How would I know? It's a fair question. I have listened to Ladysmith Black Mambazo perform live in a small venue, good front seating. I also have...
@purr1n mentioned this recording recently in a different thread. I still have the original 1986 CD that I played a bazillion times in my 20s, and...
In this example, your wife or kids aren't necessarily a neutral third party. Your wife knows that A is the new megabuck preamp and if you pick it,...
Ah that's what you mean. Like the word "balanced", the term "DBT" tends to be used ambiguously in audio to mean any kind of blind test. That was...
My point was not what frequency cut anyone can hear, but rather that with certain kinds of sounds, we can detect the removal of frequencies we...
Anyone who has done DBTs has experienced failures and successes, knows it can range from easy to impossible depending on what differences are...
You posted earlier showing a cymbal strike that should have lots of HF content, then revealed that there wasn't really much HF there when you look...
Speaking of natural instruments with extreme HF, they are rare but they do exist. This excerpt is from an extremely high fidelity recording of a...
PS: you were wondering earlier how many samples the DAC must consider before the influence on the current sampling point, of the decaying ripple...
I agree with you there. I never argued that minimum phase was better than linear phase. In fact, I said earlier that minimum phase is a cure that...
This debate motivated me to get out my pencil & spreadsheet and actually implement the W-S formula. And you're right: the impulse ripple frequency...
Let's assume the passband is 20 Hz - 20 kHz. The stopband or cutoff is Fs/2 or Nyquist, say 22,050 or 176.4k if it's 8x oversampled. The...
As I mentioned, that ripple is in the wave after filtering. By definition, it's in the passband. And yes, that means it's distortion. As I...
These do have extreme HF content, but it's so easy to lose when recording. You have to consider the mics used, at what distance, etc. That said,...
The ripple frequency can't be out of band. It exists in the output wave, and by definition, the filter outputs a bandwidth-limited wave. I agree....
I don't think that's correct. Imagine a "worst case" digital test signal that is all zeroes (or randomize the LSB for dither, doesn't matter)....
Pre-ringing is real, in the sense that under worst-case conditions you can hear it -- absolute silence, then an impulse with lots of HF energy...
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