Comments for Tim's music blog

Comment on Review: Quadrophenia director’s cut by Icke

Icke — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:22:20 +0000

Here you can find a complete quad concert from 1974, recording for radio.
You can download it (while streaming) with a programm like audiograbber – it´s freeware(audiograbber.de)

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-who/concerts/spectrum-december-04-1973.html

Much Fun

Comment on Review: Quadrophenia director’s cut by Jet Age Eric

Jet Age Eric — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:37:20 +0000

It didn’t even occur to me that they’d use the remixes–arrggghhhh! (Although I think they’re quite good.) Otherwise, this is as advertised.

Comment on Dylan’s Drawn Blank exhibition by Susie

Susie — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:59:39 +0000

I’m fortunate enough to have acquired an original….South Dakota Landscape. I wonder how much it’s worth now, 3 years on? Happy Birthday Mr D.

Comment on A few jottings on hi-fi and misleading science by Jasper Hughes

Jasper Hughes — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:59:28 +0000

“I don’t doubt that we have more to learn about sound reproduction; that we measure what we can, but we may measure the wrong things or in the wrong way.”

Exactly. You are measuring audio changes in the -wrong- way. Because you don’t know what you’re dealing with, when faced with aspects of Beltist science.

” That does not mean that every wild theory about how to improve hi-fi has equal validity. ”

Theories are not important, unless you are a manufacturer, needing to explain your product. To end users, ie. you, all that matters, is that you repeatedly here differences. In which case, everything you reliably hear to make an improvement has equal validity.

“I suspect that few or none of Peter Belt’s improvements would survive such trials.”

You suspect wrong. Once again. In the 80′s, a Hungarian Hi-Fi magazine editor did, literally, *thousands* of blind trials, of people across the spectrum. 75% heard the Belt effect.

“Blind testing is not perfect.”

Far from it. You neglected to mention that it changes the way you listen, and for that reason, blind testing for subjective audio has never been scientifically validated as a methodology. It most often creates false negatives, for a variety of reasons.

Funny how you say freezing CD’s is an example of the “power of the mind”. Yet you don’t say you actually tried it to even pretend to be able to say that! Robert Harley wrote about this “power of the mind” of freezing CD’s in Stereophile. The well respected audio engineer Ed Meitner invented, along with Peter Belt, the idea of freezing CD’s to improve audio. Yet the one thing you DID try was paper under the feet tweak. And it worked for both you and your friend. Yet you concluded it was a mind f**k. Just because you didn’t believe it could be real.

There is more evidence that Peter Belt’s concepts do indeed work, than not here. And moreover, that YOU are the one falling prey to the tricky “powers of the mind”, as you are clearly a victim of the nocebo effect.

Comment on Brian Eno and Rick Holland: Drums between the bells by David

David — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:30:14 +0000

Not offended by it. Must listen a few more times.

Maybe it’s just the accent, but does it remind you of some of the work of ‘Air’?

Comment on Tips on Digitising vinyl – from LP to MP3 by Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:21:01 +0000

An good used turntable with a entry level Grado cartridge ($40) will give CDs a run for their money. I have a home audio CD recorder in my stereo system; I just put the record on and press record.

Comment on Richard Thompson Nottingham 27 January 2011 by norval

norval — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:00:50 +0000

I must have been at a different gig….the entire evening was stunnnning! I’d forgotten live music could be that good. Perhaps I’m easily pleased. No; it was brillllllllliant.

Comment on Richard Thompson Nottingham 27 January 2011 by Chris

Chris — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:54:16 +0000

The review is fair.
Thompson’s guitar work was exceedingly good. But so was the whole group. Michael Jerome was thoroughly enjoying himself, which came out in his playing and his frequent smiles. Pete Zen was superb on various instruments and seemed to be having the time of his life. Joel Zifkin and Taras Produniak were also very good indeed.
It was a memorable performance, maybe a little too loud and some lighting that was very irritating near the front of the stalls.

Comment on Richard Thompson Nottingham 27 January 2011 by Kev

Kev — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:50:21 +0000

Spot on review mate, first time I’ve been to that venue nice but lacking in atmosphere. Don’t have the new CD not bad but not great, second half was slightly dissapointing the man is a genius. But no ‘Brightlights’ or ‘Vincent 1952′ left me feeling slightly robbed. I almost felt that RT was disappointed with the audiance.

Comment on SHM-SACD – super-expensive, but how super is the sound? by hamish

hamish — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:58:02 +0000

The truth of the matter is this : the shm sacds do sound better . I have over 30 of them and I have yet to hear one which isn’t appreciably better than it’s sacd equivalent .However the cost of these discs is completely OTT and puts them out of reach of anyone living in the real world .