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User Details - Jay-dub
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Jeffrey Willson | |
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My CD collection is roughly 80% classical, 15% jazz |
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Ames, Iowa | |
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Stereo only: Marantz SA8001 player -> Rotel RA-1062 integrated amplifier -> B&W 704 floorstanding speakers 19 inches from long wall, 5 feet apart, toed in 15 degrees, ears 6 feet from each speaker, 3 feet off carpet, 3 feet from back wall Sennheiser HD550 Alternate CD player: Rotel RCD-1072 |
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willsonj@iastate.edu | |
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May 11, 2011
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I frequently look at spectrograms of digital music files in order to get an estimate of the effective bandwidth of the recording (defined as the frequency above which musical features are no longer visible, being buried under the noise power spectrum even during louder passages). For CD's mastered with psychoacoustic (inverse A-weighted) ... more | |
August 30, 2008
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About a year ago, I carefully reviewed my small SACD collection and came to the conclusion that BIS is the one company that consistently does everything right. If a performance is released on BIS, then I know that somebody with good musical judgment believes in that piece of music and believes that the performer can do it justice. Moving onto ... more | |
August 27, 2008
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SACD is a format that appeals to people who don't enjoy watching musicians, so you should expect more negative opinions of the idea of concert videos here than almost anywhere else. No doubt a musician can learn valuable techniques by watching performances, but for many lovers of classical music the work has a special autonomy and listening to ... more | |
August 25, 2008
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What? The inbuilt quality decrease of the iPod is quite slight. If you dock your iPod to a good stereo and listen to lossless files, it adds some noise compared to a good CD player, but doesn't really sound any worse than most cheap DVD players. (Listening to 128kbps files over the included earbuds is of course another matter.) People would have to ... more | |
August 23, 2008
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In the USA, the marketing of Hyperion SACD's was a disaster in many ways. Typical Amazon.com prices were around $26, which is well above the customary price for a CD and at least $5 more than the list price of most Hyperion CD's. In addition, the CD-only versions of several major Hyperion SACD releases were made available on BMG Direct Marketing ... more |
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