Quote: Originally Posted by tdogzthmn And a DAC would bypass the built-in amp in the notebook, delivering an unaltered signal to the headphone amp? This is assuming that the signal amplified by the computer is bad. I was pleasantly surprised by the audio output of (1) my old...

Has anyone written digital filters to approximate the sound of vinyl or tube amplifiers? Clearly from a digital processing standpoint, it would be fairly straightforward to add distortion and the roll offs that would appear to result in the characteristically warm sounds of analogue. I not sure...

myinitialsaredac is right. It isn't really useful to think about the wavelength of sounds in this context, only the frequency. Your ear doesn't measure wavelength so much as frequency. The only time that the wavelength of a sound wave would be important is to determine what the resonant...

Hi Guys, Really interesting thread... My ears aren't even good enough to require 16/44 for music. I guess the sensitivity of our ears falls precipitously at the edge of the audible range (20Hz-20kHz). While no one needs the dynamic range of 24bits for a middle c, what about sounds at the...

Quote: Originally Posted by melomaniac treasure trove of info in this regard on the AES website and elsewhere I guess what I had in mind was more competent reviews of existing equipment than an engineering journal. I did, at last, find a source of quantitative information and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Wodgy Generally, you want to look for the following things in measurements: - for speakers, the power response (frequency response is next to meaningless) - for amplifiers, the distribution of odd-order distortion products, particularly higher order...

I guess there are two cliques who post here. There are those that believe that audio can (and should) be quantitatively reviewed and those that think that only what they hear is relevant. I have no interest in hearing a rehash of this discussion. I am only writing to the former group who think...