shadorne
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| Live vs home system??? Boston Symphony Hall has ATC's installed. WGBH studios has been using ATC's for as long as I can remember. Although, nothing can reproduce attending a live orchestra with good seats. | |
| BEST RECORDING STUDIO Actually, you don't even need a studio -- great sounding records can be produced in people's living rooms Well this is a bit of a stretch. I agree that golden eared experts are crucial but high quality Studios with word class equipment and acoust... | |
| Loudness War Gawdbless and Mapman,It is not the dynamics on the "loud" CD that is the problem. It is the complete lack of dynamics. In order to remove the dynamics of natural sounds it requires heavy manipulation to flatten the waveforms. As you flatten a wave... | |
| BEST RECORDING STUDIO Several legendary places already mentioned. Here are a few more with pics.Cream Studios LondonBlackbird Studios NashvilleBryan Adams' The Warehouse Studio | |
| Pre/pro upgrade I replaced a Benchmark DAC1 + Bryston BP-26 analog preamp with the Integra 9.8 and I don't believe I've given up anything. Interesting. I guess this suggests (if you cannot hear a difference) that the jitter handling of the Integra is excellent -... | |
| Loudness War Interesting that the Sheffield Lab Drum Track comes out the in the top 5.And, for those who don't trust their ears, clear proof that the Beatles Mono 2009 remasters have more dynamic range than the stereo versions...And the top 20 is all music fro... | |
| Loudness War Just scroll down and look at MetallicaNo wonder their fans are upset about the recent crap quality.Also note that the new release of MJ Thriller is a much worse than the original 1982 CD (which I have as I bought it in 1982, although I am not much... | |
| Loudness War The software I mentioned above can tell you the dynamic range and peak for each track.It appear that you can send your files to the website and presumably the software checks the dynamic range and then adds the file to the list.Here is the upload ... | |
| Best Sam and Dave and other Stax LP's I am not sure about Vinyl but Beat Goes Public and Brown Sugar have released a lot of great stuff from the archives in recent years. I have many CD's but there were many recently released on vinyl too. | |
| Tweeters got me baffled. Not that important. The reason for he offset is to minimize baffle edge diffraction..if you place a tweeter equidistant from the sides then you increase the amount of baffle edge effect at specific frequencies - the worst case would be a circular ... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far I thought I could stop playing The Cat Empire "Live on Earth" - 2009 release - fantastic blend of jazz, ska, rock and funk... absolutely crazy eclectic stuff from our friends down under!!Think Madness meets Herb Alpert with a twist of hip hop... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far Is it just me but ACDC Black Ice is really nicely recorded and it has some great classic stuff.I find I had to get my air guitar out of the cupboard.Hats off to Brian Adams and the quality production from his new Vancouver Studio: The Warehouse | |
| Loudness War Blindjim,Why disparage the most successful album of all time?Why not give credit where credit is due! I feel back then quality played such a small part as to be inconsequential.Hang on. Thriller was part of the 8O's - an era where, as far as I am ... | |
| Best Remakes Of All Time Jaybo,I found this at wikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Thing_%28Chip_Taylor_song%29it may be wrong but it seems it was originally recorded by The Wild Ones.FWIW: Nobody remembers the original | |
| Most high-quality loudspeakers are 4-Ohms The word's leading designers are still trying to determine how many ohms to use in a speaker.Note like a true audiophile he uses an older form of the analog gramophone - the Edison cylinder.If you listen to the words you realize he is using much m... |