By B-Wise
Wed Jul 12, 2023 1:29 pm
To me it was a draw. Any liked 1 over the other?
richie wrote:I'm sure that Tonelab has good intentions with putting out videos like this.
The best litmus test in my opinion is to record the same sounds, post the .wav files so that anyone can load each respective .wav into a DAW, do a frequency analysis so that we can see for certain what differences there may be.
It'll be far more helpful than random YouTube commentators saying that one sounds "warmer" over the other or other terms like "this one sounds more soulful than the other"
Just thought I'd throw that out there as a potential idea for the future.
Peace
NearTao wrote:YouTube doesn't do audio content any favors either with the codecs for playback that they've chosen so that they can compress the audio files down into smile, lower quality sounds.
NearTao wrote:While I understand your sentiment, it all depends what you are measuring. If one were to record a sound at 44.1khz, 48khz, and 96khz... and then the codec downsampled to 36khz (I am making this all up)... I would imagine that the differences between the playback quality of the 44.1khz, 48khz, and 96khz to be largely negligible when played back at 36khz in most instance.
Without watching the video, I suspect both sound nearly identical, barring possible manufacturing variations that would likely have little to do with the actual equipment, and more to do with age, use, and possibly changes in discrete components used due to the nature of component supply/demand.
This feels like trying to take effectively the same car, and comparing whether the car with a yellow paint job drives faster than the car with a red paint job. I'd be more interested in the topic if Akai said that the Gold used special components or otherwise altered the sound. There was no marketing about any audio changes for the Gold model, it was just a re-skin of the original X.
B-Wise wrote:He said he has the files for download. I would post your comment on the YouTube comment section if you haven't already.