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If possible, how could mastering engineers allow for stereo bass on vinyl?
Let's start by saying, even if you could, it doesn't make a great deal of sense to have a heavy stereo split in the bass frequencies.
Let's try to analyse why that would be...
First, your ...
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How can I tell what quality/bitrate the audio stream is on a YouTube video I'm watching?
Right click a youtube video in your browser
Click "Stats for Nerds"
Look for "codecs", note the last part (e.g. "Opus 250")
Look up the value here
The quality of the ...
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Has audio quality improved since the CD era?
When CDs first arrived on the scene, mid 80s, some [very few] albums were separately mixed/mastered for vinyl & CD/tape. Partly this was to be able to take advantage of the new, lower noise floor &...
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Original recording of Traffic's The low spark of high heeled boys — good sound quality?
This isn't an album or track I know, so I ermm… borrowed a version off the interwebz for some comparison.
You're right the version you have is 'warm'… in fact it's so warm it sounds like it melted ;)
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Is it a good idea to stream a vinyl turntable via Bluetooth?
This is a more controversial question than you might expect. For a certain subset of vinyl fans, myself among them, it makes at least a psychological difference that the sound of an old record (or a ...
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Is it a good idea to stream a vinyl turntable via Bluetooth?
It's just a personal choice. It's up to you in the end.
I prefer vinyl for the attention it needs. I have to take care of it and
and what you put into it is what you get back out of it.
No one has ...
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Is it a good idea to stream a vinyl turntable via Bluetooth?
I was about to answer with "there is no perceivable difference" and give you a lesson on high quality digital conversion techniques, but then I read this:
Audio Technica AT-LP60BK-BT
...and this:
what-...
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Why does Metal sound so muddy?
I think there are two factors that are responsible for the phenomenon you describe:
Lack of financial means. Neither of the metal bands you mentioned as bad examples are even close to the mainstream ...
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Is it a good idea to have a wireless connected Subwoofer for Vinyl?
At a technical level, yes it's the same question. But the subwoofer reproduces the very lowest sounds only. It might be a little odd to have only the subwoofer on wireless--for one thing it might have ...
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Why does Metal sound so muddy?
"Metal" is a fairly broad term, and as you observed in your original post, only certain artists' work is characterized by a "muddy" sound. As glahn's answer indicates, for certain ...
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Click sound in Chicago's song
You mean the single click on the left, before the F# establishes itself, rather than the repeating tick on the right, which is hi-hat pedal?
The more I listen to that it simply sounds like a mistake. ...
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