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Paul a lot of great comments below ( I appreciate this post is 2 yrs old ) I now just wonder whether the likes of the company called PresentDayProduction ( PDP ) having designed and manufactured their new line of Studio Monitors the Mum 6. Mum 8 and Mum 10 how they would fair as home audio speakers ( also appreciate your comments on this ) but these i feel may change this ? Are you able to comment ? Sorry I do also appreciate you probably have not heard them ! thanks.
I like my Adam Audio t5Vs. Good computer speakers. Great for music in my experience, but haven't heard many other speakers. Been good for the few videos I have mixed on them. I think they would make good TV speakers downstairs, but maybe not. We have some big probably 3' tall speakers from Pioneer I think. They are nice, but not as good as the ribbon tweaters on my T5Vs. Well, haven't compared side by side. Will do that some day.
From a practical point of view, HDCD was actually a monumental pain. The in-band encoding won't survive any processing to the digital signal, so if an encoded data stream was, say, put through a digital attenuator, it'll destroy the HDCD control signal. Obviously this also means it won't survive MP3 or AAC encoding either (although it will be preserved with FLAC or other lossless compression). This causes a huge problem when ripping CDs to copy to an iPod, Squeezebox, Sonos etc. Another issue is that there were hardly any offboard DACs (or integrated DACs in amplifiers or AV receivers) that were HDCD-enabled. So even if you had an HDCD-equipped player, you had to connect it up using analogue rather than SPDIF. The best solution, on Windows at least, is to install Foobar2000, install the HDCD plug-in, then rip the entire disc with EAC as WAV / CUE. Load the CUE file into Foobar2000 and convert from there to your chosen file format, the HDCD will be decoded, the decompression carried out, and (if needed) the resultant 20-bit audio dithered back down to 16-bit. You can create MP3 files this way, or you can simply decode the entire WAV file and use the decoded file to burn back to a blank CD-R. This will give you the 'enhanced' HDCD sound (more dynamic, less compression) on a standard Red Book CD. I had to go through a whole bunch of CDs that I'd already ripped and re-rip them, this time applying the HDCD software decoder. The result however is that I now have a digitised music library that sounds amazing. Really though it's no different to back in the day when all pre-recorded cassettes were manufactured with Dolby B noise reduction, even though very few 'ghetto blasters', only a handful of walkmen and maybe a few high-end in-car players had a Dolby decoder, meaning that playback would only sound "right" on your home hi-fi cassette deck which did have Dolby NR.
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I see that a few of Octave's releases are on Qobuz (but not many). Are all the Octave releases on Qobuz remastered? I'm trying to decide which octave releases to buy and am wondering if the quality on Qobuz is representative of the high resolution masters I'd purchase from Octave.
It sometimes happens that "musicians" come to my studio, telling me how they don't need/want a click track, because their timing is accurate, it would ruin their performance, excuses, excuses, yadda yadda... I usually tell them to go home! It's almost like those who would need the click track the most condemn it the most.
Studio monitors are not designed for critical listening. So, generally they sound clear and relatively harsh. The last one depends on the quality of the record of the instrument. Audiophile speakers are designed for joyful listening. So, they sound warm and smooth.
I'd say I'm as big a fan of DSD as anybody. I just love it. It's the upper end that distinguishes it from PCM and which I find so satisfying. A total lack of unpleasantness with such instruments as drum cymbals and violins in particular having a startling degree of realism - through my equipment, at any rate. I can't speak highly enough about it. I only wish it had appeared before PCM became firmly established. I would agree with Paul that it is probably the inconvenience associated with editing that has held it back from further acceptance. I have downloaded numerous albums from NativeDSD Music at DSD128 rate, and have a large collection of SACDs, including many from Octave Records.
I have a Grateful Dead 30 Trips Around The Sun USB stick that apparently has all 30 shows in both FLAC AND MP3 formats preloaded obviously and my question is, cause I never opened it yet, how do I choose to open the FLAC superior lossless rather than the watery garbage MP3?! Can ANYONE help make my Dead TRIP enjoyable prior to starting a BAD TRIP?!?! Thanks MUCH in advance ❤️💙🌹🌻💚😇🙏🎼😎🇺🇸
Always took Paul's word for it that DSD is the best format,. then I actually heard a native DSD recording and immediately understood his mission, and I said to myself... Paul was right
So, Paul never clearly explained HOW the two are different? How do they handle the different parts of the audio spectrum? Do studios use subwoofers? FYI, Abbey Road studio used Tannoy Lancaster speakers in the 60s/70s (for the Abbey Road album) and later switched to B&W. Tannoy Cheviots are my speaker of choice. Tannoy Gold series of powered desktop monitors revolutionized my desktop listening. The Tannoy Gold 5 are incredible for the price and sound better than my Sennheiser HD600 headphones.
Thank you so much for this vid. Which 414s are you using here? I wouldn't have thought to use them in omni for this configuration - I assume that you are happy with the results, although I suspect that their job is to add to your main Blumlein pair. This is certainly something to try.
thank you Paul for sharing tracks on Octave Radio..just listened for the first time yesterday.. sounds really great for a radio, best up to now I have heard
I know an engineer who uses passive speakers , they are tuned right and sound great . Yes a master engineer . It's all in the cones , design and box . And the amp , and tuning the speaker .
As i understand, consumer speakers are made to enhance sound, with many custom profiles (ex. profiles for certain genres of music, which boost certain frequencies) . while studio monitors trying to reproduce faithfully without enhancements
I bought Genelec 8341 because the sound qaulity is lifelike because they're accurate. Accuracy does not equal sterile, accuracy does not equal flat or boring. Hifi speakers cannot know if a track needs colouring or not, they are tuned to a specific character which will not suit all artists or even an artists different songs. I don't want my music coloured and if I do I'll do it myself with EQ.
A high end recording will at least be 24bits, 96kHz. If one offers downloads for sale with 24bits, 44.1khz I wonder why they did not offer the full 96kHz. This would make me suspicious if it is real 24bit and not up sampled 16bit. And for me, for listening, CD quality is all I will never need.
