Although the artical states that the test CD's were set out to testers who used their own equipment to perform the tests, it doesn't state what sort of equipment these testers had. This could make a large difference as the more expensive the components of this set-up, particularly the CD transport and amp the better they will be at reproducing the sound. This will make any differences and distortions more noticable. Fair enough, but most people do not have super-expensive equipment (
I use a much cheaper stereo than sugested above (£400), and am in the process of encoding most of my CD's to MP3, which provides a much quicker and easier way to browse the tracks, as well as amazing random and programable play functions. These advantages are one of the main reasons that people will move over to MP3. On my system there is a noticable difference, but only just. And off my PC you get 4 speaker enhanced stereo:).
Although this is a fair and valid point if you are voting from home then you should be able to ensure your own provacy. If you are not voting from hoem, then you are out anyway and could still go to the polling station. As far as I am aware the government in this country (UK) is not advocating removing the ability to voter in a polling station, but I think it may have to computerise these to prevent people voting twice. This is just a convenience, not a change of system, and with automatic counting and verification, voting could become quicker and cheeper to run.
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Although the artical states that the test CD's were set out to testers who used their own equipment to perform the tests, it doesn't state what sort of equipment these testers had. This could make a large difference as the more expensive the components of this set-up, particularly the CD transport and amp the better they will be at reproducing the sound. This will make any differences and distortions more noticable. Fair enough, but most people do not have super-expensive equipment (
I use a much cheaper stereo than sugested above (£400), and am in the process of encoding most of my CD's to MP3, which provides a much quicker and easier way to browse the tracks, as well as amazing random and programable play functions. These advantages are one of the main reasons that people will move over to MP3. On my system there is a noticable difference, but only just. And off my PC you get 4 speaker enhanced stereo :).
Although this is a fair and valid point if you are voting from home then you should be able to ensure your own provacy. If you are not voting from hoem, then you are out anyway and could still go to the polling station. As far as I am aware the government in this country (UK) is not advocating removing the ability to voter in a polling station, but I think it may have to computerise these to prevent people voting twice. This is just a convenience, not a change of system, and with automatic counting and verification, voting could become quicker and cheeper to run.