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Digital Credit Where It�s Due

Mister Wednesday — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:38:44 GMT

Greetings all,

An article on The New York Times website on the first moves by digital music streaming companies to provide musician and production credit metadata to consumers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/ar...set-trend.html

I have no connection to or association with any of the companies, persons, products or views expressed in the article referenced above.

Regards,

Mister Wednesday

Warner Music Group�s Acquisition of Parlophone Approved by European Commission

Mister Wednesday — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:17:10 GMT

Greetings all,

Articles on the billboard.com/biz and The New York Times websites on the acquisition of Parlophone Records by the Warner Music Group:

Updated: Warner Music Group

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/bu...ce-of-emi.html

I have no connection to or association with any of the persons, companies, products or views expressed in the articles referenced above.

Regards,

Mister Wednesday

Google Expected to Start a Competitor to Spotify

The Computer Audiophile — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:02:28 GMT

More competition is good. I hope one fo the many services will offer lossless as a way to differentiate itself form the others.

Google is set to introduce a subscription music feature to compete against fast-growing streaming services like Spotify, according to several people briefed on its plans. Google is planning to introduce the new service as early as Wednesday at Google I/O, the company�s annual conference for software developers. The subscription feature will be connected to Play, Google�s online media hub, complementing its download store and �locker� feature, which lets people store their digital entertainment collections online, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity before Google�s official announcement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/bu...h-spotify.html

Universal Music is making news in France with a batch of Blu-Ray Audio

Boris75 — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:24:47 GMT

This piece appeared this morning in one of France's main broadsheet newspapers:

Universal Music fait rena�tre le disque

I am not sure that Blu-Ray audio is the way forward; I personally see a brighter future for high-res downloads, but it is good to see that a big major is making a push for high-quality audio and that a mainstream newspaper judges this worth printing.

some controversial thoughts about DSD from M. Waldrep

wdw — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:30:44 GMT

New web site from Mark Waldrep "Real HD-Audio" where this article appears. He's not a fan of DSD.

John Siau: Benchmark Audio Guru | Real HD-Audio

WDW

SACD recommendations - quality sound only, please

firedog — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:59:51 GMT

Hi-

Need a relatively short list of SACDs to buy. Just starting out, can't imagine I'ill buy more than 50 -100 total. Recommend some you really love.

Interested in these categories of music:

1. Classic Rock/Pop from the 60's on.
2. Jazz from the Bebop era till today. Love stuff like classic Blue Note, Ornette Coleman, Coltrane
3. Orchestral music (not vocal) from the 19th and 20th Centuries

Criteria (other than above):

Must be good sounding. if it isn't better than Redbook remasters or other hi-res versions, I probably don't need to spend money on the pricey SACD versions.

Note: I know about Pink Floyd, The Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, Yes, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" - you don't need to tell me about those.

Thanks

A fascinating chapter in the history of recorded music

Cycleman — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:08:42 GMT

From today's The New Yorker blog:

How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley : The New Yorker

A few picks for today and tonight . . . Mother likes the music too!!!

HIFI — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:12:39 GMT

CC Coletti

Jen Chapin

Sylvain Luc

Brooklyn Funk Essentials

Alien Fashion Show

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Help me identify a track . . . Audiogo presents Wake Up Your Ears

HIFI — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:59:04 GMT

Audiogon has a nice offer that I picked up. It is a hi-res sampler for four or five bucks available through HDTracks.

Can someone identify a source for track 7, Mozart Ave Verum? I think I want to pick up the original album.

Thanks in advance

"Twenty Feet From Stardom" - Documentary on the Great Backup Singers

Mister Wednesday — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:10:17 GMT

Greetings all,

An upcoming theatrical release documentary that might be worth checking out:

VVN Music: Watch: Trailer For "Twenty Feet From Stardom" - Documentary on the Great Backup Singers

I have no connection to any of the persons or companies associated with the production and distribution of this film.

Regards,

Mister Wednesday

Video: Engineer/Producer Ken Scott Interview

Mister Wednesday — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:09:45 GMT

Greetings all,

As a follow-up to the earlier posting of the Michael Fremer book review of the engineer/producer Ken Scott autobiography "Abbey Road To Ziggy Stardust" here's a 1hr 18min video interview by J.W. Najarian of Ken Scott at the offices of Alfred Music Publishers:

Ken Scott - Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust - YouTube

Here's the link to the earlier book review posting:

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f1...ography-15922/

I have no connection to or association with any of the persons, companies, products or views expressed in the article and video referenced above.

Regards,

Mister Wednesday

I know that at least a few of you will want to know that Erin Boheme has a new album out...

AudioDoctor — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:38:06 GMT

I don't know how long it has been, but it has been a while. MOG classifies it as POP and it is certainly different than her last and only other album.

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World's Highest Resolution Recording

The Computer Audiophile — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:50:12 GMT

I just received this from a colleague. I'm interested in hearing the final release.

World's Highest Resolution Recording

Captures Boston Baroque

Cleveland-based Five/Four Productions captures world's highest resolution audio recording using 11.2 MHz Direct Stream Digital technology.

April 26, 2013

Cleveland, OH - Locally owned Five/Four Productions, Ltd. announced today that it has successfully captured the world's highest resolution audio recording. Five/Four Recording Producer Thomas Moore, Recording Engineer Robert Friedrich, and Assistant Engineer Ian Dobie travelled to Worcester, Massachusetts to record Joseph Haydn's masterpiece Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass) Hob XXII:11, and Symphony No. 102 in B flat major Hob. I/102, with Martin Pearlman and Boston Baroque in the world-renowned acoustic of Mechanics Hall. The recording is tentatively planned for release in October, 2013 on the Linn Records label.

Five/Four Productions partnered with Merging Technologies, manufacturers of the Pyramix Digital Audio Workstation, to capture this recording. Merging Technologies developed the technology to capture ultra-high resolution 11.2 MHz 1-bit Direct Stream Digital technology. Product Specialist Dennis Gaines of Independent Audio from Portland, Maine represented Merging Technologies at the recording sessions and provided technical support with the new recording system.

Five/Four Productions sees this recording as a quantum leap in high resolution recording technology that promises to deliver to the consumer the most realistic sound reproduction to date. 11.2 MHz Direct Stream Digital technology is a digital platform that utilizes a 1-bit ultra-high sampling frequency that results in a recording that is 256 times the resolution of CD.

Recording Producer Thomas Moore commented that "Five/Four always strives to capture sound in the most natural and realistic manner that reproduces pure and true. To be able to merge the sounds of period instruments and singers with this very modern technology is the perfect way for us to deliver the most realistic audio experience, just as if you were standing with the performers among you."

Five/Four Recording Engineer Robert Friedrich said "Recording to Direct Stream Digital has always been a must for us to deliver the most revealing and accurate sound. Taking DSD from 2.8 MHz to 11.2 MHz doesn't just step it up to the next level, it catapults it!"

"I am excited that Boston Baroque could be part of this landmark recording," remarked Martin Pearlman, Music Director of Boston Baroque. "Capturing the detailed nuances and transparency of our period instruments has always been important to us, and now it is possible on a higher level than ever before."

This recording marks Five/Four's dedication to promoting leading edge recording technology to deliver only the highest resolution recordings to their clients.

Boston Baroque Music Director Martin Pearlman and Producer Thomas Moore,
Five/Four Productions
(Photo credit: Julian Bullitt)

About Five/Four Productions, Ltd.:
Five/Four Productions, Ltd., an independent audio production company which was formed in 2009, has won sixteen GRAMMY� Awards to-date for Production, Engineering, and Performance Excellence, plus Japan's Grand Prix Award along with other international industry recognition. More than three decades of critical acclaim by the world's most respected critics, publications, and audio consumers alike have garnered Five/Four the reputation as one of the world's leaders in recording and production excellence. Exclusive Five/Four Reveal-SDM Technology
and innovative production technique brings the famed "Five/Four Sound" to any project large or small.

Five/Four produces audio for Super Audio-Compact Disk (SA-CD), CD, all download formats, high-resolution PCM, DVD, Blu-ray Audio & Video Disks, and HD-TV.

An integral and trusted part of hundreds of major music releases by the world's most renowned musicians and performers across multiple genres, Five/Four founders Michael Bishop, Robert Friedrich, and Thomas Moore bring their wealth of expertise and impressive credentials to deliver compelling recordings that allow the performances to take center stage.

About Boston Baroque:
Boston Baroque is the first permanent Baroque orchestra established in North America, and is widely regarded as "one of the world's premier period-instrument bands." (Fanfare). The ensemble produces lively, emotionally charged, ground-breaking performances of Baroque and Classical works, for today's audiences, performed on instruments and using performance techniques that reflect the eras in which the music was composed.

Founded in 1973 by Music Director Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque's orchestra is made up of some of the finest period-instrument players in the U.S.; they are frequently joined by the ensemble's professional chorus and by instrumental and vocal soloists from around the world. The ensemble presents an annual subscription series consisting of five programs that are performed at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston, MA, or Harvard University's Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, MA. In 2012-13 the ensemble inaugurates New Directions: a chamber music series mixing music of the baroque and modern eras played on modern and period instruments.

Boston Baroque's many career milestones include the American premiere of Rameau's Zoroastre; a Mozart opera series including The Marriage of Figaro, Cos� fan tutte, and the American period-instrument premieres of Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute; and a revelatory exploration of the Beethoven symphonies on period instruments. In 1998-99, the ensemble gave the modern premiere of The Philosopher's Stone, a singspiel newly discovered to include music by Mozart and to shed fresh light on his canon. In recent years, Boston Baroque has presented Boston's first complete cycle of the surviving operas of Monteverdi, with new performing editions of L'incoronazione di Poppea and Il ritorno d'Ulisse by Martin Pearlman; and an internationally acclaimed series of Handel operas including Agrippina,Alcina, Xerxes, Giulio Cesare, Semele, and Amadigi di Gaula. Their performances of Orfeo ed Euridice in May 2012, which included dancers and original choreography, met with outstanding critical acclaim.

About Merging Technologies:
Merging Technologies SA is a Swiss manufacturer with over 20 years of experience in developing groundbreaking, professional Audio and Video products for a wide range of entertainment and media industries. With a dedicated user base in the elite end of the music, film, television, mastering and performances industries, Merging is committed to developing product ranges with unrivaled quality and flexibility, no matter what the application. Merging builds tools for people who want more from their systems, have an inherent need to push boundaries, and believe that quality always comes first every time.

Merging Technologies HORUS 11.2 MHz DSD Converter
(Photo credit: Julian Bullitt)

Doug MacLeod "There's A Time" on HDTracks

esimms86 — Sat, 04 May 2013 15:48:50 GMT

I just purchased Doug MacLeod's recent release, "There's A Time" from HDTracks. If you like his music, it's definitely worth a listen. It was recently highly recommended in a review in, I believe, Stereophile(or was it The Absolute Sound?).

I know that HDTracks takes a beating around here often enough for the provenance of their files and I am not here to defend them. I will say, however, that the Doug MacLeod recording comes from Reference Recordings and is 24/176.4 PCM in origin. RR says on their website that they plan to release a 24/176.4 version on disk and, meanwhile, the current offerring on their website is redbook CD only. That leaves no question in my mind as to the provenance of this recording. This also obviously means that the 24/176.4 version is only available this time as a download from HDTracks. And, yes, Keith Johnson is the recording engineer.

Esau

what music will you play when viewing photos

Ruby Bird — Thu, 02 May 2013 08:38:14 GMT

Guys, I guess this is just a stupid question.... lol!!!
Yes, I just want to know that's your favorite song! <3

Well, I view photos with Photo+, the photo viewer for mac that allows me to view photos in slideshow with background music playing. It's amazing to view photos in that way, Having all those beautiful photos and my favorite songs playing, my old memories just are called back and makes me think what lovely family & friends I have in my beautiful years.

Well, my favorite song would be Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends.

What about yours?