It's easy to talk about auditive limitations. There have been
experiments since the 40's-50's with recordings and live audience.
Now, the hard thing is to draw a clear line between these limitations
and genuine differences.
In this respect, only few people achieve a good balance. The others,
Themis;515426 Wrote:
It's easy to talk about auditive limitations. There have been
experiments since the 40's-50's with recordings and live audience.
Now, the hard thing is to draw a clear line between these limitations
and genuine differences.
In this respect, only few people achieve a
Themis;515426 Wrote:
It's easy to talk about auditive limitations. There have been
experiments since the 40's-50's with recordings and live audience.
Now, the hard thing is to draw a clear line between these limitations
and genuine differences.
In this respect, only few people achieve a
cliveb;515460 Wrote:
Any audiophile who claims to be immune to non-auditory influences when
doing a sighted listening test is quite simply denying their own
humanity.
totally agree - this is going to be the flashpoint for some people...
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You want to see the signal path BEFORE
The sighted tests are not worthless. It's the way you listen to things
every day !
They are simply worthless when you claim drawing universal conclusions
from them: you need controlled environments to draw conclusions.
Nevertheless, they can be a starting point.
On the other hand, most AB/X
http://blog.stereophile.com/rmaf2009/breakthrough_approach_to_audio_measurement/
This blog mentions the AES event in question. Clearly Ethan struck a
few nerves! Makes this forum positively genteel by comparison!
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Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a
I like conversations between JA and EW... :D
Thanks for the link, Phil.
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So by those fella's: If I believe that my 5K power-chord sounds better
than a 3K, 1K, 500, 200, 50, free-for-collection-chord, then it *will*
for all intents and purposes indeed sound better... which was the only
reason I bought it to begin with. I don't see any problems. Plus, it
probably looks
The Audiophile group often has some moderately heated discussions about
what people hear and why. Some of us point out that what you hear is
affected by other non-auditory factors. Here's a very instructive video
from an AES workshop. It should be mandatory viewing for anyone who
thinks that what
Clive,
Absolutely agree about the perception issues. I still think you have
to take care on Ethan, he prefixes his comments with 'on loud rock or
pop music' frequently. The real value of this type of video, is in
making sure 'in Dirty Harry's word' a guy knows his limitations.
Dave
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Clive - brilliant! - see those null tests near the end... that's what
ADM does :-)
Watching this made my day.
I thought 13 bits sounded pretty good... makes sense really, since
that's what the BBC has effectively been broadcasting on FM since the
late 60's
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You want to see the
cliveb;515169 Wrote:
I particularly liked Poppy Crum's demo of the satanic backwards messages
on Stairway to Heaven.
I thought even 10 bits was OK. Which is not really that surprising,
since that's about what the average vinyl LP is capable of - and for
some peverse reason I *still*
Clive, Phil,
Feel sorry for the 24bit Beatles remaster buyers then.
According to the video 13 to 14 bits max quality?
Dave
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DaveWr;515177 Wrote:
Clive, Phil,
Feel sorry for the 24bit Beatles remaster buyers then.
According to the video 13 to 14 bits max quality?
Dave
Well, I have 2 of them (AR and LIB) and they sound great. Do they sound
any better than the same files down-rated to 16-bit... probably not.
I think it was their figures on the Studer tape gear 70 to 75db SNR
issue.
Well I have 24 bit stuff that sounds great as well. No comment yet.
Maybe if it were 16bit, it would also still be great.
Dave
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enjoyable video, thanks for posting.
ive yet to audition the samples on my transporter but looking forward
to it.
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