Re: (idm) 24bit 96kHz format

From martin wood
Sent Wed, Feb 17th 1999, 15:52


william ratke wrote:

> >
> >me too...but neither you nor i can actually hear them...what we do hear is
> the
> >effect of the ultrasonic sensors heterodyning the air and creating
> harmonics
> >below the actual tone...i.e. a 30khz tone might give off some low volume
> 15khz
> >harmonics, which you can hear if you have good ears...to see if you can
> >actually hear 20+ k tones, you really need to listen to them on good
> >headphones in one of those listening test type environments...(i.e. you
> can't
> >see when someone is or isn't playing a tone)
>
>        im entirely into the theory of sound and how the human intakes it but
> really i find textures that rest on the lo-fidelity end of the audio
> spectrum have a much more profound effect upon me at all levels,   (via
> mego, the haters, gbv, vvm nd third eye found. amidst others, in quite a few
> ways i prefer reel to reel/four track composition to digital, whenever i
> play with digital i allways end up degrading the sound quality so much it
> sounds like it was produced on a defunct gramaphone, really all a matter of
> preference i suppose_    will

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