Rob Watts
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How many taps do we need for “next level M Scaler” to get subjective improvement comparable to improvement between 500k and 1M in current model? 2M? 24M?
A lot of work has been done on this very issue, and more work is ongoing. Suffice to say that I should have some news next year.
@rob,
With ever increasing small signal accuracy giving better depth perception and our own ability to perceive relative distances in sound, similar to the way we perceive direction from minor timing differences from ear to ear ?
Is it possible that this is caused by more and more reflected vs direct sound reaching our ears at minute differences in level and timing as the distance increases, and the more accurate those signals are replayed the better we hear depth in recordings ?
I suspect that you are correct - to perceive depth properly we need the depth cues to be preserved in amplitude and relative timing (phase) as accurately as possible.
The puzzle is why we need -301dB with zero phase and amplitude errors - or why an error however small is perceptible - that's the big mystery.