On 4/3/06, Jan Knutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 02:53, Timothy Miller wrote: > > So, what do you all think of this idea? Comments? Suggestions? > > Discussion! :) > > The part that audiophiles care most about is in the analog parts, isn't it? > And making it sound "warm" and "full", and whatever other adjectives that > they use, would be quite a challenge, one that wouldn't be solvable by > just upgrading the FPGA mask?...
"Warmth" is just an affect of the nonlinearlity of many components used in audio. For instance, vacuum tubes are popular in amps because of the way they filter the audio signal. So... why can't we just imitate that filter? Well, the reason is that we don't necessarily know the function. If we know it, we can emulate it. It wouldn't be TOO hard to get one of those things and run experiments on what happens at the speaker to the input. Worst case, we use neural nets. :) > > I have no idea either. I just know I prefer the sound of my AWE32 over > the SoundBlaster PCI 128, and prefer the sound of my SparcStation 5's > audio chip pushing audio through its internal speaker, compared to my > cheapo PC with AC97 and fancy external Creative speakerset... > > Seems more like magic than science, in order to get it right :) I see your point. Even if we were to figure out how to imitate this magic, many people wouldn't believe it. In any case, I still think there's a market for this. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
