On 07/16/2010 11:46 AM, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Friday 16 July 2010 09:50:39 Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 09:56 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: >>> You really should do that test first before speculating about the outcome >>> and your audience. >> Btw. I tested my own music. >> First I played inside songs from other people a Ralf-mastering of my own >> music. >> Most people didn't like my song. >> Some weeks later I played the same song inside other songs from other >> people by a loudness-war-mastering. >> Most people liked the song. >> Playing the same song two times can't be called heavy rotation, hence >> they were not accustomed to my song, but they need a bad mastering to be >> fine with this song. >> A blind study is useless regarding to musical issues. > > Apples and oranges.
Since LAC2010 the bitten fruit is a banned word. You mean bananas & oranges, don't you? > You are working on midi-latency-jitter. Which is measurable. And the test is > when the jitter becomes unbearable. > > Taste on the other thing is not measurable and while you could quantify it, > common sense says that taste-minorities are valuable too... > >> Or do you think we should start mixing music optimised to loudness, >> because tests show that the audience prefers music without dynamic? > > Taste-minorities. You play your dynamic-rich songs to fans of classical music > and see their reactions. If you can distinguish the "like it because of > dynamics" from the "don't like it because of rock-vs-classical". Which just > shows that taste is not measurable. > > And no, pop industry doesn't measure taste, it just measures profit. LOL. > Have fun, > > Arnold We're getting seriously off-topic here. After all, this is developer list. What happened to the ALSA MIDI Jitter measurements and test-samples? robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
