On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:35:08 GMT, MINe 109
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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:44:49 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:28:17 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
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As a designer of the highest quality of sax mouthpieces(I am the
acoustician and manufacturing engineer , my partner the mechanical
engineer) it appals me that CDs are eqd so badly. SO much so that
Digital is given the bad rap and not the incompetent mastering
engineers . These engineers have been listening to recorded music
for so long they haven't a clue as to what instruments realy sound
like.

Perhaps. These days music is made to sell to people who probably fit
your description better than the engineers do.

I offer mp3s of the week of rare classical records and concerts
remastered by me in sound that does not have the juiced mids and
highs of lps and CDs.

And the URL for downloading is??
http://members.aol.com/abbedd/abbedd

I like the music as music, but not as an example of good high fidelity.

When reproduced over a modern system, these recordings tend to sound nasal,
raspy, lacking in presence, with too much upper bass and not enough deep
bass. I can't help but suspect that were they were mastered based on
listening with modern speakers, they'd sound quite a bit different.



Arny

You have been listening to recorded music so long you don't know what
instruments sound like. Because you said " Lacking in presence" I know
I have been sucessful.

And how can you make a judgement of my remastering if you never heard
the source?

Good point. What happened to the tape hiss?

To me, your eq sounds a bit 'my-fi' (not that there's anything wrong
with that). The original recording may be forcing you to choose between
fattening up the solo instruments and preserving an orchestral recorded
timbre that probably wasn't so great to start with.

Modern speakers You mean like B & W 802s(pos). My partner had either
duntech or dunleavy towers(The worse of the two brands) and when the
tweeter blew it sounded better

Must be Duntech.

Sound is built from the fundamental up not the other way around.
Almost all recordings have the harmonics out of proportion to the
fundamental.

Perhaps you could suggest a recording that you feel has a good balance
so that we can hear for ourselves? Otherwise, one might think you're the
only one who knows what good sound is.

Try Giants of the Tenor Sax Prez Commodore CCD 7002. 78s from the late
30s. Other than that I have not heard a balanced CD yet. This is not
due to digital or my equipment.Yes it is due to digital. The digital
domain is unforgiving and the pandering and/or incompetence of the
recording engineers are there for all to hear. I call my Bozaks Bad cd
exposers. For the opposite of good sound get Giant Steps by Trane in
the Bill Inglot remastering on Atlantic/Rhino. What a phoney he is. I
assume he uses a RTA instead of his perfect ears (NO Holes)

Abbedd
BTW they are first mastered using Beyer 990 Pros. It takes a while to
get used to real sound after years of juiced mids and highs.

How do you know this?
It took me a while :-)

Long live Rudy Bozak

For people who think Quads have a excessively large sweet spot...

Stephen