On 2/5/2012 11:45 AM, Swingman wrote:
On 2/5/2012 10:58 AM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
Record any music containing an instrument(s) with harmonic content above
22050Hz onto a CD and anything above that frequency will be lost.
Wrong (worse than that). The world is not perfect but it doesn't
matter. You
can't hear it.
Absolutely amazing exchange ... unbelievable really, that someone could
actually reply in that manner and believe it!
If you're unfortunate enough to have been raised in the age of digital
music, with the attendant noise, and decrease in dynamic range and
frequency response of Redbook Audio, and the advent of the mp3, and you
wish to get involved in music reproduction, it is the path of least
resistance, and in your best interest, to ignore anything but the status
quo.
After all, digital equipment is cheaper, much easier to maintain,
requires little or no knowledge and/or basic understanding of underlying
audio principles to use, and, despite the fact that almost everyone who
has been exposed to the difference between digital and analog recording
will agree that analog "sounds better"; those using digital as a
preference continue to demand an increase in bit rates and sampling
frequency (because of the inherent "Nyquist Limit" in digital sampling)
to 24/96kHz to decrease noise, and increase both dynamic range and
frequency response; because, when doing so, it suddenly begins to
approach the fidelity of musical content recorded on analog equipment
.... and, lo and behold, it "sounds better".
and you gotta laugh at the ridiculousness of folks railing against the
concept that HFC (high frequency content) colors the sound of music
within the human audible range, while immediately using psycho-acoustic
properties like "masking", which relies upon HFC to work, as proof that
it doesn't ... you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Audio today is much like the debate over climate change, with proponents
from each camp railing against each other with a religious fervor. Mp3's
now basically rule in the digital music world ... if you don't think
that not a move in in the direction of mediocrity in the recording
world, then there is no help for you.
Then there is another more disturbing and profound reason:
It's truly sad that when you've ruined your hearing, like manyt folks
who have spent their formative years within the last 30, it is no damned
wonder that, because you can't hear it, you continue to loudly
proclaim/insist that no one else can.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-20013937-47.html
http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/d...s/children.htm
As we continue to slide into mediocrity in all things ...
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