Lots of very useful information & insightful comments in your last post.
I haven't got anything concrete to add, so I've saved myself the trouble of pulling our multiple quotes & mumbling! :D I do think that extracting anything approaching a convincing rendition of (say) Mahler's 2nd symphony from a spiral groove on a thin vinyl disc is more of a technological triumph than performing the same trick from zillions of individual "0"s & "1"s, although both are really pretty astounding really - I wonder what Gustav himself would have made of it all. I'm a little surprised by the dynamic range you ascribe to an orchestral concert performance, but again you've probably got more experience of measuring it than me. I'll put it down to the bloke with the cough 3 rows back. Why they don't issue cough pastilles at the box office has always baffled me. All I can say is that I've heard some pretty loud crescendos at the orchestral concerts I've attended to listen to (as opposed to record & hence measure in the process). If you could get the audience to keep quiet you could save a lot of trouble by using Blumlein's crossed-pair stereo recording technique from the 1920's using figure-of-eight response pattern microphones. And for good measure you could make a simultaneous "dummy head" recording for headphone fans. Both of these techniques can give very good stereo images from minimal equipment *-as long as you put it in the right place-*... The analogy in photography is that you should always use your *-feet-* first (without actually falling off the nearby cliff) to get the light and aspects of the image correct rather than stay rooted to the spot & fiddle about with your zoom lens - that won't put good leading lines into your picture or correct for poor lighting. Nikon stuck to their "12MP is enough" philosophy for longer than most before bowing to the demands from their marketing department to shoehorn more into the same size sensor (which can actually harm image quality) because everyone else was doing it. There's just as much idiocy in photography as in audio: many of the truly great photographs of the 20th century were taken with quite rudimentary cameras. Unless you are doing hyperfocal landscape shots or literally want to put your image on the side of a bus (in either of which cases a medium-format camera would be more appropriate anyway), you really don't need a 25MP sensor... However I think the economy would collapse pretty quickly if we all only bought what we need, rather than what we've been bamboozled into thinking that we want. It can only end in tears eventually (& probably sooner). Apparently average unsecured debt per household in the UK is now £13,000 :( Dave :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519
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