In Oz, duct tape is a satin-silver coloured super grippy smooth vinyl substrate tape that sticks like shit. It is used for joining aluminium concertinaed ducting.
Gaffer tape has threads in the vinyl backing for strength and although it sticks tenaciously can be readily 'undone'. Mostly used by Gaffers and Roadies for temporary dismantlable stage accessory fastening.
That's a lossless or lossy compression ?I have always associated possessions listed in a forum signature with:
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How much is that in IPS?You guys are mangling the words. It's 200 mph tape.
Thanks, neighbor. (I should have included a smiley.)3,520.
Nobody who bought a super expensive TV would tell you it needed synergy with their games console, that you don't have the eyesight/hearing to appreciate it, or that they're still burning their remote in.
I think another factor is everything other than transducers and maybe some power amps is or usually can be audibly transparent. It has reached the point of effective perfection for human hearing. That is very difficult for people to accept as true. So you either create stories to convince people other factors matter or you actually degrade the resulting signal in a way that one might find attractive or at least not annoying and proclaim the difference an improvement.
This actually happens: audio engineers which create brick wall recordings. They may sound good on boom boxes but horribly on better gear.No sure about all this.
A high end TV with 10 bit comes no way near the real live contrast of at least 16 bit that every body can experience an sunset (and most have a low cost 6bit Panel). The TVs color space and handling is no way close to real live. Almost every stores displays them in a special „Sales” mode with the color temperature set to 10k as it looks so sharp. Sure, go ahead and get a calibrated screen to adjust your photos in LR or PS to be perfect - only that 99% of all viewers will have 8000Kelvin screen with blown out colors. This is like audio engineers would create recordings for an audience consisting 99% of Bluetooth boom boxes.
Thanks, neighbor. (I should have included a smiley.)
This actually happens: audio engineers which create brick wall recordings. They may sound good on boom boxes but horribly on better gear.
The "lighting gaffer" is the chargehand (foreman) electrician. The term derives from the use of a "gaff", essentially a pulley operated by the use of a long pole. It was, traditionally, the gaffer's task to interpret the lighting designer's plan and supervise the rigging of the stage accordingly.Makes you wonder what they call gaffers at the BBC... "lighting tech" or something I'd guess
This is somethign I always keep in mind when people discuss equipment ...I wonder what kind of mastering they are listening to. And to keep the lid of the other can of worms half open, as "limited" as vinyl is, it's harder to be mastered for by scum.This actually happens: audio engineers which create brick wall recordings. They may sound good on boom boxes but horribly on better gear.
This is something I always keep in mind when people discuss equipment ...I wonder what kind of mastering they are listening to. And to keep the lid of the other can of worms half open, as "limited" as vinyl is, it's harder to be mastered for by scum.
I don't think that's an especially difficult question to answer.It's interesting to consider why audio seems particularly susceptible to the level of B.S. we see
Exactly. No one buys a high end Swiss mechanical watch and says, "Wow. The pace and timing of this Rolex blows my Timex out of the water." No one thinks that the higher the price of the watch, the better it tells time. In fact, everyone knows it's probably just the opposite.It's interesting to consider why audio seems particularly susceptible to the level of B.S. we see. The direct analogy to things like watches or other blingy purchases doesn't really capture what is going on in high end audio.
Exactly. No one buys a high end Swiss mechanical watch and says, "Wow. The pace and timing of this Rolex blows my Timex out of the water." No one thinks that the higher the price of the watch, the better it tells time. In fact, everyone knows it's probably just the opposite.
Yup, Wombat, high-end audio is a category so far removed from other branches of electronics and technology I still can't get my head around it.
I've confused the hell out of my friends and family with binaural recordings too, tks. "But it's just one on each ear, how is coming from behind me?!". Nothing quite as elaborate as that though!.
I'm not so sure about two channel being enough. We're stuffing more and more speakers around us for home cinema in order to get the directionality needed, using all sorts of DSP, and it's still not there. I can fool someone outside the room that someone is knocking at the door - accidentally, it's just a film - or even that I'm having a conversation. But stereos don't create anything but a passingly convincing 3D effect on front of you, and you have to buy into it. I've never thought an audience member was clapping behind me or whispering in my ear. Perhaps there's a way to virtually divide the room down the middle to approach the effect of headphones, I did see a review of a speaker that played with phase in order to create an odd stereo separation effect. I'm dubious, but you never know. It'd certainly be convenient. I still don't think it'll be the old guard high-end audio companies who achieve it however its done though, it'll be modern tech companies.
Home cinema with all these speakers can occasionally produce extremely convincing effects. So there's already people with setups that most would deem impractical, just to have those experiences. That's the lightning in a bottle we chase. It's not inconceivable that as homes get "smarter", sound engineers focus more heavily on it, and money is poured into R&D that we could bridge that uncanny valley in audio and have truly immersive experiences, outside the lab. And in time it could become commonplace. That's the dream anyhow. Bring back Tomorrow's World!
Here it comes from 90 degree to the left.Then explain why, at the end of Sting's The Soul Cages, Sting's final word, "Goodnight", comes from behind the listener?
It was created by Q-sound. I've no idea what kind of electronics was used to create this effect but chances are high that it's done in the digital domain.Granted, the room and the system have to be just so, but it made me jump the first time I heard the effect. No DSP, no crosstalk cancellation tricks, just simple 2.1 stereo playing through an analog two-channel preamp and an analog two channel amp.
As I said, the system and the room have to work together. It doesn't work in the wrong room. But psychoacoustics are powerful enough, done correctly, to create a lot of special effects.