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| If you were serious about sound you would... @czarivey Your right I shouldn't have made such a blanket statement, I'm a saxophone player for 50 years I love all types of Jazz, my point is how very well recorded modern jazz is. Jazz recordings today along with modern classical are probably th... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @inna There is no way to add sonic information to the recording, it's not a matter of easier or harder to record or playback. With that in mind you can't get any value out of equipment that is significantly better than what was used originally. Fo... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @mbmi No, I don't want to belabor this but I've set up many many digital recording setups (scars to prove it) and if the 1s and 0 are not exactly shaking hands the system will not work. This tells you many things for instance digital cables if the... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @mbmi Love that idea, here is why digital is cool. the handshake between the sender and receiver is either a 1 or a 0 so there’s really no room for error that is the power of digital. Of course there are other errors in the system like timing issu... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @mbmi Ok this is going to sound weird but why would you do anything to change the sound of your CDs, here’s what I’m saying, imaging being wider doesn’t mean it right and imaging is really a phasing principle that makes the sound hit your ears at... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @mahgister It won't be long, my guess in 1.5 years that AI will completely changes the home audio world. Some smart company will use a group like the AES/EBU and record companies to agree on a baseline standard for acoustics. I believe that surrou... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @facten Good question why would I say If you were serious about sound you would.... When I enjoy my music tube amps and big speaker system much more. That is because of the fact that audiophiles are living is a world of contradictions. Have you ev... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @phusis Great post! I also appreciate the thought about room calibration on such a "no flavorings" speaker like the Bluehorn. Honestly I didn't consider that in my thoughts and I should have never the less the reason I chose the Bluehorn as an exa... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @mahgister Jazz is some of the most heavily processed music, well modern jazz is real jazz was done before about 1970, that surprises many people but listen to new jazz or smooth jazz it is consistently the best recorded music there is the people ... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... So you finally get a chance to produce your first album. You use a great studio with top mixers and you hire musicians you can't really afford, you go through problems with temp vocals drummers and bass players not understanding what the songs are... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @nonoise Thanks for the note about Tony Minasians, I remember when I was starting out I did some really great recordings by accident just using 1 stereo mic. They were recordings of choirs using a Neumann 190i mic it was a special mic because it w... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @tablejockey Thanks for the kind words, I do have a unique perspective in audio I've been a professional working at the highest levels of the movie industry for a long time but I do like audiophiles because they love music and equipment and don't ... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @mahgister After reading your article I remembered I used Fourier transforms when I was working for an acoustics company and in college doing some of the first sound raytracing programs. I had a crazy smart professor who helped me out, I still fe... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... @jtcf If you come across a post like "if you had to pick 3 songs for the rest of your life...." it seems like everyone (including me) pick songs they love that are from a younger time in their life probably at least 3 decades old. I think the reas... | |
| The Audiophile Upgrade Easiest to Ignore Just before he died I got to sit in on some sessions with the greatest sound engineer ever and he could hardly hear anymore he was just about 90 years old but since he has a memory and consistency of what great sound was he still made wonderful so... |