On Friday, June 13, 1997 1:18 PM, Random Junk [SMTP:jsd@gamespot.com]
wrote:
quoted 6 lines the whole idea of a 44khz RECORD (vinyl anyway) is to laugh... how> the whole idea of a 44khz RECORD (vinyl anyway) is to laugh... how
> many people's turntables even go close to 16khz? (that would be a
> 32k
> record, of course). how many "average human" ears are even good
> enough to hear above 16khz any more? if you go to loud clubs a lot,
> chances are your cutoff is even lower than that.
Chris Fahey Sez:
I just thought of something. If the human ear is supposed to be so very
weak that CD audio far exceeds it's ability to detect, then how come so
many folks can hear the difference between vinyl and CD? Usually they
are probably liars, just like people who think they know something
about wine.
But here's an idea: Although our *ears* cannot detect the difference in
the sound form the speaker, maybe the *environment* itself reacts
differently to the sound. The little vibrations which the sound causes
in the room, the way the room acoustically alters what we hear, may
significantly differ from vinyl to CD. These differences are
accentuated by the vibrating objects in the room/environment, so that
they then become detectible to the anal retentive audiophile ear.
Imagine a dish on a shelf which vibrates one way when a 44khz cd plays
a tone and another way when a record plays the tone. The sound of it's
vibration becomes part of the listener's experience of the sound.
Am I on drugs?
-CF