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So, I create both music and photography. And I find it interesting that I've got a very digital music playing and listening setup, whereas I've got a very analog photography setup.
And I'm obsessed with quality, either way.
But... I don't really find that there's any difference that I can actually hear between uncompressed 44kHz audio and 96+kHz audio. I can hear a huge difference between compressed audio and uncompressed audio. And I know that I don't have golden ears, but my range of hearing goes pretty far up for a person in their thirties, actually.
There is, of course, often a change in the way they master for the higher-quality formats. I think I'd be happier with a version that's free of excessive 'loudness' from being mastered to sound loud than a higher-resolution version.
After reading your Open Mike, I think I realized the difference.
If I go through an exhibition of art photos, I can step up close to the ones that are taken on a 4x5 view camera or a medium format film camera or even one of the really good digital cameras, and I can see that... oh, yeah, there's no pixels. And then I can see something taken on somebody's inexpensive P&S and upsampled at a reasonable viewing size and see how the resolution trails off into blurry pixelization.
And.... sometimes, that's really unpleasant, like seeing a model's pores. But for a landscape, that can be really beautiful and reveal new layers to a composition.
However, there's no such equivalent for audio. Once you've got a reasonably flat sound system and a room free of distorting resonances and ambient noise, that's it.
You can't 'zoom in' aurally.
Open Mike: HD Downloads
Charlie Haden and Hank Jones at the "Come Sunday" sessions. Photo courtesy Emarcy Records. I love music listening—that's all I do, by intent, listen—and I've been an "audiophile" (for some definition of that contentious term) for most of my life—all of my adult life. I'm not a nut about it. Ev...
I'd say boning cousins, but that sounds like something you'd only have in the hollers of Virginia.
Turkey time
I believe in karma. What goes around comes around, so it makes sense to pay it forward. There's this guy from the improv troupe who I added as a facebook friend last week- not so much because we're friends but we're now at the point where we're well enough acquainted (read: recognize each other'...
No.
Especially if you still have your cellphone, 2-way pager, Sprint USB data stick, and MacBook Pro office laptop.
If a tree falls in a forrest...
If you go somewhere without telling anyone, without posting pictures on facebook, without tweeting, without updating your status, without setting an out-of-office message, without telling anyone where you're going, what you're doing, or when you'll be back... are you actually away?
That's funny... I got myself a bass guitar last May. :)
Step 2: talk it out
I went to dinner with my mother and two of her friends the other night. One is a lawyer, and the other is incredibly interesting. She's been a singer in a band, a band director, an artist, an art teacher, and has toured all over in the places where you can find gypsy fortunetellers. My mother ha...
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