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lcmgadgets:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on June 01, 2012, 04:31:09 pm ---Hey, you live in London ... arcade capital of Canada.

Quit bitching.

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Please tell me this isn't true. The only arcades here r the crappy half ones in movie theatres, or a couple of places with those ticket spitting obsenities. Endless Arcade, Quarters, Wizards 1 & 2, Videoland, Endless Amusements, The Silverball, Ace, and Baileys all died many years ago. If u know of another 1 here that I don't, please share!

& bitching is 1 of the few things I'm good at.  :P
CheffoJeffo:
Sorry -- I should have been clearer -- London is the home of the greatest number of collectors and available machines that I am aware of.
CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: DaveMMR on June 01, 2012, 08:55:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: molton on June 01, 2012, 05:36:27 pm ---also, to re-iterate, there's nothing wrong with collecting awesome things like vinyl albums or arcade machines, but there's definitely nothing wrong with convenience.

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Convenience is awesome.  I have unlimited music available at my fingertips and I can play most any classic arcade game anywhere I want.  I wouldn't want to go back. But understand there's a HUGE difference between having a record (or CD) collection and having a drive full of MP3s much in the same way collecting original hardware is way different than having thousands of MAME roms at your disposal.

What I think a lot of younger generations can't appreciate is the thrill of the hunt. Time was I had to scour the record stores to complete gaps in my record and CD collections. Nowadays, you can just hop on the internet and buy anything you need without breaking a sweat. No challenge = less appreciation.

I know it sounds silly and it may be hard to explain, but it's really satisfying to find that "holy grail" you've been searching for. So much so, I think, that I'm collecting consoles and cartridges and am actively avoiding playing their emulated counterparts (even the legal ones like Wii VC). It's the whole package, not just the "information" stored therein. Popping in the cartridge, sitting on the couch with the original controller, looking at the artwork - stuff like that paints your nostalgic haze better than just loading a file on your computer.

Then again - I'm old.   :P

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This.

The information != the experience.
brad808:

--- Quote from: boardjunkie on May 31, 2012, 01:36:43 pm ---Ya got that right. Even the 30 year old CD standard wasn't all that great. 44.1khz sampling just kinda guesses above 15k or so. You only end up with a sample or 2...not much to go on.

DVD audio coulda been the "fix" for it, but MP3 had already begun its tenure and 90% of "music fans" didn't care about the increase in sound quality, so it died quietly. Damn shame...

I used to transfer vinyl to quarter inch tape (3M 226) on a Revox A77. Now *that* was quality sound.

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I completely agree that nobody cares about sound quality now but I cringed a little when I read this "Ya got that right. Even the 30 year old CD standard wasn't all that great. 44.1khz sampling just kinda guesses above 15k or so. You only end up with a sample or 2...not much to go on." Yikes thats wrong!

I'm sure nobody cares but here are some links to correct it. The bottom line is we can accurately capture any frequency that is half of the sampling rate being used. ie you could capture any and all frequencies ACCURATELY up 10khz if you are using a 20khz sampling rate. So with a sampling rate of 44.1khz we can accurately capture frequencies up to 22.05khz.

http://www.lavryengineering.com/forum_images/Digital_Audio.pdf
http://www.lavryengineering.com/documents/Sampling_Theory.pdf (This one is mainly about using higher sampling frequencies such as 192 khz in audio but its still got some good information in it)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem
boardjunkie:
Accruately? Not bloody likely. Do the math....with a 44.1khz sampling rate, how many samples do you get at 20khz?

And how do you think a complex waveform will be represented at that frequency?
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