My sound trays to find balance between organic (acoustic sounds) and digital/electronic textures. I keep the feeling and emotion of the track at the front. Sound design is very important - it need to reflect the attitude of the track and make prosody with everything in the track. I think if you focus on crating the energy in the track that resonates with you, your sound will emerge naturally.
Very interesting. I thought because "The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem is an essential principle for digital signal processing linking the frequency range of a signal and the sample rate required to avoid a type of distortion called aliasing" the power of its Math would be able to avoid things like jitter, clock issues, etc., and thus maintain the integrity of the audio signal. But, that doesn't appear to be the case.
A dac is just a converter that use mathematic formulas to convert digital to an analog signal, it has... Per Definition, no coloration. What is after the dac (can be in the same box) can add coloration, the dac will not.
This is very informative video.. but still can’t connect the dots for noob like me.. so I want to listen to lossless from apple music for real here. But my car head unit is bone stock. The rest already upgraded with dsp and two way. Can I use cheap dac from phone to aux? Because the bluetooth seems to be not giving me real lossless 😢
I’m sorry but I just can’t believe that you can hear above 22.05 kHz and that you listen to music at over 96 dB, because these are the limits of 16 bit 44.1 kHz audio
I tested my own tracks with my LCD-X headphones and I heard that 24 bit has a lower noise floor than 16 bit. To my ears this makes it sound cleaner, i.e. more separation between the instruments. The DAW I use runs in 32 bit and I could not hear any improvement over 24 bit.
Xeon is not only the base speed. The stability comes from other factors and components in the processor itself. If this were different, CAD designers, Engineers and other professionals would be using gaming computers on site instead of workstations.
Hardware, specs, theories are important but DA blind tests are scarce. They reveal the real anwers to your question. I have A/B tested ifi Zen Air, EMU 0404, Delock Cheapo USB’s and onboard Realtek. Onboard was really bad and Delock surprisingly good. The choice between the first 2 was very difficult but the EMU won.
So if they both use the same dac chip, what makes them sound different? Its the stuff they ADD afer the chip, aka filters. Keep paying way to much money for hifi amps! I would rather use what the people mixing the audio use, and nowadays most pros say their really isnt much different between the high end and low end.
