Extreme Snake Oil

[egellings]

Could not disagree more. IMO we entered a new era of audio excellence about 5 years ago and that era is still young with a lot of room for more new innovations.

The equipment may well improve over time, but it's already so good that the improved versions of electronics will sound no different from current competent equipment. Transducers are a different story, though. Speakers and phono cartridges may well improve over time. Microphones are very good and sit somewhere between speakers & electronics in terms of improvability.

 

[egellings]

If the infinite veils were lifted everytime a newflanged HiFi product came out then audio stores everywhere wouldn't be continually closing down left and right.

I glad that veils are porous, or I'd have suffocated a long time ago.

 

[Justdafactsmaam]

The equipment may well improve over time, but it's already so good that the improved versions of electronics will sound no different from current competent equipment. Transducers are a different story, though. Speakers and phono cartridges may well improve over time. Microphones are very good and sit somewhere between speakers & electronics in terms of improvability.

I’m thinking more about DSP, active room correction and new software that allows us to correct old analog recordings and even extract individual instruments for complete remixes

 

[egellings]

I’m thinking more about DSP, active room correction and new software that allows us to correct old analog recordings and even extract individual instruments for complete remixes

That's a whole 'nother world.

 

[Justdafactsmaam]

That's a whole 'nother world.

But it is audio. And there is substantial crossover into the hardware. As much as “synergy” has been a subject of extreme BS in audio in the past it is an issue with these new technologies.

 

[srkbear]

No way. You can’t tell me there is no difference between Dudamel and Stokowski;-)

Ba dum chik!