Reference Quality Electronic Music

[dallasjustice]

Other than limited dynamic range, what characteristic do all low DR value music share in common?

 

[TBone]

Other than limited dynamic range, what characteristic do all low DR value music share in common?

Compression common to ... "Pretty much all modern music is meant to be played loud. I know us audiophiles have done our part to rebel against it and have failed. So let's accept defeat and adapt to the world in which we find ourselves; not the world we pretend still exists."

Hence the need for percentages when failing to live in a pretend world.

 

[dallasjustice]

So when someone says that pretty much all loud music sounds bad, does that mean that all loud music was poorly recorded? Or could it mean that our systems haven't adapted to our new reality?

 

[TBone]

Dallas, I can't speak for "our" systems ... only my own.

 

[dallasjustice]

Dallas, I can't speak for "our" systems ... only my own.

So does all low DR value music sound bad in your system?

 

[TBone]

under duress of interrogation; no ...

an easy example: Live at Blues Alley, Eva Cassidy.
orig CD.

DR8 -0.00 dB -11.03 dB 01 Track01.wav
DR8 over -12.11 dB 02 Track02.wav
DR8 -0.15 dB -13.15 dB 03 Track03.wav
DR8 -0.15 dB -10.88 dB 04 Track04.wav
DR8 -0.21 dB -12.42 dB 05 Track05.wav
DR8 -0.13 dB -10.67 dB 06 Track06.wav
DR13 -0.36 dB -16.87 dB 07 Track07.wav
DR11 -0.01 dB -14.50 dB 08 Track08.wav
DR9 -0.29 dB -13.96 dB 09 Track09.wav
DR8 -0.09 dB -12.26 dB 10 Track10.wav
DR7 -0.00 dB -9.05 dB 11 Track11.wav
DR9 -0.28 dB -13.76 dB 12 Track12.wav
DR7 -0.06 dB -11.46 dB 13 Track13.wav
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my fav track (3) ...

isn't she pretty?

orig.DAT live.rec, copied to a cassette player, then eventually my CD. It has achieved iconic status within many audiophile groups based on sound quality, with or without my approval.

 

[fas42]

IME, systems can be designed so that all musical genre sound great, without compromise. Just imagine a system in which all recordings sound correct, even the ones we once thought were "bad recordings." Can we accept that there's no such thing as a "bad recoding?" All recordings were meant to sound the way they do for a reason. The artist is always sovereign in his/her artistic endeavor. It's up to us to figure out how to make their art come alive in our systems.

Michael.

Spot on, Michael! You've almost perfectly quoted my POV - the interesting thing is, that I get blasted by one and sundry for daring to express that view, probably because I don't use a humungous, balls rattling system to get there ... boys and girls, the answer is - that there's more than one way ...

 

[cjf]

Fluke - "Atom Bomb"

Wait For You Song For The Ocean Armin van Buuren ft Victoria Horn 76

ATB - Summer Rain

Armin Van Buuren feat. Justine Suissa - Never Wanted This

Big sky - armin van buuren

 

[amirm]

Big sky - armin van buuren

Very nice!

 

[Cosmik]

The section that will test your system starts at 4'50, but the bit before that is pretty good too...
(can't vouch for Youtube SQ though)

 

[Thomas savage]

Fluke - "Atom Bomb"

Wait For You Song For The Ocean Armin van Buuren ft Victoria Horn 76

ATB - Summer Rain

Armin Van Buuren feat. Justine Suissa - Never Wanted This

Big sky - armin van buuren

I like 'fluke' "atom bomb" hunting it down as we speak so thanks for your that!

 

[Thomas savage]

The section that will test your system starts at 4'50, but the bit before that is pretty good too...
(can't vouch for Youtube SQ though)

No need for you tube , I have the album

 

[cjf]

I like 'fluke' "atom bomb" hunting it down as we speak so thanks for your that!

It can be found on this film soundtrack which, IMO, ain't too shabby as a whole in terms of music

 

[Thomas savage]

It can be found on this film soundtrack which, IMO, ain't too shabby as a whole in terms of music

I bought these two albums, ones a ' best of' the other their latest..,

 

[cjf]

Dooh... Looks like I dropped the ball on the image in my last post. The Soundtrack I was trying to post was from the movie "The Saint". Lots of good to decent tunes on that one.

 

[Sal1950]

Mark Chesnutt - Your Room AIX Records 24/96 Stereo Mix
I'm a fan of country music and Mark Waldrep's recording of Mark Chesnutt's - Your Room is a "chestnutt" in my music library.
It's so refreshing to hear a artist you love performing his greatest hits while being recorded live in "HD audiophile" technology. There have
been very few if any modern music releases done quite like this, you could count them on one hand. And those like the celebrated Cowboy Junkies albums
have been music to bore you to death with. (JMHO)
If your not familiar with MC, he has 14 No. 1 hits, 23 top ten singles, four platinum albums, five gold records.
Available from AIX records in everything from a 2 channel stereo download to the BluRay multi-channel video of the live recording. Drum cymbals that
sound like brass and not a loose air hose, vocals without the sssspit, awesome instrumental inner detail and all the rest of a top notch audiophile recording.
A release of Great music with Great sound that hasn't been given it's due.

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Analyzed: Your Room (HiRez) / Artist: Mark Chesnutt
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DR Peak RMS Duration Title [codec]
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DR12 -0.00 dB -15.36 dB 4:34 06 - Almost Goodbye [flac]
DR13 -0.00 dB -14.48 dB 2:46 12 - Blame It On Texas [flac]
DR12 -0.00 dB -14.04 dB 3:25 01 - Bubba Shot The Jukebox [flac]
DR13 -0.00 dB -16.01 dB 2:37 15 - Goin' Through The Big D [flac]
DR13 -0.00 dB -15.53 dB 3:41 05 - Gonna Get A Life [flac]
DR13 -0.00 dB -15.17 dB 3:18 14 - I Just Wanted You To Know [flac]
DR12 -0.00 dB -14.57 dB 2:58 07 - It Sure Is Monday [flac]
DR12 -0.00 dB -14.67 dB 2:41 02 - It's A Little Too Late [flac]
DR12 -0.00 dB -14.68 dB 4:00 08 - Ol' Country [flac]
DR13 -0.00 dB -15.55 dB 2:24 11 - Old Flames Have New Names [flac]
DR13 -2.17 dB -18.62 dB 2:43 09 - Rollin' With The Flow [flac]
DR13 -3.71 dB -19.95 dB 3:06 13 - She Never Got Me Over You [flac]
DR13 -0.95 dB -18.59 dB 3:28 10 - Thank God For Believers [flac]
DR13 -2.26 dB -19.13 dB 3:46 04 - Too Cold At Home [flac]
DR12 -0.00 dB -13.51 dB 2:29 03 - What A Way To Live [flac]
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Number of files: 15
Official DR value: DR13

Sampling rate: 96000 Hz
Average bitrate: 2865kbs
Bits per sample: 32 bit

Dr14 T.meter 1.0.16

 

[ceedee]

Are you spamming us with Mark Chesnutt, Sal?

 

[Sal1950]

Are you spamming us with Mark Chesnutt, Sal?

Nope, deleted from the Fleetwood thread and moved here as more appropriate

 

[Thomas savage]

Well this is EDM reference in my eyes n ears

 

[Dynamix]

This definitely belongs here. I have no idea what the "DR values" are, but seriously, who cares? It sounds awesome.

The Prodigy's debut album, a little taste: