Event Registration | The Distance Between Modern Sound and Real Musical Instruments
has a phonograph since 1877, and sound is an important way of expressing music. Most of the time we perceive music through a variety of sound systems. However, the music is the real sound in the live or recording studio at the beginning. There is still a gap between the way the sound is reproduced and the authenticity of the music. So, from the 1960 s stereo sound began to become popular, was born the concept of audio fever. High Fidelity (Hi-Fi) refers to an audio system that can accurately reproduce the original recorded sound in the largest possible range. It emphasizes clear, true, accurate and complete sound effects to achieve the goal of the listener's musical experience similar to that of the playing scene. To achieve this effect, it is necessary to consider the optimization and matching of multiple links such as sound source, amplifier, speaker, wire and so on. So, the birth of countless scientists, engineers, audio brands, in order to this goal and to follow. The British treasure Meridian, which was born in 1977, is also one of them.
, British Treasure was founded by Allen Boothroyd and Bob Stuart in Cambridge, England. At the beginning, it was also similar to garage industry. After more than 40 years of keeping pace with the times and technology precipitation, it is now the leading world-class brand in the industry.
focused on the development of digital technology. As early as 1983, it cooperated with Philips to develop the first CD player in Europe. It is also the first manufacturer in the industry to propose a DSP all-digital horn system and mass produce the world's first DSP all-digital horn in 1991. Over the years, MERIDIAN not only focus on the product application level of research and development, but also pay great attention to the underlying digital technology research and development and the application of sound psychology. Its MLP(MERIDIAN Lossless Packing) coding technique, developed in 1997, is used for audio coding on Dolby Audio Coding, DVDs and today's Blue-Ray discs. In recent years, MQA(Master Quality Authenticated) compression technology has been successfully developed and applied to the current popular high-definition music coding system, which is widely used in the music communication of foreign mainstream music service platforms (such as Tidal).
MERIDIAN has a complete system of sound replay and processing technology from the underlying coding and decoding logic to power amplifiers and DSP and has been leading the industry forward. Therefore, the company has a very comprehensive product structure, including HIEnd audio products, custom-installed home theater, fashion audio system, multi-room background music system, personal mobile audio (headphones) and car audio.
six years ago, based on a bold assumption, the British treasure launched the extreme audio and video project (The Extreme Engineering Program). This project aims to exhaust all the top of modern technology and combine years of accumulated technology to create an uncompromising sound system. Based on this project research, British Treasure spent six years, starting from the underlying DSP software architecture, to decoding, to signal amplification for a comprehensive innovation and the birth of its new generation of flagship speaker DSP 8000XE speaker system.
have today's topic, how different is the modern sound system from the real instrument? How far does our human sound engineering have to go? Based on this, we boldly borrowed the Steinway D series grand piano worth more than 1.8 million, representing the top of human musical instrument technology, and compared it with the British treasure DSP 8000XE sound system, which is less than half the value of the piano. We will AB switch between the sound system and the real instrument, playing the same track as the performance, as a way to reveal the pursuit and distance between ergonomic limits.
Activity Time
10 June 2023 (Saturday)
the first game 13:30-15:00
second game 15:30-17:00
(Audiences are requested to arrive at the event 15 minutes in advance)
Activity Location
Shanghai Library East Hall B1 Happy Hall
Event Guests
CHEN Chi-mao, a senior audio enthusiast, graduated from the School of Mathematics and Computing Science of Sun Yat-sen University and obtained a master's degree in information engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Founder of the famous domestic audio agency company AV Peak.
has been working for about 20 years and has been committed to promoting the promotion and development of the domestic advanced audio market.
Huang Lv Yao, graduated from the Art College of South China University of Technology, master's degree in piano performance. He studied piano from an early age. During the period of school, he held a solo piano concert, won a number of awards above the provincial level, and published papers in provincial journals. During the postgraduate three consecutive years won the scholarship. Engaged in piano performance for many years, with professional piano performance and teaching ability, guiding students to enter major music professional colleges with high scores, guiding students to win gold medals in a number of competitions, passing domestic major examinations and imperial examinations with high scores, with remarkable results.
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