If this technology is based on storing data "below the top layer", then it won't be possible to mass produce this technology with "pressings" like with CD's, correct?
...that the use of a device like this is completely subjective. As a teenager and a semi-professional musician, hearing is one of my most important assets next to sight. If I wear baggy pants and am waiting out front of a 7-11 for a friend of mine to pick me up, what right does a part-time employee (who may be even younger than me) have to "blast" this thing. How could one judge when it is okay and not okay to use this? Purely on appearances? This tool seems like it could easily be abused and misued.
I'd be interested to see how many of the "xbox screens of death" coming from the broken consoles are from the 299 dollar "idiot pack" as opposed to the 399 dollar version. Mabye the name "idiot pack" was more than an M$ slam.
...if they started doing some real audiophile stuff with computer sound?
I find it funny reaing all these posts about DSP and how people hope that there will be more DSP options with the next creative sound card. Guess what--in the recording industry, digital does not nessisarily equal good. In fact, when talking in terms of amplification, be it amplifing a guitar or any other instrument, tube driven analog amps are still the weapon of choice. I have a solid state amp with awesome DSP, reverb, everthing. It cost 400 dollars. I just bought an "analog" tube driven amp with no DSP which cost five times that and sounds infinately better. So by doctoring up sound on a computer via shitloads of DSP isn't nessisairly better. To audiophiles, it will probably make it sound worse.
What would be neat is if they figured out some way to include a tube preamp on the acutal card. Then mabye watercooling for a soundcard wouldn't be such a crazy idea after all, because even 12AX7 tubes get really hot.
And yes, optical out would be great too.
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If this technology is based on storing data "below the top layer", then it won't be possible to mass produce this technology with "pressings" like with CD's, correct?
...that the use of a device like this is completely subjective. As a teenager and a semi-professional musician, hearing is one of my most important assets next to sight. If I wear baggy pants and am waiting out front of a 7-11 for a friend of mine to pick me up, what right does a part-time employee (who may be even younger than me) have to "blast" this thing. How could one judge when it is okay and not okay to use this? Purely on appearances? This tool seems like it could easily be abused and misued.
I'd be interested to see how many of the "xbox screens of death" coming from the broken consoles are from the 299 dollar "idiot pack" as opposed to the 399 dollar version. Mabye the name "idiot pack" was more than an M$ slam.
this is the best PR stunt ever. Everyone knows that 80's metal band Anthrax has been "keeping the scare alive" in order to self-promote.
....LRAD and you can give terrorists the ultimate hellen keller experience (now dodging heavinly lightening bolts)
...if they started doing some real audiophile stuff with computer sound? I find it funny reaing all these posts about DSP and how people hope that there will be more DSP options with the next creative sound card. Guess what--in the recording industry, digital does not nessisarily equal good. In fact, when talking in terms of amplification, be it amplifing a guitar or any other instrument, tube driven analog amps are still the weapon of choice. I have a solid state amp with awesome DSP, reverb, everthing. It cost 400 dollars. I just bought an "analog" tube driven amp with no DSP which cost five times that and sounds infinately better. So by doctoring up sound on a computer via shitloads of DSP isn't nessisairly better. To audiophiles, it will probably make it sound worse. What would be neat is if they figured out some way to include a tube preamp on the acutal card. Then mabye watercooling for a soundcard wouldn't be such a crazy idea after all, because even 12AX7 tubes get really hot. And yes, optical out would be great too.