I've been on a research and development montage in the audio field for almost 10 years now and at this point I'm becoming overwhelmed with everything that I am working on.
After thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of R&D, I can confidently say that I know the path to achieve perfect sound reproduction, however I can no longer do it alone.
I will soon be starting a company showcasing the fruits of my labors but the R&D portion is overwhelming me even without the burden of running a company.
I am wondering if there are any souls in New England that are passionate about progressive audio research and development. Even if you have zero knowledge and would be willing to learn. The ability to think creatively and a results driven mindset is all I need.
I already know the answer but I figured I would ask anyway.
I'd be willing to move elsewhere if I found such a person outside of my region as well, but that would take some convincing.
After thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of R&D, I can confidently say that I know the path to achieve perfect sound reproduction, however I can no longer do it alone.
I will soon be starting a company showcasing the fruits of my labors but the R&D portion is overwhelming me even without the burden of running a company.
I am wondering if there are any souls in New England that are passionate about progressive audio research and development. Even if you have zero knowledge and would be willing to learn. The ability to think creatively and a results driven mindset is all I need.
I already know the answer but I figured I would ask anyway.
I'd be willing to move elsewhere if I found such a person outside of my region as well, but that would take some convincing.
You'd be surprised. Lots of low hanging fruit that no one ever looks into. People seem to stick to convention like glue, even the smart ones.
Any examples? Other than the glue?
Sound reproduction can crtainly be improves, but perfect disappears as soon as the performance is recorded.
dave
Sound reproduction can crtainly be improves, but perfect disappears as soon as the performance is recorded.
dave
Well, it's not as if I can simply spill the beans. Years and years of my life were put into this
You will know soon enough if I can get done what I need to get done.
Unfortunately commercially viable prototype development is a totally different and more expensive beast than diy prototype development.
Lots of work to be done.
You will know soon enough if I can get done what I need to get done.
Unfortunately commercially viable prototype development is a totally different and more expensive beast than diy prototype development.
Lots of work to be done.
I wish you luck. Better than the many before you that had also reached nirvana, never to be seen again. I don't mean they disappeared, it's just that not everyone has the same definition of nirvana, nor how its reached. At this point it is unlikely you have something new. You likely have something that has been tried and never became mainstream or widely accepted for any number of reasons. I hope I'm wrong but every industry has visionaries. I wish you luck being that one in a million that makes the mark.
Cheers.
Cheers.
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I too wish you luck, i have been at it for at least 4 decades and it is a much deeper topic than most think.
dave
dave
I search only for perceptibly perfect audio reproduction. If a person is standing in a room talking, I want it to sound exactly the same if I'm reproducing that person talking in that spot.
So the intended result is a little more black and white for me than someone's arbitrary audio nirvana.
You are just going to have to take my word for it that my developments are unique.
The problems of audio reproduction are quite solvable with methodical and step by step R&D starting from first principles, along with a ton of out of the box thinking.
For starters all of the existing speaker technologies suck in fundamental sound quality compared to what they need to be, and that's ignoring crossovers. Also room geometry and interactions destroy the sound regardless of what you do. I could go on and on and on, but I have effectively resolved these issues and many more.
What I have developed is an entirely different class of audio reproduction technology all-together.
That being said, it's a very expensive multidisciplinary effort to develop and construct making it a pain in the **** to complete due to all of the variables that need to be tested and considered and the custom equipment required.
Almost all of the R&D required to push out a product is complete, but the theoretical improvements yet to be fulfilled are vast, regardless of how well it already sounds. Years of work left to be done.
I need to parallelize, which is why I'm searching for another person like me, if they exist.
So the intended result is a little more black and white for me than someone's arbitrary audio nirvana.
You are just going to have to take my word for it that my developments are unique.
The problems of audio reproduction are quite solvable with methodical and step by step R&D starting from first principles, along with a ton of out of the box thinking.
For starters all of the existing speaker technologies suck in fundamental sound quality compared to what they need to be, and that's ignoring crossovers. Also room geometry and interactions destroy the sound regardless of what you do. I could go on and on and on, but I have effectively resolved these issues and many more.
What I have developed is an entirely different class of audio reproduction technology all-together.
That being said, it's a very expensive multidisciplinary effort to develop and construct making it a pain in the **** to complete due to all of the variables that need to be tested and considered and the custom equipment required.
Almost all of the R&D required to push out a product is complete, but the theoretical improvements yet to be fulfilled are vast, regardless of how well it already sounds. Years of work left to be done.
I need to parallelize, which is why I'm searching for another person like me, if they exist.
You are going to have to start at the recording. And given the transition from real to 2 channels, much is lost.
dave
I am well aware.
Nothing I am doing is conventional so that doesn't apply.
I am using new techniques throughout the entire chain.
Nothing I am doing is conventional so that doesn't apply.
I am using new techniques throughout the entire chain.
Starting at the recording?
Once the information is lost, it is lost.
If you need to chang ethe entire recording industry it will be a very pricey endeavor. And would only have new recordings.
dave
Once the information is lost, it is lost.
If you need to chang ethe entire recording industry it will be a very pricey endeavor. And would only have new recordings.
dave
Yes well, that kind of thinking is part of the problem.
Putting time and effort into technologies and methods that have proven ineffective is a meaningless effort if progress is the goal.
Solve the issues that need to be solved first, then worry about what comes after.
Current production techniques suck, so I ignore convention and work to find what doesn't suck. It's that simple, but the world at large seems to love convention so things rarely progress.
Besides, even if I ignore the production part of the equation, the reproduction technology I have developed make the existing technologies look laughable.
You would be surprised how bad current tech actually is on the reproduction end of things, regardless of the price of equipment or the room.
Putting time and effort into technologies and methods that have proven ineffective is a meaningless effort if progress is the goal.
Solve the issues that need to be solved first, then worry about what comes after.
Current production techniques suck, so I ignore convention and work to find what doesn't suck. It's that simple, but the world at large seems to love convention so things rarely progress.
Besides, even if I ignore the production part of the equation, the reproduction technology I have developed make the existing technologies look laughable.
You would be surprised how bad current tech actually is on the reproduction end of things, regardless of the price of equipment or the room.
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Wish you every success.
Many years ago I was involved in paradigm breaking new medicine implementing biofeedback in the support of brain/spinal injured children. Looking back it was more simply the harvesting of new opportunities created by the minaturisation of electronica at the time.
Today I am guessing the new audio opportunities are best created and harvested in software and computing power? But the straight 8, downdraft carburated internal combustion engine remains my nirvana, if you get my drift.
Many years ago I was involved in paradigm breaking new medicine implementing biofeedback in the support of brain/spinal injured children. Looking back it was more simply the harvesting of new opportunities created by the minaturisation of electronica at the time.
Today I am guessing the new audio opportunities are best created and harvested in software and computing power? But the straight 8, downdraft carburated internal combustion engine remains my nirvana, if you get my drift.
Unfortunately software can only get you so far.
I haven't implemented any software level corrections yet, but I intend for that to be my last stage of R&D to close the gap of any remaining imperfections once everything else is optimized and perfected as much as is practical on a theoretical level.
In any case, if a being exists out there that is interested in helping me complete my R&D, let me know. Surely someone in the world must be interested.
I haven't implemented any software level corrections yet, but I intend for that to be my last stage of R&D to close the gap of any remaining imperfections once everything else is optimized and perfected as much as is practical on a theoretical level.
In any case, if a being exists out there that is interested in helping me complete my R&D, let me know. Surely someone in the world must be interested.
Wish you good luck, just a personal experience: at least once a Year, more often if possible, I visit Teatro Colón, our Opera House in Buenos Aires, to treat myself with some good live Music.
In my seat, I close my eyes and listen.
No sound system I ever listened to, and listened at some very good ones in my life, never ever even approaches that original Sound.
The transparency, cleanliness, depth and width of field, the small detail .... oh .... not even close, not even in the same league.
Suggest you try the same, as often as you can.
That said, sound systems can be VERY good, and fulfill a need, no doubt, just not the same.
Closest approach I personally heard was , to begin with, MUCH simplifying the sound source (so simplifying the task), AND absolutely minimizing the Recording system (bad) influence.
What do I mean?
For example, a small Jazz ensemble: sax or guitar or piano (the latter is already very complex,loud, and hard to reproduce), drums, double Bass, 1 singer among them, or 1 or 2 Classic/Flamenco Guitar players.
Recorded with one of those fancy Mic setups (XY, Schoeps, etc.) and straight to disc , there´s a couple German Labels specializing in that. (or used to be).
That is one of the very very few cases where, say, in a small room, close to the speakers, at the right distance and angle, I can close my eyes and "feel" singer and each instrument "as if they were there and I could touch them".
Being in the dark also helps the illusion.
Anything more complex, sadly becomes a Herculean task.
Now, VERY LOUD Rock bands?
Easy peasy, you hear them through a PA system anyway, specially when "live" ....
Even without PA, instruments pass through their own amps, so....
As others mention, not sure how your system,any system, can correct sound which in general is flawed from its birth.
FWIW I always read the so popular here discussions about "improving sound stage" and cringe.
In my seat, I close my eyes and listen.
No sound system I ever listened to, and listened at some very good ones in my life, never ever even approaches that original Sound.
The transparency, cleanliness, depth and width of field, the small detail .... oh .... not even close, not even in the same league.
Suggest you try the same, as often as you can.
That said, sound systems can be VERY good, and fulfill a need, no doubt, just not the same.
Closest approach I personally heard was , to begin with, MUCH simplifying the sound source (so simplifying the task), AND absolutely minimizing the Recording system (bad) influence.
What do I mean?
For example, a small Jazz ensemble: sax or guitar or piano (the latter is already very complex,loud, and hard to reproduce), drums, double Bass, 1 singer among them, or 1 or 2 Classic/Flamenco Guitar players.
Recorded with one of those fancy Mic setups (XY, Schoeps, etc.) and straight to disc , there´s a couple German Labels specializing in that. (or used to be).
That is one of the very very few cases where, say, in a small room, close to the speakers, at the right distance and angle, I can close my eyes and "feel" singer and each instrument "as if they were there and I could touch them".
Being in the dark also helps the illusion.
Anything more complex, sadly becomes a Herculean task.
Now, VERY LOUD Rock bands?
Easy peasy, you hear them through a PA system anyway, specially when "live" ....
Even without PA, instruments pass through their own amps, so....
As others mention, not sure how your system,any system, can correct sound which in general is flawed from its birth.
FWIW I always read the so popular here discussions about "improving sound stage" and cringe.
I know a guy in the UK who can clearly help you with the digital part ( being one of the inventors of SACD and Blue Ray), but the digital part is no longer a part...is almost the entire project from top to bottom and the analog parts are only giving you the right amount of current to the speaker to move.
I am looking for special opportunities all the time, and i cam bet there are guys doing the same in New England which by the way would be one of the safest heavens for an eastern european like me with new Putin's move, but the way you expess yourself actually shows uncertainty.In science if you KNOW something you're only looking for investors , nothing else.If you'd knew exactly what you want you wouldn't speak yourself here but in front of some big wallets.
In audio there's no perfect reproduction because every man on earth has a pair of ears and every stereo amplifier needs a balance knob for a reason.
There's a huge debate between stereo, multichannel and wall of sound variantions still, but no definitive formula because every song adapted to a recording technique and its reproduction means and viceversa.No song will ever be reproduced the way the artist wanted other than on the monitor speakers it was mastered while the artist adapted its artistic means to the recording and repro equipment.
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@JMFahey
Agreed, I've never heard a speaker system I thought was good. Not even close. Even the really "amazing" ones are only "amazing" if you pretend it isn't supposed to sound like real life.
That being said, I would bet you would be surprised how much you can do with existing recordings. Current speaker tech is inherently incapable of proper sound presentation with the methods and tech in use.
If I went to an investor and 'told' them I developed the best thing in the world, they would laugh at me and tell me to get in line with the others.
Mobile prototype is insanely expensive to develop. There's a world of difference between making it 'work' and making it 'finished'.
If I could have a bigwig come down to my house I would have been funded years ago.
I intend to have at least the amplifier and a headphone version of the product finalized and ready to ship by end of year, but I cannot do that alone, hence my search for another individual.
Plus, as I said, there is still years of work to be done if all avenues are to be explored and optimized.
Agreed, I've never heard a speaker system I thought was good. Not even close. Even the really "amazing" ones are only "amazing" if you pretend it isn't supposed to sound like real life.
It can't. That's why I'm re-inventing the entire chain.
That being said, I would bet you would be surprised how much you can do with existing recordings. Current speaker tech is inherently incapable of proper sound presentation with the methods and tech in use.
Investors aren't interested in driving all the way to my house, at least not the ones I've been able to find.
If I went to an investor and 'told' them I developed the best thing in the world, they would laugh at me and tell me to get in line with the others.
Mobile prototype is insanely expensive to develop. There's a world of difference between making it 'work' and making it 'finished'.
If I could have a bigwig come down to my house I would have been funded years ago.
I intend to have at least the amplifier and a headphone version of the product finalized and ready to ship by end of year, but I cannot do that alone, hence my search for another individual.
Plus, as I said, there is still years of work to be done if all avenues are to be explored and optimized.