Why are you effectively taking a 8x10" portrait and filling a highway billboard with it? That's all upscaling is! Listen to the dam thing in its native sample/bit depth over a decent playback system, and have a beer!

I'm willing to alter the sound of my material a 'little' for them, mainly for transmission S/N. If my listeners choose to be running a vacuum cleaner or lawn mower while listening to the radio, that's on them to sort out what they really need to be doing... ! I want the CD or WAV file I'm...

But there's no law that says you can't 'under-modulate'(transmit at a level lower than Federally allowed), right?

Well, I'd be willing to compromise. Not use 'as much' EQ, compression, or limiting as most other stations. Personally, I find most major market CHR and classic rock stations fatiguing to listen to, even at 40mph with my car windows halfway down.

*Please relocate this thread if there is a better subcategory for it, thanks!* Most radio stations, commercial ones at least, broadcast at 100 percent or more of their FCC-allowed modulation in order to 'stand out ' on the band, so to speak. They accomplish this via a varity of...

I'm sure that has a lot to do with HRTF(head-related transfer function). So, doe that mean the curves in the link provided by Castle are aiming for the Harman curve?

EUREKA!! :D I found curves plus plots for two of my sets(img 0162 and 0163 are for my Sony). It just took a bit of poking around in those folders. My question now is, do these curves aim for Harman or for flat? My goal is flat - as per the attached Sonarworks.

All I see are Harman target curves and coordinates. No actual headphone compensations.

How does one find the actual curves - correctional, etc, on that page?

I've gotten reasonably good results with this app on my devices: https://appadvice.com/app/equalizer/321267949 Say I'm attempting to correct for the Beyer DT880 pro, attached. I'll go into the Audioforge Equalizer App(7 parametric bands), and set for the five most eggregious frequencies...

Alright, I'm confused: You guys are talking about optical and digital as if they are two different things. I thought that the optical out on equipped CD players is digital.

But analog out = RCA out, in my case. I'm assuming the optical out on my carousel is digital. I just don't have any receiver with optical in - yet. Will have to hit the thrifts, I don't have the funds to buy a new receiver just to hear CD via its optical ins.

CD Player Analog(RCA) Out VS Digital(Optical) Out to Receiver with Optical inputs. Is the difference really that huge - or is it just a matter of which(CD player or Receiver) does the conversion?

I'm aware of HRTF(head-related transfer function). Which is why I would rather start off with a headphone that is engineered flat to begin with. I can personally EQ it to overcome my individual HRTF at home. Something which cannot be done with V-shaped boom & sizzlers such as Beats or some...

So you're used to 'built flat', not 'corrected' flat(as in, corrected by software)?

Fundamentally, you're just not used to flat audio reproduction. As a TV calibrator, I get the same response from half of my clients: "it's too dim", "dull", etc.

But it seems to muffle/obscure, better word? the sound in the region I referred to

We're not millennials. We communicate in full words to eliminate any doubt as to meaning or description

Even if something can be measured, it might have less impact on the sound than, IE the air conditioning in the space where the performance was recorded, or, the hiss from the original analog session tapes. You'll hear those far, faaaaar more readily than any measured difference between USB...

Boxing puts me to sleep

The Dodgers? Major League Baseball team that just won the World Series. And your location says "USA"? Sad. I still regard baseball as America's sport, not NFL football, or basketball, or tennis.

Irrelevant, immaterial. The difference between the three most common conductors is minimal

Of course one can prove a difference: Play the 'remastered' version of the same CD through the higher end rig! :jecklinsmile:

I already know why so many CDs sound, to some people, inferior to vinyl, and to analog in general, and the article confirmed it: It's not the format - it's the mastering! The author, McNair, himself a mastering engineer, brings up, at numerous points in the article, how an album is often...

With commercials like this, it's no wonder concert music gained such a 'snob' or rich people's music reputation! It really is for everyone!