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RE: What we can hear

"How do we measure the "blackness" of a sound stage background? S/N might seem to be relevant, until we remember, that in order to hear the lack of or capability of hearing no extraneous noise or signal modulation immediately before and after a note or transient, THERE FIRST HAS TO BE A NOTE OR TRANSIENT! Conventional S/N measurements are completely blind to this sort of audible performance, and inherently CAN'T provide any sort of reliable metric regarding such extraneous dynamically varying noise."

In light of these comments, you might find the video talk linked below to be interesting. It shows how people heard unmeasurable problems with sigma delta modulators and how better measurements were discovered to show the problems that some people were hearing. The end result was a new modulator that (supposedly) sounds better.

Tony Lauck

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