Are you attempting to tout standardization to audiophiles? You have a lot to learn about this crowd!
Why no acoustically-managed flow for Recordings?
Thinking of the analogy to high-end printing, where a color-managed workflow is a given, why don't we have acoustically-managed flows for recorded music?
I'm a photographer. When I take a photograph, it is "tagged" with a color-space. As it goes through the processing pipeline it remains tagged so that the computer knows how to best interpret the numbers that represent the image. For my output I have a special ICC-profile for my printer/paper combination.
Why couldn't a similar process be done for audio? That way we could more closely hear what it actually sounded like at the Metropolitan Opera House (or where-ever the music was recorded.) The music would be tagged when it is recorded. As it reaches the output, there would be a profile for my particular combination of electronics and speakers.
Wouldn't that be closer to reality?
Here is a link on a color managed workflow for visual (as opposed to acoustic) information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Management
I'm a photographer. When I take a photograph, it is "tagged" with a color-space. As it goes through the processing pipeline it remains tagged so that the computer knows how to best interpret the numbers that represent the image. For my output I have a special ICC-profile for my printer/paper combination.
Why couldn't a similar process be done for audio? That way we could more closely hear what it actually sounded like at the Metropolitan Opera House (or where-ever the music was recorded.) The music would be tagged when it is recorded. As it reaches the output, there would be a profile for my particular combination of electronics and speakers.
Wouldn't that be closer to reality?
Here is a link on a color managed workflow for visual (as opposed to acoustic) information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Management