'Musicality' of computer devices and components

[Hugo9000]

Some have expressed incredulity over the concept of 'musicality' of a DAC or ethernet switch or other component (also mentioned was the (im)possible(?) 'whimsicality' of wines, but I won't address that one). Rather than take those equipment threads further off topic, I thought I'd start a new thread.

And to close this post, one for @amirm and his panthers haha!

 

[Count Arthur]

I thought this was going to be some nonsense about passive PSUs and better sounding disk drives.

 

[Hugo9000]

I thought this was going to be some nonsense about passive PSUs and better sounding disk drives.

I put it in the 'Other Areas of Interest'/'Fun topics' section haha! But I think a lot of people use the "New posts" view, so they don't notice the section a thread is in right off the bat!

 

[gene_stl]

It's boustrophedonic! (Toccata and Fugue)

 

[Doodski]

It's boustrophedonic! (Toccata and Fugue)

WoW... just wOw... where do you peeps come up with this terminology. wowzerZzzz

 

[mansr]

WoW... just wOw... where do you peeps come up with this terminology. wowzerZzzz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon

 

[pozz]

The classic DOOM:

 

[Thomas savage]

The classic DOOM:

No mate this is classic DOOM :

 

[pozz]

No mate this is classic DOOM :

Touché

 

[Doodski]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon

No mate this is classic DOOM :

I've been playing Duke Duke'm Megaton Edition lately and you nail'd it for FPS stuFF.

 

[Tks]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon

Never knew about this. Pretty cool

 

[xykreinov]

This is a fun topic! I want to mess around with my MiniDSP IL-DSP to see how I can make something musical out of its distortion. It distorts the same way no matter how many run-through of a song I do when my source volume is too high. With that kind of consistency, I feel like I could do something interesting. Further, it only occurs when I use it in DSP mode, meaning it's caused by the frequencies I've raised to be above 0db. With that in mind, I could mess around with making/modifying music to distort only in certain frequency ranges I specify.

 

[A800]

All good.
But what about distortion measurements?

 

[Chrispy]

Good grief "musicality" is one of the dumbest descriptors in audio ever.

 

[xykreinov]

Good grief "musicality" is one of the dumbest descriptors in audio ever.

What word would you use to describe an entity not originally intended to have its sound used musically that is later modified or arranged to be used for music in some capacity?

 

[Chrispy]

What word would you use to describe an entity not originally intended to have its sound used musically that is later modified or arranged to be used for music in some capacity?

That's a very weird question for audio generally. Gear should reproduce audio well, whether it's music or not really isn't the issue. Musicality is basically a bullshit term.

 

[Chrispy]

What word would you use to describe an entity not originally intended to have its sound used musically that is later modified or arranged to be used for music in some capacity?

What would an example of audio not intended as music that would be modified for music later?

 

[Hugo9000]

Please take note of which forum area I posted this thread in, and the content of the opening post itself. LOL

 

[Chrispy]

Please take note of which forum area I posted this thread in, and the content of the opening post itself. LOL

Still, an odd concept

 

[xykreinov]

That's a very weird question for audio generally. Gear should reproduce audio well, whether it's music or not really isn't the issue. Musicality is basically a bullshit term.

Yes, but if what if certain gear not originally intended for music production was arranged to do such, such as the hard drive songs of an earlier post? What word would you use to describe such an attribute of the gear, if not musicality?