Travis In Austin

Was interested in hearing his thoughts on tape over-saturation but he doesn't discuss over-saturation at all in this video. His comments confirm who makes the call on this stuff, it is not the ME.

Yes I did, you had posted it several years ago, or someone did, in another forum, and I recall at the time how much more could be sorted out. Which prompted me to ask, what is Hi-fi? Is that even capable of being objectively determined? Say a Flat FR from X to Y, a max IM distortion of Y, polar plots at various angles with a max db drop? i'm not technical enough to even put the criteria into words. Or is hi-fi something that is a completely subjective thing that varies from person to person. In other words, is "hi-fi" something that you know when you hear it, but can't define? Travis

Actually Chris posted the video of Floyd Toole I was thinking of in this thread A lot of his studies are about consumer preferences, but they do include some self-described audiophiles. To me if you have speakers that meet Toole' s 5 design criteria, and you put all the science you possibly can, there is still going to be a large amount of subjective preference that is going to vary from person to person. At what point is it Hi--fi? There are people, both in recording arts and consumers who have strong opinions that you cannot have Hi-fi below SACD quality. I'm not talking about hearing a difference. I'm talking about you are not getting an acceptable level of reproduction from a CD, you need 96 or better. Is that a myth? Just personal preference? I don't think we could even get agreement on what Hi-fi is. @mark1101 for a time, maybe up to the present, would say that in order to get the best reproduction you need to have analog Eq and passive crossovers. There is no doubt in my mind that to for him, to get to hi-fi you have to have that. The purpose of testing, I would hope, is to try to separate myth from reality. Nut it seems like for every step forward in psychoacoustics we.take two steps backwards. Are we any further ahead of where we were a couple of years ago?

Someone posted a video on here awhile back (dtel I think) of Toole talking about the studies that Harmon did on listening, consumer preferences, what golden ear audio press selected with blind testing. It all sounded very scientific to me, I will find it. His conclusion was with technology now, the best sounding stuff will be powered speakers with active processing such as the JBL M2. Often wondered what you guys thought of the listening studies they did and if they are getting closer to being able to test for hi fi sound in speakers? Or, if it is still the same ole objective v. Subjective argument with a prettier wrapper. I will find it and post it.

Splicing and editing the best takes and measures has been happening as long as tape recording, and now digital has been around. Every great conductor, every great soloist. Those people are typically perfectionists and they are not afraid to get the best of multiple performances. Here is just one example of 1000s.

He doesn't need to create another thread. He is on point and on topic, maybe a little abrupt at first. Please do not tell people you disagree with to go to another thread. If they are on point or responding to something they have as much right to do so as someone making a comment.

That is not only a myth, it is just simply untrue.

That article got a lot of response from a technical perspective in professional journals. The gist of the article is that there is no precise or standard definition of DR. Bob Katz collected a number articles in his article in his thoughts on the loudness wars, a couple are from AES presentations. https://www.digido.com/portfolio-item/loudness-war-peace-is-almost-here/ and he links to his excellent video on it.

His stuff is absolutely fantastic Bruce. A driving force in the battle against loudness wars. For anyone who wants to understand the recording process, from tracking, through mixing to mastering, he is a top source to understand what is going on. Here is his article on compression, among many others including loudness wars, room acoustics, using room calibration software, etc. https://www.digido.com/portfolio-item/compression/

From the patent: Inventor Tracy E. Crawford Rogelio Delgado, Jr. Michael T. Oliver

That is my understanding, maybe @Chief bonehead will see this. It was patented and I believe the patent was in his name.

Born 1 Aug 1905; died 28 Jan 1993 at age 87. Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg (neé Sawyer) was a Canadian astronomer who located, catalogued and measured the distances to variable stars in globular clusters (stars with cyclical changes of brightness found within huge, dense conglomerations of stars located in the outer halo of the Milky Way galaxy). Her interest in astronomy was spurred when she witnessed a total eclipse of the sun in 1925. Alongside her career work, she was also foremost in Canada in popularizing astronomy, about which she wrote a column in the Toronto Star for thirty years. She was the first woman to become president of the Royal Canadian Institute. In 1989, the observatory at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa was dedicated in her name.«

I can't either. It may be a pair from the era in the late 80summer l8ke I had where the computer data was lost and there was now way you correlate the SN with production date. Becky, welcome to the forum. As mentioned, someone very knowledgeable will be along shortly who can give an accurate response. I just cut the grass.

That is simply amazing that this info exists and is preserved. Also interesting that this analog "storage" is going strong but some of the digital data in the "modern era" didn't migrate and some production history is lost forever. Technology can be cruel. Something about a craftsman writing down the final product, in different pens and ink, as opposed to a hard drive sitting on a shelf.

We don't get paid?

This will give you a rough idea of what weather chances are in your area. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/ready-set-eclipse

Chicago Heights? You are way north. Here is an interactive map that will show you how far south you need to go. http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html

I sure as he'll hope so.

It will all be a function of the weather BSM.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Richard P. Feynman

I will be at an undisclosed location in the Northwest. Matt at Klipsch has arranged an even bigger event for 2024, the Great EKLIPSCH. It will commemorate the 7th Anniversay of the Klipsch Museum of Audio History. There will be a total EKLIPSCH over the Museum in Hope AND he Klipsch HQ in Indy. The duration will be twice as long as the one this year. Travis

A rare Brazilian jazz-funk record from Antonio Adolfo gets first-ever vinyl reissue http://flip.it/0KmEQQ

Judge rules pacemaker data can be used against defendant http://flip.it/K1igc6

Since the measuring device has been constructed by the observer, we have to remember that what we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. WERNER HEISENBERG

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