If you were serious about sound you would...
If your audiophile quest is to get the best sound then buy the best equipment used to make the recordings originally. One of the few things nearly every audiophile agrees about is that you can't make the signal better than the original. So:
Solid State Logic 2 channels preamp 5k$
Meyer Sound Bluehorn powered speakers 2x 140K$
Pro Tools MTRX system 10k$
Mac Studio Computer 8k$
Total about 170k$
How is it possible to get better sound than the best recording studio gear?
Sound can be an abstraction....Or a tool... As Fourier analysis is an abstraction tool working in a linear way , out of the time domain of natural sounds where there is a a temporal duration order which define speech perception and all perception of sound in nature , which are highly non linear, as evolution train our body to perceive for survival... Music and speech are concrete qualitative experience for a trained body... https://physicsworld.com/a/human-hearing-is-highly-nonlinear/
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@mahgister After reading your article I remembered I used Fourier transforms when I was working for an acoustics company and in college doing some of the first sound raytracing programs. I had a crazy smart professor who helped me out, I still feel bad about not giving him some credit for those algorithms. One of the first things you learn as a sound man is that microphones are stupid, meaning they do not sound the same as you hear things with your ears looking at something else, it's called cocktail effect. Our brains can filter out the sounds of many people at a party and we can focus in on one conversation across the room, AI will figure that out someday but for not there are no digital filters that can do that. it used to be that we had to be so careful about one frequency covering another now there are programs that can lift frequencies that overlap other like frequencies. |
You are right and i think it is already here... A.I. is a real threat... All tools could be a threat but A.I. we are not socially ready for that... Corporate power will control it not democracies which anyway exist no more..
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If you want to hear some great but eclectic music with no reverb, multiple tracks, filters, delays and silly old EQ, recorded in 16bit with only two mikes, then look no further than any of Tony Minasians CDs and then get back to me. Talk about needing to wear some hip waders in here. All I see and hear in this post is an appeal to authority with an agenda that's not above board in an audiophile forum. More like a party crasher. There are recording engineers, and then there are recording engineers. The first group should not be confused with the second. All the best, |
