Search results

Hello, After albums such as "Abducting the Unicorn" and "Magnolia", The Pineapple Thief are back with their 15th album, "It Leads to This", featuring 8 songs. For this review, 5 versions are tested: Blu-ray with Stereo , 5.1 , Dolby Atmos , Tidal Max Flac and CD. The 4 waveforms below show...

Hello, To celebrate the album’s 40th anniversary of Paul Young's "No Parlez" album, a special reissue has been announced, with a Blu-Ray audio edition offering an enriched listening experience, featuring the Master CD versions, the stereo remix, the 5.1 remix, the Dolby Atmos remix, and most...

Hello, It’s been a while since I wanted to add a test of an album including a magnetic tape in comparison with vinyl and a digital source. It’s done with this album, and I’d like to thank Julien for making it possible to carry out this test using his magnetic tape of the album and his Revox PR...

Hello, “On Every Street” is the sixth and final studio album by the band Dire Straits, released on September 9, 1991. This album was released six years after the previous album, “Brothers in Arms”. “On Every Street” contains 12 tracks and was produced digitally. For this review, 8...

Hello, After the full review of Tears for Fears' album "The Hunting", here's a focus on the comparison of the two Dolby Atmos versions: the streaming version offered in Dolby Digital Plus and the Blu-ray version offered in Dolby Digital TrueHD. Dolby Digital Plus is a lossy compression...

Hello, Mark Knopfler will release his tenth solo studio album “One Deep River” on April 12, 2024, this new album will contain 12 songs, of which the first single “Ahead Of The Game” is already available. After testing the first single from Norah Jones' "Visions" album a week ago, I was afraid...

Hello, After her Christmas album “I Dream of Christmas”, released in 2021, Norah Jones is back with a new album, “Visions”, due for release on March 8. It will feature 12 tracks, including “Running”, which is already available for streaming. We can’t forget her debut album “Come Away With...

Hello, The Rolling Stones are back with their 24th studio album “Hackney Diamonds”, 7 years after “Blue and Lonesome”, which was a covers album, and 18 years after “A Bigger Bang”, which consisted of original songs. For this album, 3 versions are tested: Amazon Music UltraHD in 24 bits...

Hello, The Harmony Codex" is Steven Wilson's seventh solo album, scheduled for release on September 29, 2023. It's an experimental and varied album, containing 10 tracks, 3 of which are already available: "Economies of Scale" , "Impossible Tightrope" (10 minutes) and "Rock Bottom"...

Hello, Kirsten Edkins' album "Shapes & Sound" was recorded for the launch of Kevin Grey's new label Cohearent Records by award-winning recording engineer Kevin Gray. The album was recorded entirely analog/tube in Gray's new studio, Cohearent Recording. It was released on January 24, 2023 on...

Hello, Analog magnetic tape has long been a reference medium used by the biggest bands on machines that are legends today, such as the Studer J37 used by the Beatles or the Studer A80 used by Pink Floyd for their album The Dark Side of the Moon. Whether stereo or multitrack, with bandwidths from...

Irish artist Sinéad O’Connor, whose recent death has left the music world in mourning, made a stunning international breakthrough with her second album “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got”, unveiled in 1990. The critically acclaimed opus included the iconic single “Nothing Compares 2 U”, a...

Hello, Another big summer production is "Oppenheimer", directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt. The film's score is composed by Ludwig Göransson, who previously worked with Christopher Nolan on "Tenet" in 2020. The film's soundtrack is presented in...

Hello, in this reportage and test, we look at the reissue of Serge Gainsbourg's album "L'homme à la tête de chou" and explore the complex process of remixing and mastering the album in stereo and multichannel formats. The reissue is available in a deluxe boxed set containing 2 CDs, a...

“Tubular Bells” is Mike Oldfield’s first studio album, released in 1973. This emblematic album is often considered a pioneering work of progressive music. This is an opportunity to compare the new mixes produced for the 50th anniversary (stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos) with original and other...

Hello, That's it, there are now more than 500 versions that have been tested, more precisely 504 divided between 78 albums and 4 singles. Thank you all for your encouragement. The range of media types has been extended, and in addition to CD, DVD, Bluray, SACD, vinyl, cassette, DAT...

Hi, Previously in the dynamics of music, we saw the difference between the dynamics of the medium and the dynamics of the music, as well as the effects of dynamic compression on the music in terms of distortion. Today, we will discuss another aspect, the impact of dynamics on tape or vinyl...

Hello, When we compare different editions of the same album, we regularly notice that the digital versions are impacted by the Loudness War, i.e. by the use of a Brickwall type limiter to increase the average sound level while reducing the peaks, or less cleanly with clipping. This is due to...

Hello, After testing the studio MASTER version (in 32 bits floating 88.2 kHz format) compared to the CD and the Qobuz version, and being present at the lacquer cutting from the studio MASTER files without any modification. Today, here is the review of the vinyl pressing test. Thanks to...

Hello, Here is the last album of Mylène Farmer L'Emprise After the test of the singles, no surprises on the level of the stereo versions, the digital versions (CD and Qobuz) are compressed (DR6) compared to the vinyls (black and red) (DR10) which are very clean and well engraved. But, what...