Chri5peed
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Originally Posted by Jammin72 /img/forum/go_quote.gif The bones in the human ear still vibrate due to frequecies beyond 20kHz and some instruments such as cymbals produce frequencies well above that figure. |
Originally Posted by Chri5peed /img/forum/go_quote.gif I believe plenty of enjoyment in music is got by feeling. At the most basic level speakers can cause violent motion, same as Tweeters, they just add an intangible fullness. Speaker bass IS tangible! |
Originally Posted by LeChuck /img/forum/go_quote.gif That being said, I ALWAYS rip to lossless. |
Originally Posted by bigshot /img/forum/go_quote.gif You're talking about theoretical hairs on a gnat. It makes no difference in real world listening. Take a high bitrate recording and a pro grade equalizer and roll off everything above 18kHz. See if you can hear a difference. Now roll it off earlier by a few kHz... then a little earlier... see where you can start hearing a difference. I think you'll be surprised at how low the real spectrum of sound in music is. See ya Steve |
Originally Posted by Jammin72 /img/forum/go_quote.gif The bones in the human ear still vibrate due to frequecies beyond 20kHz and some instruments such as cymbals produce frequencies well above that figure. We interpret this information whether we "hear" it or not. What some studies have shown is that this helps people to resolve a sense of space or image, or that they simply report the listening experience as being more "real". There are some human reactions that are not as of yet quantifiable or understood, but that doesn't make them useless. Listen to the Roger Waters "In The Flesh" recoding on SACD with a system and speakers that produce those higher frequencies then playback the redbook or standard cd version on the same system and you can begin to understand the difference it makes in the image and realism of the recording. mp3, even at 320, has compression artifacts that distort the sine waves. It's shifted out of the range of most people's hearing so many people beleive that it's not worth bothering over. For the majority of folks this is true, critical listening is not an en masse endeavor. Most of us want to be able to hear our music in a clear and coherent manner and it becomes the background of our lives. For this type of listening it's more than enough, I have many albums encoded in mp3 because either the recording itself is nothing worth reproducing in a high rez format or simply becuase the only time it would be played would be for cleaning the house, going for a jog, or become part of the DJ list for a party. My live conert collection on the other hand is a different story. Compress any of my own recordings to an mp3 format and the soundstage collapses noticeably. The ideas and theories are sound and for 90% of the population what you're saying is true but being a gemini I always like to offer the counter-opinion when someone is making an absolute statement. |
Originally Posted by Jammin72 /img/forum/go_quote.gif As I said, I'm not interested in real world listening, I'm hoping for something just a bit better. |
Originally Posted by Jammin72 /img/forum/go_quote.gif As I said, I'm not interested in real world listening, I'm hoping for something just a bit better. |
Originally Posted by bhjazz /img/forum/go_quote.gif I don't car how many extra files I can get onto a hard drive just because the files are smaller, they are compressed, and that means giving up part of the music. Flac and wavs to the rescue! |