[maxmsp] Re: Samplerates in max

There's a paper in JAES (Journal of the Acoustic Engineering Society) 
September 2007 that might be of interest:

E. Brad Meyer and David R. Moran: "Audibility of a CD-Standard A/D/A 
Loop Inserted into High-Resolution Audio Playback".

Qouting the abstract:

"Conventional wisdom asserts that the wider bandwidth and dynamic range 
of SACD and DVD-A make them of audibly higher quality than the CD 
format. A carefully controlled double-blind test with many experienced 
listeners showed no ability to hear any differences between formats. 
High-resolution audio discs were still judged to be of superior quality 
because sound engineers have more freedom to make them that way. There 
is no evidence that perceived quality has anything to do with additional 
resolution or bandwidth."

The authors suggest that the reason why SACD and DVD-A recordings are 
generally perceived to sound better is not the improved quality of the 
digital format, but rather the difference in approach to the mastering 
process. These recordings are assumed to be listened to in a hifi 
setting, and the mastering is thorough, and using proper headroom. In 
contrast most (popular) recordings are increasingly compressed to death 
to fit in with the lofi listening situations resulting from modern 
playback devices being used in noisy environments (cars, iPods, etc.).

Best,
Trond


Stefan Tiedje wrote:
> Peter McCulloch schrieb:
>> A couple of years ago, I saw a presentation from a guy who was doing 
>> surround sound promotions sponsored by Tannoy.  IIRC, he claimed there 
>> was a study done showing that it was almost impossible to tell the 
>> difference between material upsampled from 48kHZ to 96kHz and material 
>> recorded at 96 kHz.  Curious to hear about your results once you get 
>> it working.
> 
> Never trust statistics you didn't fake yourself... If I can easily hear 
> the difference, the study was maybe targeted at untrained ipod degraded 
> ears... ;-)
> Or they used high end converters which I would never be able to afford 
> in my whole lifetime...
> 
> Stefan
>