Phil Leigh;629014 Wrote: > Terry - I'm not sure where you mean - it's a long chain from sound booth > to the CD in your hand! The losses start with the microphones (for > acoustic sounds). > > The most damage (these days) seems to happen in the mastering suite, > when the brickwall limiters get wound up. > > In the domestic chain it is the speakers that are most (>80% IME) > responsible for what we hear being different to what is "intended" by > the PCM on the CD... followed by the DAC.
I guess as a starting point, I'd like to see someone take a good analog source and then digitize it at 16 bit/ 44 kHz and burn it onto CD with the redbook format and the processing that would be used, and compare that back to the original. I'm just curious how much is lost in the process. For instance I've always been curious how much dithering really helps on music as opposed to sine waves. And how good is the redbook CD format capable of being (on music, not on siine waves). But in general, I'm just glad to see methods like this being applied instead of the reliance we have had for the past way too many years on purely sine-wave based characterization of audio equipment. Terry -- TerryS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TerryS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87175 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
