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    Posted: April 16 2006 at 04:55



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Points: 21138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2006 at 05:31

Nice website! I don't mean to start an argument here, but you should have a look at this article, oliver:

http://stereophile.com/mediaservers/406olive/
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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2006 at 05:45
They even have a "computer audio" section...


http://www.stereophile.com/computeraudio/
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Points: 21138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2006 at 05:50
They admit that listening to ripped audio CDs in a computer environment is possible for audiophiles, that's all I ask.
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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2006 at 06:28
There are good and bad reviewers/articles of course
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Points: 8890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2006 at 10:47
Awesome site, thanks Oliver.
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fascinating site, oliver, one i will browse again from time to time.SmileClap
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Points: 1509 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 05:09
http://www.uhfmag.com/
 
This audio mag I find to be a little less ad driven than Stereophile and it cators to people who have limited budgets as well as the rich.
So much of what is reviewed in Stereophile is influenced heavily by big money IMHO.
 
This is not to say that Stereophile is a "bad" magazine.
They publish little or nothing about progressive rock though. Most audio publications fall into this catagory. More classical and jazz driven with the typical mainstream rock/pop stuff thrown in to keep some of the mid aged folks who still listen to rock happy.
 
Trouble is, most rock recordings are really bad, where as jazz and classical recordings tend to be a bit better (sound reproduction wise). Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but........................
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"Trouble is, most rock recordings are really bad, where as jazz and classical recordings tend to be a bit better (sound reproduction wise). Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but........................"

That's very true. And it's there that vintage vynil wons.
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Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

"Trouble is, most rock recordings are really bad, where as jazz and classical recordings tend to be a bit better (sound reproduction wise). Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but........................"

That's very true. And it's there that vintage vynil wons.
 
i notice the early beatles and rock'n'roll recordings seem very clear, they used simple studio set-ups using very few  microphones. this may also be true for jazz and classical recordings too, some modern multi-track recordings seem over-produced and flat, maybe they try to squeeze too many layers in?
there's a lot to be said for less complicated studio set-ups, look what deep purple achieved on the rolling stones mobile in a corridor and various halls, and led zeppelin's john bonham achieving a fantastic drum sound in the stairwell at headley grange, and some live recordings such as clapton's "unplugged" achieved great results. could "less" actually mean "more"..?
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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2006 at 06:26
Yes, the studio's acoustic is another issue.

In the last Stereophile paper magazine, there's an article about a Dina Crawl recording session and it's said that more and more artists, thanks (?) to digital home studio, tend to record at home with a very poor result, because of bad acoustic. So, the studio's acoustic is also very important in the result.

And yes, The Clapton is very good sounding.
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