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Saturday, April 08, 2006
Friday, January 28, 2005
A PRETTY-NERVY CLAIM:
I claim that you'll have a hard time finding any recordings that are much more "realistic" than the super-high fidelity jazz recordings that you can download here, even tho they are MP3-compressed !
You can hear the reedy, stringy, hollow, woody, and brassy characteristic sounds of musical instruments, which you don't often get with most recordings. And yet my hour-long jazz sequence is only a 78 MB file, while an hour-long CD would require around 750 MB.
(If you download this and listen via a good playback system, I hope you'll pay some special attention to the bass clarinet piece starting about 15 minutes into the hour. It's spectacularly detailed.)
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To download Dan's music, click on the purple-colored word MUSIC below, and then click on a little gray rectangle that says "Download" and has a small arrow in it.
With a cable modem, download takes about 15 minutes for classical, and about 22 minutes for hi-fi jazz, but shorter process if low-traffic time on the web, like early Sunday morning,
The jazz file is about 78 MB, and it's MP3 at 160 Kbps. (It has amazingly good "fidelity," even tho it's MP3, because 160 Kbps is very effectively perceptual-coded.)
PLEASE NOTE: There are a couple of long silences in the first part of the jazz recording.
With some playback systems, it sounds better with both the extreme bass and treble decreased somewhat.
Now here's where you can begin, by clicking on the colored word:
MUSIC
To play the downloaded music, you'll need a player program in your computer, like iTunes or WindowsMedia.
The super-hi-fi jazz download plays for an hour if you use the WindowsMedia player. It might last only about 1/2 hour if you use the iTunes player, but you can squeeze a whole hour of music out of it, by clicking on the icon, then going to File/Get Info, then clicking on the Options tab, and then changing the Start time to 0:00:00 and the stop time to 1:08:15.
Good listening,
Dan Shanefield
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[NOTE: Much more detail about this MP3 file (and explanations of how MP3 works, and of "digital" tech. itself, and more) is in the article I published, in The Audiophile Voice magazine, Volume 11, Issue 1. You can buy that issue via their website, http://audiophilevoice.com or just click on this colored word:
AUDIOPHILE .]
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[NOTE: If you're interested in my textbook for beginners in
electronics, you can see reviews that say it's UNUSUALLY
easy to read and easy to understand --- just click on the
colored word "Review" here:
REVIEW
and click until you see Customer Reviews at amazon.com .]
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I claim that you'll have a hard time finding any recordings that are much more "realistic" than the super-high fidelity jazz recordings that you can download here, even tho they are MP3-compressed !
You can hear the reedy, stringy, hollow, woody, and brassy characteristic sounds of musical instruments, which you don't often get with most recordings. And yet my hour-long jazz sequence is only a 78 MB file, while an hour-long CD would require around 750 MB.
(If you download this and listen via a good playback system, I hope you'll pay some special attention to the bass clarinet piece starting about 15 minutes into the hour. It's spectacularly detailed.)
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To download Dan's music, click on the purple-colored word MUSIC below, and then click on a little gray rectangle that says "Download" and has a small arrow in it.
With a cable modem, download takes about 15 minutes for classical, and about 22 minutes for hi-fi jazz, but shorter process if low-traffic time on the web, like early Sunday morning,
The jazz file is about 78 MB, and it's MP3 at 160 Kbps. (It has amazingly good "fidelity," even tho it's MP3, because 160 Kbps is very effectively perceptual-coded.)
PLEASE NOTE: There are a couple of long silences in the first part of the jazz recording.
With some playback systems, it sounds better with both the extreme bass and treble decreased somewhat.
Now here's where you can begin, by clicking on the colored word:
MUSIC
To play the downloaded music, you'll need a player program in your computer, like iTunes or WindowsMedia.
The super-hi-fi jazz download plays for an hour if you use the WindowsMedia player. It might last only about 1/2 hour if you use the iTunes player, but you can squeeze a whole hour of music out of it, by clicking on the icon, then going to File/Get Info, then clicking on the Options tab, and then changing the Start time to 0:00:00 and the stop time to 1:08:15.
Good listening,
Dan Shanefield
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[NOTE: Much more detail about this MP3 file (and explanations of how MP3 works, and of "digital" tech. itself, and more) is in the article I published, in The Audiophile Voice magazine, Volume 11, Issue 1. You can buy that issue via their website, http://audiophilevoice.com or just click on this colored word:
AUDIOPHILE .]
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[NOTE: If you're interested in my textbook for beginners in
electronics, you can see reviews that say it's UNUSUALLY
easy to read and easy to understand --- just click on the
colored word "Review" here:
REVIEW
and click until you see Customer Reviews at amazon.com .]
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Note: A new version of Dan's CV can be viewed if you click on the colored word immediately below:
RESUME
RESUME
