There was some good technical discussion at hydrogen audio . But hey seems to move thier web space . So treads are just not aviable rigth now
Btw just because it's a AES paper does not mean it's good or legit . Meridian has a good position in the society and IMO uses the science flair that publicate papers within AES gives for marketing purposes . These result are not undisputed . Does it make AES bad ? No this is a problem all research organisation and universities has to grapple with from time to time , you won't believe how much crap research even very respected universities realease to the world . It's kind of self correcting but it takes time .Over time several studies of a phenome takes place and it can even take a meta study to give some kind of final verdict. A more valid to aproach to a hifi streaming service would be to curate the content to the best known version of a work ? This has much more impact than the bit container I take the 320k MP3 version of the definitive master of something any day over the latest loudness war compressed master in glorious 24/192 the differences between suitable bit containers are subtle at best the differences between masters are really huge . Hey you could even throw in MQA streaming on the side in this scenario . Now and then the music would have a true 24/192 pedigree trough the recording and mastering chain these files could be given the MQA treatment . So on the rare occasion some subscribers could get the satisfaction of seeing " the MQA light " turn on . But it would not be used on program material where it would not work ( most music ever recorded ). It can prove a bit problematic to score true 96k or 192 k masters for the bat content . HD tracks for example is ripping SACD disc for a lot of thier content ? And they have huge problems with hirez masters that are nothing more than doctored CD masters to begin with . A logistical nightmare . A would love a streaming service that tackled the whole quality problem , not just obsessing over bits and kbits . Btw to get "bat friendly" content you may need to listen to rather closed miked music as the frequencies die of fast in the air and I do wonder how many of the classic microphones that record engineers love work in this domain what about thier polar pattern and frequency response ? And who will monitor this during production ? Do we even want it . The ultrasound can pose a real problem for amplifiers and speakers and actually do more good than bad . So even if we have a 24/192 master it must still be carefully evaluated . I do think 2L AIX and several others understands this very well . But what about some indie self production where they happen to have 24/192 sound cards and current software ? Or some random pop production that also happens to exist in the 24/192 domain . And it returns to the problem of setting up a quality control system that would ensure a hifi streaming service for real . It would require all the record companies and independent artist to run back to thier archives and do some QC work and possibly reupload a better master . We are talking about millions of man hours fixing this ? And in most cases the record company want the crappy compressed version . So that would in some cases require the streaming service to rip an early 90's version of some cd against the record companies intent, to get the best master ? How to resolve that . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
