Good Music for testing Audio Equipment
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This, from an audiophile perspective, is hard to believe;
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/81272/20150902/the-return-of-the-cassette-tape-national-audio-company-still-makes-10-million-audiocassettes-per-year.htm
Tapes
Do you still have some of your old tapes, and if so how are they holding up?
One of my all time favorite albums is Sarah Vaughans ''After Hours''.
Very intimate recording just Sarah with Mundell Lowe on guitar and George Duvivier on bass.
I have it on Cd as well as on LP and both have a lot of tape noise.
You can hear it hear on this you tube video as well.
Did they have noise reduction back then?
Very intimate recording just Sarah with Mundell Lowe on guitar and George Duvivier on bass.
I have it on Cd as well as on LP and both have a lot of tape noise.
You can hear it hear on this you tube video as well.
Did they have noise reduction back then?
Wiki shows that recording from 1961. And Dolby noise reduction in 1965. So it doesn't seem like it was an option there on that front.
I am busy transferring my CD collection and a few cassette tapes to my PC.
I have a number of recorded CDR CD's giving to me by friends who recorded some of their vinyl.
Several of these CDR cd'd are no longer playable but the cassette tapes are fine some even 30 years old.
I have a number of recorded CDR CD's giving to me by friends who recorded some of their vinyl.
Several of these CDR cd'd are no longer playable but the cassette tapes are fine some even 30 years old.
But the quality of cassette tapes is not only bad...they are lost...the music is no more...it's just distortion with the background music of the other side of the tape. ...Commercial cassette tapes I'm talking about here. ...From the seventies; say 1975 to 1985.
* Good music selections to test audio equipment? ...Classical orchestral music recordings from Reference Recordings music record label (Prof Keith Johnson).
• Copland: Symphony No.3 (HDCD)
• Mephisto & Co. (HDCD)
• Stravinsky (HDCD)
• Pomp & Pipes! (HDCD)
• Bruckner Symph. No 9 (HDCD)
...And about 50-100 more from RR label.
Other labels: Sheffield (Drum Track Record), Opus 3 (Eric Bibb), Channel Classics, ECM (Jazz), AudioQuest (Doug McLeod - Blues), Silence, Chesky, Three Blind Mice, ...
? Patricia Barber: all her CD/SACDs. Jazz ?
* Good music selections to test audio equipment? ...Classical orchestral music recordings from Reference Recordings music record label (Prof Keith Johnson).
• Copland: Symphony No.3 (HDCD)
• Mephisto & Co. (HDCD)
• Stravinsky (HDCD)
• Pomp & Pipes! (HDCD)
• Bruckner Symph. No 9 (HDCD)
...And about 50-100 more from RR label.
Other labels: Sheffield (Drum Track Record), Opus 3 (Eric Bibb), Channel Classics, ECM (Jazz), AudioQuest (Doug McLeod - Blues), Silence, Chesky, Three Blind Mice, ...
? Patricia Barber: all her CD/SACDs. Jazz ?
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Yes, those tapes where terrible low quality, almost a scam, it was better to buy empty BASF's and copy your self
Speaking of, see below. I am not too proud, snicker if you must, butt I suffer from the same disease as y'all!
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I found it on British forum. Nice list for testing with Tidal help. All you need to do is to add to you favourite lists (on PC) and it will appear in your streamer application.
http://listen.tidal.com/playlist/356c4693-0889-4ad3-ab13-79c90724eb28
http://listen.tidal.com/playlist/356c4693-0889-4ad3-ab13-79c90724eb28
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