[HN Gopher] Audio's Circle of Confusion (2009)
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       Audio's Circle of Confusion (2009)
        
       Author : customizable
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2023-04-13 09:01 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | polalavik wrote:
       | Ok so you define some characteristics and the room in which those
       | characteristics were measured. Now the consumer should emulate
       | these to standardize their listening practice? Lol.
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       | Who is this calibration meant to serve? The audio engineers
       | geeking out on measurements and the box they defined those
       | measurements in? Unfortunately, 100 million people are just gonna
       | listen to it on their airpods.
        
         | function_seven wrote:
         | That's not the idea here. The idea is to settle on a consistent
         | standard so that listeners don't have to constantly adjust
         | equalization for different recordings.
         | 
         | I deal with this all the time. One album might sound great with
         | both bass and treble cranked up, while another one will be
         | _waay_ too boom-y and I have to trim the bass down to the
         | middle.
         | 
         | If some standard were agreed upon for frequency response
         | through the chain of elements (mics, processors, monitors,
         | etc.), then listeners would be able to set their EQs to what
         | they like, and leave them there.
         | 
         | Of course I'm over-simplifiying a bit. Different
         | artists/producers/engineers will have different subjective
         | opinions on the "right" mix, but at least there wouldn't also
         | be an additional complication of the variety of monitors and
         | studio equipment settings lurking underneath their adjustments.
        
       | brookst wrote:
       | The year is 2063. Audio recordings have completely eliminated all
       | frequencies below 100hz in response to headphones' and speakers'
       | continual drive to deliver MOAR BASE.
       | 
       | In response, AI-powered headphones and speakers are able to
       | reconstruct bass notes not present in recordings by using their
       | knowledge of the composer, musicians, and recording equipment to
       | estimate what bass would have been there, had it not been zeroed
       | out.
        
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