If you were serious about sound you would...

@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..

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

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,
Nonoise

I love the first group and i hate the second group... 😊

There are recording engineers, and then there are recording engineers. The first group should not be confused with the second.

2 ears = 2 microphones = realistic sound.  " I would argue that the end result most certainly CAN be better than the original equipment it was recorded on."  ------- Not BETTER ----- only DIFFERENT !