servies;234002 Wrote: > Et voilà, you answered your own question... > The brain is interpolating/upsampling the data it gets, coloring it > with all the past experience it has... > Is this bad? I've never had a problem with it, but I'm not going to say > that we humans have hearing capabilities we can't measure... > To get to that redbook story: > The frequency response of audio CD is from 20 Hz to 20 kHz > I believe the average human doesn't even hear above 18 kHz, youngsters > still get the 20 kHz signal, but older people don't...
But surely that's the whole point? - I agree we can probably determine what the ear itself is doing, but we have no great method of dtermining what the brain is doing with whatever limited information it IS getting from the ear (and we mustn't forget about bone conduction by the way). Therefore, it doesn't make sense to limit the engineering to only produce what we believe our ears to be capable of when we don't know what the brain is doing and exactly how it combines data from the ears with "other stuff". -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... ...SB3+TACT+Altmann+MF DACXV3/Linn tri-amped Aktiv 5.1 system and some very expensive cables ;o) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38902
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