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Re: [ARSCLIST] A fundamental Flaw: Was Sampling Theory (was Fred Layn's post on the Studer list re: Quantegy)
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From: "matt Sohn" <mahatma@xxxxxxxx>
> > I'm reminiscing about Led Zeppelin's debut at the Fillmore in 1969. No
> > idea what the PA amp might have been, but I think those were just two
> > Altec Lansing A7 cabinets with horns book-ending the band. Sitting on
> > the floor, ten feet from the band (when the stage was about three feet
> > off the floor, in an smallish dancehall)...I wonder what a good
> > recording might have revealed.
> > Steven Austin
> It probably would have revealed all the inadequacies of the room, and the
> sound system, and the performance, that your mind glossed over at the
time.
> I bet you would be disappointed.
If we can ever invent a digital "brain" that is anywhere near as efficient
as our few kilograms of "grey matter" seem to be
in the process of deciding what to "hear" and what to discard as
inapplicable,
the designers of the software and hardware will become the next
trillionaires!
Steven C. Barr