craigb

Projected entertainment never is serious.

Ah... I miss the 80's sometimes... I wonder how many people really even know what they're missing now? They just play stuff through the speaker on their phone or PC and think it's good enough. *Bleh!* I had a wealthy friend in San Diego that had these super expensive old-style speakers (i.e., not the active grid kind). They must have been four feet tall and more than two feet across! Cost him tens of thousands of dollars even back then...

Ooo... Good point.

Here's my two cents (possibly more, possibly less!). 1) Personally, I did a test on a $4,000 stereo system (15 years ago) and "I" couldn't tell the difference between a 192 kbps .mp3 and anything higher so I've imported my huge collection of music (about 350,000 songs currently) into my computer at that resolution to save disk space. 2) That said, I also have done PhD work into brain functioning and other woo-woo experimental areas and there's some strong evidence that we can experience frequencies far beyond the typical 20-20,000 Hz that we can hear. Frequencies as high as 100 kHz appear to be absorbed by our bodies allowing for expanded abilities like accelerated learning (I happen to have a device called an Echofone that was originally used in experiments with dolphins as well as a Flanigan Neurophone which utilizes bone conduction to experience higher frequencies and can actually allow deaf people to hear). 3) CD's record at 44.1k, however many sound processors (especially the earlier ones) end up rounding any math applied to incoming signals which reduces the overall sampling rate into the 30's (e.g., 32k). This accounts for the lo-fi sound of many synths from the 80's. This is why I used to (and will again when I have another studio) record at 96k and then reduce to 44.1k at the very end of the process. Now, any rounding will happen above 44.1k so the end result sounds full.

I hear Daryl likes monkeys.

I would have expected you to answer everything "Am!" ???

They're still new to this Greg. Give them time to realize that the (new) FSF is just like a big compost pile. Keep it out in the yard, leave it alone and don't bring any of it into the house. ? As for your questions, remember: The answer is always "C." ?

It's a flashback to page 928 from the original FSF.