What’s Below the Floor and Above the Ceiling?
Posted on | July 19, 2008 |
In the ongoing discussion/debate about why (or if) digital audio sounds different (worse, better…) than analog, one of the explanations that’s really made sense to me exists in an article by the late David Blackmer (of founder dbx and Earthworks) called The World Beyond 20kHz.
In a nutshell, David explains that there’s a lot of useful information that exists beyond the accepted human hearing threshold (20Hz to 20kHz…the brickwall cutoff of standard audio CDs) that’s important to the sonic realism of sound…even if we only perceive a bit of it.
It’s a worthwhile read, so check it out.
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