On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:25:26AM +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Apr 24, 2006, at 6:50 PM, hard off wrote:
how hard is to model electric circuits by software?
what is so inherant in analogue and even digital hardware that makes the sound hard to recreate by software?
Its not really that hard to model analogue sound in digital. But there is a cult of analog sound which believes that it is. I mean, you could measure the difference between the real analog and a high quality digital recreation, but you couldn't hear it.
Do you have empirical data to back up this statement? Has neuroscience really progressed to the point that we can claim absolutely that the human brain is incapable of the task of high frequency signal analysis?
Neuroscience probably has not gotten to that point, but I don't know that much about neuroscience. But I do know enough about science to tell you that humans cannot tell the difference between such things in double-blind tests. So you don't need to know anything about neuroscience to make a useful judgement about this.
In a carefully controlled environment, with very nice equipment, something like 99.5% of people cannot tell the difference between things like tube and transistor amps, digital or analog audio, or electronic circuits or digital recreations. Try it yourself sometime.
Double-blind is the key. Humans are extremely sensitive to nuances that we give off. So to do it right, both the listener and the controller of the experiment cannot know about which source is which.
.hc
component and how that heat will affect the circuit. There is simpler software which you can use for small circuits for free. Its called Eagle.
Also, `apt-cache search spice`.
Best regards,
Chris.
chris@mccormick.cx http://mccormick.cx
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