Adding mic or upgrade recorder?
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ullanta
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Michael, thanks for your story!
I can understand the frustration, because all of our standards and regulations, and principles of product design address the "average" person, often by pushing noise into the higher frequencies.
I know also that while high-frequency hearing degrades on most people as they age, a small percentage of people have increased high-frequency hearing capability as they age. This was discovered, I believe, during the research into audio compression algorithms.
And as i said somewhere recently, even for folks unable to "hear" over-20k frequencies, recent studies are showing that they still have subliminal effects on many of us.
Anyway, Michael, it's great to have a concrete example (and warning!). You've explained clearly some of the problems that result from your higher-frequency hearing... but are there benefits? And, do you feel anything is "missing" when listening to 44.1 or 48k recordings, or does THAT not bother you?
-Barry
I can understand the frustration, because all of our standards and regulations, and principles of product design address the "average" person, often by pushing noise into the higher frequencies.
I know also that while high-frequency hearing degrades on most people as they age, a small percentage of people have increased high-frequency hearing capability as they age. This was discovered, I believe, during the research into audio compression algorithms.
And as i said somewhere recently, even for folks unable to "hear" over-20k frequencies, recent studies are showing that they still have subliminal effects on many of us.
Anyway, Michael, it's great to have a concrete example (and warning!). You've explained clearly some of the problems that result from your higher-frequency hearing... but are there benefits? And, do you feel anything is "missing" when listening to 44.1 or 48k recordings, or does THAT not bother you?
-Barry
Michael T
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The benefits are when you have very clean sounds that produce purer harmonics that seem to sweeten the sounds and make them fuller. When listening to 44.1 or 48k the same principle applies which is any sound that has noise in it is undesirable, if its clean then the dynamics of the sounds is what will effect the experience that the creator is trying to convey.
As far as Superman is concerned noise in sound has the same effect on all of us as kreptonite does on him. Makes us ill!
As far as Superman is concerned noise in sound has the same effect on all of us as kreptonite does on him. Makes us ill!