Quote:   Well:   1. Human hearing stops at 20khz at best - 10 or 15kHz are more likely as you age   2. 44.1khz is the standard sampling frequency for digital audio.   ..So if that is an fr graph, it is a pretty strange one - unless Creative is planning to sell soundcards to...

Quote:   If you keep on guessing at random until you get a set of answers right by sheer chance, and count only that last set, then it is impossible to fail! What you did was meaningless. If you wanted practice at training you ear before taking the test then you should have used a...

Quote:   Otoh, the ipod will have stupidly high impedance unless it is a Touch - or maybe a Nano?

Quote:   That's easy: send me the 80K and I'll send you two fiio compatible players!

Quote:   I think they vary according to some algorithm no one has ever decoded. But those she3580/3590 are $15 or less on ebay, and I preferred mind to my $150 Ety HF5s. Until my cat predated upon. Oh well...  ...

Quote:   Manufacturer history is pretty much irrelevant to the quality of these products: their core intellectual property usually comes on either one or two key chips that neither Sony nor Sansa will have designed or manufactured. The Sansa Clip is one of the best sounding players at any...

Quote:   Ok.. just about everything you wrote is wrong. Starting with the belief that no onboard or protable device will sound like your card - seriously, have you heard every motherboard audio system and DAP? And 44.1khz is the standard sampling frequency for digital audio, not a...

Quote:     It's amusing that all the people laughing at the OP know less than he does.   The problem is not the HD800's impedance level; there's a version of the HD25 with the same impedance and it drives perfectly well from a DAP. The HD800 does not because it is much less...

Quote:   I'm sure that I could recognize Aardbeg in a blind tasting against standard Scotches. But pick out one variety of it from another? I'm doubtful. Those metaphorical descriptions are very imprecise, and I suspect they can be made to fit every bottle Aardbeg has ever made. I think...

  Yes, that was my point. If only because what the rest of proper miking is beyond getting the levels right I have no idea. Probably a good idea not to have the cables immersed in water - or is that the wrong way around and the cables should be immersed? Whatever.

Quote:   It's really simple: the extra cost of recoding in 24 bits is peanuts is compared to the alternatives of more careful miking and more repeat performances. 24 bit recordings mean that you spend less technician time miking, and need fewer repeat performances, saving on musician...

Quote:   You seem to think having a source over each ear is all that is required for realistic duplication of real world input, as is the case for the eye - but this is incorrect. The ear is extremely good at telling whether a sound is in front or behind due to a range of special sensors...

Quote:   Out of any reasonably well-known band, the Pixies are probably the dynamic range champions with a 14db range on boutique pressings: http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/details.php?id=23683

Quote:   I think the "soooo" is supposed to indicate that you think you have a clever point; this was a mistake....   Studio files are inputs for mixing and EQing, which is why 24 bits are useful - not because as you seem to think that more bits equal more quality (they don't) but...

  Sometimes so far inside those limits that they couldn't see daylight: I am talking to *you*, Mr Smooth Jazz Rock Fusion...