THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON COMPRESSED MUSIC

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2 hours ago, psjug said:

I think his heart is in the right place.  It is just too bad that he doesn't seem to have learned the very basics of digital audio.  For example the misleading stairstep illustration in his new book.  He wants to be a teacher or preacher on this but he doesn't know the material.

 

This.  The truth of what Nyquist–Shannon is telling us about sampling and the fidelity of the resultant waveform to the "original", is hard.  Calculus is hard.  The physics of sound-as-waveform-through-medium is hard.  

 

Most folks don't have the education or interest to get it right.  This is perhaps the truth of certain audiophiles and the 'audiophile press' deference to gurus such Bob Stuart.  Yet in reality Bob Stuart is a charlatan - a "post-Shannon" genius on the level of Copernicus, or so they say

 

Another example:   John Atkinson is a believer in the allegedly erroneous "leading edge" or "transient leading edge" behavior of digital sampling/DAC reconstruction.  Why?  What is the evidence?  Bob S and others (who mostly sell stuff) allege it, but is it true?  

 

 

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17 minutes ago, botrytis said:

 

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You can buy them here....

 

@wgscotthumor can be rather dry 😉