A line of products that convert analog inputs to digital, performs DSP, then converts back to analog. Probably not appearing on the JC approved "real-hi-end" list anytime soon.
That's not me criticizing the product, merely pointing out how it doesn't align with what makes a product sound good according to your "rock star" guru.
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So is it Kozned or JC that doesn't understand the difference between A/D and D/A? And is it JC or Kozned that confuses Schiit with SHIITE?
So is it Kozned or JC that doesn't understand the difference between A/D and D/A? And is it JC or Kozned that confuses Schiit with SHIITE?
I'd give John a pass on Schiit. Such a terrible name, and he captured the essence of it
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Fascinating. Back in the day the "analog only" crowd told us all, with great confidence, that CD digital had two problems: insufficient bit depth (aka word length) and too low sampling rate. "If only," they would cry, "Sony and Philips had used more bits, like 20 or 24, and a higher sample rate, like 48KHz, then digital would not have these terrible flaws." Now you can get digital recordings (what RNM calls "masters") at 24 or 32 bits and 96KHz or higher sample rates, but now we are told "the old digital was better." Unbelievable!
+1.
But may-be that just the music ? "Old digital " was just the last jolts of what was, may-be, the most creative period in the human history.
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That is certainly the right idea! I hope that open mind is open to actual evidence, and also open to rejecting unsupported ideas from people who don't seem to know what they are talking about.
The music he likes.
Yeah, whatever, I hear more creative music now than I did 30 yeas ago. Of course the music I own from 30 years ago means a lot to me. Just tonight I listened to some David Bowie from my music server, then pulled out my Japanese vinyl pressing of Hunky Dory, then back to digital for Esperanza Spalding's "Chamber Music Society" (ripped from CD, transported via WiFi to SqueezeBox, then analog to my sterei). They all sounded great. I heard nothing I would describe as "glare" or "haze" or "a veil" or any of the usual claptrap on either the dgital or the analog streams. The first Bowie CD, a "best of" of my daughter's, was somewhat compressed (dynamics) and hot, unsurprisingly. The Esperanza Spalding CD was not, also unsurprising. There was not a big difference between the vinyl and the digital besides the bit of noise on the vinyl, but it's a good pressing so really not bad at all.
I second the Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society...great emotion to the playing, and the HD version sounds wonderful (don't have the vinyl to compare).
I am also a big fan of a few bands playing these days:
Bent Knee - fantastic players and song writers, with fun but overly compressed and distorted production:
Say So [HD 44.1k/24b] | Cuneiform Records
Infinien - Also great players and song writers, much better recording quality,
iNFiNiEN
There are an embarrassment of great players these days, but the commercial radio playlists in the US are once again as locked up as they were in the 60's before Underground FM opened them wide...
Cheers!
Howie
Well.
R'n'R, Electric blues, Country, West coast, Surf music, Underground or alternative (ex: Lou Reed), soul music, Rhythm'n'blues, Tamla Motown, funk, Reggae, Salsa, Jazz (fusion, Free, progressive etc.), Pop Rock ... I forget hundreds
All the months, a new kind of music, new sounds, new grooves, new fantastic artistes appeared on the musical scene over a 20 year period between 60 and 80.
In the same time hundreds of new musical instruments and gears to change the sound appeared. Electric guitars, and electric instruments in general, a new use of bottleneck, pedal steels, piano fenders, Hammond organs and those stange "Leslie", Electric organs, synthesizers, Flanges, delays, vocoders, various distortions pedals, Wah-wha and volume pedals, I forgot hundreds
I would be interested if somebody can provide such an expansion in the last 20 years ?
May-I talk about movies and photography ?
I asked several young musicians at several occasions for the reason why the actual musical period was mostly a photocopy of or "samples" of pieces of those golden years, and they all answered: "You had almost invented everything, during this period, what can-you expect ?
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You guys ought to see this documentary:
Sound City (2013) - IMDb
YouTube
It says a lot about the REAL music recording/production process and about creating THAT vibe that gets across to the listener at the end.
I doubt all the new 'bedroom style' smartass producers are able to create something similar. Protools and plug-in junkies, that's what they are.
Not that I'm against the recently recorded music or new technologies, but, somehow I don't see the 20 year olds around that should be rocking the planet today, like their parents did when they were in their 20's. One has to wonder why..
Sound City (2013) - IMDb
YouTube
It says a lot about the REAL music recording/production process and about creating THAT vibe that gets across to the listener at the end.
I doubt all the new 'bedroom style' smartass producers are able to create something similar. Protools and plug-in junkies, that's what they are.
Not that I'm against the recently recorded music or new technologies, but, somehow I don't see the 20 year olds around that should be rocking the planet today, like their parents did when they were in their 20's. One has to wonder why..
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