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Interesting project started by Michael Fremer

Michael Fremer has started a Kickstarter campaign to produce an album, side A will be all analog, including Mastering, side B will have Digital mastering, can anyone tell the difference ? Thats the Question

The project was first describedWhat can we Hear?

The Kickstarter kick off announcement is Hearing is Deceiving

I think this is quite interesting looking forward to the results, have already backed it, and will of course order the album from Acoustic Sounds when / if it becomes a reality.

What are your thoughts on this project ?

Good Listening

Peter
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mapman
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Sounds like a big waste of time and money.
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pbnaudio OP
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Buc,

Are you working logarithmically, your 0's are off. 500 LPs at apx. $35 = $ 17500.

However, they hope to make 1000 copies should the project get funded and it appears that the ones that are kicking in should get a $ 10 discount on their purchase from Acoustic Sounds.

"I would like to be able to sell it to the first 1000 Kickstarter participants for an amount that reflects the $10.00 "kicked in".

Above from the post on AnalogPlanet

Anyway, I think is a very interesting project and hope it get's on the way. The Wilson Audio Album mentioned above is close to unobtanium - a quick google check listed the last one sold for $ 80 on eBay, so the $25 for this one sounds like a good deal.

Good Listening

Peter
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Digital done right can be excellent. The problem is, on so many of the modern digital recordings, the engineer adds so much artificial digital reverb that I can't stand listening to it. The CD's I have, for the most part, are not "audiophile" recordings. I probably have a couple thousand CDs. I don't keep the ones drenched in reverb or with strings that replicate pulling dental floss through one's ears. Those go into the trade in pile.

Hopefully, Mikey will do a great job on the digital side of the new album. I'd like to hear it.
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Hopefully, Mikey will do a great job on the digital side of the new album. I'd like to hear it.
Oregonpapa

That's the crux of the biscuit, as Frank Zappa said.

The mastering engineer is the one who decides what we can hear from any album. Using an engineer who knows how to get the maximum from each medium would be ideal.
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Will the result determine which technology is better or who is the better mastering engineer?

There is a huge sample of quality recordings out there both analog and digital in various formats. Not sure what two additional data points can prove regarding digital versus analog other than how the two cases covered are different and why. The answer would probably lie mostly in the skills of the people involved using the tools they choose to do their thing.

Even then what is determined about those two resulting recordings would have no bearing on any of the rest out there both digital and analog. Either technology might win anytime in any particular case.

Unless I'm missing something?
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