![]() There's a certain magic vinyl brings to the listening room: a magic unlike any other. Using The Audiophile's Guide Reference book and this Reference disc, it's easy to follow the step-by-step instructions to obtain near-perfect depth, imaging, tonal balance and 3 dimensional sound where your speakers disappear and the musicians seem in the room with you. To capture the ambient room response, a careful combination of AKG C24, Grados, Sony C100s, were used for the overheads, and a Coles 4038 with flipped phase was placed twelve feet behind the drum kit for space recording. The rack tom was captured by a Shure SM7B Cardioid dynamic microphone and the floor tom, an Audix D4 hypercardioid dynamic microphone. The top of the snare was handled by a Hypercardioid Beyerdynamic M201 with its phase flipped while the snare’s bottom was a Telefunken M80. To capture this kit, Jay employed his favorite setup for close miking: a Shure Beta 52 for the kick-in and a cardioid patterned, phantom powered, large diaphragm FET Soundelux U195 by David Bock for the kick-out. The kit consists of a Ludwig 1970 Blue Sparkle 20” kick drum, 12” rack tom, 16x16” floor tom, 14 x 6.5” Ludwig Superphonic John Bonham LM 402 snare drum, Zildjian New Beats Hi-hat 70’s era 14”, Custom Dark Crash Kerope by Zildjian Crash 18”, and a Kerope by Zildjian 22” ride. Engineer Jay Elliott went all out to get the best from this amazing drum kit. Another great example is the level of care and detail exemplified in the Drum Solo. The three depth tracks, for example, were recorded in PS Audio's warehouse with centimeter-precision so that when you listen at the three intervals: 3 feet, 6 feet, and 9 feet, you can be certain what you are hearing is precise. Every effort was made to maintain not only the purity of recordings, but the accuracy of miking, distance, and purpose. Recorded over four months, The Audiophile's Reference Music laid down tracks in Octave's Boulder studio, PS Audio's main warehouse (for BIG sound), and Lyons Colorado's Animal Lane Studio. Each music track is a sonic treasure available as a direct-to-master exclusively from Octave Records. ![]() ![]() Whether you want to challenge your system, make certain it's working properly, spend a few hours tweaking it to perfection, The Audiophile's Reference Music Disc is a must-have component.This is one direct-to-master recording you don't want to miss out on. And the last three tracks on the Reference Music Disc are alone worth the price of the disc. The specially designed burn-in track can be used every time you get a new piece of equipment. Between this reference disc and Paul's book, you can make magic with only a few hours of tweaking invested on a Saturday afternoon. ![]() Even if you’re blessed with golden ears, the difference between live and recorded music starts to vanish when you are listening on a system that has been properly set up. Stereo, you too will be able to get closer to the sound of live music on the right recordings. If you are within reliable listening range (<6 mi/10km) of an airport please consider becoming a LiveATC feeder site.Whether you are a beginning or an advanced audiophile, once you follow the setup steps in The Audiophile’s Guide, The LiveATC is advertising, donation and volunteer Third-party use of LiveATC live audio streams is prohibited. Lots of new and exciting feeds coming online! If you would like to expand coverage in your region of the world please contact us Listen to Live ATC (Air Traffic Control) Communications | ![]()
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