Audio engineering pioneer John Meyer: Stop chasing the next big thing, go with Flac

[denom]

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Audio engineering pioneer John Meyer: Stop chasing the next big thing, and go with FLAC instead — Tech News and Analysis

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[Naturelover]

Re: Audio engineering pioneer John Meyer: Stop chasing the next big thing, go with Fl

First, good to see you back. :clapping:
I see that you have made a couple of posts today.

Admittedly, I am very much a novice, but I have begun to believe that CD/FLAC is great and 24/96 is probably more than enough.

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[docd]

Re: Audio engineering pioneer John Meyer: Stop chasing the next big thing, go with Fl

Meyer: 'I am worried that my generation has gotten too lost in the the technology' . This one sentence says it all!

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Re: Audio engineering pioneer John Meyer: Stop chasing the next big thing, go with Fl

I don't know... but from the stuff I read, 24/60 seems to be considered the "sweet spot" --- but nobody ever used it, so we have to go with 24/48 or 24/96. So much for standards, and the people/companies that implement them!

There is a confusion about CD/FLAC... FLAC files can contain 24/192, possibly even 384.

I am worried that my generation has gotten too lost in the the technology

This one word says it all. If bigger numbers really means better, lets have bigger numbers. It seems they don't. But once the marketing-aided stampede has started, nobody stops to think.

I could ask Mr Saiu, "Look, you and your colleagues in the DAC/ADC business know, or should know, all the sampling theor, filtering theory, reconstruction theory; the lot, so... when people started talking about this stuff, why didn't you shrug and say 'no point.'"

Well, OK, they wanted to make a buck, I suppose, and I guess the competition gives them no choice.

 

[Nikhil]

Re: Audio engineering pioneer John Meyer: Stop chasing the next big thing, go with Fl

What most don't realize is that it takes a really serious system to fully exploit 16/44.1 itself let alone anything higher.

The jury is still out as far I am concerned on the 24/96 vs 24/192 issue. I find 24/96 easier to implement in my setup as I can get bandwidth issues over my wifi with 24/192. The issue of original material being issued in true 24/192 is very valid. I actually have some of my best sounding hi res files in 24/88.2 which gives me the feeling that sample rates are a slippery issue.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Re: Audio engineering pioneer John Meyer: Stop chasing the next big thing, go with Fl

Up until Porno, sample rates were the new controversy of audiophiles and not, for the most part, engineers or scientists. Now Neil Young has got together with his music mates and the industry and made things clear: "We want your money yet again"