No idea where you got the idea from that mastering costs 'lots and lots' of money.
Compared to the cost of recording and mixing by an engineer with a good name the cost of mastering is practically negligible.
Btw the best sounding releases to my ears of the last decade or so have never been touched by a mastering engineer.
My question was unrelated...to your statement...I just wanted everyones opinion and used your statement as an intro. Sorry for the confusion.
The point I was trying to make was that ...why if the redbook standard is the best humans could possibly discern/experience...why did the pros look for something better.
The point I was trying to make was that ...why if the redbook standard is the best humans could possibly discern/experience...why did the pros look for something better.
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Temporal resolution and post-processing capability. IMO, especially the former is the largest improvement. But people often misunderstand the concept of temporal resolution with a need for "dog whistle" frequency range. They're not related in anything other than they both require higher sample rates.
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Only for NOS DACs. Oversampling pushes the phase issues way above the audible range.
Huh? You can oversample with zero phase. Look up sin(x)/x interpolation.
Can you define "temporal distortion" technically? Seems to be nothing more than a buzzword when referring to audio.
Can you define "temporal distortion" technically? Seems to be nothing more than a buzzword when referring to audio.
Look it up yourself. SinX interpolation is only valid when Nyquist's critea are meet which is never fully the case. Typical usage in oscilloscopes where the sample rate is in the gigahertz domain it makes very little practical difference but as sample rate decrease so does the probability of error.
The main issue is that interpolation, linear and especially SinX, can cause false samples ahead of the real sample due to music not being sine waves but a complex signal. This is temporal distortion.
The human hearing is much more sensitive to temporal resolution than most people think. Studies show between 10µs and 20µs for the average person with some few being sensitive down to 6µS, typically musicians. That corresponds to minimum required sample rate of between 50khz and 100khz for the average person and 166khz for very sensitive persons.
Eh? Music might be a complex signal, but it is still something that can be represented as a combination of sine waves. What do you mean with "false samples"?
No. 6 µs can be trivially represented by a 44.1 KHz sample rate signal.
The sample interval of 44.1kHz is 22.7µs. The time resolution of 44.1 kHz 16 bit is 22.7 µs / 2^16 or 0.3 ns.
1. How much is an album (vinyl) nowadays?
2. How much better sound quality do you get from a Pono album download vs its LP counterpart?
3. How much is a Pono music album download?
* You should now be able to make a fair analytic balance (assessment) in both financial and performance distinctions.
Go with the best and leave the rest. ...It's live or bust! ...Only the music you love (Classical, Jazz & Blues); the rest is for young punks and wannabe pop stars. 😎
By the way, Beck's latest album, ' Morning Phase' (on CD) is only ten bucks.
Beck is also a Pono artist promotor. ...A businessman, and a musician.
Beck is also a Pono artist promotor. ...A businessman, and a musician.
This one?
"Thanks to reader Juergen R. for alerting me to what appears to be the fact that two of the tracks from Beck's wonderful Morning Phase included in the 24/96 download from HDtracks are sourced from MP3"
I don't know.
Depends on what system ofcourse. So again....don't know.
Don't know.
Not really. Since an LP is not practical on the move.
An album (single vinyl) is between roughly $20 and $50.
A Pono music download is between $20 and $30.
I forgot about that. You're right, you can't listen to an LP on the go. ...What a truly sad oversight!
* I think an album sounds better than a Pono download; as long that you have a $500 or more TT. ...And a decent cartridge of course. ...And not a warped record. ...And a cleaning record machine to get those residues out of that brand new vinyl. ...And that you know how to properly set up the TT's speed, the tonearm, the azimuth, the tracking force, the horizontal and vertical tangential, the center of gravity, the belt tension, the anti-vibration devices, the right fluids for the stylus, the proper brushes, an anti-static gun, the right phono stage preamp, the right RIAA equalization curve, the proper anti-skating, and all the rest for proper analog vinyl playback. ...A PHD in analog science is also highly recommended. ...And academic mathematics is a plus.
** Can you put a DAC inside a turntable? ...That would be a good diy project, I tink.
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It would be much easier to make a DSP plug-in that adds vinyl distortion and noise to digital material - as a matter of fact, it has been done.
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