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In Reply to: RE: RRE: "the sound of the hall before the first note was played"? posted by jkeny on January 24, 2016 at 11:01:57
the PROBLEM is..95% of rock and pop recordings are done with close mike, in isolation booths, with baffles, in neutral rooms. So there goes that theory. At final mixdown, treatments are applied.
If one focuses exclusively on classical music or a small number of purist jazz recordings, yeh, sure.
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IMO it is a complete waste of time to even talk about the reproduction of 99 percent of rock and pop recordings. They are garbage, made for one purpose only, extracting as much money from the plebes (while giving as little as possible to the "artists"). In many cases, the "talent" includes "singers" who are selected for their sex appeal without regard to their ability to sing, and who would never have gotten anywhere without disgusting electronic tricks such as "autotune".
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Sure, most recordings are done with fabricated soundstage & so you are therefore writing off that MQA can have any affect on these recordings. On what basis? Because you have decided to isolate & focus on one aspect that Harley & Atkinson reported as being the only improvement that MQA brought to the recording?This seems a very simplistic & biased approach, if you ask me
I believe you could benefit more by getting over your obvious ire & examine what MQA might be doing that could be responsible for the increased realism of the hall ambience experienced by Harley & Atkinson.
From my reading of Harley's piece, I believe two technical focusses were being followed in MQA - improved noise stability & decreased temporal blur. Both of these factors are of great interest to me & I could well see them being responsible for the perceptual improvements reported, so far in hearing MQA
Edits: 01/24/16
How many times do I have to ask this. How can we report on how well M works when we can't listen to it. At least with 4k and 8k tv we can buy the hardware even though there is no software. With MQA even if you can get a meridian explorer II there is also no software. By the way the Meridian device needs a firmware update to do MQA. Guess what. The update is not ready yet.
Alan
Yea, but I'm sure there were early reports from reviewers of just how realistic 4K & 8K TV was before it became generally available - it's the nature of how products come to market - I'm not sure what the problem is?
And I ignored those reports also
Alan
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