I'm struggling to figure out this whole digital filtering business...linear, minimum, apodizing, soft knee, etc...I've read some of the technical explanations and discussions, but quite honestly 98% of it goes right over my head. This is more intellectual curiousity than anything else as I have rarely been able to actually hear differences between the various filters, but, hey, maybe if I knew what I was listening for, it might help.
The main thing I don't seem to find anywhere is any explanation of how any of these things translate into the human (sorry all you dogs reading this) sub-20khz audible world. For instance, how would pre and/or post-ringing (whatever the heck those are) manifest themselves in THE MUSIC----what I can (or can't) hear? What would the application of x, y, or z filter do to prevent/allow some audible change in that music? I'm wondering if the absence of any "real/audible world" explanations of this stuff is due to the fact that, essentially, there isn't one---that every combination of gears and ears will manifest these things in a different way? Or is it just marketing stuff by the chip manufacturers to make us think we're getting some cool stuff, when it really makes very little, if any, differences in anything other than listening to equipment that 99.9% of us can't afford. If anyone would care to offer up a "lay" explanation of, say, what I should or shouldn't expect to hear from the five filters in my new Rega dac or, alternatively, just point me to a non (or "light") technical explanation of what filtering does and what things, in terms I can understand, it's meant to solve, I would be most interested. Gratefully, -- rgro Rick System information ------------------------ Main: PS Audio Quintet > Touch (wired) via spdif coax > Rega DAC > Marantz PM8003 > VA Mozart Grands > REL Acoustics R305. Home Theatre: SBR (Wired) > Pioneer VSX 919 > Energy Take 5 Classic 5.1. SBS 7.5.3 r31815 running on a Vortexbox Appliance, V 1.7. Touch w/Hardware V.5. Touch: FW 7.5.3 r9283. Duet: FW 67. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86853 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
