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Date: Wed Jun 3, 2015 3:03 pm ((PDT))
I got 2 out of 6 and a little disappointed initially that,as a musician I s=
hould have heard some differences. However on reflection, there are many fa=
ctors to consider=A0 including headphones, equipment, age and ears.
Another important and understated factor is cultural conditioning.How have =
my ears been trained=A0 to hear what I do? If one considers that the notion=
of consonance and dissonance changed along with the evolution of music thr=
ough the centuries, it is not surprising that today our ears are perhaps, '=
hard-wired ' to our present cultural definition.To add to this what am i ex=
pecting to hear. Listening to the Mozart recording with the musical=A0 scor=
e in hand I am primed to hear much more than without.
To relate the above to nature recording I am unqualified to comment, only t=
hat, with practice I try to get the best possible intake of sound on the da=
y allowing for the limitations of the ambient sounds.I began recording year=
s ago with a cheap cassette recorder, graduating through Walkman to Roland.=
The language of WAV/Mp3=A0 though suggestive of clarity, is dependent on m=
y=A0 assessment of my recording subject and environment. If I choose to rec=
ord a blackbird in my back garden at mid- day when the traffic is at its lo=
udest, do I expect WAV/Mp3 to improve on this? To get up early in the morni=
ng, having studied my subject's perch, even with my cheap tape recorder I a=
m more likely to get a satisfactory result.Martin
On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 8:58 PM, "'J. Charles Holt' jcharlesholtis@=
gmail.com [naturerecordists]" <> wrote:
=A0 There's been a lot of discussion lately about bit rates, and this to=
pic just came up on NPR:=A0http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02=
/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality
What I personally found was that for the quieter pieces, I could relatively=
easily tell the difference using only Apple earbuds into my iPhone (which =
has a worse DAC than the iPod). I can only imagine through a pair of nice h=
eadphones through a good DAC (and if my ears were 20 years younger!).=A0
I know that nature recording isn't the same as music, but if I can hear the=
difference here I would think it's even more important with the dynamic ra=
nge and quiet that one encounters in nature recording.=A0
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