Ahh...too funny!
Actually,since shigzeo was from South Korea and had a previous interest in concert taping,I indulged with this (not my handiwork):
"I got raw WAV files,split it song by song, converted to FLAC(High, 16 bit, stereo) by Goldwave V.5.08."
2009.12.13 Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium, Seoul, Korea
GUNS N ROSES
Source: Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium, Seoul, Korea
Date: December 13th 2009
Sound Quality: B
TYPE: AUDIENCE
Linage: Sony PCM-M10 > to pc program needed > goldwave > flac
I know this type of 'bootlegging' is VERBOTEN here on Head-Fi,so I used a truncated clip.
My apologies however,as I had listed the source as a Sony PCM D50 when in fact,it was NOT.
Obviously the little brother Sony PCM M10 held up into the air for a freestyle audience recording,leaves much to be desired.
Certainly,it does not represent the quality of recordings that I auditioned the JH-13's with.
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It sounds terrible. Is this how most live recordings are supposed to sound? This leads me to suspect that the music you've been listening to may have been recorded in the stone age.
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I can only add that I was around for the world of underground recording in the 1970's-which might be the stone age for some and long before P2P sharing.
After a concert that you could not afford or obtain a ticket to,you could relive the event vicariously through a home made tape.
These were obtained after a trek to local underground record/head shops on Queen Street here in Toronto and after some "in the know" conversation,out would come the litigous music collection-some of it even cut onto vinyl!
You are correct in the "it sounds terrible" reaction but for a diehard fan,it was enough.
No doubt in my mind if the recorder HAD been the PCM D50,the sound quality would have jumped up a grade.
Back to the “old days” when you aspired to purchase the next level of phono cartridge and direct-to-disc recordings,so it is today that Hi-Rez music files and a top D/A converter are on the listeners wish list.
My latest foray into portable audio has been fraught with plenty of discontent.
Perhaps it is the inordinate amount of time spent listening as such:
Truly,I am a seeker of the ultimate "PHANTOM IMAGE".
Just as LSD affords the senses opportunity to feel color and see sound,so I await the transcendental moment where the sound waves disintegrate the very fibres of my cotton clothes and I lose control of my basic bodily functions while the music implodes the core of my soul.
Unfortunately,this happens at 235 decibles,more powerful than the shockwaves of a 31 kiloton nuclear bomb.
The downside is that it will kill you.
Perfection awaits when the crossovers from those 3-way speakers are out and each frequency is wired with solid silver core to 6 magnificent tube amplifiers,back to a beautiful Vacuum Tube Electronic Crossover Network,then onto a fantastic source but that's just me.
All I have to report on the JH-13's after the past 20 days,is that when I moved my ass off the listening stool,actually plugging in and getting outside for a long walk,I was amply rewarded.
MOVEMENT while listening to no less than MP3 320 bit files on a Garmin 765T GPS or on the amped Sansa Fuze with CD quality .WAV files,seemed to change my opinion of this stuff.
I have now taken to going for long walks and look forward to putting the gear into my pocket and seating the newly reshaped 13's into my skull.
While I have accepted the experience will not get me to 3D holographic ecstasy,key moments in musical fidelity are there to be found as the playlist randomly selects songs.
Standing up,getting the blood flowing and synapses firing is key to using these things,so that you do not so readily become annoyed with the new sound flavour.
Realizing that a helicopter could very well be hovering over to my right when the intro from Sugarcane [Wide Mouth Mason] played, brought a certain term of endearment as I marched down the street.
WideMouthMason sample 192 bit
Finally,I was getting somewhere with this damned stuff!
Locomotive Breath [Jethro Tull] brought the flute solo from the "phantom image" to right INSIDE my head and I reckon that is what I was not tuned into while planted in a seat,walking really seemed to level this effect out.
JethroTull sample big CD wav file-wait
Remember-these are 'samples' and not the original files from the player.
I guess us men are 'external' creatures by virtue of our very existence.
Ask the man who took Viagara and achieved only a full headache.
He dearly wanted to be the poster boy for those clinical warnings:
“if you experience an erection for more than 4 hours please go to the nearest hospital and seek medical attention”.
I've often thought who would have the nerve to go seek that medical attention?
After seeking the medical attention of a hot nurse would you still be bored stiff?
Priapism and sound,full on and raging.
My Sony PCM D50 deal fell through,thanks to an eBay debacle,so this saga moves forth slowly.
I'll wait until the Slim amp shows up,I'll keep playing the tunes,then check back in here.