Recent content by mechtheist

Parsley, I hate it when that happens. Even when young, I was too much of a skeptic and kinda pessimistic, pessimists tend to be significantly more realistic about things, which isn't always a good thing. I graduated high school in 1976, the pot around then where I lived was extremely variable...

This highlights how our perceptions are a construct of the brain where expectations are a more important input in the construction than sensory input. One interesting manifestation of this is something I'm sure almost everyone has experience--driving, often at night, and listening to the radio...

Thanks, I hope you watch the video, it's really interesting and informative if you're not really up on a lot of that. As I said, the Plangent tech is really interesting and could provide for a substantial improvement for many if not most older masters. But none of that involves MQA, it's the...

A little late, I apologize, I assumed I'd get notified of a reply but that didn't happen. I'm assuming Botnick was referring to the recordings he was involved with, so back to the 70's for sure, but generally, masters derived from analog multitracks--analog all the way. As to the percentages, I...

That's essentially an ad hominem attack, if someone is trying to find the flaws in your tech, and find some, they're not discrediting your company, the flaws are. I'll never trust anyone going to such lengths to keep their tech as opaque as possible. I wouldn't doubt it was an emotional...

I have the earlier UMIK, so if I win, will I have a pair of UMIX?

veridical: truthful coinciding with reality A very useful term. It's sad that 2nd definition isn't considered a desirable goal by an awful lot of folks these days, or maybe more accurately, they quite adamantly believe their subjective experience coincides with reality. Perhaps the...

Do you do psychoacoustics? It's painful to not give that term an alternative usage for confronting the speaker wires on blocks types. A couple of great examples of how profoundly our brains construct our perceptions is how we can hear the same tonal qualities in environments with vastly...

It never ceases to amaze me how some folks simply refuse to believe that human beings are NOT objective, precision instruments. It's noteworthy that Toole said "shown with monotonous regularity ", these issues are settled. They've known for something like 7 decades that if you want reliable...