ECMA-407 (και Rationalism vs Empirism)

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'ECMA-407 is the world’s first approved international 3D audio standard for the unrestricted delivery of channel-based, object-based and scene-based signals up to NHK 22.2 developed by Ecma TC32-TG22 in close cooperation with France Télévisions, Radio France, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and McGill University in Montreal.

ECMA-407 uses inverse coding in the time domain, an invention by the Swiss-Austrian mathematician Clemens Par, and shows lowest spatial bitrates ever achieved (for instance, several minutes of NHK 22.2 may be represented by an encapsulated data package of 100 bytes). It was chosen for the World Intellectual Property Organization Award in 2009. Inverse coding goes back to Victor Ambartsumian's scientific legacy on inverse problems and represents the first solution of its kind in audio by separating sound sources at the same frequency by a time-level model.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMA-407

http://www.swissaudec.com/TheFuture.html

http://www.linkwitzlab.com/swissaudec.pdf


'In a world of utilitarianism, without application science seems to be idle. Visiting Rudolf E. Kálmán and his lovely wife together with my partner Melanie Angélique Grümmer a few days ago, professor Kálmán and I discussed sarcastically “applied fundamental science”, as propagated today by universities. The whole article recalls this unique conversation.

Fundamental science is rational, applied sciences are empirical. So what is the in-between?

I justify my existence as a rationalist by thought, and CONSEQUENTLY by empiric results. Industry would be well advised to encourage fundamental research. However, when it comes to the question to replace candles by Edison’s bulbs, the candle light makers indeed are not amused. Hence their preference for applied sciences, where revolution remains intrinsically limited and consequently under full economic control. Mental revolutions are cheap and everlasting outside a gimmick industry - illegally shedding its electronic waste all over Africa.

There is no such silent voice on earth as is the voice of reason.'
 


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