seanadams;214252 Wrote: > I think what he was saying is that using the _same_ speakers and mics > that are used to amplify the live music, it sounds different live > (through the speakers) than when playing from a recording on the same > system (through the speakers). The question I guess is whether our > ADCs, DACs, and storage are "perfect" - the speakers, mics, amplifier, > and room are irrelevant because they're the same in both cases.
I guess you could do the following experiment: put a live band singing into mics and playing amplified instruments into a soundproof booth. Digitally record the mics and instrument pickups. As they play, compare the "live" sound (meaning the mics and instrument pickups going straight into some speakers outside the sound booth) to the recorded sound going to those same speakers. So the only difference is that the recorded source went through an ADC and a DAC. It seems overly complicated though - why not just take any old sound sample, put it through ADC and DAC, and see if it's distinguishable from the original? I've tried that (with crappy equipment) and the differences are pretty small - certainly much, much smaller than the differences from changing the speakers or the room, or from making the recording using a mic rather than the direct signal. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36503 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
