Once upon a time on usenet Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , ~misfit~
wrote:
Once upon a time on usenet ~misfit~ wrote:
Once upon a time on usenet Andrew wrote:
As per subject.

While browsing the HMV Worthing store I came across some classical
music (German) on Super AUdio CD.

There are still a couple of players that support this format but
am I right in thinking that everyone has moved on to 'Higher
resolution' downloads (or back to vinyl :-) ) ?.

Or has the penny dropped and people gone back to standard CD format
with just a better pair of speakers ?.

I've seen this article btw :-

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

Wow! Whoever wrote that doesn't know how to use the English language
to communicate clearly. I found myself reading sentences several
times to grasp what he (?) was trying to say.

Interesting. I read the page and it seemed pretty clear to me. In
general I tend to think Xiph's work is recommendable.


Yeah, I just gave it another go and once I got past the tricky bits and
strange grammar[*] it was understandable and fairly insightful.
[*] "The membrane is tuned to resonate at different frequencies..." (About
basilar membrane). If you say something 'is tuned' then you imply a tuner at
work. Maybe he's religious and is implying a god tuned it but that's at odds
with what is mostly a scientific 'paper'. Simply saying 'The membrane
resonates at different frequencies....' saves words and is far more accurate
scientifically. That ths is but one example of the things that jarred with
me. (I have a background in hard science and as such have difficulty with
quasi-scientific articles.)

Does anyone know of a similar explanatory site (mainly about the ear
and how it works - in detail)? Struggling with the phrasing at that
one gave me a headache.

Belay that, I found this site and it's much better;
http://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/how-ear-works

Though it doesn't cover inter-'hair' distances etc. that were being
used in the first artcile to support the author's stand.

I'm not clear what precise question you have in mind. But as a general
point the ability to sense 'pitch' isn't simply a matter of how far
apart in 'resonant frequency' the peaks of the individual sensor hair
bundles response curves are. That, I think, is the reason for Xiph's
analogy with a a vision colour system using a finite set of colour
sensor profiles.

Yep. Now I've actually read that far I don't disagree.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)