IF you make an analogue recording of something using top of the line equipment (most recordings aren't).
IF you look after your records (most people didn't).
IF you can afford the $$ for top of the line playback equipment (most people can't or won't).
IF you never use an iPod etc (many people do).
You must be thinking about a very small niche. Perhaps there's no debate because there's no-one left to debate with.
In the vast majority of cases, Vinyl serves as a playback effect after digital mastering, the opposite of a "a more accurate representation of the sonic environment".
Nothing wrong with that. But don't try to tell me it's HiFi.
It's true that as our ears get older, their ability to hear higher frequencies diminish. But our hearing (which is mostly neural) gets better with age because we have more experience. It's the same in the visual field. If you know what you're looking for and you have a mental picture of it, you'll find it more easily.
Continuing the visual analogy - I for one often struggle to see the difference between video card A and video card B in screen grabs and tend to resort to looking at the specs. This is because I'm not very experienced, and the marketing men know that and will play to it.
But I do listen to a lot of music. I spent a while running sound at my church, and during that year my hearing improved more than in 20 years of casual listening, because I was working at listening, forcing my neurons to adapt. I'm not about to say specs mean nothing (because you need a basic minimum spec) and start advocating wooden volume knobs but there's certainly more to sound than abstract specs.
You've got at least 3 orthogonal axes here and you're trying to find some correlation! Right vs Left, Open vs Closed, and Arty vs Auty. Grand generalisations are all you'll get, and we know how useful they are.
While I'd like to think the RN could've done better - *at least* something open source they have a chance of maintaining (fixing) - the finite probability of equipment failures is acceptable in most military applications. For example, military aircraft need only have 1% of the reliability of commercial aircraft. In a warzone, your biggest threat probably won't be your equipment, it'll be the other guy, and after that, it'll be you. So you accept a lower reliability from individual equipment, so long as the system works.
The question is, does it?. We all know about the USS Yorktown, we've all seen Dr Strangelove or the Terminator movies, and I would like to think we've learned the lessons. There's a reason we put men on the battlefield, and don't just let the technology duke it out, and it's because machines are not responsible. So in the "red button" situations, there ought to be a human link.
I have a boss that does this, and it works well for him, while delaying everyone else. Actually it doesn't work well for him, because it's bad for his company: most jobs run late and we don't invoice as much as we should.
I take your point about tasks changing significantly, but the answer is to get the job done before feature creep sets in, invoice, and move on to the next one.
Well, I do live near the sea but unlike James Bond my car doesn't need to go in it, and I've never noticed crackling that wasn't down to a carbon pot or dodgy connector. In boats there are different considerations, but that hardly needs to dictate best practice for the audio industry as a whole.
In regards to the electrolytic vs tantalum debate (and there is a debate, as long as one side keeps claiming to know best), the performance of both can be adequate and secondary factors often come into play. Tantalums don't go big, aren't tolerant to over-volting or reverse volting, leak less but can have have significant ESR. More significantly, tantalum is a globally scarce resource and although there are alternatives, there is no emergent winner and designers are often loath to specify a solid cap for supply reasons.
Try this. Find a brand-name analog mixing desk and take the lid off. You'll find a mix of parts, carefully selected, And yes, I bet it meets the published spec including distortion.
The real problem is far eastern factories that won't buy the correct low-ESR caps for SMPSU circuits, to save a few cents. In that scenario, lifetime can be of the order of months. Specifying a solid cap means the factory can't fit the wrong part, so there is some wisdom in it.
Sense About Science are a PR group, and the media manufactures celebrities. It's entertainment in-fighting, nothing to be insecure about. The BBC are indulging in their usual incestuous preoccupation with their own industry, while trying to make us think it matters. Just because this is from a so-called "news" site doesn't make it newsworthy, or serious even.
Not all -ologies are really science (try -onomy). And it didn't matter that Hawking was wrong about black holes because nobody cares. Climate study OTOH is suddenly in fashion. Again. Like flares (or ffjords). And like most fashions, it'll be hyped until the bubble bursts and we go back to worrying about something else.
When you design a product to withstand 100% of what end users throw at it, you end up with a kind of hardware bloat (think Volvo). Designers quite reasonably address what most people want, and throw in whatever else they can do cheaply or easily.
I don't think the shape or layout is that important, it's how much you're allowed to personalise your space that's the issue. I worked in one company where they made too many rules about what you couldn't have in/on your desk - food, coffee, for instance. Even books were supposed to be kept in the library (!) That's terribly de-humanising. I didn't stay long.
Now, I work 2 days at home in a good-sized room with a nice sound system and all I need for software development. The other 3 days I work in a small open plan office, just 4 of us, and I concentrate on hardware. There are pros and cons to both. At home no-one nicks my tools and I can really use my imagination when "dressing down", but work is a friendlier place to spend a coffee break, and the collaborative process is invaluable.
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IF you make an analogue recording of something using top of the line equipment (most recordings aren't).
IF you look after your records (most people didn't).
IF you can afford the $$ for top of the line playback equipment (most people can't or won't).
IF you never use an iPod etc (many people do).
You must be thinking about a very small niche. Perhaps there's no debate because there's no-one left to debate with.
In the vast majority of cases, Vinyl serves as a playback effect after digital mastering, the opposite of a "a more accurate representation of the sonic environment".
Nothing wrong with that. But don't try to tell me it's HiFi.
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
It's true that as our ears get older, their ability to hear higher frequencies diminish. But our hearing (which is mostly neural) gets better with age because we have more experience. It's the same in the visual field. If you know what you're looking for and you have a mental picture of it, you'll find it more easily.
Continuing the visual analogy - I for one often struggle to see the difference between video card A and video card B in screen grabs and tend to resort to looking at the specs. This is because I'm not very experienced, and the marketing men know that and will play to it.
But I do listen to a lot of music. I spent a while running sound at my church, and during that year my hearing improved more than in 20 years of casual listening, because I was working at listening, forcing my neurons to adapt. I'm not about to say specs mean nothing (because you need a basic minimum spec) and start advocating wooden volume knobs but there's certainly more to sound than abstract specs.
Mini-DV, a common camcorder format.
You've got at least 3 orthogonal axes here and you're trying to find some correlation! Right vs Left, Open vs Closed, and Arty vs Auty. Grand generalisations are all you'll get, and we know how useful they are.
And you prefer ignorance?
While I'd like to think the RN could've done better - *at least* something open source they have a chance of maintaining (fixing) - the finite probability of equipment failures is acceptable in most military applications. For example, military aircraft need only have 1% of the reliability of commercial aircraft. In a warzone, your biggest threat probably won't be your equipment, it'll be the other guy, and after that, it'll be you. So you accept a lower reliability from individual equipment, so long as the system works.
The question is, does it?. We all know about the USS Yorktown, we've all seen Dr Strangelove or the Terminator movies, and I would like to think we've learned the lessons. There's a reason we put men on the battlefield, and don't just let the technology duke it out, and it's because machines are not responsible. So in the "red button" situations, there ought to be a human link.
Maybe it has something to do with that little firework they shot up a few days ago. How much harder would it be to hit a geostationary altitude?
It's all part of EU harmonization, there's probably an EU directive somewhere ...
I have a boss that does this, and it works well for him, while delaying everyone else. Actually it doesn't work well for him, because it's bad for his company: most jobs run late and we don't invoice as much as we should.
I take your point about tasks changing significantly, but the answer is to get the job done before feature creep sets in, invoice, and move on to the next one.
Well, I do live near the sea but unlike James Bond my car doesn't need to go in it, and I've never noticed crackling that wasn't down to a carbon pot or dodgy connector. In boats there are different considerations, but that hardly needs to dictate best practice for the audio industry as a whole. In regards to the electrolytic vs tantalum debate (and there is a debate, as long as one side keeps claiming to know best), the performance of both can be adequate and secondary factors often come into play. Tantalums don't go big, aren't tolerant to over-volting or reverse volting, leak less but can have have significant ESR. More significantly, tantalum is a globally scarce resource and although there are alternatives, there is no emergent winner and designers are often loath to specify a solid cap for supply reasons. Try this. Find a brand-name analog mixing desk and take the lid off. You'll find a mix of parts, carefully selected, And yes, I bet it meets the published spec including distortion. The real problem is far eastern factories that won't buy the correct low-ESR caps for SMPSU circuits, to save a few cents. In that scenario, lifetime can be of the order of months. Specifying a solid cap means the factory can't fit the wrong part, so there is some wisdom in it.
Sense About Science are a PR group, and the media manufactures celebrities. It's entertainment in-fighting, nothing to be insecure about. The BBC are indulging in their usual incestuous preoccupation with their own industry, while trying to make us think it matters. Just because this is from a so-called "news" site doesn't make it newsworthy, or serious even.
Not all -ologies are really science (try -onomy). And it didn't matter that Hawking was wrong about black holes because nobody cares. Climate study OTOH is suddenly in fashion. Again. Like flares (or ffjords). And like most fashions, it'll be hyped until the bubble bursts and we go back to worrying about something else.
When you design a product to withstand 100% of what end users throw at it, you end up with a kind of hardware bloat (think Volvo). Designers quite reasonably address what most people want, and throw in whatever else they can do cheaply or easily.
I don't think the shape or layout is that important, it's how much you're allowed to personalise your space that's the issue. I worked in one company where they made too many rules about what you couldn't have in/on your desk - food, coffee, for instance. Even books were supposed to be kept in the library (!) That's terribly de-humanising. I didn't stay long. Now, I work 2 days at home in a good-sized room with a nice sound system and all I need for software development. The other 3 days I work in a small open plan office, just 4 of us, and I concentrate on hardware. There are pros and cons to both. At home no-one nicks my tools and I can really use my imagination when "dressing down", but work is a friendlier place to spend a coffee break, and the collaborative process is invaluable.
Microsoft the greenest company on earth? I guess this makes sense. Like, if you want to win the Nobel Peace Prize it helps to be an ex-terrorist.
... the pantomime season is early this year.