nick_charles
Headphoneus Supremus
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The problem is that rally there is very little actual empirical research going on. There are a few AES papers including a sociologically interesting
"Jihad" between high res PCM (Meridian and the Acoustic Renaissance for Audio bunch) and DSD proponents that
get pretty heated and lots of trade show "demonstrations". The problem is that there are few empirical studies rigorously attempting to
study audible differences. The two papers I cited earlier "Gustavino and Pras" and "Meyer and Moran" reaching rather different conclusions
there is also Blech and Yang D[size=small]VD-[/size][size=small]Audio[/size][size=small] versus SACD: Perceptual Discrimination of Digital [/size][size=small]Audio [/size][size=small]Coding Formats [/size]which compares er
DSD and PCM but is not definitive.
You personal case is interesting but what you hear differently is a (so far) mystery as nobody can replicate it, I tried and failed, do you
have unusually sensitive ears, are you unconsciously picking up some tiny artifacts that nobody else can (this happened in one of
the early MP3 codec tests where a chap with a specific hearing loss at a certain frequency range was able to hear very slight
encoding artifacts that others missed) who knows ?
Can you recruit 20 or so friends and get them to try with the same setup ? That would be very telling !
I consider the question of high resolution audio research to be ongoing, and I will follow its further developments with interest.
Thank you for all the tips, references, and information, it's much appreciated.
The problem is that rally there is very little actual empirical research going on. There are a few AES papers including a sociologically interesting
"Jihad" between high res PCM (Meridian and the Acoustic Renaissance for Audio bunch) and DSD proponents that
get pretty heated and lots of trade show "demonstrations". The problem is that there are few empirical studies rigorously attempting to
study audible differences. The two papers I cited earlier "Gustavino and Pras" and "Meyer and Moran" reaching rather different conclusions
there is also Blech and Yang D[size=small]VD-[/size][size=small]Audio[/size][size=small] versus SACD: Perceptual Discrimination of Digital [/size][size=small]Audio [/size][size=small]Coding Formats [/size]which compares er
DSD and PCM but is not definitive.
You personal case is interesting but what you hear differently is a (so far) mystery as nobody can replicate it, I tried and failed, do you
have unusually sensitive ears, are you unconsciously picking up some tiny artifacts that nobody else can (this happened in one of
the early MP3 codec tests where a chap with a specific hearing loss at a certain frequency range was able to hear very slight
encoding artifacts that others missed) who knows ?
Can you recruit 20 or so friends and get them to try with the same setup ? That would be very telling !