While this sounds interesing, it does not (IMHO) fix the real problem, which occurs during recording. So much music, especially classical music, is already crippled with auto-gain, bad mic placement (too close, too far, too many, too few) and similar issues. All that information that gets thrown away before the sound engineers start messing with it (and they often do enough harm, mixing, equalizing and so on) cannot be restored with a fancy compression alogrithm. Also, this would probably mean new DAC Hardware, because of the "unfolding" of the timing information described in the Viruskiller Forum Post. Maybe this is a good thing, I don't know enough to tell. Maybe it would be best, if that firm would offer some samples to the general public. A decent PC should be able to decode their stuff in software, then we could see. I also don't see many streaming or download services jumping on this, they mostly seem to think mp3 is wonderful, and most of their customers probably agree, so...maybe it will sink, maybe it will float. Time will tell.
For myself, I'm always on the hunt for the right sound, and I have not found it yet. My problem is, I'm professional musician, I earn my money playing in a small (60 member) philharmonic orchestra. So, for me the ideal I'm aiming at is something like a 50-80 Speaker surround sound. No recording will ever be able to reproduce that, but I'll take the next best thing... ;) Sadly, finding recordings that sound even remotely real is almost impossible. Mostly it's the normalization that hurts most, because in real life, 40 string instruments playing really soft and then playing really loud is a gigantic step, on most recordings it's almost no difference. This is of course a good thing for some cases, because, if you are listening to "background" music, you don#t want to fiddle with the volume all the time, but for concentrated listening, it is important. Maybe some day we will be given a choice, full dynamic range, or compressed, and can switch between the two with a tap or click. For that, we need masters with the full range, and sound engineers that give us normalization as an option and don't force-feed it to us. Okay, sorry for the OT... ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CommanderROR's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59408 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
