garym wrote: > ...But in my day job I'm mostly doing scientific method-based research > and I just can't measure "magic" or "air" in music...
I have some test tracks (Chesky, I think) which have recordings of instruments at different distances from the mic. It also has instruments at different height relative to the mic. I or in my system I dont think I can notice the height very well. But the distance is very discernible if the distance is more than 5-10 ft(vague memory). So something like this could help evaluate the "room" in the original post. "Air" I think is pretty much decay. We can probably measure the decay trail too. But I doubt in dbs it will be much significant. Re: FLAC vs 320Kbps. I have not done much testing but Spotify is easily discernible for me from my original FLAC tracks. The music sounds flat (no depth) and I think there is also some sort of "haze" or vagueness to the sound. My FLACs when the system is at its best (late night/quiet etc) sounds very 'crisp'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SoftwireEngineer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98374 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
