{"id":3104,"date":"2014-06-20T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2014-06-20T11:52:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:52:25","slug":"random-noise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/?p=3104","title":{"rendered":"Random Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a lot of posts, comments, articles and audiophile blogs over the course of my week. Some are entertaining, some illuminating and other utterly ridiculous. Today I thought I would offer up a collection of some of my favorite items from the last week or so I (and no, I’m not going to included the HRA Definition press release from the DEG, CEA, NARAS and labels…I’ll let you figure out which category that piece fits in!).<\/p>\n

Here’s an item from emusician.com (Electronic Musician), an online magazine that is targeted to musicians and their interests. It’s an interview with the head of Disc Makers’ CEO Tony Van Veen about their decision to re-enter the vinyl pressing business, a segment they abandoned 15 years ago. During the interview he answers questions about the resurgence of vinyl from a “micro niche” product, the difficulties of getting their pressing lines back in operation and the fact they outsource their disc cutting because they sold their own Neumann lathe years ago. <\/p>\n

However, when asked, “what’s the most important thing for artists to know if they’re considering releasing on vinyl?” he answers:<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not a CD, it\u2019s not a download, it\u2019s not digital. You can\u2019t compress and limit the crap out of your music to have it sound as loud as possible, and still have it work on record. It likely needs to be mastered separately for your vinyl project. Your music will sound different on vinyl than in digital form, and benefits from more dynamic range<\/strong>. Also, the amount of time per side becomes a limiting factor. A 65-minute CD can\u2019t be squeezed into one vinyl LP. But it feels oh so good to slide that 12-inch platter out of the protective paper sleeve and drop it onto a turntable.”<\/p>\n

Tony is obviously not an audio engineer. He’s right that mastering for a vinyl release is different than for a CD…it means having to adhere to the RIAA curves and avoiding stereo in the entire program amongst other things. Things that aren’t good. The same stereo mixes CANNOT be simply cut onto a vinyl LP without compromising some of the parameters of the sound. And the comment about dynamic range is completely wrong. Vinyl LPs cannot even come close to the dynamic range of a CD.<\/p>\n

Here’s the link<\/a>, if you want to read the entire interview.<\/p>\n

My second favorite read this past week is so amazing that it might just warrant a “Tweaky Award”, my recognition of an accessory or process that is complete nonsense. The site is Eric’s HiFi Blog in Singapore and he’s talking about Essence of Music – Two Step CD Cleaner and Treatment Kit. I’m not going to bother with the claims about the product (I recognize that CDs, when damaged or mistreated can be cleaned but the cleaning doesn’t enhance the sound) but go straight to the paragraph at the end. Read for yourself:<\/p>\n

“Optical discs are a tricky bunch. I keep two identical files on my computer, one ripped normally, and one ripped from a disc that was treated by an Acoustic Revive RD-3 CD demagnetizer, followed by the SK-CD electrostatic excluder immediately prior to ripping. All of my visitors have commented on the obvious sonic differences between both tracks, despite both files being digitally identical<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Eric needs to learn how optical discs work…and understand that they are not “tricky”. For anyone to claim that two identical digital files have “obvious sonic differences” challenges the basic concepts of information theory. It is interesting that he acknowledges that the tweak accessories that he purchased and uses result in files that are no different than the simple rips. Duh.<\/p>\n

Here’s the link<\/a> to the entire blog post, if you’re interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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