On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 13:26 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > 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
The blame isn't on Arnold, but me. Test results will come ASAP. Btw. if you would listen 5 hours to 4-on-the-flour, you probably would welcome off topics too. Pardon for the OTs. - Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
