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There's a special irony to the fact that this high fidelity audio format is being promoted by Neil Young. Young's a rock musician. He's been around loud noises

There's a special irony to the fact that this high fidelity audio format is being promoted by Neil Young. Young's a rock musician. He's been around loud noises (e.g. rock concerts) most of his life. He's also 69 years old. Our ability to hear high frequencies decreases dramatically with age and exposure [1]. If anyone were able to discriminate 24/192 from 16/44.1, it sure as heck wouldn't be an elderly rock musician. [1]: http://www.patient.co.uk/health/presbyacusis-hearing-loss-of-older-people http://www.patient.co.uk/health/presbyacusis-hearing-loss-of...

scarecrowbob 12y ago
To be fair, I have worked with older sound engineers, and they can hear a lot of audio artifacts that I miss, just because they've been paying closer attention for a lot longer than I have, much in the same way my wife (who plays violin 6+ hours most days) can hear tuning and pitch problems better than I can. High frequency limiting is not the only artifact that results from data compression.
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- Johnny_Brahms 12y ago
  Yeah. I worked for a long time as a professional musician in an orchestra. I fucked up my hands from practising too much, so I switched career. I can reliably hear a pitch difference of ~0.2hz at this site: http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/ http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/ and that is after 15 years in a symphony orchestra having my ears blasted by the brass and percussion section (with a demonstrated hearing impairment from my time in the orchestra).
jordanlev 12y ago
Neil Young is an enigma, and has never been very consistent. (I say this as a HUGE fan of his -- one of my favorite musicians who has ever lived). For example, he just released an album that was recorded in what is basically a phone booth. http://www.clashmusic.com/news/neil-young-makes-entire-album-in-jack-whites-recording-booth http://www.clashmusic.com/news/neil-young-makes-entire-album...

scarecrowbob 12y ago

To be fair, I have worked with older sound engineers, and they can hear a lot of audio artifacts that I miss, just because they've been paying closer attention for a lot longer than I have, much in the same way my wife (who plays violin 6+ hours most days) can hear tuning and pitch problems better than I can. High frequency limiting is not the only artifact that results from data compression.

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Johnny_Brahms 12y ago
Yeah. I worked for a long time as a professional musician in an orchestra. I fucked up my hands from practising too much, so I switched career. I can reliably hear a pitch difference of ~0.2hz at this site: http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/ http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/ and that is after 15 years in a symphony orchestra having my ears blasted by the brass and percussion section (with a demonstrated hearing impairment from my time in the orchestra).

jordanlev 12y ago

Neil Young is an enigma, and has never been very consistent. (I say this as a HUGE fan of his -- one of my favorite musicians who has ever lived). For example, he just released an album that was recorded in what is basically a phone booth. http://www.clashmusic.com/news/neil-young-makes-entire-album-in-jack-whites-recording-booth http://www.clashmusic.com/news/neil-young-makes-entire-album...