Elephant in the room. Most speakers don't sound nice playing really loud cuz of time artifacts and low efficiency speakers don't do low level sounds very well.
The trouble is you said this:
This implies you're accessing the version which is result of all editing and mastering, i.e., a version intended for public release. Or do you have a direct line to the archives inside a recording studio ... 🙂
Implies? Not really. I was referring to the well known HD downloads from sites which dont mess with the recordings. And, I have my own masters which I recorded myself.
[But I do a lot of downloads for my car which is MP3 and I dont care about the sound quality there.. and the limited dynamic range is fine and useful.]
Thx-RNMarsh
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Nope it does not and low sensitivity speaker do not have low level resolution issues, high sensitivity speakers do.
High-Def or HiRes downloads -- try some from HDTracks.
[or others like Reference Recordings, Chesky Records, Sheffield Lab Audiophile Recordings and the like. A lot closer to 'master' level than a typical CD or LP]
-RM
I think we need to be more careful here with term like resolution and use sensitivity and bandwidth. There are no hard and fast rules here about high or low sensitivity speakers. I will put the caveat that many high sensitivity bass speakers will have a limited lower octave output but this is generally for a PA type of speaker and not necessarily for an audiophile speaker that does not have to handle as high a power input. But this is all just general information and you have to look at each individual driver, you can't make blanket statements that do any of this justice.
And there are small speakers that have wide bandwidth and can have very high spl output that more than can handle what most people would ever consider loud enough or even over the top in a normal listening room.
And there are small speakers that have wide bandwidth and can have very high spl output that more than can handle what most people would ever consider loud enough or even over the top in a normal listening room.
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I have heard playback of a tape multitrack mixdown, and the same stereo signal recorded to CD.
The CD version lost much 'life' and 'presence' when compared to the tape version.
The differences were not subtle.
Dan.
I have heard playback of a tape multitrack mixdown, and the same stereo signal recorded to CD.
The CD version lost much 'life' and 'presence' when compared to the tape version.
The differences were not subtle.
Dan.
Even on a 'good' CD there are 1000's of errors that are being corrected on the fly, so to say, to perfection. Your view does not jive with reality.
jan
Suppose that's all both do, thousands of times.
The digital man says : tell me which one breaks down first.
(for the right answer, one requires Combustion Engines 101 and/or 102. Any Aeronautical, Mechanical, or Maritime engineering equivalent will do)
Are you confusing data compression with dynamic range compression? That seems to be common here when discussing MP3. That format does the former, not the latter.
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The “CD player work” is a key phrase.
It has been said again many times here:
The “glitches” and “drops” on the PSU lines in a CD transport, may degrade the function of:
-mechanical motion of servoed subunits
-electronic circuits processing the read data upstream from the error correction application section
-electronic circuits processing the read data downstream from the error correction application section
If one takes a CD transport and manage to monitor the behaviour of the PSU lines feeding the electronic circuits that are functionally downstream from the error correction application section, he will have some indications as to “what may cause which” when a certain CD transport reads a “poorly made” CD.
If he notices that these PSU variations are of concern, he may wish to start additional local decoupling or try separating -electrically and interference wise- the servos PSU from the PSU feeding the rest of the transport circuitry, or build dedicated hefty PSUs and do the monitoring again.
George
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Likely, even (hard) contact lenses could be manufactured from polycarbonate, and no release agent.
You shouldn’t hope for any agent releasing you from the grip of such an eye, whether hard lensed, soft lensed, hybrid lensed or whatever.
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(mind the name of the video clip shooter. Is he one of our members?)
George
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I don't quite understand this analogy.
Just to put the record straight digital electronics disciplines are separate from analogue
electronics disciplines, while it is nice to attribute analogue phenomena to digital signals for many audiophiles, in the real world they are treated as two separate entities, you are not looking at the digital waveform in the same way as you look at an analogue one, the simulation software is vastly different, spice being used for analogue, some form of signal integrity software for digital (I will not get into S parameters here) taking into account the transmission lines that link each active node, terminator etc, plane locations etc.
Nice eye shot George...
You don't have any purely digital ICs in a typical spdif DACs.
Mixed signal, RF - yes. Digital? Nope.
Digital filters and pld are digital, but aren't common nowdays.
And if you won't treat the digital thing in the right way, you'll get all the nasties of RFI all over the place...
Mixed signal, RF - yes. Digital? Nope.
Digital filters and pld are digital, but aren't common nowdays.
And if you won't treat the digital thing in the right way, you'll get all the nasties of RFI all over the place...
Thank you . The parts of the CD player system have been viewed by many in isolation rather than as a whole . The play back is an approximation of the original signal for some a very very good one . However to calculate that approximation a large amount of back office work is done and not very peacefully manner to the rest of the system. Regards
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