and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life

I hope you got a good relationship with them! My son can't even talk yet. So, right now, he's just this cute thing that runs around and causes trou^H^H^H^Hgood things to happen.

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

I predict that within one hundred years computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.

I was figuring I'd upgrade my W10 box after more W11 bugs were shaken out and MS retreated on some of the user-unfriendly decisions. But from everything I've heard, the 24H2 release was a disaster and is still broken for many users today. The number and severity of known issues with 24H2, and how many of them persist half a year later, seems unprecedented for a feature update in the W10-11 era.

On top of that, MS seems to be adding more user-unfriendly decisions (such as going to considerably more lengths to force a Microsoft account login).

I've taken steps to keep 24H2 from installing on my W11 machine and I am just hoping the picture improves before the W10 EOL date this fall.

Scientists: There is no god.

Also scientists: There is likely a god, and he lives in his mom's basement.

Congrats to you as well! :) Baby is only slightly premature, being induced at 2.5-3 weeks early due to size.

Percussive sounds have always been a strong point for Opus relative to other codecs, avoiding problems with pre-echo etc, while sparse pure tones, as in e.g. glockenspiel solos, were something Xiph had to work at doing better with.

Part of that is simply due to the nature of the short-time Fourier transform. Since it was designed first as a VOIP codec, prioritizing low latency, Opus uses short transform windows, while most other music-capable codecs use long ones. This results in Opus having naturally better temporal resolution, while other codecs have naturally better frequency resolution. That's a Gabor limit/ Uncertainty Principle type of deal. Opus includes extra tricks to improve its performance on tonal content, and some of that includes boosting VBR bitrate; other codecs take corresponding measures to try to improve their performance on transients.

So while it may be worth encoding whatever cymbal-heavy tracks you have in mind and doing a blind listening test, I think it's likely the cymbals have been encoded pretty well even by pre-1.0 versions of Opus, which are now over twelve years old.