[LAU] digital voodoo: master fader should be set at 0db

[Philipp]

Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-04-14 23:39:44 +0200:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 14 April 2010 23:17:05 micromoog wrote:
> > Sorry to pick on you, but this is the piece of audio voodoo that irks me
> > most of all.  There is no evidence I'm aware of that supports the idea that
> > ultrasound has any effect whatsoever on human perception of anything.
> 
> I am not into that field of science but as far as I know there is research in 
> that there are effects when >22kHz frequencies are in a normal sound, it makes 
> a different effect then when the signal is clipped frequency-wise at 22kHz. 
> Difference between a violin played inside the room you are and a violin-
> recording you hear from CD.
> But I don't actually know if that is proven enough or if its voodoo...

The violin likely sounds different than speakers, but I guess it's
more likely due to its radiation pattern and things like that which are,
I guess, very hard to capture and reproduce accurately. Just a thought.