Hopefully he isn't sensitive to time smearingThat sounds totally reasonableIf not for the lack of air, we could just be yelling commands to Voyager instead of using radio.
Why do you think we evolved echoic memory limits?That sound takes about 3.76*10^7 days to reach you
Sorry, I'm missing something here, not sure what is being claimed (especially since a number of different aspects are being discussed in the thread). It seems like this implies that I could easily make out exactly what is being shouted from 1.2 miles away (of course, assuming no wind, line of sight). After all, I can listen to music at a moderate level, turn it down 60 dB, and still make out every word of the lyrics without effort, even in the midst of music. But I somehow doubt I could do the same with someone 1.2 miles away, even under the most ideal fo circumstances—can't say for sure, never tried it, I just doubt it. But it seems like that is the purpose of the claim, to show what a reduction of 60 dB implies.
Yes—even if my intuition is wrong and I could make out words of someone shouting 1.2 miles away, it is still to your point. If we don't have a good grasp of how well we can hear something at these various distances, what good is the comparison?
Worse than that. Hes relating depth to distortion. That in of itself is stupid. Bring able to hear it would be the compouding factor.
But his audience loves it and happily buys the expensive DACs while defending 'Chord products' with their lives.
One has to admit, the DACs perform well and seem very nicely made.
Worth the money ?
Well...I do have a real good handle on how loud music is in dB. Even before setting a listening level on my Topping DX7 Pro, then dialing it 60 dB down, I had a real good idea of how it would sound. Decades of both recording, and developing DSP algorithms and needing to know how far down the stop bands need to be, etc. But, like most, I don't have much of a feel for how loud a construction worker shouts from 1.2 miles away
So it doesn't seem like a very helpful comparison, that's all I'm saying.
Well...I do have a real good handle on how loud music is in dB. Even before setting a listening level on my Topping DX7 Pro, then dialing it 60 dB down, I had a real good idea of how it would sound. Decades of both recording, and developing DSP algorithms and needing to know how far down the stop bands need to be, etc. But, like most, I don't have much of a feel for how loud a construction worker shouts from 1.2 miles away
Well, that makes sense. I do like the idea for relating it to the extremes that people think are important. So many people are sure they can hear ~-140 dB (like, whether 24-bit audio is plain-truncated or TPDF-truncate). It can be frustrating trying to get across just how tiny that is.
