A building made of gears? Sound like sci-fi fantasy. Or did you mean a Frank Gehry designed building?
WAV/MP3 different bitrates... ha
Playtime,
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/loun...t-stuff-matter-if-does-then-can-you-tell.html
Playtime,
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/loun...t-stuff-matter-if-does-then-can-you-tell.html
This is probably too easy to cheat on, the spectral artifacts of MP3 at any bit rate are usually obvious on the live FFT that some players have. My default player is Cooledit with the FFT window open.
A building made of gears? Sound like sci-fi fantasy. Or did you mean a Frank Gehry designed building?
If you saw it almost same difference.
Yeah. In spite of all the hype and celebrity endorsements, I'll be surprised if they're still in business in five years.
se
As a former architectural student I can't stand Gehrt's buildings. We do have that here in Los Angeles and I know of few people who actually like the way that building looks. Doing new things in construction is fine, but to just make a building look like it came out of someones LSD induced trip seems so silly. These building will not endure I have a feeling, they will not be the building that we conserve over the long run, they will not be around like the Taj Mahal or some other truly iconic designs.
Many of the issues that we all talk about with poor recording quality can be directly linked to the explosion of home based recording studio being operated by inept and untrained people thinking this is easy. I have seen so many of the large high quality recording studios here in Los Angeles just disappear. the cost to operate and keep these facilities open is immense. There is just no way that you are going to produce a high quality recording using a cheap couple hundred dollar mixer with god knows what speakers that are used as a reference. Or those who think you can mix down on a pair of Beats headphones. We are in an era where anyone can make a record but do we really want to listen to that Cr*p as a commercial source? The fact that many record companies will put this dreck out for commercial release tells you where part of the problem is with the music industry today. I think Neil Young has a studio in his house, it would be interesting to see what he listens to and records to that he thinks is state of the art. I know some very well respected Jazz musicians and as Esperado just said many times they will listen to music on some of the worst sounding systems, they seem to listen past the problems, they truly listen in a different way than the common listener of music.
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When I saw MIT building, I liked it immediately. Maybe because I'm not an architect. It reminds me of this.
Kindhornman, a poor system can be that either because it has glaring problems which kick you in the head, or simply because it is an imperfect system.
I know I can listen to an imperfect system if it has no glaring problems, the music can override that if you give it a chance, but in-yer-face problems are much harder to listen through.
IME, most home systems are simply imperfect, and only sometims with glaring problems. If so, they are usually manifated by noticeable amplifier compression when they are pushed into regions where they lose steam and just can't pull it off, so they either compress (as when running out of current) and/or change tonality, forcing you to turn the vlume down.
I know I can listen to an imperfect system if it has no glaring problems, the music can override that if you give it a chance, but in-yer-face problems are much harder to listen through.
IME, most home systems are simply imperfect, and only sometims with glaring problems. If so, they are usually manifated by noticeable amplifier compression when they are pushed into regions where they lose steam and just can't pull it off, so they either compress (as when running out of current) and/or change tonality, forcing you to turn the vlume down.
electroj.
I too like that artwork, but that is art, not architecture. There is a saying that I am found of that "Form follows Function" and I can't see anything in Gehry's designs that remotely comes close to that. The buildings lose function for the sake of style.
This reminds me of a house in Santa Barbara California called the Whale House. I used that house for a photo shoot for a brochure years ago. It was a very interesting looking house but was so impractical that they owners had a terrible time selling it . There was not one straight wall in the house and not even a vertical surface. There was no way to hang a picture or use any type of tradition furniture, it just didn't work as a functional house. It was cool for awhile, but in the end it will end up being knocked down to build a traditional house on a nice piece of property.
I too like that artwork, but that is art, not architecture. There is a saying that I am found of that "Form follows Function" and I can't see anything in Gehry's designs that remotely comes close to that. The buildings lose function for the sake of style.
This reminds me of a house in Santa Barbara California called the Whale House. I used that house for a photo shoot for a brochure years ago. It was a very interesting looking house but was so impractical that they owners had a terrible time selling it . There was not one straight wall in the house and not even a vertical surface. There was no way to hang a picture or use any type of tradition furniture, it just didn't work as a functional house. It was cool for awhile, but in the end it will end up being knocked down to build a traditional house on a nice piece of property.
I think for musicians, the emphasis tends to be on the music and for others the emphasis tends to be on the sound.
se
dvv,
I have a fairly good sounding system in my house, I will not say it is the best or even close to that at the moment. However the system is listenable without major problems, The real issue is that it is not a dedicated music room. the system is shared with furniture and other things as it is a family room. The room acoustics are the major issue but easily ignored if the music involves you. Yes I could improve the room but at the cost of family harmony. I really envy those who can actually have a dedicated room that is properly set up for listening to music, that is not often the case.
I have a fairly good sounding system in my house, I will not say it is the best or even close to that at the moment. However the system is listenable without major problems, The real issue is that it is not a dedicated music room. the system is shared with furniture and other things as it is a family room. The room acoustics are the major issue but easily ignored if the music involves you. Yes I could improve the room but at the cost of family harmony. I really envy those who can actually have a dedicated room that is properly set up for listening to music, that is not often the case.
It is a shame that some of the classic studios have gone, but Will I am, for whatever you think of his breed of music is currently dumping $15m on a new facility. Home recording (starting with the tascam portastudio) may have reduced quality, but it has enabled us to hear music the majors would have avoided, so is good. Plus the big studios gave us prog rock. You sure you still want them there? (I like prog so am biased).
IAC building, Manhattan, functional and beautiful
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2364/2527321706_cf8712f302_o.jpg
(for tacky, as the Taj Mahal : Vasily Klyukin official site )
Jacco,
That jpeg just shows me a bunch of html code. Can't see any picture. Taj Mahal, Windsor Palace, there are many buildings in many countries that are there for the long haul. Whether we think of them as ostentatious or not doesn't change the basic architecture and usefulness of a building. We are spending millions or much more than that to restore the dome on the capital building in the US, that building will be there for centuries I think, it is iconoclastic. Can you say that about a Gehry building, I rather think not, no more than Roger Rabbit will be thought of as a national treasure in film!
I can see the second set of pictures and those are some very interesting designs, at the same time most of them look like very usable buildings and ships. I guess I would just put Gehry at the bottom of the list, his designs seem so senseless.
That jpeg just shows me a bunch of html code. Can't see any picture. Taj Mahal, Windsor Palace, there are many buildings in many countries that are there for the long haul. Whether we think of them as ostentatious or not doesn't change the basic architecture and usefulness of a building. We are spending millions or much more than that to restore the dome on the capital building in the US, that building will be there for centuries I think, it is iconoclastic. Can you say that about a Gehry building, I rather think not, no more than Roger Rabbit will be thought of as a national treasure in film!
I can see the second set of pictures and those are some very interesting designs, at the same time most of them look like very usable buildings and ships. I guess I would just put Gehry at the bottom of the list, his designs seem so senseless.
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Taj Mahal is pretty useless as a place to hold 2 bodies from a form follows function standpoint. It's a big sod off ego trip.
billshurv,
Yes we have the modern equivalent of that happening here in Los Angeles. Houses in the 10's of thousands of square feet for two people and upwards of 35 bathrooms. I guess they really can't hold it, they should just buy stock in Depends adult diapers.
Yes we have the modern equivalent of that happening here in Los Angeles. Houses in the 10's of thousands of square feet for two people and upwards of 35 bathrooms. I guess they really can't hold it, they should just buy stock in Depends adult diapers.
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