shadorne
Responses from shadorne
Loudness War I would say Thriller is up there with the very best of recordings - absolutely. I have never found the sibilance and issue but there is plenty of attack so the midrange is not recessed as it is on many rock/pop albums (this will add to sibilance a... | |
Loudness War Essential Michael jackson CD package? Yes the Quincy Jones (Thriller) productions were already fantastic to start with. Ndugu is an amazing drummer. Quincy Jones is a superb producer.Why can't the recording industry learn from the most succesful ... | |
Loudness War Back in the day when LP's ruled the media world, these same complaints were constantly being heardYup, in those days you had to buy Japanese pressings and 12" 45 rpm (for clubs) of all the vinyl pop music if you cared about quality (enormous diff... | |
Loudness War T Bone Burnett is another strong proponent and advocate of quality and bemoans the loudness wars too. No surprise there - he is rather a sound quality fanatic and likes to play music loud on his ATC 150ASL... | |
Best Remakes Of All Time Eric Clapton Cocaine (J.J. Cale original)Guns n Roses - Knockin' on heavens door (Dylan original)The Troggs - Wild Thing (can't remember except it is a cover) | |
Most high-quality loudspeakers are 4-Ohms 4 ohm nominal designs which often dip down to 1.5 ohms will provide significant challenges for most power amplifiers. They will also cause speaker cables to start to make an audible difference and of course the heat generated in these type voice c... | |
Loudness War I tried a software called SeeDeeClipIt works but it cannot create sweet sound of uncompressed music from much of the crap put out today. IMHO the improvement is around 5 to 10% - so some of your worst clipped stuff may just become bearable. | |
Music for "Tough Times" This song is for tough times. Nearly 300,000 views in the week since it came out. Definitely tough times for many climate researchers. | |
How do you judge your system's neutrality? When you limit a driver in the frequency domain, you also limit it in the time domain. I've heard it often, especially in bass drivers. When the bass driver is cut off over "X" frequency vs. running full range, bass becomes slow and lacks punch, ... | |
Any problems with MBL101E speakers Thanks - I have also wondered how they manage to dampen these lamellas sufficiently. I'd love to see a waterfall plot... | |
Active Speaker Recommendation Lots of good suggestions here. NHT M-OO and S-00 might be good is the speakers are right up against a wall (provided you can move the sub out into the room a little. | |
Room matters Agreed - the room is the elephant in the room - possibly why many of the regular contributing experts here will not even share a few pix. Nevertheless there are differences in speakers that are significant too. | |
XLR waste of time ? Sounds like more philosophy to me, unconfirmed and untested by experience. Yes you are right. It is mostly the tin-eared folks in pro audio that exclusively use balanced XLR for everything. The philosophy of head bangers with PA speakers is meaty... | |
XLR waste of time ? I share Ralph's philosophy on this one. If you buy the right equipment and match it correctly then who cares about cables.Some equipment designs do not need $100's or $1000's of dollars of cabling to perform perfectly - nor is this type equipment ... | |
What floats your boat, sound wise that it? I like to be able to hear the musicians. I am not really into coloring the sound in any particular direction - too often this muddies the details on a good quality recording (distortion adds frequencies that are not there and unwanted system reson... |