Led Zeppelin, Stairway To Heaven, AR-XA Turntable, WITH NO COMPRESSION!

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This is a special video made with 𝗡𝗢 "loudness-war" dynamic range compression/clipping and 𝗡𝗢 perceptual coding data compression either (like MP3, AAC, etc.), uploaded in high quality, UNcompressed PCM WAV format. I can't fully control what RU-vid does with it though but under conditions outlined below* it should sound quite good! Enjoy. [You can examine its superior waveform here: www.avsforum.c... ]
Acoustic Research AR-XA turntable/arm, unmodified
Shure M97xE cartridge with dynamic stabilizer brush engaged
Yamaha TSR-7810 phono stage in Pure Direct mode
NO clipped peaks/brick-walling/limiting/compression/"loudness war" (so the natural dynamic range of the LP is preserved, unlike other RU-vid uploads)
180 gram vinyl LP, remastered c. 2014 by Jimmy Page, pressed in Germany, with a few flaws
Recorded with a MOTU M4 ADC and uploaded with no additional processing (other than a fade out right before the record's lead-out groove) as a high quality, uncompressed PCM WAV file.
*[SELECT 1080p HD PLAYBACK in RU-vid's settings below the video, using a fast internet connection (so not a mobile device) for the least possible RU-vid post processing.]
𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺, 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰/𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘏𝘪-𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘙-𝘟𝘈, 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥-𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘈 𝘏𝘈𝘓𝘍-𝘔𝘐𝘓𝘓𝘐𝘖𝘕 𝘋𝘖𝘓𝘓𝘈𝘙 𝘈𝘪𝘳 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩 𝘳𝘪𝘨 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘺, 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦-𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘵. . . . 𝘞𝘖𝘞. 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦:
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Комментарии : 18

@johnnybgoode1950 3 месяца назад

This is the early 1960's turntable that the future of vinyl playback was built on.

@m.zillch3841 3 месяца назад

Yup. High end audio journalist Ken Kessler*, the top turntable reviewer at Hi-Fi News magazine, put it this way: ""I don't give a flying f*ck what anyone else might say, but the single most important turntable of all time, vis-à-vis sound quality, performance and layout, is the original, Edgar Villchur-designed Acoustic Research XA . . . the template for the majority of decent-sounding record decks for the next 50 years: belt-drive and a suspended subchassis." *writing 1983 to present at primarily HiFi News (the largest and oldest UK audio magazine), in a Dec. 30th, 2022 article about the Linn Sondek LP-12 turntable (a design clearly based on the AR-XA), here: www.psaudio.com/blogs/copper/celebrating-the-linn-sondek-lp12-turntable-part-one

@jim-cm2qp Месяц назад

AHHH music to my ears, no digital, just smooth sound, my dad had an AR turntable and AR amp, us kids played everything from disco, 80's country, Led Zep, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis, ratpack, you name we played it, I stiil have turntable think I will restore it, very nice!!!

@zjz3013 3 месяца назад

Have been loving mine for years now.

@mrtyreus0 3 месяца назад

Can't beat a quality AR-XA.

@liammusgrove6334 2 месяца назад

This is the best I've ever heard it. Thabk you for sharing.

@anton88ist 3 месяца назад

Thank you for this transfer. This example is prove that a certain German dealer is incorrect when stating that turntables from the past are inferior sounding in comparison even with the basic modern turntables from REGA.

@m.zillch3841 3 месяца назад

Keep in mind the AR-XA is not just any turntable though. Miles Davis owned one as did Herbert van Karajan and they were both filthy rich multi-millionaires and tops in the music industry so they could've afforded whatever they possibly wanted. They certainly didn't pick the AR-XA for its convenience features-it has none, not even an arm lift lever-so they obviously picked it for one reason: sound quality.

@liammusgrove6334 2 месяца назад

And who is this German dealer?

@anton88ist 2 месяца назад

@@liammusgrove6334 He has a RU-vid channel: PhonoPhono. There you will find the information you need.

@halmetzger8429 3 месяца назад

Utterly fantastic thank you, sir! Happy Memorial Day weekend to all. Keep spinning and enjoying the music 🔊🔊🔊 Mobile, Al.🇺🇸

@yellowstonekat 3 месяца назад

Love my vinyl- the sound quality has such a pure warmth that digital cannot match. It comes close, close enough to jaw drop and entire presentation at the Portland Symphony Society meeting when we compared the 1812 Overture on state of the art analog and the very first CD player in the city. Disks and MP3 for the car, but vinyl at home to hear the purity of a sound bath. Nice post today- thank you!!

@technology4617 Месяц назад

you might consider upgrading your cartridge to something like a vm95ml. the hf distortion around 4:20 is pretty crispy also, what are your thoughts on using the instrument inputs on the motu as opposed to a separate phono stage

@m.zillch3841 Месяц назад

Like most units of its kind the MOTU M4 lacks a necessary RIAA EQ curve correction stage (a phono stage) so normally an intermediate phono preamp is necessary to apply the corrective EQ, first converting the cartridge's output to standard line level with a flat response before then being digitized by the M4.

@m.zillch3841 Месяц назад

Also as for distortion, this song is known to have some embedded in the original master tape itself. As to whether it is intentional or not is debatable, but check out the right channel from 5m47s to around 5m50s on this DIGITAL version of it (so we know it has nothing to do with vinyl/cartridges): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CPSkNFODVRE.htmlfeature=shared&t=344 Additionally, keep in mind this is the very last song on this side of the disc so it has the highest level of inner groove distortion, the shortest vinyl path length per rotation (the smallest circumference), and a relatively high tracking angle error compared to the opening cuts.

@technology4617 Месяц назад

@@m.zillch3841for clarification, I'm mainly referring to "if there's a buSSSTle in your heDGerow..." this sibilance is not present on the digital version you linked. the stereo image also shifts when this happens, which to me indicates a cartridge mistracking problem. is r1-535340 a1 the matrix number on this disc? if so, I apparently have this exact issue and can record a demonstration. with respect to the motu, the assumption would be that if you used it as a preamp you'd just apply the riaa de-emph digitally. the notion that this is "better" stems from my guess that the motu preamplfiers likely are quieter/have more headroom/reject common-mode noise/etc. you'd have to strap a 47k resistor in parallel or compensate digitally for the change in input impedance (an advantage of the latter approach would be reduced current noise from the cartridge).

@m.zillch3841 Месяц назад

@@technology4617 When recording vinyl, even expensive audiophile grade discs in great/perfect condition (and this disc isn't exactly either of those two things), the limitations in your overall recording's signal to noise ratio and distortion has little to do with the performance of an ADC like the MOTU M4 (www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/motu-m4-audio-interface-review.15757/ ), nor which input on it you use; the main bottleneck in SINAD is almost always the format, vinyl, itself.

@technology4617 Месяц назад

@@m.zillch3841a similarly-glib response from me would be something like: "if this recording is neither audiophile-grade nor the disc in great condition, what exactly is the point of this video? if the mastering engineer in his expert judgment didn't think the peak limiting applied to the streaming release didn't make it sound better..." etc etc