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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Why is it not common practice? by Andy Simpson on 2009-10-18 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Andy, I do not know how accurate what you say. I do not think in the terms bandwidth reduction and intermediation distortions but if what you propose is accurate (and I do not see why it would not be so) then why is it not ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Right amount of wrong notes? by Andy Simpson on 2009-04-22 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Andy, my mind does not operate by the categories you employ, I rather think about nature of Sound not about harmonic/non-harmonic distortions. The whole subject about the distortion is intricate, not to mention that it is n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Compression, not just amplitude by Andy Simpson on 2009-04-22 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Let do not forget that acoustic space also have own compression… not to mention that the performing intend itself has own “compression”.[/quote]The question of 'self-compression', where the performer moderates their perf...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Gain VS distortion by Andy Simpson on 2009-04-14 
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[quote user="Paul S"]The fact is, all orchestral processing/recording/broadcasting involves some sort of "compression", so it's really just a matter of how it's done.[/quote]This is true in a more complete sense than I think was intended.Aside from t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: DSD noise-floor.... by Andy Simpson on 2009-03-26 
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[quote user="manisandher"]I received my copy of 'The Karp Segall Experiment' today. The music's not really 'my cup of tea', but it's OK as background music for me. Using RME's Digicheck, I'm measuring -50dB noise at 81KHz... [/quote]What was the RMS ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: All roads lead to rome ('the microphones are out-of-tune') by Andy Simpson on 2009-02-25 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] This weekend I discover interesting phenomena on which I did not pay attention before. The Montrealian Charles Dutoit conducted this weekend Boston symphony. I was listening the broadcast, recording it as usually. It was ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Further on the subject of difference frequency measurements... by Andy Simpson on 2009-02-15 
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[quote user="drdna"]  Andy Simpson wrote: This type of test is more commonly called DFD (difference frequency distortion) and is sometimes used in microphone measurement to measure acoustic/mechanical non-linearity.This is in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Difference Frequency Distortion measurements by Andy Simpson on 2009-02-08 
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[quote user="el`Ol"]I don´t know whether the audio industry`s products are so sophisticatet that they need mathematical steam hammers to improve them. In a German forum there is a discussion about a diploma work from the TU Berlin where the student f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Malpractice - did you complain to the station involved? by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, what, the WGBH did broadcasted the M6 live-to-tape with…horrible sound. Did they destroy the whole sound purely intentionally?  The finals final blow however was not screwed up – the graph even does not look as the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The chances of improvement with different barbarians? by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-24 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Andy, Yes, it is what I was thinking: they had many microphones and before the blast they turn some of them on to highlight some sections or instrument but the microphones were too hot and when the blast went off it was ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Aggressive roll-off? by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-24 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Andy, I do not think that my system runs “flat” in the way how you understand it. It is with 2db precession flat up to ~10K approximately and then it rolls off quite aggressively. In fact, I very much intentionally try to n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: The subject of 'Excessive HF' and implications by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-23 
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Romy,In response to your response to what I did not say but implied....I decided to put the question here instead, where the light of enquirey might shine upon several different facets of investigation.Firstly, I'm still interested to know if you are...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #129: Excess of HF? by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-23 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Not will everyone “get” it, or would agree with it but… where did you see me to care…. Q: What is the worst aspect of sound reproduction? A: Excessive HF response of playback. A flat response above 5-6kHz is indication...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Second thoughts.... by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-23 
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Having made my last comment based on what I 'heard' via my laptop speakers, I took the clip to the workshop monitors last night to have a further listen - not to examine the weird processing, but to come to a refreshed idea of what kind of sound...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Sounds like.... by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-20 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] At my site I many times span the subject that not the regress of engineering accomplishments is something that screws up sound nowadays and keep up in Dark Age of sound reproduction but rather a penetration of idiots in t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: The value of such a direction? by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-20 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Turn Me Up!™ is a non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records. To be clear, it's not our goal to discourage loud records; they are, of course, a valid...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The question of loudness by Andy Simpson on 2008-10-10 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 3)    With after-performance synthetic reverb the feedback between results, expressivity and the means to accomplish that expressivity does not incused the musicians awareness. Pretend an amplifier where op...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Absolute polarity? by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-19 
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Hi Collin,[quote user="CO"]Hello Andy,I like your recordings although i am listening on headphones which i normally do not use. My Main setup is not operational right now.They do sound clean, clear and dynamic.[/quote]If you get your main setup opera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: The difference between 'the same' and 'equally real' by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-13 
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[quote user="tuga"]  Andy Simpson wrote: Hi Tuga,<BR><BR>I have no argument here.<BR><BR>My main test procedure is to set up the monitors either side of the source and match playback SPL for direct bl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Science vs conjuring by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-13 
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[quote user="Paul S"]Well, you can count me among those who are perennially frustrated by all the unnessary stupidy that goes into most recordings, that's for sure, although I have several hundred records that I would like to keep for the p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Details? by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-12 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Andy Simpson wrote: Not recreate the performance but only the mechanical stimulus at the ear….Well, if my project with the Macondo 7th Channel will go successfully then I would very battle this n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: The Seventh Chanel of Macondo. by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-12 
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[quote user="tuga"]The Realistic Painter "Completely true to nature!" - what a lie: How could Nature ever be constrained into a picture? The smallest bit of Nature is infinite! And so he paints what he likes about it. And what does he like: he likes ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Further thoughts by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-12 
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[quote user="Paul S"]Andy, when I said I am not set up to exploit internet "music", I meant just that; I cannot and therefore did not run your samples through my main payback system, although even that might or might not have done...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Is it you or me? A very interesting question.... by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-11 
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[quote user="Paul S"]Andy, I will say right away that I am not at all set up to "exploit" online music, but this comes across to me as "clean" and  "noise free", with some nice spacial effects, basically devoid of harmonics, and not much in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Some further clips by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-09 
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These clips may be more to your tastes, or may cause you to be violently sick - I have no idea, but still I expect to learn something from any feedback.Early music clip AEarly music clip BJazz clip AJazz clip Band also:choir/organ clip AWith the 'and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Suggested topics of investigation by Andy Simpson on 2008-07-10 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  Andy Simpson wrote: Romy - as it turned out, the 'crapped off bass' that you refered to was in part due to the consumer pre-amp I was using. I attach an mp3 from a recent session where I re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Crapped-off bass by Andy Simpson on 2008-07-09 
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Romy - as it turned out, the 'crapped off bass' that you refered to was in part due to the consumer pre-amp I was using.I attach an mp3 from a recent session where I recorded using a DAV BG1 into Mytek stereo96 converters. In making the recording wit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: It is a worrying state of affairs by Andy Simpson on 2008-04-29 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] A very good article on the subject that basically proves my attitude on the subject: it is not about technology but the idiocy of people who use the technology. http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/HFN/ClippingOnCD/clipping.htmlT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Some further examples, recorded at higher sample rate by Andy Simpson on 2008-04-29 
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Regarding the string quartet recording & accompanying graph - an example of 'full range recording' - as I said in the email, this recording shows the hallmarks of a compressed/saturated, close/multi-mic recording.I would also say that I woul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Catastrophic reduction of sound quality.... by Andy Simpson on 2008-03-03 
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I would say that this is probably related to the human emphasis on horizontal differentiation.Much of what we see is influenced by our evolutionary skills of pattern recognition. If you take a photograph of your mother and reverse/flip it in the hor...
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