![]() ![]() Most electronics have s/n ratios of between 90db and maybe, just maybe 115 db at best. dynamic range but no electronics be it commercial or home has an s/n ratio anywhere near 144db. YOUR FAMLY AND NEIGHBOURS WILL HATE YOU! THEY WILL PROBABLY CALL THE COPS IF YOU PLAY IT THIS LOUD LATE AT NIGHT! dynamic range audio product, the listener will have to gain ride in order to have quiet parts above his home's noise floor and lower the volume to not blow out the loud parts. If you produce even at 16 bit / 96db max. ![]() The typical home has a background noise floor of between 20-30db. which itself is actually too much for end consumer use. Once you record and final master for commercial product a 24bit /48Khz, 96Khz or 192Khz audio recording you must compress the dynamic range to that below 96db. ![]() is 100% able to accurately record any audio sine waves between just above 0hz. Virtually every studio microphone rolls off greatly before 25Khz.ġ6 bit at 44.1 or 48 khz. No musical instruments go anywhere near 24Khz. It is just easier to do levels without fear of digital clipping. But, studio folks who master with DSD will often process in PCM, must be a reason.ĭuring recording and mastering for final mix down then certainly 24 bit recording is a good thing for the added headroom it offers in capturing live performance, but it is not required in order to get a full audio quality product. I do not speak to the differences between DSD and PCM as I do not use DSD. I've directly compared 16/48 to 24/96 files taken off the same tape onto the same recorder using the same signal chain to decide if it is worth it as it would be waste to store those 24/96 files if 16/48 were just perfect. You can actually work with them and see/hear them. In the human auditory system the additional depth/bandwidth translates to timbre or depth or lushness if you wish to use those terms to characterize music. There is visual scientific proof that 32 bit float PCM and any transfer rate above 16/48 can gain you space to edit. High resolution digital has a place in the music production world. Large studios which pressed chartable CD's made their copies using several transfer methods and I am sure most of them have preserved as many masters as possible. It takes a fair amount of work to properly master live recordings. Since I came off the road I've been digitizing this stuff. I'm one of those people you are referring to. Small band stuff, indie band stuff, soundboard or audience all kinds. I HAVE over 1,000 master recordings on cassette. I have heard it/seen it on the screen while editing. But my gut tells me many of these tapes have not been preserved digitally and as such suffer ageing effects.*crying*ġ6 bit processing leaves a lot of material on the table. I hope that the music industry began back in the 80's to re-record onto digital audio tape all those great analog master tapes of the plethora of music we have consumed over the years before these tape aged out and deteriorated. The two would sound essentially identical, except for the fact that the master tape may have deteriorated some more since 1984 and as such my CD copy may actually sound better than it today. If I could lay my hands on say Supertramp's stereo master tape of Crime Of The Century and play it on a properly working reel to reel in my A/V system and sync it up with the CD version I bought of the album in 1984. I speak my mind only as a proverbial kid with his finger in the dyke holding back the water to offer pushback to what 40 years of this bull crap! Any audiophile guru (not) or goof off hifi reviewer/editor and the snake oil drinking hi-fi guys, saying otherwise is pushing ignorance onto the public and have been doing so since the dawn of digital audio/cd. Hopefully many have been before they audibly deteriorated recorded onto digital tape, from the 80's onward, or on to digital hard drives or discs in more modern times.Ī 16/44.1 or 16/48 capture in digital PCM will if not bastardized by a ham fisted or half deaf engineers make essentially flawless recordings of the original analog master tapes. ![]() Those ageing analog tapes are deteriorating day by day. Sadly many so-called audio or hi-fi experts even engineers (go figure*scratchchin*) are guilty of greasing these rails of misinformation. Years of audio misinformation on digital recording has polluted the minds of many who enjoy listening to recorded music and on good hi-fi gear. ![]()
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