Re: The Emperor's New Sample Rate

On Apr 9, 6:33 pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:34:18 -0700, codifus wrote
> (in article <fth9va02...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
>
>
> > On Apr 8, 6:17 pm, Steven Sullivan <ssu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Codifus <codi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> Steven Sullivan wrote:
> >>>> awareness that 'hi rez' is a solution looking for a problem, seems
to
> >>>> be growing...
>
> >>>> From the online April issue of MIX magazine
>
>
>>>>http://mixonline.com/recording/mixing/audio_emperors_new_sampling/ind...
>
> >>>> ___
> >>>> -S
> >>>> maybe they wanna rock.
> >>>> maybe they need to rock.
> >>>> Maybe it's for the money?  But That's none of our business..our
business
> >>>> as fans is to rock
> >>>> with them.
> >>> I think its funny that Mr. Winer thinks that comb filtering may be
> >>> responsible for everyone's different impressions when sampling
audio.
> >>> Sitting down in the same spot with a give-or-take of 4 inches,
> >>> impossible? I think not.
> >>> Those of us who really like audio tend to aslo have a favorite chair
or
> >>> spot in the listening room that we like to sit in. I'm sorry, but I
> >>> think's it's very easy for us mere mortals to sit in the same spot,
> >>> definitely at least within in an inch.
>
> >> Within 4 inches, yes...within an inch, maybe.  But audible
differences can
> >> result
> >> from positional differences of less than that.
>
> >> Solution: to do comparison rigorously, use headphones.
>
> >> ___
> >> -S
> >> maybe they wanna rock.
> >> maybe they need to rock.
> >> Maybe it's for the money?  But That's none of our business..our
business as
> >> fans is to rock
> >> with them.
>
> > True. But those differences introduced by moving less than an inch
> > away from your seating position won't be dramatic. They will be
> > subtle.
>
> > CD
>
> OTOH, so are the differences people say they hear between cables and
amps and
> preamps....
>
> And if that's what's going on, ABX testing won't work when the listener
> thinks he's heard a difference between two components under test every
time
> he moves his head.

So very true. I once thought there was something wrong with my system.
The high frequencies didn't seem to be as apparent. It turned out to
be just me with a very slight head cold.

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