"Sound City" movie
On 25-02-2017 17:44, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Neil Young has a different set of problems, though. He has severely damaged
his hearing and has extreme recruitment, and likely this exaggerates the
artifacts of lossy encoding. Perceptual encoding systems like mp3 rely on
a model of how hearing works, and when your hearing doesn't match that model
they can go horribly wrong. So he likely has a legitimate concern about
lossy encoding. It probably does sound much worse to him than it does us.
I can't find any real difference in the workings of lossy encoding and
threshold shift.
However, because he doesn't have the slightest idea about the actual technology
he confuses a lot of different unrelated issues together and waves his arms and
comes out and says "everything digital is bad." This doesn't help anything.
Very often nowadays "digital" unspecificed is lossy encoded digital and
then the vinyl LP does come out on top. I'm beginning to wonder just how
much full wordlength digital audio that gets to the end consumer.
--scott
Kind regards
Peter Larsen
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