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The Twin Peaks soundtrack is really jazzy and expertly mastered. Krall is excellent. Steve Kindler. Morphine's " Like Swimming". Ten Years After " One of these Days". Tres Hombres by ZZ Top. ELP or Tangerine Dream.
A mains cable cannot alter the PB quality. For two reasons: Ohm's Law and conversion to DC, and secondly, because you're an idiot by stating this falsehood.
Because Bluetooth receivers have extremely low quality converters plus bluetooth is wireless and the sound is lossy and the sound can degrade a lot. Might as well get a Bluetooth speaker and “enjoy” the low-fi that way.
Not many and in most cases they make one or two releases and then go back to digital. In any case this is a good topic and I might do a future video on this topic so stay tuned!
Lol A Blues Brother Hilarious I’m just listening to this album which is a killer because of its recording values and style. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4cIF6-kLrQs.htmlsi=b_dL7vqy8492MY4C
I just started watching your channel, and I think I remember you mentioning a CD transport that was compatible with an external third-party auto-loader for mass ripping. If you did, could you please reshare it with me. Thank you!
I have mid-1980s vinyls that sound fantastic yet they proudly declare that they were cut from digital originals. Or listen to a Random Access Memories vinyl record that was mastered by Bob Ludwig from the digital mixes - it sounds amazing. It is not about digital vs analog format, it is about the skills of CD mastering engineers. Listen to Eric Clapton’s Unplugged on a CD - it sounds fantastic, and there are quite a few examples like that. Percentage wise 80% of all CDs and 10% of older vinyl records sound bad, while the newly pressed vinyl records is a 50-50 gamble. Again, it is all in mastering goals and skills, not in a format by itself.
You completely missed the point and it gets me wondering if you actually saw the video ore just writing out of prejudice. At 3:30 I clearly stated that mixing and mastering arer the most important aspects of all, regardless the CD type, version or edition. Plus, at 20:18 (point n. 7) I dedicate the whole point on why early CDs sound better underlining that the first main reason is mastering! Plus the combination of peculiar DACS (very soft tones) and analog mixing consoles all together contributed to the magical sound of most early CDs, that is AAD (but also several ADD). So there is absolutely no trace of format war or digital vs analog media. I actually defend digital in several videos of mine and when it makes totally sense.
Hi, a few months ago Melanie safka died. Just before this Melanie signed with Cleopatra records. They are releasing her past taped recordings on vinyl. Is Cleopatra records a good company? Do you think they are doing a good job with her past masters? Thanks.
This is a critically important video. Before getting audiophile quality speakers, placing my old, inexpensive speakers correctly, gave them a remarkably better sound quality. It's like magic. @anadialog, I too still have the effect of the sound stage being affected by the position of my head. It may not be something that can be fixed depending on the room's shape and furniture. But it doesn't bother me at all.
Yes it's difficult to understand the beginning. When you were still just a sperm. And memory now eludes you as a sperm. You really can't remember being a sperm.. Why can't you remember? Don't you know a lot of sperm's you have been intimate with? Holding them for safekeeping in your scrotum? Why would you do that? Who, told you, to do that? Nobody! So when you don't know why you have your scrotum? How is anybody else supposed to know why you have a scrotum and they don't? What will you answer them? When asked? Why do you get a scrotum and she doesn't? Can you answer that one? No there really is no answer, to a scrotum that inquires. Why it has to be a scrotum? Especially when it can't see anything in the dark. It never used to be kept in the dark. Until you got to, 20th century USA. You should have stayed in the 19th century. But no! You did not! What were you thinking? That only time moves forward? So you don't have to? There is nothing much that makes sense. In the minds of madman. They only conquering! And Power! They need to have Power! To do, whatever? Whatever it is they don't know what to do.. They need to do it! Without an education. As education is stupid! It takes too long. We need to be edgumacated out of the womb! As there is no other way. Not much is making sense anymore. And that's good. Making sense cost money. So don't! Just vote.. RemyRAD
Thanks! The short answer is no, but I did study for many years in different moments piano, guitar and drums in thinorder but in the end I am absolutely not good at any and that is one of my great regrets.
Why do people say " budget to high end" instead of budget to expensive or low end to high end. I say this because you can get some really terrific sounding high fidelity equipment that is "high end" but doesn't cost an arm and a leg. It always bugs me that high end is always associated with cost and if it is expensive it must be tagged "high end" when in reality it's no better than something that costs half it's price. If you ask someone to define high end I bet they would say expensive instead of great sounding..
Because if you check an English dictionary “high-end” means exactly expensive (the most expensive segment of a specific market). It has nothing to do with performance so the title is correct.
With the cost of electricity going up astronomically, the amount the equipment costs to run may be a future issue. I had a rather basic class A bias ECC83 X 2 EL84 X 2, 5 watt stereo amplifier and it drew about 80 watt from the mains. The output vs. consumption issue can be improved with class AB bias, but purity is lost with AB. For a couple of KT88s running in class a bias, a second mortgage might need to be taken out: UK electricity prices only, consequent of the evil Net Zero. With single ended class A units, matching is considerably less of an issue since most stereo amps will have a balance control, although I much prefer gain matching between left and right channels. Interesting upload.
The AUVA was easily the best. I do not know what setup the commenters here who preferred the GAIA are using, but I use an audiophile grade PC speaker setup and the AUVA sounded more real and natural. Maybe with cans It would be different.
I hooked up a VHS HI FI deck to a dBX 224 unit, and that 224 just buried the noise floor. You could just BARELY hear any tape hiss in the quiet sections. It did a fine job with some Mozart. I took an ordinary EQ and set it up downstream of the dbx unit, so I could boost the highs. Just crystal clear highs.