I heard two contradicting claims about 44.1kHz/16bit audio. What do you think?
Dr. Diamond, who is doing research on music therapy, claims that 44.1kHz/16bit audio has the opposite effect of soothing effect.
In a TV program in Asia, Dr. Diamond tested muscle strength of a person while she/he was hearing the same music of different format: live music, LP, SACD, CD.
Muscle strength was weaker while listening to CD.
The people in the experiment were the TV program producer, camera man, and a guide (probably for English translation) for the Asian TV program team.
So human being seems to subconsciously distinguish CD from higher rez digital (SACD) or analogue (LP).
On the other hand, there was recently an ASE paper showing that people including audiophiles could not tell the difference in blind test between high rez digital and high rez digital with 44.1kHz/16bit AD and DA conversions inserted in the playback chain.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Topic - Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - dave789 22:41:02 07/04/12 (51)
- Dr. Diamond's paper was in the reading list of an EE course at MIT - dave789 06:38:41 07/23/12 (0)
- Try this at home... - mkuller 20:00:19 07/08/12 (5)
- RE: Try this at home... - Tony Lauck 10:31:39 07/23/12 (0)
- I have - gme109 17:57:21 07/10/12 (2)
- RE: I have - Tony Lauck 09:43:56 07/11/12 (1)
- "N.B. these are Wikipedia's terms, not mine." In Wiki we trust. lol NT - Poles Apart 10:37:39 07/12/12 (0)
- RE: Try this at home... - dave789 03:35:50 07/09/12 (0)
- correction and another question - dave789 21:34:06 07/05/12 (7)
- Dr. D. has been doing this test for decades with doubtless a variety of players. NT - Poles Apart 14:57:52 07/06/12 (6)
- RE: Dr. D. has been doing this test for decades with doubtless a variety of players. NT - dave789 18:28:54 07/06/12 (5)
- That "AES paper" was blatantly flawed garbage. NT - Poles Apart 10:34:04 07/07/12 (4)
- RE: That "AES paper" was blatantly flawed garbage. - mls-stl 08:00:54 07/08/12 (3)
- See the 175 posts (alas soon to be more) - Tony Lauck 08:46:53 07/08/12 (2)
- Thanks... - mls-stl 09:03:07 07/08/12 (1)
- Well you asked... kinda soon to toss the ball out of bounds isn't it? NT - Poles Apart 20:37:57 07/08/12 (0)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - hahax@verizon.net 20:35:59 07/05/12 (4)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - digepix 11:14:51 07/08/12 (0)
- If that's true, then... - Poles Apart 21:35:18 07/05/12 (2)
- One answer - mls-stl 12:21:00 07/06/12 (1)
- I was assuming a mutatis mutandis situation. NT - Poles Apart 14:59:42 07/06/12 (0)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - Dawnrazor 13:40:07 07/05/12 (9)
- Compression had nothing to do with it. - Poles Apart 13:56:11 07/05/12 (8)
- RE: Compression had nothing to do with it. - Dawnrazor 08:14:48 07/06/12 (1)
- Don't know for sure, but... - Poles Apart 10:40:20 07/06/12 (0)
- RE: Compression had nothing to do with it. - Dave Pogue 14:15:44 07/05/12 (5)
- One must be a non-sneering type of personality to understand it. - Poles Apart 21:33:30 07/05/12 (4)
- One must, must one. - Dave Pogue 04:29:12 07/06/12 (3)
- Inquiring minds...? - Tony Lauck 07:29:03 07/06/12 (2)
- RE: Inquiring minds...? - Dave Pogue 08:04:49 07/06/12 (1)
- RE: Inquiring minds...? - Tony Lauck 08:55:18 07/06/12 (0)
- I don't see a "real" contradiction here - jfz 11:26:18 07/05/12 (0)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - Dave Pogue 06:25:35 07/05/12 (17)
- That's an unfair portrayal - Poles Apart 13:51:38 07/05/12 (2)
- Let's just say they were ... - Dave Pogue 14:37:46 07/05/12 (1)
- RE: Let's just say they were ... - Jwm 16:02:53 07/05/12 (0)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - dave789 10:23:49 07/05/12 (11)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - Dave Pogue 10:43:34 07/05/12 (10)
- Harry Pearson used it as "proof" - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 05:45:14 07/10/12 (3)
- "The cracked spindle thing." No such thing was ever posited. - Poles Apart 19:45:50 07/10/12 (2)
- RE: "The cracked spindle thing." No such thing was ever posited. - Tony Lauck 09:55:51 07/11/12 (1)
- Quite so (what you say)! NT - Poles Apart 10:41:38 07/12/12 (0)
- "Amazingly, some of the audio mags took it seriously..." - Poles Apart 21:38:57 07/05/12 (4)
- So why didn't you name them? - Dave Pogue 04:32:55 07/06/12 (1)
- A useful form of play - Tony Lauck 07:45:44 07/06/12 (0)
- RE: "Amazingly, some of the audio mags took it seriously..." - dave789 21:44:00 07/05/12 (1)
- The former, but the latter is at least partially true too. NT - Poles Apart 10:42:42 07/06/12 (0)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - mls-stl 18:05:08 07/05/12 (0)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - Tony Lauck 08:28:07 07/05/12 (1)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - Dave Pogue 08:43:42 07/05/12 (0)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - tom.dennehy 05:51:29 07/05/12 (1)
- RE: Dr. Diamond vs high rez not better than CD - Jwm 16:04:49 07/05/12 (0)