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| From | "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE |
| Date | 2025-08-19 14:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <sp6enlxeiu.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink) |
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On 2025-08-19 13:31, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 19/08/2025 11:45, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2025-08-19 07:33, c186282 wrote: >>> On 8/18/25 8:16 AM, Daniel70 wrote: >>>> On 18/08/2025 3:50 pm, c186282 wrote: >>>>> On 8/17/25 5:51 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> >>>> <Snip> >>>> >>>>>> Climbing up towards 70dB S/N. But still subject to snap crackle >>>>>> and pop >>>>>> >>>>>> And rumble flutter and wow. >>>>> >>>>> The brain filtered that out pretty well. >>>>> >>>>> Hi-Fi has less to do with technical accuracy than >>>>> it has to do with how the material is *perceived* >>>> >>>> Correct. And speaking about "perceived" .... I can remember >>>> listening to an album (one of those big black discs) put out by >>>> 'Kraftwerk' called 'Autobahn'. I was lying on the Lounge-room floor >>>> with headphones on and, when the 'Autobahn' tune starts, the >>>> 'music' (sound of a vehicle) is way off in the distance in one ear. >>>> Slowly the 'music' (vehicle noise) gets louder and louder and LOUDER >>>> then crosses to the other ear ..... then gets softer and softer as >>>> the vehicle 'disappears' away back into the distance. >>>> >>>> Just about sent me 'Cross-eyed' ever time I listened to it!! NICE!! >>>> Bliss, even. >>>> >>>> (Thanks for the memories!! ;-) ) >>> >>> >>> Spectral readings and tech specs do NOT define >>> what "sounds great". >>> >>> We're "goo-ware" - not hardware. >> >> Surely we can define what should sound great on our measurement >> instruments. And once the rules are defined, that's repeatable and >> objective. >> >> >> > I spent 15 years designing audio. > > In the end I could identify issues just by listening > > - If the sound is gritty or edgy, you have crossover distortion or a > failing loudspeaker. > - if the sound is muddy and you hear the music, but not the individual > instruments, you have intermodulation distortion. This is what happens > in your ears as you get older making it hard to pick out one > conversation in a noisy place. In general there isn't much of that in > modern electronics: It's likely to be a shitty loudspeaker. > - if the cymbals and triangles and hi hats smash, but don't ring, your > cloth eared sound engineer has overloaded the recording medium. Very > easy to do with old tape machines, and VU meters, not so with digital > - If your FM stereo sounds slightly weird right at the extreme treble, > you don't have enough bandwidth in the IF strip. Most FM is in fact like > this. I built a really good wideband FM receiver, but it suffered from > co channel interference in continental Europe.. > -if your bass is boxy, the loudspeaker is trying to sound like it has > bass when it doesn't. > - if the sound sounds like cardboard, that's because it is. You are > hearing the loudspeaker cone, not the music. > > In short real hifi is that you can hear every instrument clearly and > separately, and especially every single voice in a choral work. Top end > loudspeakers designed for classical are designed like that. Very flat > frequency response, very low resonances in the cabinet and loudspeakers > and very low intermodulation distortions, You hear te instruments, not > the music and absolutely not the loudspeaker > > Loudspeakers for country jazz rock and pop concentrate more on > delivering a good bass, and since there aren't many instruments, tend to > generate a 'sound' which will depend on the compromises they made. Cheap > loudspeakers you hear the loudspeakers, not the music, and absolutely > not the instruments. > It two loudspeakers 'sound different', at least one of them is shit. At > the top end yiou cant tell them apart really. > > As far as amplifiers go, I stopped designing them when it became clear > that there were in all cases indistinguishable and way more than good > enough. Around the mid 1980s transistor technology was so advanced that > you could really design essentially 'perfect' amplifiers. > > Vinyl disc amps were what they were, and we pushed the limits of low > noise transistors till they were in the end quieter than the hiss on the > records. FM radio in the end we were limited by the conflicting > requirements of adjacent channel reception and high bandwidth with > smooth phase response to get HF stereo to an acceptable quality. > > AM radio was as good as it could be made, which was never, in Europe, Hi > fi. > > Digital sound pushed the available quality up massively. In particular > digital mastering made a huge difference to recorded quality- even the > best 1" tape at 30IPS is nowhere near a 12 bit, let alone 16 bit > recording at 44 or 48Khz sampling rate. > > The maximum dynamic range between the needle jumping out of the groove > and chattering, and the hiss on the electronics and the vinyl itself was > about 75dB on a vinyl record > > CD will do 96dB, and with clever processing sound even better. up to 120dB. > > CDs had one flaw initially - crossover distortion, due to the design of > the DACS, And sometimes a bit of weirdness in the high treble due to the > need to filter out the sampling frequency with cheap filters.Today > that's all gone. They too, are essentially perfect. > > Unfortunately the quality of music is rubbish today. Crudely constructed > pop songs featuring nubile singers in skimpy clothing, done on a > shoestring and compressed down to be listened to on an earbud via a > massively compressed MP3 stream is nothing whatever to do with hi > fidelity audio. > > The final message is, trust your ears, not the advertising, listen to > choral music as the absolute best test, and forget about vinyl, pre amps > and power amps, gold plated cables and spend all the money you have on > the very best loudspeakers you can afford. > > The test instruments confirm what you can hear, but no one has access to > test instruments and what they put in magazines is just the most basic > shit. Thanks for the summary :-) -- Cheers, Carlos.
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Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-19 23:30 -0400
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