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Originally Posted by moxom
Hiss is not present in musical instruments. It is a by-product of the analog recording process.
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Where does the hiss end and the instrument begin in, say, the reed noise from someone blowing into a clarinet, or striking a drumstick against a ride cymbal? Do you feel comfortable having some code-writer create an algorithm that effectively chops off the signal at a certain frequency and answers the question for you? I don't.
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Digital recording equipment exhibits no hiss on a recording and it does not employee hiss removal techniques because it doesn't have to. Hiss is not my friend because it reduces dynamic range.
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Nonsense. The music is in the analog realm. Slapping it onto a hard drive instead of tape is not going to change the nature of music, of cords/physical connections, of the analog realm. Hiss shows you have extended dynamic range, especially when that noise extends up to 20 kHz and beyond. Do you realize waves in excess of 85kHz have been measured from a trumpet? Absense of hiss and of this ultrasonic information means the music is getting chopped somewhere.
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Music recording and reproduction is a synthetic process. It does not matter if you have Altec W7s powered by a WE 300B triode, or a pair of Polk's powered by a stock head unit; it's all fake and cannot compare in any way shape or form to the live experience.
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The way some PA systems and rooms are set up these days, you bet it can. I went to a show last friday and the audio was horrible, boomy, sucked out in the high range and overemphasized in the midbass range. I enjoyed the band, but their CD sounded a million times better.
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My roommate and I used to build and collect HiFi equipment as well so I know what a good system sounds like. However, good sound is relative and purely subjective (Analog vs. digital debate). If it weren't; we would have 1 speaker manufacturer, 1 amplifier manufacturer, etc.
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Ok, agreed. You gotta go with what sounds best to you.
