dkinric
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Imagine how long this thread will be in 150 years
Fair enough. But I get the feeling that there is more than that going on. I'd love to see a poll taken here with the following question: do you believe that in 150 years, there will be technology that will manipulate the signals coming from recordings from the 1970s in such a way that the recordings sound lifelike, live and much more pleasing and real than those recordings sound now? I have a feeling you would be surprised at the results of that poll.
Second Law of thermodynamics is neither a matter of opinion nor negotiable. Do much better.Of course, goes without saying. But my point still stands. In 150 years, technology will allow us to listen to albums from the 70's and we will likely hear those recordings as if they were recorded live in front of us. And that technology will not revolve around presenting the signal transparently to the speakers, it will involve a manipulation of the signal. How many of the posters in this thread would agree to that? I think very few.
But to take that scenario, and generalize it as you have, and then claim that you have a "feeling" that ASR members would be against it because they have some kind of luddite or puritanical insistence on "transparency," is, with respect, total nonsense.
I personally think that music reproduction sounds so unrealistic and so dimensionless...
Second Law of thermodynamics is neither a matter of opinion nor negotiable. Do much better.
With what do you listen?
And to what, for that matter...
Well that's good to know. I'd hate to think that people who claim to be science advocates would dismiss products out of hand simply because they aren't transparent. Thanks for clearing that up.
So the "back in 150" was seconds and not years. Good to know your frame of reference.Currently have Genelec 8030 speakers, SVC subwoofers, an NAD amp and play music directly from iphone. I listen to all sorts of music. I'm sure that my system is mediocre and could be significantly improved. When you listen to your system, could you ever even remotely confuse the sound with the sound you would hear if the musicians were playing live in your room? If so, you are a lucky man.
I would hate to think that, too. Fortunately, I was doing nothing of the kind, which is quite clear from any plausible reading of my prior comment.
I’m sorry you’re feeling frustrated, but the doesn’t license a gross misreading of others’ comments.
So the "back in 150" was seconds and not years. Good to know your frame of reference.
Because it's apparent there is no point in engaging you seriously and I like popping balloons.What's the point? If you don't have something to add to the discussion, some insight, something new, a question, an anecdote a thought, why bother? Why the insults?
Currently have Genelec 8030 speakers, SVC subwoofers, an NAD amp and play music directly from iphone. I listen to all sorts of music. I'm sure that my system is mediocre and could be significantly improved.
When you listen to your system, could you ever even remotely confuse the sound with the sound you would hear if the musicians were playing live in your room?
Nevertheless, I don't find the playback to be particularly unrealistic nor dimensionless.
Particularly when in a frame of mind to relax and let the imagination play its part in the presentation.
One gauge I have, in that situation, mesmerized, is how long it takes me to even realize a disc has finished, when the sound is still resonating in my head.
In any case, it's an illusion, easily shattered. You're susceptible, or not, depending on many changing factors.
Some movies draw me in, others don't. Same with music playback.
YMMV, as always.
I note that basic physics is outside your knowledge base. A good deep reading of the first volume of the Feynman Lectures would be highly beneficial.Oh my god man, this has nothing to do with second law of thermodynamics! The type of signal processing being discussed does not involve time travel.
assuming we don't all go up in a nuclear mushroom cloud by then.Imagine how long this thread will be in 150 years
I note that basic physics is outside your knowledge base. A good deep reading of the first volume of the Feynman Lectures would be highly beneficial.