How Science Got Sound Wrong

You cannot say Neil Young doesn’t have a way with words.

“When you hear real music, you get lost in it, he added, “because it sounds like God. Spotify doesn’t sound like God. No one thinks that. It sounds like a rotating electric fan that someone bought at a hardware store.””

”Low-quality streaming is hurting our songs and our brains.”

“I’m only one person standing there going, ‘Hey, this is [expletive] up.”

“The compressed, hollow sound of free streaming music was a big step down from the CD. “Huge step down from vinyl,””

So if that is indeed the situation would seem that the technology that would provide the solution would have to take "Le Gros Guy" into account.....read it would need an algorithm to adequately describe God ?

Wow that sounds complicated...which explains why we definitely need a real scientist or two, and some real science to solve that one....like real solid irreducible objective stuff and not that airy fairy subjective stuff that screams metaphysics and only relies on individual in situ observation ( cause we all know how unreliable that is...not at all like the sacred science which is perfectly objective and infinitely correct....well there was that unfortunately "Perfect Sound Forever" incident but that was just a, uhhh, errr, a small whoopsie....I mean the math was perfect and everything....)

The author makes a claim w.r.t. timing of digitized signals, i.e. the timing limitation is the sampling rate, that is not at all accurate for a bandwidth limited signal.


The author creates a problem that literally does not exist .... there is no problem.

taras22300 posts11-21-2019 7:30amSo what exactly is the problem that this technology is being applied to?

Actually there is a problem for many people....for them digital does not sound as good as analog, and highly compressed is even worse. And the author was taking a shot at explaining that. And who knows he may not have explained himself adequately but that doesn’t mean that problem does not exist.

Timing resolution of digitized bandwidth limited signals.

Of course, timing resolution and bandwidth limiting not being the same thing at all, except in some given limited mathematical applications.