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Review of the week : Madeleine Peyroux – Let’s Walk, Imagine Dragons – LOOM, Renaud Capuçon – Gabriel Fauré, Johnny Cash – Songwriter

Jean.Francois

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Hello,

Here are the tests of 4 albums this week in different styles:
Madeleine Peyroux - Let's Walk - 2024
Imagine Dragons - LOOM - 2024
Renaud Capuçon - Gabriel Fauré - 2024
Johnny Cash - Songwriter - 2024
Madeleine Peyroux - Let's Walk, Imagine Dragons - LOOM, Renaud Capuçon - Gabriel Fauré, Johnny...jpg


Madeleine Peyroux - Let's Walk features a high-quality, highly dynamic stereo version (DR13) and a Dolby Atmos mix, which is a basic 5.1.4 mix by Elliot Scheiner and mastered by Darcy Proper. It's a beautiful, successful spatial mix.
Let s Walk  [7.1.4] --  5.6 (  4.4 --  7.2 ) -- small.jpg


Imagine Dragons - LOOM: no surprise with a stereo album heavily compressed in dynamics (DR5), as shown in the waveform below:
waveform - LOOM  - Tidal -- small.jpg


The Dolby Atmos version brings dynamics and beautiful spatialization, as shown in the graph below:
waveform - LOOM  - Dolby Atmos -- small.jpg



Johnny Cash - Songwriter: the rendering is different for each track, due to the diversity of dynamic compression (between DR7 and DR10), as shown in the graph below:
waveform - Songwrite - Tidal Max - small.jpg

The Dolby Atmos mix is dynamic (DR13), with excellent use of space.


Renaud Capuçon - Gabriel Fauré
: a fine job by Deutsche Grammophon, with a very precise and dynamic stereo version, and a Dolby Atmos version that immerses us in the concert, as shown by the spatialization below:
Gabriel Faure  [7.1.4] --  8.7 (  8 --  9.5 ) -- small.jpg


You can find out more about these 4 albums HERE with all the extracts and measurements.

Enjoy your listening,
 
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