Today’s delightful musical recordings discovery is three-fold. I stumbled on In-Akustik’s themed compilation album Great Men of Song. Firstly, the singers and the songs selected on this album are excellent, and I found some new names to delve into further. This is one of a series of Reference Sound Edition compilations worth checking out. The […]
I got an opportunity to listen to a DVD-A album (Dorian Michael, Acoustic Blues, 2003, AIX Records), played with VLC media player as JRiver Media Center doesn’t play the files. Very nice musical sound. But is it superior sound quality to CD ripped to FLAC and WAV? I don’t hear it. Digging around, I found […]
We live in a social world that takes visual as preeminent, and auditory as secondary sensation. If you see what I mean. In expressing auditory effects, we might look to the visual for concepts and terminology. Image, focus, tone, and so on. In 4K video resolution more color detail is captured, which vastly improves gradual […]
Making sure a Windows PC is truly viable as a source for a high resolution audio system is high on my audiophile priority list. I’ve come a long way in multiple steps with dabbling in using a PC as a digital music file source. First, I connected the headphone output to my amplifier. Later, I […]
Whilst I am critical and quite pedantic about what people say, I don’t ridicule or bully. I do question and correct. This question came up on my Google search “audiophile nz”, and the selected response has too many “what?” statements to pass by without comment! I’ve learned so much from reading this ‘expert’ opinion. I’m […]
At a time when the cost of much high performance audio equipment is falling, there are also the bling-priced so-called ‘high-end’ marketers’ products. After reading a blog post about alternatives to expensive room treatments, a light went on in my hi-fi brain. Widen the net to professional audio engineering, and pro audio products come into […]
This recording initiative sounds like it will bring some audiophile sounds. I’m looking forward to hearing them. https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/the-q-sessions-straight-from-the-studio-pure-pcm-recording-available-on-qobuz-r1007/
Renowned for high quality recordings, and sublime, if somewhat obscure, songwriters, the technical prowess of Stockfisch Records is on display with this esoteric product. At €700 for just five tracks, I don’t see how this can be commercially viable beyond being a showcase for their audio engineering capability. https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/copper-listens-to-copper-stockfisch-records-dmm-dubplate-vol-1/
What is this? Is it true? A sonically invisible speaker cabinet … https://www.flareaudio.com/pages/pro-audio And Zero, the boxless speaker made from recycled materials ….. https://www.flareaudio.com/pages/zero Also, earphones that modify the shape of your ear to reduce inherent distortion when listening to music. The claim is that instead of costly speaker and room upgrades, you can engance […]
Discogs blog post: What Is Half-Speed Mastering and Why Does It Matter? https://blog.discogs.com/en/what-is-half-speed-mastering-and-why-does-it-matter-app/ Shared from the Discogs App
Mark Waldrep thinks it’s the marketing language that’s upscaled, not the music file resolution. https://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=7066&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amazon-music-hd-news-more-nonsense
I can’t confidently explain what I have here. They were (seemingly) today’s cream on top of a heap of cast-off CDs. Two are (extended resolution) XRCD, and the Govi and Sarah McLachlan albums are HDCD. The Vivaldi recording is on SONY SACD, with 16 of the 18 pages in the hardcover package booklet devoted to […]
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