mlsstl;608735 Wrote: > I've never heard of hiss as an artifact of a digital deficiency. That is > almost inevitably a byproduct of tape noise from the open reel used for > the original recording or something else going on with your analog gain > stages in your amplification stream. > > A recording from the 1960s would almost certainly have been recorded on > a studio open reel and this would have been pre-Dolby. The master > recording is simply going to contain a certain amount of hiss. Unless > you are using digital processing to remove this hiss, it simply won't > go away because you've changed certain aspects of your digital > configuration.
Yeah, I'd thought about tape hiss and had wondered, myself, how it would be possible for something on the recording itself to be sort of filtered out by my equipment and not affect the rest of the recording's sound quality, but that's about as far as my thinking and knowledge could get. Perhaps something else is at work here? I don't purport to know nor understand the source of the noise nor the mechanism(s) by which it was all but removed (I can still hear a little of it). Of course, this also made me wonder if, since this particular recording had clearly audible noise that has been reduced, if I've been experiencing other lower level "noise" (for lack of a better term) on better recordings that has also been reduced, thus leading to a less noticeable--but still there---improvement in SQ on other music. But, all I really know for sure is that on this particular recording a clearly audible noise that was once there and obscuring a degree of clarity is now all but gone. I know the changes I've made (and they're the only ones) and, at least as pertains to the particular noise, and the current lack thereof, I trust my hearing as accurate. I happily accept that a claims such as the generalized "everything's so much better when I did xxxxxx" are open to rampant speculation and derision, but on this one aspect on this one recording I am confident beyond a shadow of a doubt that this change has occured. Beyond that it's all electronic voodoo ;>) as far as I'm concerned. -- rgro Rick System information ------------------------ Main: PS Audio Quintet > Touch (wired) > CA DacMagic > Marantz PM8003 > VA Mozart Grands > REL Acoustics R305. Home Theatre: SBR (Wired) > Pioneer VSX 919 > Energy Take 5 Classic 5.1. SBS 7.5.3 r31815 running on a Vortexbox Appliance, V 1.7. Touch w/Hardware V.5. Touch: FW 7.5.3 r9283. Duet: FW 67. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85449 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
