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Ron’s New System
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There is 2 inches of clearance above the device, and a quarter inch of clearance below the device. The air vents on the device are on the sides, not on the top. The side vents are unobstructed.
Even under the load of all five (low current) digital devices the unventilated top plate of the unit gets only very slightly warm.
It’s interesting how people equate “smoother digital playback” as more analogue sounding. When comparing sources, up to using the Horizon, I always preferred analogue (and still do but less so with H) for its extension and sweetness in the highs and especially the more 3D imaging. So extension in highs and 3D is how I hear analogue over digital. Smoother doesn’t equate, not with top end digital. Only the H was able to bridge this gap to an extent.
So the Sorbothane mat is a tweak?
@Thundersnow characterized a less digital digital playback in terms of analog. Do you think a goal of digital playback is to sound less like itself or alternatively to sound like analog?
For me personally the goal is to sound like analogue, because in turn I hear analogue as more evocative of the real life instruments. Don't ask me why because I don't know, just my personal preference
All tape listening session tonight:
Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I Might See sounds somewhat believably like I am in the recording session. That's hyperbolic, of course, but, as is almost always the case with tape, the tape versus the vinyl contributes a relaxed quality to the sound, and pulls the instruments apart into a more believable sound-stage. And drums always seem to sound amazing on tape.
I never listened to the whole album before. There are decent songs on this album in addition to "Fade Into You."
Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I Might See sounds somewhat believably like I am in the recording session. That's hyperbolic, of course, but, as is almost always the case with tape, the tape versus the vinyl contributes a relaxed quality to the sound, and pulls the instruments apart into a more believable sound-stage. And drums always seem to sound amazing on tape.
I never listened to the whole album before. There are decent songs on this album in addition to "Fade Into You."
I am playing Diana Krall Live in Paris (ORG re-issue) for the first time. I don't know her at all, except I totally love her cover "A Case of You."
I think the exorbitant price I paid for this on Discogs was totally worth it!
I think the exorbitant price I paid for this on Discogs was totally worth it!
I rather listen to a studio than live album of hers. I find her voice to be too limited for a live performance. She benefits from more production offered by a studio recording...but that's just me. Check out her studio recordings as well and decide for yourself. Aside for my issue with her voice, that live album captures the concert ambiance, piano and rest of the musicians nicely.
She covers a lot of good songs.
Who is our best WBF recording historian?
Would somebody please dig deep and report conclusively whether Live in Paris is a digital recording or an analog recording?
Would somebody please dig deep and report conclusively whether Live in Paris is a digital recording or an analog recording?
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Ron I’m no recording historian but I’ve read in interviews with Al Schmitt that he didn’t start experimenting with digital until 2007 or so. While I don’t own the recording, I have heard tape hiss come thru in places on my friend's SACD copy at his place. Hth
@hopkins wrote: "I rather listen to a studio than live album of hers. I find her voice to be too limited for a live performance. She benefits from more production offered by a studio recording...but that's just me."
Having listened to Diana Krall recordings over a span of more than two years and then hearing her live in concert, my experience was that the two are simply very different experiences.
The acoustics of the live venue were not familiar to me, but she was better in person than the recording of her live performance could capture.
So Many of her songs, whether covers or originals, are so engaging that I find nobody else whose combination of timbre, interpretation, presence and presentation more captures my desire to listen again and again.
Based upon my experience hearing Diana Krall live, I am inclined to propose that “Live in Paris” may well not represent the artist’s vocal character, let alone potential, to its best advantage.
Having listened to Diana Krall recordings over a span of more than two years and then hearing her live in concert, my experience was that the two are simply very different experiences.
The acoustics of the live venue were not familiar to me, but she was better in person than the recording of her live performance could capture.
So Many of her songs, whether covers or originals, are so engaging that I find nobody else whose combination of timbre, interpretation, presence and presentation more captures my desire to listen again and again.
Based upon my experience hearing Diana Krall live, I am inclined to propose that “Live in Paris” may well not represent the artist’s vocal character, let alone potential, to its best advantage.
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This post from another forum indicates that your speculation is probably correct.
A point about original capture format and a review of Diana Krall's "Live in Paris"
Hi all, I know I am going to get some flak for a post on Diana Krall... If that's how you feel then move along... And may I mention that assessing music by its usage and not by the music itself is kind of silly. I have had the CD version of her "Live in Paris" album for a very long time, possibly...
audiophilestyle.com
I believe that the fellow who posted that is also active here. @miglto
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Thank you for this, Scott.
Listening to the LP I did not have a telltale sense of digital. But KeithR says it was a digital recording and so does Marc Meisner. Hence my inquiry . . .
Typically the Acoustic Sounds information page about a title would highlight analog recording provenance if that is the case, and analog recording is not mentioned on the Acoustic Sounds information page about this title.
This post from another forum indicates that your speculation is probably correct.
A point about original capture format and a review of Diana Krall's "Live in Paris"
Hi all, I know I am going to get some flak for a post on Diana Krall... If that's how you feel then move along... And may I mention that assessing music by its usage and not by the music itself is kind of silly. I have had the CD version of her "Live in Paris" album for a very long time, possibly...
I believe that the fellow who posted that is also active here. @miglto
Ooohh! Thank you, Glen! I sent him a PM.