CardinalFang;142516 Wrote: > But we do have the means to do it, it would just be prohibitively > expensive! Think of the measuring gear used in military listening > devices or all manner of scientific measuring equipment in physics labs > that require incredible fidelity. They cost billions to develop and the > science and engineering is well understood. > > We are far from done because the skill is getting as close as possible > to the original sound at a reasonable price. It's manufacturing and > engineering led. Give any serious audio company infinite budgets and > the option to modify your house and they'd be able to make incredibly > faithful equipment.
A simple easy to understand comparison is the GPS system. A cheap ($50) GPS receiver can pickup 12 simultaneous radio waves around 1.5Ghz or so. This is from an orbit of > 12,000 miles. These tiny tiny radio signals are all combined in the GPS unit to give you a fairly good location mark.. with a good view of the sky you can get down to about 10m or so with a fairly cheap unit. Of course, this has not always been the case.. an older unit that cost $500 originally can barely do 20m for example.. electronics and engineering have improved, DSPs have improved. The cheap unit is of course not the best unit you can buy, it has been engineered to be cheap, but still do well enough that most people won't mind it. I have had experience with brand new, very modern, very good GPS units. The one I have been playing with cost > $25,000. This unit has been engineered with different people in mind, but wow.. I can get location information down to < 1m. This device is not exportable from the US, but it is commercially available to just about anyone. I have also been looking at a slightly higher cost version that is exportable, but has the same accuracy. As CF has been trying to explain.. engineering is about building within constraints. We have the science to detect and correct for the effects of general relativity on GPS satelites that are 12 thousand miles away. Detecting and adjusting for audio signal problems is not hard, it just takes proper engineering. As for a previously posted analogy about car modders being like audio modders.. there's one flaw.. car modders have tests: HP, tourq, rpm, 0-60 time/mph, 1/4mile time/mph. People who don't test to prove their mods in the car industry are written off as posers. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
