Perspectives On Audio (IET Cambridge Local Network)
Bob Stuart from MQA, gave deep-insights in understanding if digital audio is as good as it can be, during an online lecture jointly organised by the AES UK Section Cambridge Group and IET Cambridge Local Network. His talk explained that by better defining objects we can achieve better sound recording and playback abilities. He started by explaining how the fundamentals of psychoacoustics and neuroscience from auditory sciences help us understand pure tone frequencies/harmonics and contrast them against vocalisation and stimulated sound. Advances in neurosciences, is now letting us do more, like dealing with more natural signals. When humans encode, for example, the intensity of sound to 'loudness', it is nonlinear, like when we encode frequency to the subjective element of 'pitch'. Our frequency…