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| From | "bob" <segarini@sympatico.ca> |
| Subject | Re: Let it be. busted |
| Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:37:46 -0500 |
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I listen on a Klipsch 5.1 sound system fueled by a 650 watt Sony amplifier
at home, and an Infinity 360 watt 11 speaker system in my car.
bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark London" <mrl@psfc.mit.edu>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Let it be. busted
> >From: "bob" <segarini@sympatico.ca>
> >We must have gotten two different versions of the CD...mine is a HUGE
> >improvement over the previous release and boots..
>
> I would be curious how you 2 listen to the CD. I.e., with speakers,
> good headphones, or portable CD headphones? The difference in
> listening experience has to be different. Considering that many
> people listen to music like I do, which is to do so using a portable
> CD player, with your basic inexpensive headphones, I've often
> wondered if producers test how their mix will sound with a portable,
> especially when new digital techniques are used to try and increase
> the quality of older recordings. It might make the music sound
> brighter, but at the same time, you lose the some of the smoothness
> of the original analog recordings. This is especially true of the
> drum and cymbal sound, which Frank complained of. If you listen to
> music with portable CD headphones, the music is right up on your
> ears, and something like overloud or annoying drum or cymbal sounds
> might be more noticable than if you listened with speakers (and
> especially since portable CD players have no controls that allow you
> to correct the sound, except for "extra bass" and "lots of extra
> bass")
>
> P.s. if you have the time, in some cases, you can correct the problem
> with the cymbals by applying a high pass (or notch) filter. The
> drums is another story. I've actually taken the time to use audio
> editing software to manually smooth out the start of each drum hit.
> Although you have to be crazy like myself to spend the amount of time
> necessarily to do this, without being paid for it!
>
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