If YouTube recordings sound good, why do commercial digital releases sound so bad.
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Mostly there is a bit of air and resolution missing in the top end when you compare(256kbit) it with a CD. But you don't run scream out of the room because it is so sound so bad.Hard to come to any conclusion
That's how I experience the difference between Spotify and Qobuz on my system. Subtle, but noticeable. The YouTube casting was significantly worse - there must be a better way of doing it, but I'm just going to move on, having no real interest in the subject.
Thanks, it was other tube preamp Raphael audio+ silwaweld 300b amp i call a perfect match for low money under 3k.
Given current delta-sigma ADCs are flawed, perhaps we need more post processing to get a analog tape sound like this:
From the same guys:
madeontape.bandcamp.com
Am I ii (live sesh) (feat. Marc Malsegna & Nahshon Seville), by made on tape
2 track album
madeontape.bandcamp.com
There's a lot of reverb in that recording, but how many solo baritone saxophone recordings do you know? I can't think of one, but Qobuz comes up with some, and you can listen to them - some have good recording quality:
You tube videos only sound as good as the quality of the upload. (thanks Captain Obvious)
They sound good enough to listen to in the car or on a set of computer speakers but that's it. Same as any internet stream. I see the differences on the wave form when I digitize music. My $500 Denon cart outperforms everything from the internet. Easily.
They sound good enough to listen to in the car or on a set of computer speakers but that's it. Same as any internet stream. I see the differences on the wave form when I digitize music. My $500 Denon cart outperforms everything from the internet. Easily.
Agree in general, can you post a screen shot of the wave form differences, would be interesting to see.
That's 3000$ worth of microphones, plugged into a 2000$ preamp a/D converter, going into an iPhone. The iPhone basically only converts the digital signal to store it.
I think it sounds very good from a very up front to the instruments perspective. Clearly recorded in a relatively small space with little to no ambience...just a bit for the piano. The microphone is basically picking up the violin very close and so there is no acoustic ambience or "air" around the instrument...that said, this is very much what the real thing sounds like up close.
It is clear also that the piano is behind and seems to occupy more space because the mics are further away, although there isn't a ton of decay there either. This is pretty typical of a pretty small and probably damped room. If you want big space sound you need to be in a big space or someone adding reverb during the mastering.
I heard a live quartet at the Munich show in the Goldmund room and the sound of the quartet was rather warm and intimate like this as we sat quite close...
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