MusicMaker
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I've been getting pretty excited, moreso than usual, about digital technology lately.
With the new iPod touch and it's retina display, we've now achieved a pixel size (78 micrometers) with which the human eye cannot discern individual pixels, which means we never need to make pixels smaller and once most monitors and televisions adopt this size, screens will be perfect.
For a long time we've known that the human eye samples visuals every 30th of a second and uses persistence of vision to create the idea of movement, so there is no way for a human to tell the difference between a movie playing at 30 frames per second and actual movement. And since we've been making movies like this for quite some time, movies are perfect as well.
Now, knowing how the eye works in that respect and why it needs to do so, I'm going to assume the ear works in a similar way. All of the stuff for the eye worked out just fine and now nobody could care less that they've seen the end of analog video, but we still have those audiophiles who insist their records will always be better than digital music. At what sampling rate do we have to make audio before it can finally please even this pickiest audiophile?
Anyone got any ideas?
Am I looking at this too simply?
With the new iPod touch and it's retina display, we've now achieved a pixel size (78 micrometers) with which the human eye cannot discern individual pixels, which means we never need to make pixels smaller and once most monitors and televisions adopt this size, screens will be perfect.
For a long time we've known that the human eye samples visuals every 30th of a second and uses persistence of vision to create the idea of movement, so there is no way for a human to tell the difference between a movie playing at 30 frames per second and actual movement. And since we've been making movies like this for quite some time, movies are perfect as well.
Now, knowing how the eye works in that respect and why it needs to do so, I'm going to assume the ear works in a similar way. All of the stuff for the eye worked out just fine and now nobody could care less that they've seen the end of analog video, but we still have those audiophiles who insist their records will always be better than digital music. At what sampling rate do we have to make audio before it can finally please even this pickiest audiophile?
Anyone got any ideas?
Am I looking at this too simply?