On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:30:34PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
but then there are many audiophiles that say things like "double-blind tests hide the differences in equipment".
So, basically, they are acknowledging that the differences in equipment are due to prejudice, branding, advertisements, colour of the case, gadgetism, and corporate/academic equipment procuration policies ;-)
Heheh. One thing I've always wondered about (and I could be about to highlight my total lack of signal progressing understanding) is the representation of two waveforms at Nyquist; if you have a squarewave and a sawtooth wave, both sampled at 44100 and playing at a frequency of 22050, these waves will both be represented by two samples each, correct? So when they are sent back into the analogue domain, won't these two waveforms look identical? Wouldn't they look like exactly the same sound? On analogue gear, wouldn't it be the case that the exact shape of the waveforms would be more accurately represented (e.g. a sawtooth and a squarewave at 22050 would look like such)?
Best,
Chris.
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