Chrobrego wrote: > Not to deviate from the original debate but just to mention the > complexity of the HiFi sound capture and reproduction, I would avoid the > expression "bit-perfect" but rather call it "bit-unperfect". Bit is > digital - not real - world and already translates irremediable sound > alteration that truncates the signal as the result of the quantification > applied during PCM conversion. > > I think it is also wrong to oppose the "real" from the "psychological". > They are both linked tighly together when it comes to music perception - > we are not machines! An infinitesimal signal difference could result in > total different perception of the music from an individual to another. > And it may have nothing to do with the strict ear sensitivity but rather > with how our brain interpret or react to the signal which leads to > emotion, etc. It has also something to do with our own experience or > what some people call ear education. > 10 years ago I was listening to a lot of mp3 and personnaly could not > see distinctly the difference with a CD. Now I have my music in flac and > when I try to listen to mp3 music streamed from Internet radio I find it > almost unbearable. Yet my ears have probably lost a lot of their - > scientifically measurable! - sensitivity since that time but that is > largly compensated by what I know the real music should sound like. > So I would not underestimate the possible impact caused by any > difference in the signal process chain inside an electronic equipment. > After all, why do the amplifiers have a "source direct" which switch off > the display and apply a shorter path for the signal? is it also "an > indicator of something wrong"? > > At the end everybody is free to choose its own threshold for optimal > quality. People will also argue on the differences between cd vs vynil, > cd vs sacd, spotify 320kbits vs Qobuz, PCM 16 bit vs 24 bits, etc... > Where is your limit, guys?
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