Category: Audio Engineering

Fraudio and the People who Buy it

August 7, 2022
Audio Engineering

I guess it was just a matter of time before a major controversy would arise around some of the issues I discussed in my earlier post about music media formats. Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs created a business of getting access to original master tapes of classic albums and making vinyl pressings (and SACDs, I think)…

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A (NOW FIXED!) Disappointment with My New Organ Clone

January 8, 2020
Audio EngineeringMusicians' Corner

[ Over three years since I described the Viscount Legend phasing problem here and reported it to the factory, Viscount has issued the new OS 1.9 update for the Legend series and I am ecstatic to report that the update appears to fix the problem I described in my original post below back in January,…

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Musing on Music Media: CD, Vinyl, and Streaming — Audio Media Sound Quality, and How We Got Here

January 5, 2020
Audio Engineering

In an offhand comment on Facebook I mentioned that putting music on an LP entails some necessary sonic compromises for engineering reasons, and a friend replied, “Are you saying the sonic compromises are still being made for today’s vinyl, or for CDs and other digital formats too?” This post is an edited version of my…

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