Ok, so which setup sounded the most like what you heard live in the room? I thought the phone with external mics was good and the Tascam with Uni mic or external mics all sounded pretty good. The phone video was also better I thought than the phone with the field recorder app. Can you do a video with the external mics?
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To my ears, and listening with headphones, the Tascam + Superlux sounded closer to what I hear, and generally more pleasant, but that does not mean that the recording is "faithful" - it is still pretty far from the live sound. That does not mean either that you cannot learn something from the general "sound" of the system on inferior recordings. I wish that people who made recordings and published them on YouTube would systematically let us know what equipment they are using.
The Tascam with the Uni mike sounds pretty good as well. Concerning the phone with external mic, it was a first attempt, and I am sure I can get better sound. I'll be going to a concert next week and plan on recording some of it. I will be curious to hear the results!
I'll try a video with the SP-15 at some point this week.
I listened again to Fermer's recording with the same SP15 and it sounds good, better than the one I made with the same mic! Everything else is different (equipment, room, seating position...). I am going to assume that a vinyl version of that album sounds probably similar to a good digital playback, all else being equal (as this is a new release)...
His system certainly gives a good balanced sound, with good transparency, but that is what you would expect from a half a million dollar system
I don't know what else we can conclude from his video.
His system certainly gives a good balanced sound, with good transparency, but that is what you would expect from a half a million dollar system
I don't know what else we can conclude from his video.
What equipment did you use to record this ?
Perhaps give a link to the track on a streaming service if you want others to test it ?
I did not say it was! Are you saying we need to record organ music to make it a real system test ? If so, why?
I did not say it was! Are you saying we need to record organ music to make it a real system test ? If so, why?
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You have the full bass freq spectrum in this recording
A lot of speakers vibrate/ distort so much on this material they almost start walking to the exit by themselves.
Any small 2 way speaker can do 80 - 100 hz and upwards.
The 20 hz to 80 - 100 hz region is whats gonna cost you in high end audio
My speakers drop below 50hz, and i have room modes that will not help either. Good thing i don’t listen to organ music !
You gotta have good subwoofers. I have two JL Audio Fathom v112v2. Not cheap, but more than worth it.
Not cheap, and not so obvious to fit in a living room...
Vis a vis bass, keep in mind that phone microphones are going to be severely rolled-off below 80hz as well. Granted, if one system produces more deep bass than another you could probably still hear a difference, but the recording in both cases will probably not be representative of what the system actually does.
Example:
blog.faberacoustical.com
Vis a vis bass, keep in mind that phone microphones are going to be severely rolled-off below 80hz as well. Granted, if one system produces more deep bass than another you could probably still hear a difference, but the recording in both cases will probably not be representative of what the system actually does.
Example:
iPhone Microphone Frequency Response Comparison
With the advent of sound level meter apps for the iPhone OS (of which SoundMeter was the first) people began to ask, "How flat is the frequency response of the iPhone's microphone?" Early testing indicated
blog.faberacoustical.com
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Please, can you give the exact reference to the track you recorded.
Thank you
Matt
I m not at home at the moment .
Its this music on YT
Iirc its this CD
Olivier Messiaen / Rudolf Innig - Complete Organ Works Vol. 4
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Thanks. For anyone interested, first track of this album on Qobuz: https://play.qobuz.com/album/chr7nnv2cg4lc
This is my organ reference track for evaluating set-ups:
Matt
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Interesting to compare the spectrum of some of these tracks:
1) Truly
2) Corcovado
3) Organ Track (from Qobuz link above)
My system will be happier with the Oscar Peterson track (Corcovado)!
1) Truly
2) Corcovado
3) Organ Track (from Qobuz link above)
My system will be happier with the Oscar Peterson track (Corcovado)!
Thanks interesting .
A lot of musical energy is still present between 10-20 hz in the Qobuz organ file
Yes, and the Truly track seems compressed (dynamic range is low, though I have not checked it)
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