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#8d audio youtube series#
I think it would be cool to try and make a series of signal processing methods to make any song "8D Audio". Yeah, the name doesn't make a ton of sense, but anyways, I thought this was pretty neat. I'll bet there's a grad student or two working on it right now, and I wish them great success.8D Audio Try it out at The inspiration for this project came from a series of YouTube videos I was I'm no ML fanboi by any means, but I'm pretty sure those techniques could be productively brought to bear on the problem as well. However, I still have hope that advanced signal processing can separate the parts well enough after the fact to get a satisfactory result. These effects generally require at least having the original separate tracks, if not specialized recording techniques. Then it's not even stereo like it was originally. Panning the entire ensemble from left to right, over and over? Meh. The Bohemian Rhapsody example, by contrast, is just crap. I have only a vague idea how that works, but it definitely adds to the experience. They even play with distance as well as direction. The Virtual Barber Shop example does a good job illustrating that, with a voice on one side and a phone on the other simultaneously etc. If the individual sounds move around separately that's cool. I'd like to be able to hear the guitar here and the vocalist here and the drums over there. And as expectations fall, it's going out of fashion. Simpler put, 'high fidelity' has become a boutique item. Today if you can discern quality of sound reproduction you are part of a small captive audience and despite improved technology and materials, your choices are limited unless your funds are unlimited. Then it plateaus right around the time mass production was shifted from Japan to China, and a separate overlapping curve which represents those who can discern quality and are willing to pay arises. I could sketch a graph that shows general improvement of quality over time for everyone, because that was the expectation. The irony is that as the quality of magnets and materials improved, the industry was already on a track that emphasized smallness and thinness over everything else. Boom boxes of the 70s with even simple crossovers and dual/triple speakers per channel were magnificent, but large.
#8d audio youtube portable#
I have a mono '70s portable radio with a 6" permanent magnet speaker cone that delivers such impressive bass you forgive the distortion. Audio experience delivered to consumers has degraded across the spectrum because of diminished expectations and mass production choices. These kids were cheated in the quality department. Yes I'm an old codger saying keep off my lawn, but it's more than that.
#8d audio youtube 360p#
While most of our friend group will tell you it's unquestionably the greatest sounding thing on the planet, there's still a few who'll put in their dollar-store earbuds, load up a 360p song on YouTube, and tell you completely straight-faced it sounds no different. I've seen it myself the family is still a bunch of die-hard audiophiles where money is absolutely not an object when it comes to audio, to the point they built a home theater and spent $30,000 on a custom-built 11.2-channel tube-based Atmos receiver, >$2500 per speaker (that's right, nearly $30,000 in speakers), and around $10,000 for each subwoofer. 5 years ago the business pivoted away from A/V, because nobody is going to spend $500 on an amp or receiver when they can pick up a $30 soundbar at Walmart and get 95% of the quality/experience. About 25 years ago when their parents took over, it was already becoming evident (mainly with everything going digital) that the difference between a $50 amp and a $500 amp wasn't nearly as pronounced as it was 50 years ago.
#8d audio youtube tv#
A $50 amp and a $500 amp was like the difference between a CRT TV and a 4K OLED TV, same with speakers. Back then, every product was completely different from the next. There's a reason people don't have Hi-Fi setups anymore they're completely unnecessary and a waste of time/money/space when >80% of the population will tell you they can't hear a difference between the EarPods that came with their phone, and a $10,000 top-of-the-line stereo hooked up to $2000 monitors.Īnecdote time friends of mine own(ed) a niche A/V store, their grandparents opened the store in the early '60s and their primary focus was to carry, sell, service, and most importantly demo everything from a $50 loudspeaker to the $10,000+ amp. Unfortunately, I feel that the only ones who will "care" about it "again" are the only ones who care currently.