their mass-market cousins, which, don't get me wrong, are much better for touring

Oh yeah, will go for that one.

A bit how I like multitrack recording wavs, and not Midi tracks.

I read some shit about how the new stylophone is a pale imitation of the old one. Jesus they sound as annoying as each other, get real.

The acoustic stylophone was better

Nothing sounds as magical as a cello.

magical cellos are superior to ordinary cellos

"You are forgiven"
--- you are forgii vennnnn

ice cr?m OTM.

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The latter is true. Not because they are more "authentic", but because they sound better. They sound more like synths, and not like everything else. :)

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What is stupid, though, is to claim that analog synths with actual oscillators sound better than virtual analog synths or softsynths. There are actually hardly any differences in the actual sound at all.

A soundhole just puts artificial distance between you and the music. The only real way to experience guitar music is to have strings attached to your body.

the only one of these I accept is the last one, and that could easily change once digital synths actually get designed to do something more interesting than what they currently do

"Unamplified acoustic instruments are superior to amplified acoustic instruments." is the only one with any truth in it, if only for those awful squaky piezo electric pickups that most acoustic guitarists use live.

I miss one option here: "Vinyl > CD"

no microphone >>>>> microphone

megaphone pwns all

speakers > cans > earbuds

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