In the second bell test, the difference in sound is heard much more clearly. LOMO reproduces the tone of the bell as a confidently vibrating sound field. U87 reproduces it in a torn form and with a midbass failure.
On the site of the Soyuz microphone manufacturer, I found a test of two versions of condenser microphones, with a tube amplifier and a field-effect transistor. The difference is especially noticeable on hi-hats. The vacuum tube version sounds more intelligible.
013 SERIES - Soyuz Microphones
On the site of the Soyuz microphone manufacturer, I found a test of two versions of condenser microphones, with a tube amplifier and a field-effect transistor. The difference is especially noticeable on hi-hats. The vacuum tube version sounds more intelligible.
013 SERIES - Soyuz Microphones
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Too many variables in the playback venue, even here there's little interest in speaker/room interaction.
When I was a kid my dad took me to Birmingham Town Hall to listen to a serious Hi-Fi set up and listening session.
Not amazing if you know that the transducers (mics and loudspeakers) are the bottle neck of any audio system.
The Manhattan Center '61? Bought it on your recommendation. Have you bought Ella sings Ellington songbook yet?
Colored microphones! Actually Shure Brothers microphones had a blue logo which was changed to black when one of the brothers died. That was long enough ago that I have only seen one original model 55 with the blue logo!
Their most popular microphone cartridge was designed to have flat on axis frequency response, but it ended up with a midrange rise. This made it very popular as that maximized speech intelligibility with the common loudspeaker systems at the time of introduction. They have since introduced better (less "colored") microphones since then and none have been as widely accepted as that one!
It seems like some here simply don't understand the huge difference between production and REproduction.
Many, years ago I toured with a band and after a gig one of the publics came and told me that he had bought 2 Marshall stacks and 2 Leslie 122's because he loved the sound of bands like Deep Purple and would hear it like it was meant to sound.
I tryed to tell him the difference between production and REproduction.
The Manhattan Center '61? Bought it on your recommendation. Have you bought Ella sings Ellington songbook yet?
That’s it.
1. Yes. Track 10 was recorded at the St. George’s Hotel - others at the Manhattan Center
2. No
Haven’t gotten around to it yet. Birthday coming up - I’ll get the kids to get it plus a good bottle of Scotch