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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital
Post Subject: Downward progressionPosted by drdna on: 11/18/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote:
He use Magico monitors and with 91dB sensitivity and 4R impedance I would be very surprised it I see any SETs in there. It even more interesting that his Magico speakers are sitting right next to the wall. I do know how Magico loudspeakers and I would like nobody use them as “references monitors”


Oh, I see you are absolutely correct.  I am very puzzled.  As it says on the website, the mastering studios relocated to a new location.  Maybe there was no room for the old set-up.  I was only in the old studio a few years ago.  I swear it was all these gigantic speakers and each with its dedicated vacuum tube SET all done up with this precarious looking copper and gold wiring.  Everything totally hand-made. Paul had a very good ear and was really obsessed with sound, so I have no idea why he would switch to the set-up he has in the new studio.  The old studio was enormous, so I am just guessing lack of space and maybe he got the Magico speakers for free for promoting them?

 Romy the Cat wrote:
The problem is that industry, it it’s absolutely dominating majority, does not recognize even the existence of such a thing as “digital master". The original record file does not consider not as anything relic but rather as a first step in the long journey of “mastering”. Those peoples (using juts a first level of listing assessment) do not consider that EQ, limiting, compression, artificial reverberations, digital change volume, upsampling, downsampling, change resolution, rendering, engaging any of DSP operation pretty much destroy permanently the very fine nuances of sonic signature.


This is quite true.  Much like a Xerox photocopy.  The first one almost looks accurate, but each subsequent copy of a copy is worse and worse.  I think the real question may be what parameters must be achieved and maintained to minimize this damage to the digital code?

Adrian

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