Some interesting tidbits in here. Maybe some of you know the specs of mastering and cutting lathes that this guy wants to find?
Question about how analog audio recording works
Hello!
My wife and I are high and having a discussion about how sound is recorded on records. I have an, I think, more than average understand of how sound and recording/playback works so I was trying to explain how grooves on the record represent sound waves.
What we don't understand is how polyphony is physically represented. So I can see how a single sine can easily be represented on a record. But when you're talking several sounds at once, some on the same pitch some now, dozens of timbres happening all at once, how do we differentiate those sounds on a physical medium like vinyl, or how do we represent it digitally? Is it literally nothing more than 1s and 0s? That'd be sick
Anyway, I hope this makes sense. Thanks!
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@mahgister , adaptation is the key to human survival. What are you driving your headphones with? Triodes seem to be the thing now a days. |
Yes we must adapt but without cooperation ( my wife and doctor) first no adaptation will be useful very long ... I admire Darwin not the neo- Darwinians... If i can tease you... 😉 i begins to drive them with my beloved Sansui Au-7700 which was driving my speakers with an organic almost tube-like sound but it is as you know an S.S. design... The AU-7700 is one of the best Sansui but the K340 are not only hungry, but very picky and revelatory of noise more than my speakers was , and i discovered that what was acceptable from my speakers Mission Cyrus in my room was not acceptable by the AKG K340... Too high noise floor from the Sansui Au 7700... I then swithch toward the top Sansui line the alpha series... i pay 300 bucks for this Sansui alpha AU 607-i ... This one is not as a tube-like sound but it sound more S.S. ,more cold than warm, from my speakers when i connected it to them it sound the same from the K340... More cold but with my speakers i prefered the Au-7700 ...But it was i needed for the K340... There exist better amplifier no doubt even if it was the best of Sansui in 1987...But my budget is very limited... https://audio-database.com/SANSUI/amp/au-alpha607i-e.html Anyway after 6 modifications inside and around the AKG K340 which takes me 6 months of listening experiments ( because i learned how this hybrid with passive grid of 5 resonators inside creating a dual acoustic chamber in the shell must work optimally i even read the Dr. Gorike patent to do it) ... After my long process of optimization i was very satisfied by my soundfield 3-D filling the room as speakers did in many recordings... This is the only successful hybrid in history and a complex design to figure out if we want to optimize it... My dreamed amplifier is the Berning ZOTL tube amp , because of price, and because tubes in it have a 10,000 hours life span and stay always cold as temperature of the room ... And the K340 need more a cold sound as in S.S. to my ears to shine than a warm one to shine... And the tube amp of Berning sound more like S.S. with no harshness though... I never listen to it but i read all reviews.. I am completely satisfied now with the Sansui alpha... But i dream to try the ZOTL...It is not necessary... My actual system is better than my speakers/room on many acoustic factors because my Mission Cyrus so good they were for their price and they were good , lack deep bass and did not have the electro-static high frequencies i can enjoy now... And because of his inside grid of passive Helmholtz resonators able to fool the brain, i enjoy out of the head and speaker like realistic sound.. If i listen big organ , the organ is not in my head, the organ fill the roo0m and i feel it with my body and feet at 30 hertz by bone resonance... It is incredible and no headphones i own (9) would even compare... I dont use them... And now being no more sad with the lost of my room and in better health,my house sold, i came back here again... By the way the atma-spehere tube amplifier is spectacularly beautiful and the reviews are unanimous for sound quality...Congratulations! But it is double the price of the ZOTL amplifier which i cannot afford anyway and i will never be able to pick one and the other for comparison... But there is no frustation, my actual low cost system is anyway at 600 bucks the best i ever heard and i cannot fault it... i will keep my illusions and invest money in music... i did not bother myself with sound anymore and the 3-D sound effect out of the head i was liking in my room is now around me again differently but not in a bad or worst way at all with this headphone... My best to you...
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