Category: Audio Engineering

Fraudio and the People who Buy it

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)…


A Disappointment with My New Organ Clone

I’ve had my Viscount Legend Live for over nine months now, and a couple of months back I discovered a problem with it that I feel like I need to share because my blog posts here about the Legend Live have been getting quite a bit of traffic from people looking for which clone they…


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

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…