Thanks: I will investigate. I have had to make do with my ears up to now!
David At 10:26 15-09-16, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: >If you want to see in the form of graphs why the LP sounds better, you can >try this software recording analyser. > >http://www.lts.a.se/lts/masvis > >It shows you in graphs how the recording engineer and mostly the mastering >engineers have done their job. >It's interesting to compare different releases of famous and well known >recordings, and what's happened over time. > >Bo-Erik > >On 15 Sep 2016 10:13, "David Pickett" <d...@fugato.com> wrote: > >What we are seeing is that large companies, who in the past would not have >paid royalties to make a Soundfield type of microphone, which might have >supported development of Ambisonics, are now jumping on the band-waggon of >VR because they hope that there may be big money in it. I suppose also >that the people in those companies who had a "not invented here and >therefore a waste of time" attitude have now retired and corporate memory >has forgotten the 1970s. > >One does not need to be a conspiracy theorist to see that "big audio >business" ensured that Ambisonics went to the wall, and is now trying to >make money out of it. With hindsight, one can see that it was the same >with the analog/digital transition. In 1982, aided by poor quality control >of LP manufacturing, the CD was supposed to provide "perfect sound >forever"; and nowadays companies are trying to sell punters yet another >incarnation of "Kind of Blue" and other classics in both hi-res AND >expensive vinyl formats. > >It has been a salutary experience for me in the past year to buy >musty-smelling LPs, manufactured in the 1960s, from second hand record >stores at knock down prices of around 2 pounds (or 3 EUR) and to discover >that they play on my old Thorens TD124 WITHOUT pops, clicks and crackles, >and with a sound quality that is as good as, and in some cases, audibly >better than the CD or Bluray-Audio reissues of the same recordings. > >David > > >At 09:17 15-09-16, Dave Malham wrote: >>Looks like this is going to be pushed at the AES LA show in a couple of >>weeks - they have a nice picture of it in an advert in the newsletter >>that's come out about the show. So, that means (at least) four commercial >>sources of soundfield type mics now - only 41 years after I saw my very >>first one at the London AES in 1975. >> >> Dave >> >> >>-- >> >>As of 1st October 2012, I have retired from the University. >> >>These are my own views and may or may not be shared by the University >> >>Dave Malham >>Honorary Fellow, Department of Music >>The University of York >>York YO10 5DD >>UK >> >>'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' >>-------------- next part -------------- >>An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>URL: >><https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/201609>>15/739f611f/attachment.html> >>_______________________________________________ >>Sursound mailing list >>Sursound@music.vt.edu >>https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe >>here, edit account or options, view archives and so on. > >_______________________________________________ >Sursound mailing list >Sursound@music.vt.edu >https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, >edit account or options, view archives and so on. >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/201609>15/d066e845/attachment.html> >_______________________________________________ >Sursound mailing list >Sursound@music.vt.edu >https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe >here, edit account or options, view archives and so on. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
