CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@mansr @dascandy @grumpyoldtechie @CppGuy @fesshole
I’m told by a friend who mixes music in a big studio that to get proper kick-drum & bass-guitar separation they eq. the bass to attenuate most of the fundamental to make way for the kick as we “fill in” the bass from the harmonics.

@beng
You’re right; the audio course I teach involves me playing a sweep 20hz - 20Khz and asking the attendees to lower a hand when they stop hearing it - I’m down at 12Khz now (could hear all the way >20Khz as a young man).
There is some self-adjustment; people just get used to how things now sound and some of the most respected mastering engineers are middle-aged men (Bob Clearmountain is old!) but as I sometime say “AM sounds like HiFi to me now!”

@BillySmith @fesshole
I’ve often been tempted to knock-up some cat8 cables with nylon sock and ferrite beads at each end and sell them on eBay as “audiophile data cables” - I could even include the Fluke DSX test sheet with them - I’m sure none of them would know what “return loss” means…

@pheedbackPhil @fesshole
I built an edit facility in the late 90s and the head of audio chose TB1s for all the edit suites and it was the first time I’d heard speakers that sounded as neutral as Roger’s LS3/5s (I trained and worked at the Beeb late eighties/early-nineties) - heaven save us from Yamaha NS10s!

@mansr @CppGuy @fesshole
But that’s not what audiophiles claim - they will spend thousands on speaker cable and claim they can hear the difference; if there were differences to be heard I would trust a dubbing mixer over an enthusiast with too much money.

@fesshole
When I worked in engineering at the Beeb the research department wanted to discover if the “golden ears” (mix engineers, sound supervisors etc - people who are trained to hear audio problems in recordings) could tell the difference between expensive OFC speaker cable and 10A mains cable. Turns out when tested blind they can’t.
It’s the same for most audio-fool products; when they don’t *know* what they’re listening to they can’t tell.

@Wifiwits @drwho @anon_opin
Tru dat.

@anon_opin
Indeed; I run an engineering consultancy serving the broadcast world and am currently taking on people and I don’t believe anyone under the age of thirty can explain a network stack.