Does music contain energy we cannot measure? Does it have a vibe and essence or some other unknown and/or esoteric quality, or rather quantity?
Let’s be clear, we are not talking about individual preferences here. This is not about perceived quality or listener preference. It’s not about the reproduction equipment at all, nor the instruments making the music.
This is about scientific and measurable quantitive metric’s for sound, the microphone or other transducers and the recording process. There is this saying: We cannot manage what we cannot measure. This is a fundamental law in that we cannot manage the unknown, an immutable fact.
To get quantitive and qualitative information for a property, we have to somehow identify it first, then measure it. We must be able to explain that in some meaningful, rational and logical way. Otherwise it is bunk and bs, agree you must…. There is nothing wrong with a lack of understanding, it’s just that we do not yet understand something, but that something must be identified first. Then the process of understanding starts.
In the last episode of my podcast on Critical listening, in two parts, we were talking about how reproduction of music can form a sound stage and how spatially instruments and vocals are placed. Here we want to figure out and make the case for what is contained in music.
Groetnis
PS: It is better here than in the podcast thread.
Let’s be clear, we are not talking about individual preferences here. This is not about perceived quality or listener preference. It’s not about the reproduction equipment at all, nor the instruments making the music.
This is about scientific and measurable quantitive metric’s for sound, the microphone or other transducers and the recording process. There is this saying: We cannot manage what we cannot measure. This is a fundamental law in that we cannot manage the unknown, an immutable fact.
To get quantitive and qualitative information for a property, we have to somehow identify it first, then measure it. We must be able to explain that in some meaningful, rational and logical way. Otherwise it is bunk and bs, agree you must…. There is nothing wrong with a lack of understanding, it’s just that we do not yet understand something, but that something must be identified first. Then the process of understanding starts.
In the last episode of my podcast on Critical listening, in two parts, we were talking about how reproduction of music can form a sound stage and how spatially instruments and vocals are placed. Here we want to figure out and make the case for what is contained in music.
Groetnis
PS: It is better here than in the podcast thread.
