Comment by glassx
14 years ago
> Having said all that, I'd guess that the speakers will be the limiting factor in most sound systems, not the recording format.
Yes. And DACs, which normally have filters too.
14 years ago
> Having said all that, I'd guess that the speakers will be the limiting factor in most sound systems, not the recording format.
Yes. And DACs, which normally have filters too.
Yes, though I tend to think of the reconstruction filters as being part of the recording format.
Here's an interesting article:
In 1975, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was using a head shaped microphone, which was presumably an attempt to reproduce the non-linearity of the ear. It would be interesting to do such experiments with digital sampling.
Thinking about it, if every person has a different non-linear response, in theory the only way to reproduce sound beyond a certain threshold of fidelity would be to reproduce the ultrasonic components, so each person would hear their own non-linearity. (That would be beyond what I can hear or care about, but it would be fun to play with. Beyond a certain level we also get to the point where we need to ask what it means to hear a sound.)