LOTS of great material at his site and hes made some..erm.. interesting assertions here on the forum too
There was à time With more and more types of intermodulation distortions coming up. Olle Mirsch thenj "invented" wcim tounge in cheek. Water Closet Intermodulation Distortion.
Ivor Tifenburn of Linn claimed that the presense of any extra microphone or loudspeaker in the listeningnroom upset the hifi experience. Olle then suggested that if there was sounds in any other home nearby they would modulate the watersurface in the toilet and the sewer would propagate this to the listener
Ivor Tifenburn of Linn claimed that the presense of any extra microphone or loudspeaker in the listeningnroom upset the hifi experience. Olle then suggested that if there was sounds in any other home nearby they would modulate the watersurface in the toilet and the sewer would propagate this to the listener
I hear voices in my toilet!
Actually, there is scratching in my chimney. Can figure out what it is. Maybe a ghost.
Actually, there is scratching in my chimney. Can figure out what it is. Maybe a ghost.
I've actually used internet MP3 recordings of cymbal types by companies like Zildjian and Sabian and from Youtube to help select certain cymbals for my drumkit with good success in getting different tonalities. That in no way means that I believe MP3 is 'perfect' - just barely good enough to do something like this. I also bought a couple of chinese made cymbals based on this - great for that 'trashy' LF sound for crashes and splashes.
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I' ve done that, too, but I couldn't find someone who could demo the chinese cymbals, or a couple types that I was interested in but which were no longer sold new, such as the hi-hats I bought.
Interesting. I'm surprised that MP3 encoding is sufficient for that; not being a drummer, I'd have thought that the differences would be subtle ones, but apparently not?
I was listening more for spectral and decay type information, nothing too detailed. One thing I had noticed is that I wanted more variety in the sounds between my cymbals than most manufacturers offered and I thought this approach would work for maximizing that. For instance, I wanted a crash with a lot of LF character as well as a fairly high frequency smoother crash. I got the latter with a Sabian AAX type (purchased used), and the former with a Chinese type. But I wanted them to have similar delay characteristics which I could basically determine from online recordings - I didn't want to alternate between the two and have one wash out the other, and that seemed to work out.
Why? Mr. Altmann demonstrated that he is a very smart and intelligent man, able to make a nice career from audio tweaks. In fact, he demonstrated that he's quite a bit smarter than his (un-educated?) customers 😉
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
jan
Quick note on UK mains it is 3 phase, they just split phases for domestic supplies.
Audiophile Ethernet cables, ho ho ho what a load of rubbish.
And the bybee still raising its ugly head, JC look how far carbon nanotube electronics has got, and talk of changing goal posts, the bybee used a proprietary ceramics initially, how the marketing changes, now its carbon nanotubes, tell the truth and be honest its a true organic component using grass and hay processed through a male cow and collected in easily handles flattish circular piles from fields...
Audiophile Ethernet cables, ho ho ho what a load of rubbish.
And the bybee still raising its ugly head, JC look how far carbon nanotube electronics has got, and talk of changing goal posts, the bybee used a proprietary ceramics initially, how the marketing changes, now its carbon nanotubes, tell the truth and be honest its a true organic component using grass and hay processed through a male cow and collected in easily handles flattish circular piles from fields...
Dipl.-Ing. is one of very few confusing things of a nation that's rational to the last digit.
rewind to my opening post, I was writing about a guy who always pays attention to the lettering on the cables, because he is convinced they always indicate the right direction. better safe than sorry, he says!
in time I became convinced that these guys view the snake-oil vendors (including the audio dealers) as real enlightened gurus. moreover, without having technical education and even attempting to do their homework, they're quick to label engineering as useless in audio. simply because some guy who sells shiny expensive stuff told them it's so 🙂
it's not that I'm realizing it now, after all it's almost 20 years since I found out that there's more to sound than just my parents' boombox, it's just that now I'm convinced of something I've been rejecting: many of them are nothing but technically illiterate snobs with an abnormal need to perceive themselves as part of an elite group.
it's one of those things that seem so obvious at the beginning but the more you analyze the more you tell yourself there must be more to it. until one day, generally after many years pass, when it strikes you that the initial instinct was the right one 🙂
Everyone's hearing is on a progressive, downwards slope towards AM radio quality. If you follow the wrong audio path for twenty years that's an awful lot of good listening you'll never get back.
Communication is creating an opening for dialog(ue).
Back in highschool days, one of my friends played the drums.
(every day from 4-6pm, in an agreement with the neighbours)
On visits to the local instrument store, to audit cymbals, he always dragged at least one other hippie nazi along for a 2nd opinion.
Fundamental of cymbals is in the midrange, most of the pulse energy is in a range that can't be heard by any human, regardless of age.
Gent was so obsessed with the right cymbal flavor, that he tuned them with glue-ons, even tried soldering a layer on the edge.
A 75 year old gent may still be able to differentiate, if he did at 15 and 25.
I knew and know folks who can tell from the sound if and also exactly what is wrong with a gearbox, a diesel engine, cutting of a lathe.
Quite a few in AM radio league.
Same same with visual observation, gents with bifocals, able to observe less than a degree deviation from a straight line, for lengths most FM members couldn't tell the difference at.
Back in highschool days, one of my friends played the drums.
(every day from 4-6pm, in an agreement with the neighbours)
On visits to the local instrument store, to audit cymbals, he always dragged at least one other hippie nazi along for a 2nd opinion.
Fundamental of cymbals is in the midrange, most of the pulse energy is in a range that can't be heard by any human, regardless of age.
Gent was so obsessed with the right cymbal flavor, that he tuned them with glue-ons, even tried soldering a layer on the edge.
A 75 year old gent may still be able to differentiate, if he did at 15 and 25.
I knew and know folks who can tell from the sound if and also exactly what is wrong with a gearbox, a diesel engine, cutting of a lathe.
Quite a few in AM radio league.
Same same with visual observation, gents with bifocals, able to observe less than a degree deviation from a straight line, for lengths most FM members couldn't tell the difference at.
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I'm glad you said that, Jacco - because so much talk on the forums about "how good my hearing is" comes down to a numbers game. Basically, how can you - or can you not - hear. 18K, 20K, 22K? Rarely any talk of thresholds, pitch, level acuity, spacial cues, etc. Things that have a lot more to do with how well you hear than your frequency response in the top octave.
But audio loves numbers.
But audio loves numbers.
How so? All it means is that someone has a masters degree in an engineering subject.
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