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Meyer and Moran: It's Time To Let Go

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Published on 12-23-2014 11:42 PM Number of Views: 3249

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Continuation from yesterday...

He continues with a discussion about the midrange improvements that high-resolution audio was supposed to offer. He states, "it was not in any way dependent on extended dynamic range." After more than 7 years, he's telling us that the study was really designed to test the audibility of "musical material in the upper 40 dB of the signal space, when played at normal levels." ...

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Meyer and Moran: It's All About the Midrange

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Published on 12-22-2014 11:45 PM Number of Views: 3447

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The Meyer and Moran AES paper was published in 2007. The high-resolution era was well under way having been launched in 2000 with the arrival of SACD and DVD-Audio. I have a pdf of their paper, "Audibility of a CD-Standard A/D/A Loop Inserted into High-Resolution Audio Playback" on the screen in front of me and I have read it carefully more than once.
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Meyer and Moran: Let's Change the Focus

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Published on 12-22-2014 02:47 AM Number of Views: 4122

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I have been highly critical of the study by Dave Meyer and E. Brad Moran on the "Audibility of a CD-Standard A/D/A Loop Inserted into High-Resolution Audio Playback". Their AES paper has been quoted as "proof" that high-resolution audio is "not audible" because no one in their study group could identify a "high-resolution audio" vs. a CD specification version. ...

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Old Dogs New Tricks

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Published on 12-20-2014 11:18 PM Number of Views: 3103

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Robert Margouleff, Grammy nominated audio engineer famous for introducing Stevie Wonder to electronic synthesizers and working on "Talking Book" and "Innervisions", asked me to be part of a recording project that he's working on with songwriter Paul Horner. ...

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Live Music...Through Ear Plugs!

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Published on 12-19-2014 11:53 PM Number of Views: 3774

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My oldest son is the creative force, guitarist, writer, lead singer, and leader of a "math metal" band called The Great Wall. It's a quartet of guys...two guitars, bass and drums...that don't play any measures of 4/4 time. It's called math metal" for a reason. ...

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CEA and JAS Collaborate on Hi-Res Audio Promotion

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Published on 12-18-2014 11:57 PM Number of Views: 3890

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The Consumer Electronics Association and the Japan Audio Society "announced a new partnership to help promote and support the marketplace growth of High-Resolution Audio (Hi-Res Audio or HRA) devices and content." ...

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Can Consumers Tell?

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Published on 12-13-2014 11:11 PM Number of Views: 3036

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Next Wednesday, I'm involved in a research project on high-resolution audio. I've managed to get myself more involved than I originally intended as the supplier of the source files, the audio engineer in charge of setting up and testing the equipment, and the person making the selections between the file types. ...

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Jumping Off From Higher Sampling Rates

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Published on 12-13-2014 01:30 AM Number of Views: 3282

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It's completely out of control! All you have to do is look around the web and everyone is bragging about the ever higher sampling rates and the incredible improvement in fidelity that the produce. ...

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