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On 07/16/2010 11:46 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:

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> On Friday 16 July 2010 09:50:39 Ralf Mardorf wrote:

>> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 09:56 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:

>>> You really should do that test first before speculating about the outcome

>>> and your audience.

>> Btw. I tested my own music.

>> First I played inside songs from other people a Ralf-mastering of my own

>> music.

>> Most people didn't like my song.

>> Some weeks later I played the same song inside other songs from other

>> people by a loudness-war-mastering.

>> Most people liked the song.

>> Playing the same song two times can't be called heavy rotation, hence

>> they were not accustomed to my song, but they need a bad mastering to be

>> fine with this song.

>> A blind study is useless regarding to musical issues.

>

> Apples and oranges.

Since LAC2010 the bitten fruit is a banned word. You mean bananas &

oranges, don't you?
> You are working on midi-latency-jitter. Which is measurable. And the test is

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> when the jitter becomes unbearable.

>

> Taste on the other thing is not measurable and while you could quantify it,

> common sense says that taste-minorities are valuable too...

>

>> Or do you think we should start mixing music optimised to loudness,

>> because tests show that the audience prefers music without dynamic?

>

> Taste-minorities. You play your dynamic-rich songs to fans of classical music

> and see their reactions. If you can distinguish the "like it because of

> dynamics" from the "don't like it because of rock-vs-classical". Which just

> shows that taste is not measurable.

>

> And no, pop industry doesn't measure taste, it just measures profit.

LOL.
> Have fun,

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> Arnold

We're getting seriously off-topic here. After all, this is developer

list. What happened to the ALSA MIDI Jitter measurements and test-samples?
robin
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