Marty Michener, you wrote,
>The classic dilemma, as I discussed with Professor Peter Paul
>Kellogg ca. 1957,
>is in the commercial recording of the ruffed grouse booming. HI-FI or NOT
>HI-FI?
>
>If you get a really good recording, as I have recently with my ME-67 at 20
>ft with NO
>bass-roll off, and listen to the WAV on Bose Acoustimass speakers or on my
>Sennheiser headphones, you get better than 95% (I am guessing) of the energy
>below about 100 hz. Each beat of the grouse wing looks like you grabbed the
>microphone diaphragm and jerked it out and then in for about a 20 ms .
>I can hear it I can record it I can play it,
>But on most computer systems, my users who want to learn birds, cannot
>reproduce it. The same was true of phonograph players in 1957. The record
>groves were just not far enough apart to give the needle much of a slow jerk.
It really is a dilemma. I'd publish it both ways, with an
explanation, if that's possible.
-Dan Dugan
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