Acoustically-coupled cell phone recordings of high-end audio systems make no sense to me personally (except in the narrow and limited scenario where an iPhone is fixed in position in a single system and the same track of music is played at the same volume and one thing (and one thing only) in that same system is changed for an A/B comparison; in this case the recording might be able to illuminate the difference).
I just don’t see how recording the acoustic output of high-end audio systems using the ADC in an iPhone, and then playing back that low quality and low resolution digital recording through the tiny, tinny iPhone speaker, bears any high-fidelity relation to the original analog stereo sound created by a meticulously assembled stereo system with carefully positioned loudspeakers.
Why don’t we all run our expensive and perfectionistically massaged analog signals through the cheap ADC chip in our desktop computers and burn CDs and then compare the overall sounds of our different analog systems by playing the resulting CDs in our cars?
After this diatribe I do have a serious question: what is the difference in sound quality between A) a particular track played back on a vinyl front-end and captured with an acoustically-coupled telephone recording, and B) that same exact track (same performance and same recording) played back via Qobuz and heard on the same cell phone?
What is the difference in sound quality between these two playback methodologies? Which sounds better?
(I do think the videos are great for the purpose of seeing what a system looks like! )
I just don’t see how recording the acoustic output of high-end audio systems using the ADC in an iPhone, and then playing back that low quality and low resolution digital recording through the tiny, tinny iPhone speaker, bears any high-fidelity relation to the original analog stereo sound created by a meticulously assembled stereo system with carefully positioned loudspeakers.
Why don’t we all run our expensive and perfectionistically massaged analog signals through the cheap ADC chip in our desktop computers and burn CDs and then compare the overall sounds of our different analog systems by playing the resulting CDs in our cars?
After this diatribe I do have a serious question: what is the difference in sound quality between A) a particular track played back on a vinyl front-end and captured with an acoustically-coupled telephone recording, and B) that same exact track (same performance and same recording) played back via Qobuz and heard on the same cell phone?
What is the difference in sound quality between these two playback methodologies? Which sounds better?
(I do think the videos are great for the purpose of seeing what a system looks like! )