Hello my question is does me having Asperger's Syndrome mean

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Here I am in front of my laptop wearing my Grado SR60i's, I'm quite the audiophile and I understand many of the engineering principles, but I've always been too visual a thinker to do nitty-gritty work like yours. I thought it used to take even longer on old gear! Perhaps I've also been to one too many crazy shows to possess your hearing range. I have MANY rare digital copies from interesting artists I wish I had the money to let you loose on. That said I'm still considering working in acoustics with a jazz musician friend of mine, I'm such a sucker for awesome fidelity. My mp3 player is a Cowon and I'd say Bose made the worst headphones I own. I brought those on this vacation too, open backs really annoy people on planes.

I used to use a pair of grado sr-80s but they were made for people with small ears, not my elephantine ones. they were the most uncomfortable cans I've ever tried. I now use sennheiser HD580s, ultra comfortable and ultra transparent, one can hear to the back of the room/bottom of the mix with these reference-quality cans. the worst headphones for the money would include all bose models as front-runners, AFAIC. but I don't reflexively badmouth bose otherwise, as I have 4 products [lifestyle 30, acoustic wave music system, noise cancelling headphones and bose cinemate sr1] as each of them has useful points. the bose noise reduction phones are great for mowing the lawn with, they enable me to hear useful noises while turning down the volume otherwise. regular bulky noise suppressors block out useful noises as well. the acoustic wave plays plenty loud, great for outdoors PA/outdoor music applications. the lifestyle system miraculously made the speakers acoustically "disappear" [with eyes closed the speaker enclosures were non-localizable] which is great for movies. for these first 3 mentioned products, those plaudits doesn't mean I think they are especially musical-sounding, just useful for playing recognizable music and in the case of the lifestyle system, useful movie audio where the speakers don't call attention to themselves. the bose cinemate sr1, OTOH, is in a category all to itself, in that it is very simple and compact, surprisingly neutral/accurate in terms of tonal balance, and room-filling in terms of spreading the audio all across the front of the listening room regardless of listener position- this last point makes it an utterly unique product. it can provide quite possibly the best quality audio that most people will have ever heard. it is not an audiophile product however. but it certainly is adequate for its purpose of general music and movie reproduction with a minimum of fuss.
at least in terms of visual thinking, the computerized restoration gear is most useful in a visual GUI sense, in that you can see what various audio distortions look like in terms of an oscilliscopic waveform display as well as a spectrographic display that all decent waveform editors have in common. in fact, the bulk of this work could not be done sans a visual display. where the CEDAR [DCX declicker and CRX decrackler] equipment comes in handy, is that it allows a preconditioning of audio material before it is digitized on the computer and a CDR burned. for the customer who has limited expectations of just crackle removal of their treasured old 78 rpm record, the CEDAR units alone do enough work to provide good service value to such a paying customer. their hiss reduction, however, leaves a bit to be desired, in terms of its relatively weak noise reduction performance [compared with sonic solutions' NONOISE process which is far more flexible and robust] as well as the sometimes glaring aural artifacts which appear alongside the noise reduction the CEDAR [DHX] box performs. however, all the CEDAR rack units are designed with ultra-simplified user interfaces so that anybody with normal hearing could be taught to use them effectively within a few minutes of demonstration.

Oh I left them out but I just picked up some $5 Monoprice in ears that came highly recommended. I just know I have Bose on-ears without suppression and they're no less clunky than my Grados (which I need to mod for a detachable Y cable). For a while I was adding bike helmet padding onto the SR-60s, I need to find adhesive that keeps it there. A producer friend of mine has some giant Panasonics backing up some tiny Bose tweeters I like (the kind that pivot in the middle), and I have to agree their ducted cabinets do an admirable job staying out of the way. My same friend wants to start building Labhorns however . Also my on-ears were pretty trashed before I ever got them, so I can't be totally objective... I'm just planning on Infinity & Onkyo all the way when I finally can build my home rig, I already have drivers and a sub. I'd love to find some CEDAR stuff to try out, I've been dreaming of moving my collection on up to a Linux server of my own specification going on almost two years, I just need to throw some money at handling my metadata first. Spectrograph reading still eludes me almost entirely, I have the attention to detail in excess but no concept of what I'm looking for when someone wants help there.

the spectrograph tends to have brightness=volume, height=treble, left=beginning, right=end of sound selection. sharply defined verticle lines that are not rimshots or percussive hits in general, tend to be analogous to phonographic impulse noises [clicks and pops]. spectrographs are really educational when viewing data-compressed files, you can really see the spectral holes that compression leaves in its wake. I use isotope RX because it lets me isolate and remove noise disturbances such as loud pops that slipped passed the CEDAR, disturbing noises such as car horns, audience coughs, etc. I also sometimes use it to make a digitally recreated stereo file from mono original, but that is a tedious process. the latest version of adobe audition has a similar feature that is semi-automated and an advance in power for sure. adobe audition also has a semi-automated stereo recreation process involving overlapping frequency bands that can be mapped out throughout the song one is stereoizing. CEDAR also can be on some workstations as well as on protools. I prefer just using the rack equipment for now as preconditioning, saves me later computer work and does it better.

Thank you for posting.