Don't forget that the most important link in the audio chain is the listeners brain. This can easily be affected by spending lot's of money on silver cables.
Dark Materials is a play (actually 2 plays) *not a musical*. It has received nothing but praise as far as I know. It was also dramatized on the radio a year or 2 ago which worked very well IMHO.
Take the original analogue wave and subtract the output from the DA converter. What remains is the noise I am talking about.
The anti-aliasing filter will remove any out of band noise but quantisation noise still remains. This noise is a direct result of the discontinuous quantisation function.
This noise is by definition below the signal to noise ratio of the system which for a 16 bit sample size is 96 Db.
The question is, how is this noise perceived?
Take the case of (say) piano + violin + analogue surface noise. The brain can (magically?) perceive the piano the violin and the noise as separate entities and focus attention on one or another as it pleases.
Now replace the analogue noise by digital quantisation noise. I am just wondering if the brain has the necessary mechanisms to analyse such noise and successfully disentangle it from the other elements.
I have a (layman's) theroy about the difference between analogue and digital signal distortion.
Imagine you are listening to someone in the next room playing the piano, or sitting in a concert hall with noises from the heating system and passing traffic. In these situations The human hearing system is quite capable of seaprating the distortion and noise from the signal and ignoring it. I suspect that this is because the distortion and noise making processes can be represeented by a continuous function. The ear and brain are adapted by thousands of years of evolution to separate signal from noise but only if the noise is generated by a continuous function.
In the case of digital audio the distortion function is discontinuous. This is a situation which would not occur in nature and so we have not evolved the ability to ignore it.
Like I said this is just a layman's theory. I would be interested to kown what someone who actually has a clue thinks about it.
I used to work for a company called GPT. Unfortunately if you pronounce these letters in a french accent it sounds remarkably like "Je Pette" (check spelling) which of course means "I Fart". What a small world.
That looks very interesting. Downloading now. Supported on vxWorks too, mmm....it might be just the thing for my current project. If it lives up to expectations I may try to sell this where I work.
So if I owned the entire universe it would be imposible for anyone to steal from me since however much they took I would still have an infinite amount of stuff remaining?????
Slashdot Mirror
A man walked into a bar and asked for a double entendre, so the bar maid gave him one.
99% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Don't forget that the most important link in the audio chain is the listeners brain. This can easily be affected by spending lot's of money on silver cables.
Here is the link you were wanting. I've just booked tickets for both parts. Looks to be excellently done from the photographs.
Dark Materials is a play (actually 2 plays) *not a musical*. It has received nothing but praise as far as I know. It was also dramatized on the radio a year or 2 ago which worked very well IMHO.
You missed the best line!
"I hate every ape I see from chimpan A to chimpan Z"
The anti-aliasing filter will remove any out of band noise but quantisation noise still remains. This noise is a direct result of the discontinuous quantisation function.
This noise is by definition below the signal to noise ratio of the system which for a 16 bit sample size is 96 Db.
The question is, how is this noise perceived?
Take the case of (say) piano + violin + analogue surface noise. The brain can (magically?) perceive the piano the violin and the noise as separate entities and focus attention on one or another as it pleases.
Now replace the analogue noise by digital quantisation noise. I am just wondering if the brain has the necessary mechanisms to analyse such noise and successfully disentangle it from the other elements.
This just shows how short sited technology marketing people can be. There is nothing inherently special about accessing the web from a mobile device.
Imagine you are listening to someone in the next room playing the piano, or sitting in a concert hall with noises from the heating system and passing traffic. In these situations The human hearing system is quite capable of seaprating the distortion and noise from the signal and ignoring it. I suspect that this is because the distortion and noise making processes can be represeented by a continuous function. The ear and brain are adapted by thousands of years of evolution to separate signal from noise but only if the noise is generated by a continuous function.
In the case of digital audio the distortion function is discontinuous. This is a situation which would not occur in nature and so we have not evolved the ability to ignore it.
Like I said this is just a layman's theory. I would be interested to kown what someone who actually has a clue thinks about it.
Just remind me again. Why is Apple being sued?
I used to work for a company called GPT. Unfortunately if you pronounce these letters in a french accent it sounds remarkably like "Je Pette" (check spelling) which of course means "I Fart". What a small world.
If you are in possesion of such equipment please hand it in to the nearest police station.
On the other hand phrases such as "who wrote this a pile of crap" can be quite commonly heard.
The very existance of a language like whitespace prooves that software can be art.
Somebody has to read posts beneath level 4 or 5 otherwise no posts would ever get that high.
Winamp's tiny user interface is really crap. They need to wake up to the fact that most people now have at least 1024*768 resolution.
Brian Blessed would make a good Vogon. In fact I suspect he might actually be a Vogon.
Not to forget "Don't get soap in my eye"
He's obviously new here!
Give type writers to a million monkeys and what you get is slashdot.
I think the jury is still out on the first point but I concede on the rest.
So if I owned the entire universe it would be imposible for anyone to steal from me since however much they took I would still have an infinite amount of stuff remaining?????
It's like an ordinary GOTO but you might be making First Contact with the code at the other end.
That gives me an idea for a paper "GOBOLDLYTO considered harmfull".