Le Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:31:52 +0200, Fons Adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:50:48AM -0600, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote: > > > When i went down my local (ok, only) studio to have some LPs transferred to > > CD the studio owner and i were talking about this very subject. He told me > > that one day he bought a new mixer to replace his aging one. He set it > > next to his old one and got it ready. The phone rang. He spent the next few > > hours experimenting with it, and was happy with the differences it made in > > the sound he was trying to achieve. However, he had forgotten to turn it > > on. > > > > I'm sure this isn't the only such story out there. If a person can fool > > themselves into believing that such a piece of equipment is even > > functioning, how much difference can it make? As a matter of fact, i think > > he returned the mixer and stuck with his old one. > > A nice variation on this theme occured years ago at an AES conference. > The speaker wanted to demonstrate that 'digital' sound was crap, by > using the familiar 'push down the extended arm' test. Test persons > listening to analog sound could easily resist, while they lost all > force when listening to a digital recording. > > What the speaker didn't know was that the PA system used to play the > tracks was fully digital... > > Years later the same person was promoting DSD against PCM, by the way... > > Ciao, > Haha! It remain me some test that was done in Switzerland in the sixties (or something like that) by the national TV. Test persons was listening to 2 sorts of sounds: normal stereo, and mono with different tone settings on the left and right channel. Of course, the conclusion was that it was not possible to determinate for sure if a sound was stereo or mono. It is why we have in Switzerland only monophonic sound on the TV. Some movies are transmitted with bicanal sound: it is 2 time mono, one time in one language and one time with the original language. You can choose the language. Most users are not even aware of that possibility. lol... Personally, I don't like it. I prefer very much a good stereo sound in the original language (with some kind of text if it is a language that I don't understand) like on the Swedish TV. For that PCM-DSD stuff. I prefer PCM because we can archive a good sound quality with a much lower bandwitch. DSD was fine at the beginning of digital recording because it was nothing else (for what I know), but for today's professional audio, DSD is a waste of resources because of the huge needed bandwitch. Dominique _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
