Interesting papers about time domain in music and transient importance

[Telstar]

Several of this points are known, thought by Peter, myself and others who frequents this forum.
http://www.physics.sc.edu/kunchur/Acoustics-papers.htm

There are discussions open on the asylum, stereophile and hydrogenaudio forums (i stay away from the latter 2)
http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=prophead&m=54733

A couple of notable points:
"There are no periodic signals in music. Everything has a starting and stopping point, and a lot of it is transient behavior. This hits at the very flaw of Nyquist/Shannon theorem."

Multitone signals are already 10 times better (to measure THD for instance), but lots of work has to be done in this subject.

I also know a person who confutes Fourier theoreme, because of time variancy (with digital sources).

[manisandher]

Thanks Telstar.

This is really interesting stuff. One of the most valuable lessons for me is that 'anecdotal' is valid (and this from a credible scientific researcher).

Keep the faith Peter...

Mani.