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PoorGlory · 19th March 2008

The B&W 800D speakers go to 28K. Good luck finding typical consumer loudspeakers that go even that high.

You can't hear 40K. Most adults can't hear 20K. Go ahead and generate a 20hz signal and tell me if you can hear it. Then tell me boosting something an octave higher makes any sort of difference. If you really think boosting 40K is helping the "air" in your mixes, then whatever. Meanwhile, boutique analog gear companies are doing better than ever, so I don't know why you think analog is going away. Until people can shout binary code into a microphone and accept binary code into their ears and have their brains do the conversion, analog has to live on. Sound is analog.

So keep boosting 40K and let us know in 10 years if everything has truly gone digital. I think you'll still be using mics, preamps, amplifiers, and speakers (all analog) and I'm sure some studios will still be using tape. Meanwhile digital gear will still be designed to emulate analog gear. Fun.

19th March 2008	#27
PoorGlory Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,802 1 Review written	The B&W 800D speakers go to 28K. Good luck finding typical consumer loudspeakers that go even that high. You can't hear 40K. Most adults can't hear 20K. Go ahead and generate a 20hz signal and tell me if you can hear it. Then tell me boosting something an octave higher makes any sort of difference. If you really think boosting 40K is helping the "air" in your mixes, then whatever. Meanwhile, boutique analog gear companies are doing better than ever, so I don't know why you think analog is going away. Until people can shout binary code into a microphone and accept binary code into their ears and have their brains do the conversion, analog has to live on. Sound is analog. So keep boosting 40K and let us know in 10 years if everything has truly gone digital. I think you'll still be using mics, preamps, amplifiers, and speakers (all analog) and I'm sure some studios will still be using tape. Meanwhile digital gear will still be designed to emulate analog gear. Fun.