CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture: Claude Cellier

"Trust your ears! The quest for the optimum (digital) audio representation," a Distinguished Lecture by Claude Cellier, from Merging Technologies (Switzerland)

The presentation will review some of the formidable changes the audio industry underwent over the last couple of decades with a focus on the challenges that still lie ahead of us, as the human ear somehow remarkably seems to behave beyond the commonly accepted limits of the auditory model. While audio capture, storage and reproduction systems get closer and closer to measurable transparency, there still seems to be an elusive part that remains unmeasurable and defies basic Cartesian engineering. Further research in the subtleties our auditory system is able to discern is highly welcome if we want to narrow the gap between certainty and guesswork.