Good Music for testing Audio Equipment

NorthStar · Feb 15, 2016

That's a nice looking tape deck John.

APP · Feb 18, 2016

very pretty.

APP · Feb 19, 2016

This, from an audiophile perspective, is hard to believe;

The Return Of The Cassette Tape: National Audio Company Still Makes 10 Million Audiocassettes Per Year

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/81272/20150902/the-return-of-the-cassette-tape-national-audio-company-still-makes-10-million-audiocassettes-per-year.htm

APP · Feb 21, 2016

Tapes

Johnny Vinyl said:
I used to have a full array of 70's Japanese gear, like many of us did I'm sure. I'll fire it up this year for sure after some commitments for projects around the house.

Do you still have some of your old tapes, and if so how are they holding up?

APP · Feb 25, 2016

One of my all time favorite albums is Sarah Vaughans ''After Hours''.
Very intimate recording just Sarah with Mundell Lowe on guitar and George Duvivier on bass.
I have it on Cd as well as on LP and both have a lot of tape noise.
You can hear it hear on this you tube video as well.
Did they have noise reduction back then?

amirm · Feb 25, 2016

Wiki shows that recording from 1961. And Dolby noise reduction in 1965. So it doesn't seem like it was an option there on that front.

APP · Mar 5, 2016

amirm said:
Wiki shows that recording from 1961. And Dolby noise reduction in 1965. So it doesn't seem like it was an option there on that front.

Thanks.
But could it not be applied to the remastering?

Johnny Vinyl · Mar 7, 2016

APP said:
Do you still have some of your old tapes, and if so how are they holding up?

I gave them away about 15 years ago. Some of the tapes were 25-30 yrs old and still held up very well. I gave them to a friend who was really into vintage gear, and especially cassette decks.

Kefas · Mar 9, 2016

I am busy transferring my CD collection and a few cassette tapes to my PC.
I have a number of recorded CDR CD's giving to me by friends who recorded some of their vinyl.
Several of these CDR cd'd are no longer playable but the cassette tapes are fine some even 30 years old.

APP · Mar 12, 2016

Kefas said:
I am busy transferring my CD collection and a few cassette tapes to my PC.
I have a number of recorded CDR CD's giving to me by friends who recorded some of their vinyl.
Several of these CDR cd'd are no longer playable but the cassette tapes are fine some even 30 years old.

I have had the same experience. The quality of some CDR's is very bad.

NorthStar · Mar 12, 2016

But the quality of cassette tapes is not only bad...they are lost...the music is no more...it's just distortion with the background music of the other side of the tape. ...Commercial cassette tapes I'm talking about here. ...From the seventies; say 1975 to 1985.

* Good music selections to test audio equipment? ...Classical orchestral music recordings from Reference Recordings music record label (Prof Keith Johnson).

• Copland: Symphony No.3 (HDCD)
• Mephisto & Co. (HDCD)
• Stravinsky (HDCD)
• Pomp & Pipes! (HDCD)
• Bruckner Symph. No 9 (HDCD)

...And about 50-100 more from RR label.

Other labels: Sheffield (Drum Track Record), Opus 3 (Eric Bibb), Channel Classics, ECM (Jazz), AudioQuest (Doug McLeod - Blues), Silence, Chesky, Three Blind Mice, ...

? Patricia Barber: all her CD/SACDs. Jazz ?

APP · Mar 20, 2016

NorthStar said:
But the quality of cassette tapes is not only bad...they are lost...the music is no more...it's just distortion with the background music of the other side of the tape. ...Commercial cassette tapes I'm talking about here. ...From the seventies; say 1975 to 1985.

* Good music selections to test audio equipment? ...Classical orchestral music recordings from Reference Recordings music record label (Prof Keith Johnson).

• Copland: Symphony No.3 (HDCD)
• Mephisto & Co. (HDCD)
• Stravinsky (HDCD)
• Pomp & Pipes! (HDCD)
• Bruckner Symph. No 9 (HDCD)

...And about 50-100 more from RR label.

Other labels: Sheffield (Drum Track Record), Opus 3 (Eric Bibb), Channel Classics, ECM (Jazz), AudioQuest (Doug McLeod - Blues), Silence, Chesky, Three Blind Mice, ...

? Patricia Barber: all her CD/SACDs. Jazz ?

I have Doug McLeod albums from the RR label, will check out AudioQuest too

APP · Mar 20, 2016

Kefas · Mar 22, 2016

NorthStar said:
But the quality of cassette tapes is not only bad...they are lost...the music is no more...it's just distortion with the background music of the other side of the tape. ...Commercial cassette tapes I'm talking about here. ...From the seventies; say 1975 to 1985.

Yes, those tapes where terrible low quality, almost a scam, it was better to buy empty BASF's and copy your self

Kefas · Mar 22, 2016

Hi-FiGuy · Mar 22, 2016

Johnny Vinyl said:
I used to have a full array of 70's Japanese gear, like many of us did I'm sure. I'll fire it up this year for sure after some commitments for projects around the house.

Speaking of, see below. I am not too proud, snicker if you must, butt I suffer from the same disease as y'all!

Temporary set up as we look for a home

APP · Mar 26, 2016

Looks good!

NorthStar · Mar 26, 2016

kenniGT · Mar 30, 2016

I found it on British forum. Nice list for testing with Tidal help. All you need to do is to add to you favourite lists (on PC) and it will appear in your streamer application.

http://listen.tidal.com/playlist/356c4693-0889-4ad3-ab13-79c90724eb28

marty · Mar 30, 2016

NorthStar said:

love, love this one

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