Recent content by Audiophile

I don't get it; you worked for Radford? (designing/manerfacturing) Or did you sell radford products? By the way I never heard or read about Radford before. I once designed and build a headphone amp for a school project. It was a quite succesfull project. I managed to get the amp working...

How do you mean 'got fed up'? You were into hifi in the past? I am so addicted to music and audio that I made my hobby also my parttime job. I work at a high end audio shop in Amsterdam the Netherlands that has several shops across the country. It's quite well known. url: www.hobo.nl...

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As I read between the lines I understand that you have al lot of experience with audio. I don't no with what sort of equipment you are working with and using at home. But my experience as end user is that it is possible to produce the persussion without to much pannning so it sounds über...

It's true that the compression technique can be usefull if used proper. It is even necessary for a good signal/noise ratio and that you can use the full dynamics of the cd format. 96dB I thought it was. Besides the compression abuse by audio engineers. It is ridiculous how bad some cd's are...

I'm glad you all agree with me about the loudness war. I realy hope that some day more people realize that over compressing/mastering is doing more bad than good to the music. I even think that people are getting aware of it at the moment. Take for example the re-recorded version of Dimmu...

Dat is waar! Only is the radio argument not realy falid because other metal bands are victims too, and it's also depending on the skills of the audio engineers who work with opeth. I think.

As an audiophile(and offcourse as a metal fan) I wonderd why allmost all opeth recordings sound so good. In the pop music industrie all recordings are over compressed, totally ruined with the mastering and sound there for like crap. What I'm talking about is the so called the loudness war in de...