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Stairway to Heaven (1994 remaster) 5:35 distortion or blown drivers?

post #1 of 15
5/1/07 at 7:15pm
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Does anyone have this track to test for me? I hear what sounds like blown speakers in both my E4 and 650 but only in this riff and several acoustic recordings, so i'm trying to figure out if its the recording or my gear..

most everything else sounds fantastic and does not distort at all, but I'm getting a little paranoid

The first night of burn in I was hooking up the HD650 to play pink noise with a frequency sweep, when I connected them to my Tomahawk I thought I had the volume all the way down.. well the amp was up side down and in fact I had turned the volume all the way up, scary

thanks very much in advance if anyone is able to check this for me.


edit: just tested it on my Klipsch 5.1 Ultra and it makes the same buzzing sound there, all these drivers cant be blown lol; great sounding track otherwise. If anyone else wants to make themselves paranoid about blown drivers, go ahead and give it a listen
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post #2 of 15
5/1/07 at 7:58pm
Same here ... sounds a lot like the distortion/whatever on Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Wonder if the same guy did the remaster...
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post #3 of 15
5/1/07 at 8:16pm
Thread Starter 
right on, I hear it there too. thanks for checking it out!

just wanted to add that I think I hear a bit in Tool's 10,000 Days, the first two tracks.. there is a ton of distortion in the guitar, I think in this case its just that the brain picks out the certain distortions and associates them with the sounds we recognize as blown speakers.. that or its just mixed too "hot". I dont know much about recording.
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post #4 of 15
5/1/07 at 10:36pm
Yeah, it's definitely there in mine too.

I know the paranoid felling about the cans- for me with MS-1s, it's usually just a hair on the driver, but it's still scary.
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post #5 of 15
5/1/07 at 10:42pm
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Originally Posted by Ikrit42 View Post
Yeah, it's definitely there in mine too.

I know the paranoid felling about the cans- for me with MS-1s, it's usually just a hair on the driver, but it's still scary.
i get that all the time. i have to suck on the driver really hard, and it makes tons of poppy cracky noises so i get scared and stop... yeah, i know this post won't help my chances in the fs forum.
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post #6 of 15
5/2/07 at 1:50am
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Originally Posted by Rav View Post
Same here ... sounds a lot like the distortion/whatever on Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Wonder if the same guy did the remaster...
The sad part is that even on 'A Night at the Opera' for MFSL, the distortion on Bohemian Rhapsody is still there.

Makes me a sad mule that such a masterpiece was screwed over.
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post #7 of 15
5/2/07 at 1:53am
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Originally Posted by Thelonious Monk View Post
i get that all the time. i have to suck on the driver really hard, and it makes tons of poppy cracky noises so i get scared and stop... yeah, i know this post won't help my chances in the fs forum.
actually, im quite interested in this 'hairy driver' mod... i'd rather not spend the time [which for me is money] on growing hair... how much are these mods going for?
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post #8 of 15
5/2/07 at 2:47am
your right it's a little bit before 5:22 I hear it even at around 5:08

you must of been doing some critical listening :P
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post #9 of 15
6/1/07 at 5:00pm
If anyone wants to hear what some of it sounds like, here is a clip:

http://samcooler.com/files/stairway_problem.wav
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post #10 of 15
6/1/07 at 7:04pm
I have to think the tom hits are the culprit. They could have gotten screwed up at any number of points in the process.
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post #11 of 15
6/2/07 at 1:07am
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Originally Posted by TheMarchingMule View Post
The sad part is that even on 'A Night at the Opera' for MFSL, the distortion on Bohemian Rhapsody is still there.

Makes me a sad mule that such a masterpiece was screwed over.
Yup! And it is also on the Steve Hoffman DCC Gold disc. Supposedly the distortion is due to so many dubs. The master tape was almost ruined because of that.

Anyway, I think the Steve Hoffman version is the one you want to get. It's the best one IMHO.
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post #12 of 15
11/1/07 at 12:17am
I just heard this and freaked out myself...But I tested it with the same results on my E2s....You would think that they could have re-mastered that out or something. Good to hear it is the recording. It also sounds like the tape is stretched I always thought is was because my cassette had been in the sun but it sounds the same on the cd.
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post #13 of 15
11/1/07 at 2:19am
Sounds pretty similar to the inner-groove distortion on a vinyl record with a poor stylus. Chalk it up to the recording method, as others have said.

On newer albums with this sort of sound, what you're hearing is almost certainly digital clipping (or "overs"), where the absolute maximum volume has been exceeded and therefore clipped off, resulting in similar audible distortion.
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post #14 of 15
12/14/11 at 7:40am

bumping an ancient thread to say that I was freaked out when I heard this listening to Bohemian Rhapsody, thinking that my TF10's were blown, but it's doing the same thing out of my HD558's.  Whew!

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post #15 of 15
12/15/11 at 3:02pm

I also noticed it in my Sony MDR V6... great catch!

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