How Science Got Sound Wrong


I don't believe I've posted this before or if it has been posted before but I found it quite interesting despite its technical aspect. I didn't post this for a digital vs analog discussion. We've beat that horse to death several times. I play 90% vinyl. But I still can enjoy my CD's.  

https://www.fairobserver.com/more/science/neil-young-vinyl-lp-records-digital-audio-science-news-wil...
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I ... Ya me, did provide articles. Who do you think you are fooling with this childish game asking for more? You ...what did you provide? ... You cut and pasted from a forum post, but didn’t provide the link to that post. That is bad form. Is that because the poster was getting roasted due to his inaccurate claims. He did not even understand something as basic as impulse in a bandwidth limited system. That is your "proof" you are right. All my posts in this thread are easily researched. My examples easily understood.

The one that needs to provide supporting articles is not me, it is you Taras22. You continually attack but can’t back it up. It is your credibility on this topic that needs help.
You are being incredibly disingenuous....or you didn't actually read what I wrote.

It was never offered as proof it was offered as something...

That proved kinda interesting and sorta relevant

Now if you can read that as me offering proof....well that is entirely your problem....maybe bone up on reading comprehension....and maybe stop using a quasi-strawman based response.

All I'm asking is for you to provide some reasonably cogent articles about we have been discussing and in a setting that directly applies to music...not pipelines...not testing amplifiers...but music. I mean you have indicated there are thousands of them...so it shouldn't be difficult to find maybe a couple that will prove your point.
The articles were very cogent for those with the knowledge to understand them. Both were fairly simple actually as papers go.


If you need it applied to music, then again, you clearly don’t understand the science behind sampled data systems. Reality doesn’t suddenly change for the hifi industry no matter what some would wish. When a 30db SNR system achieve timing on the order of 100th a bit, audio systems at 90+ are not going to have an issue.


The whole premise of the article is laughable and you keep beating the dead horse. And yes, you did you the quoted and linked text as attempted proof that I was wrong. Why you didn’t cite it, only you can answer.
I'm not even going to try to settle the argument but I can tell you as a the husband of a woman with a PhD who studies brains and neurophysiology for a living, each of us perceive sound differently. It was mentioned earlier that the re-creation of music is a mechanical process. That is true up to the point that that process is converted to an electrical signal and de-coded by our brain's neural pathways. That perception is what makes us all uniquely different AND why we will never agree on the best sounding format.
Here is something to consider. What sounds "better", live music where some bozo is coughing in the background while another couple are chatting during the music or the same piece recorded in a high end music studio and replayed on high quality equipment? It's all about perception. You decide.