#audiophile jazz

[audio-luddite]

Listening......

I watched a kinda redneck guy who is also an audiophile? He had some interesting thoughts some of which I agree with like magic wires being bullshit.

Key in on his five absolute favourite audiophile LPs. His YouTube name is NRD.

After saying he is not a particular fan of Jazz he named 4 of the five as jazz albums. So hey check them out I had heard of 4 of them. Number 5 was Miles Davis kind of blue. I have that on iTunes and have considered getting an LP.

Number 1 is also Jazz. "Jazz at the pawn shop." Heard of that, but never heard it. So I am listening now on Apple Music. It is a live session from a jazz club and all those things I like are there. Audience noise, even ice in drinks. Really cool actually. But do I like it? The recording even on Apple is clear and clean promising vinyl bliss. But do I like it?

That is always the question. The band is not big name or at least big enough for me to have known them. Competent, but do I like them? The recording is top notch. Right now on first listen I am not anxious to buy an LP. Sound is first rate, performance err really good, err but.... Doubts are a bitch. I mean some stuff first listen is gotta have it, not this. I have to like the music don't I?

Oh my wife just sat down and says she likes it. Wife Acceptance Factor is high.

Life is complicated. Gonna keep listening.

/// Further thoughts. Doing the Wikipedia thing and the club was in Sweden so the band is from there too. Okay so that's why I had not heard of them.

The recording is high quality. But it doesn't create an accurate image of the stage. The drums are full width for example. Everything is there and clean but they are mixed into place. This is not a binaural recording. Those are spooky real but only on headphones.

Yes listening to the room ambience is cool but.....

There are a surprising number of LPs available. I looked into a boutique pressing made in Quebec, but they didn't ship out of province. Many "mint" collector copies for stupid money but you can't play those, too precious.

For now and maybe forever Apple music will suffice. ////

[youarehereiamthere]

At this point all I wanna do is open up a Japanese kissa, make coffee and spin vinyl all day long. I don't think that's too much to ask.

[joshiballestereo]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (2010)

[eternalcreative]

basie jazz bar, tokyo

photographed by don mcritchie, 2006

[donotdestroy]

"Knowledge is freedom, and ignorance is slavery."

Miles Davis - Cookin'

[stone-cold-groove]

Audio Magazine - October 1973.

[blankie5442]

This Pro-S stylus sounds pretty damn good

[isabellaalguacil]

RECORDING ASSISTANT

[theaudiophileman]

[hifi-reviews-audiophileman]

[audio-luddite]

Right and Wrong.

Mr Guttenberg the "audiophiliac" keeps spinning videos. It's his job. Sometimes more than a grain of salt is needed to listen to this stuff. Every new and different product seems to be better. He has a new best.

This is the "best planar magnetic" speaker and it is from France. It is not inexpensive.

He does go on about the basic superiority of dipoles that fill the room with sound. His current reference speakers are cone dipoles. Recall I believe this is a major flaw in the concept as all those extra sound waves careen around the room. They are not in the original signal, they confuse things. Yet he praised the imagery and clarity of these things. How are all those extra bits not confusing? Its the old brain thing of prioritizing the initial signal you hear and consigning the other things to something else.

Is it not better to put out just the signal on the recording into the room?

Two things I want to emphasize about his opinions.

First is that these are "push pull" magnetics with magnets on the front and back so they are more linear. Errr, not so much, but more magnets make a more uniform field strength. They do not mean these are linear as the diaphragm is under tension so excursions are fought by the membrane tension. But sorta yes they are more linear, but not actually linear.

Second is his experience of always shifting and moving them as each recording he played sounded different. Phase cancellation dude. One of the true evils of of dipoles. Each position gives a different frequency response. That is not a good feature even though he enjoyed it.

Arguably these are very much like Magneplanars if they decided to go really upscale. Maggies are made from MDF which is a crappy material that has one good behaviour. It damps vibration. It is cheap made from glue and wood waste. The French product has steel front and back faces with MDF in between. That means they are heavy and have more inertial mass to resist motion from the vibrating air. It can push harder. Newton says the air will push back. These will work better than maggies.

Big Planar speakers have one really good parameter. They move a lot of air. They have good acoustic impedance matching to the room. That makes the sound more immediate and "alive" which is the effect of simple efficient transfer of energy from the speaker to the air.

Horn loaded speakers do the same thing, just with the added distortion from being a horn.

Each has its problems.

So here is another flavour of the week. Tastes good, but it is not audio nirvana.

In other news I listened to my "Kind of Blue" LP.

I first did some searches for info about the label Jazz Wax. I have another of those I like. Talk about a rabbit hole. Internet forum wisdom is that my copy may be a legal pirated version. A privateer version? One forum decried the label Jazz Wax as stealing masters that had expired copyrights. Some bastards in Europe are cutting LPs from CD copies say these paragons of justice.

Interesting and maybe true, certain no. Copyrights do expire on published works. But I think the property rights of the physical media product do not expire like that. Miles Davis' work is Public Domain if he has been dead long enough and his estate did not renew it. But the ownership of the masters I think remains with the company who produced or purchased it. That is why Universal has all those underground vaults with master tapes and digital files squirreled away. No point if someone could just copy an old CD. Whatever, I am not a lawyer.

It was interesting the intensity and vehemence of the discussion. Really calm down people. Kind of Blue is a work of performing art. If I want an LP and it is legally for sale in a store in my city why complain.

As far as quality it is pretty good. New York Columbia recordings from 1959 can be fine. And Jazz does not get processed to sound good on AM Radio. This one is half speed direct metal mastered. One forum guy screamed that DMM sucked and had no Bass. Not my experience. Be that as it may it is a musical Icon work. Some consider it to be the most important Jazz album ever. I do not want to go looking for ancient and rare LPs in bins. Fresh heavy vinyl is better.

There are some interesting effects in the recording. I have to listen again to track them down. The original was three track tape. I am pretty sure there are overdubs in there. Whatever it is good music.

That is the point right?

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

The House of Blue Lights (Audiophile 180gr. HQ Vinyl)

eddie costa, piano

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[joshiballestereo]

Chet Baker & Russ Freeman Quartet

[the-generous-fool]

Can anybody tell me what that instrument is at 1:03?

Some sort of cool jazz funk synth accordion?

Idk whether it's purely synth, or exists as an analog instrument.

[theredhairing40]

Listening to Jimmy Smith's The Cat, and if you haven't heard it before you're missing out... just follow the hyperlink embedded in the word cat to see more.