As an ex recording/mixing engineer/producer, http://www.thepikes.com/bio here are a few thoughts with respect to evaluating high resolution masters for sound quality. Unfortunately, for most recordings, especially multi-track, there are many, many steps/paths from the mic to the final master we listen to. Most folks I think would be surprised to see the workflow. But that is another post. The criteria I use to eval music sound quality is: 1) Musical ...
Updated 05-09-2012 at 02:56 AM by mitchco
Recommended reading first The reason is that I am not going to reiterate the baseline components and measurements of my test gear already covered in that post. Here is a high level block diagram of my test setup: On the left side is my HTPC with both JRiver MC 17 and JPLAY mini installed. The test FLAC file is the same Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Refugee at 24/96 ...
Updated 04-09-2013 at 04:17 PM by mitchco
