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In Reply to: CAS Day 2 posted by M-dB on August 16, 2014 at 17:33:18:
All had nice "topics" stated in the program, but turned out to be nothing more than sale pitches for products. And I was truly disappointed with that.
I went to a seminar on the direction of computer audio today, and it was an 80-year old guy pitching to a crowd of old guys about how the machines his company in Montana builds is better than anyone else's as a source. I was 5 minutes late, and I thought I had walked into the wrong room. Computer Audio? You would think that there would be a roomful of 20-somethings & 30- somethings....and his claims, well, take it with a grain of salt.
Another one I went to was about room acoustics, and it was Amarra trying to see you their MacBook-based music playing software. If you buy the top of the line version, you get this room measuring software. Buy yourself this microphone, you can then use the program to basically "EQ" the computer-based playback. "No need for any ugly room tuning devices", the speaker said. So I pointed out that the entire premise of his assumption is that everyone only uses computer as a source. And those physical deficiencies would still exist when we play other sources such as vinyl or CD.
The Genesis room hyped about playing the "mother" disc (the metal disc that makes the mold that makes scampers), but it turned out the artist was playing an 1/2 inch tape and promoting/selling her album.
Nothing wrong with any of these, but the program was just a bit misleading, and I am dubious about some of the things being said in these "seminars".
The best and most educational demo has to be the Blue Coast Recording demo of a live recording and immediate playback. Cookie talked and demonstrated techniques used during mastering to "manipulate" the master. That was very interesting.
I spent quite a bit of the day in the Wilson/ARC room. It is quite a setup, not the most expensive, only middle of the line components from ARC (SP-20 pre, Ref-75 amp, CD player) and Transparent Super cables. It sounded mediocre on a few occasions playing CDs brought by someone, but spectacular at other times.And I finally figured out why. During the demo, the guy from Wilson is playing these master tapes that he had obtained (as an industry insider) off his digital recorder into the DAC section of the CD player. The material is "unobtanium" to the rest of us. So even if you had brought that system home, it would never sound that good with the stuff in you music library. ;-)
I like the product, streamer/player that Olive is delivering. It is ridiculously cheap in Audiophile terms, and is a very nice product. I'm considering buying one to hook up for the living room.
FrankC
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