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Subject: RE: [motm] Re: OT: Tales from an Audiophiles Crypt

From: Neil Bradley <nb@...>
Date: 2002-10-30

> :> and I refuse to believe that there are that many engineers who can
> :> hear over 20 kHz. I sure can't now and I never could.
> Isn't there some research to suggest that there is a psycho-acoustic effect
> caused by the "outside" frequencies that ends up affecting the audible
> portion of the material as the different frequencies interact with each
> other?

Yes, it's called "listener fatigue". ;-) Lack of upper band harmonics
can contribute to it.

> cables (2 feet long - he paid close to $500 for them. I don't know what the
> hell they were!) to make the digital transfers from his DAT master, into my
> workstation for editing and back out to his souped-up DAT machine again. I'd
> have to tear half the studio apart to get it wired ∗just∗ the way he wanted.
> He SWORE he could tell the difference....

∗DIGTIAL∗ Transfers? Now I've heard EVERYTHING!

This reminds me of a clueless individual who thought that buying 5 foot
MIDI cables would have a noticeable effect on MIDI delay over 10 foot
cables. Little did this individual know that for even a single sample @
44.1khz delay to be induced by the wire it'd have to be about 2800 feet
long. ;-)

-->Neil

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