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    Sound Science thread for songs you can't get out of your head

    Can’t Get You Out of My Head
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    Sound Science thread for songs you can't get out of your head

    What we have here directly above are what we in the business call two consecutive violations. Refresher: The only requirement for this thread is that you link to a song you can't get out of your head. Except for the other requirement, which is that must you have fun. It's supposed to be...
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    What is your reference recording?

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    Acoustic Shadow

    There’s a tourist steam engine train ride in Lancaster, PA, in Amish country, with some large hills alongside it, where there is some pretty freaky stuff going on acoustically, which they demonstrate by blowing the train whistle while stopped or going slowly on the tracks. It’s been a while but...
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    Question about FIR Filtering

    Interesting discussion!! When I used to use turntables and receivers had “subsonic” filter buttons pressing the filter button would get rid of all kinds of rumbly and grungy sounds that made themselves known in quiet passages or between songs when playback was at high volumes. When I recorded...
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    Sound Science thread for songs you can't get out of your head

    Are you sure? Because I think you might be wrong. But it really doesn’t matter. This is the fun thread, not another Misstra Know-it-all thread. Please, let’s keep it that way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles : John Lennon loved the film and refused to return the videotape and...
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    Sound Science thread for songs you can't get out of your head

    As stated in post #1 of this thread, by me: The only requirement for this thread is that you link to a song you can't get out of your head. Except for the other requirement, which is that must you have fun. It's supposed to be cathartic to post the song you can't get out of your head. The song...
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    I like Brahms’s four symphonies a great deal. His other works I am not quite so fond of, as the melodies in the concertos and chamber music never seem to click for me so easily. But the symphonies are full of melodic ideas and motifs and wonderful arrangement of instrumental sounds, and details...
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    Fl Monk was a quirky dude and had bouts of serious mental illness. I don’t know why he said what he said when he said it. He said in one interview that musicians are subconsciously also mathematicians, or something like that. It’s an aesthetically interesting statement, but I personally...
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    No, some decent amount of professional musicians don’t know much about math. Just as not all mathematicians are musicians, subconscious or otherwise, so it is that not all musicians are mathematicians, subconscious or otherwise. And then there’s some overlap, whether you are speaking...
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    Heck no. I’ve known people who can play or sing lights out but they know very little about math and know as little about music theory as they can get by with if they even think of it as music theory. I also think that people who have natural inclinations and aptitudes for both math and music...
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    Of course Dvorak is pretty cool for using folk music and local color, both from the Czech tradition in most of his music and from the U.S’s incredibly fertile eclectic melting pot just before the beginning of the 20th century, from Native American to Black American and other influences, in his...
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    Great stuff above!! Random impressions, sorry if I am using a lot of words without saying much: I really like Chopin for what he did with harmony and arrangement of notes and creative devices on the piano. To me he is one of the great innovators also. To me theory is a bit like...
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    Sound Science thread for songs you can't get out of your head

    I’ve read that Paul didn’t much like the Rutles.
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    Excelsior? Do you seriously not know what excelsior means? Have you been drinking again? :-) ;-) ;-) Let Google’s Bard AI entertain us! Seriously (in a lighthearted way), I did not know what excelsior meant, at all, so I looked it up when you used it: ******* Excelsior is a Latin word...
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    More nonsense that is demonstrably false. [1] You don’t cross a capital T. You just kind of put a little hat on the top. Unless it’s cursive. Otherwise you only cross a lowercase t. How can you not know this? [2] Who are these mysterious others? Do you have any objective evidence of this? This...
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    not sure if its fits here, but why are so many edm tracks 2:30?

    Ah, something interesting! I believe that some folks trace pop music as we experience it back to Iradier’s La Paloma and Bizet’s Carmen (an opera comique rather than opera seria) in the 1870s, with the popularization of the habanera beat and the advent of audio recordings during the same time...
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    Cable Burn In with regard to Audio Directionality.

    The nice thing about the Flinn Scientific portable autoclave is that you can put it in a larger oven or autoclave to burn it in. Again: https://www.flinnsci.com/autoclave-electric-portable/ap1004/ Also, say you are at the gym, and you drop your IEMs on the floor. No problem! Just pop them in...
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    Cable Burn In with regard to Audio Directionality.

    We’ve been over this a million times folks. The Flinn portable autoclave has been measured twice over at autoclavesciencereview and measures as advertised, at 96db/meter squared (at least next time get your units of measurement correct!!) or higher at all audible frequencies with all known...
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    Cable Burn In with regard to Audio Directionality.

    Why does it have to be an *industrial* autoclave? That makes no sense and, frankly, it smacks of elitism. Here’s a portable autoclave that I think will work just fine: https://www.flinnsci.com/autoclave-electric-portable/ap1004/
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    If it has helped you to understand yourself that is all for the better. Myers Briggs has not held up to scientific scrutiny however, if I am not mistaken. See toward the end of this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers–Briggs_Type_Indicator As I understand it the five factor...
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    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    Enough with the Myers-Briggs lingo already! It’s been debunked almost as throughly as so many audiophile claims and myths! 🙂 https://www.psycom.net/myers-briggs-personality-type
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