Morning Steve. So right. It's not just about appreciating music, the tune, chords, notes, lyrics, etc, a BIG part of my listening pleasure in being immersed in, exploring and getting gloriously lost in SOUND. The qualities of it, the dynamics, the emotion, the attack, the slam, the gentleness, the surprise, sometimes even the physical effects.
@jamiegenesis7342
3 жыл бұрын
Pro tip : watch series at Kaldrostream. Been using them for watching loads of movies during the lockdown.
@kamdynavi173
3 жыл бұрын
@Jamie Genesis definitely, I have been watching on KaldroStream for since december myself :)
@EddyTeetree
5 жыл бұрын
Big and Beautiful Musical Sound. Yes Yes and Yes. Why else would you bother. Music Is Life 🌈
@DonHamlin
6 жыл бұрын
When I first started listening to classical music it was purely to appreciate the sound. Now, years later, I really enjoy the music as well.
@jarodreddig63
6 жыл бұрын
Hell ya man. Why I love live rock n roll, blues etc
@martybousum1010
5 жыл бұрын
One of the biggest mistakes I see and hear is people upgrading their equipment, not realizing their room set up is the problem. There are simple home remedies for speaker placement, and room treatments that do not break the bank. A budget system can sound like a high end system (or at least approach it) with the right acoustic environment. I hear these mistakes in churches, restaurants, etc. Steve, you are one of my favorite audiophile commentators. Keep up the good information and you are entertaining as well. Much respect!
@cmkilcullen8176
6 жыл бұрын
For me it is the music and the sound. I have to have both. I mean, I can romantically get into a rustic and antique recordings of say, Jelly Roll or Robert Johnson. But when you hear Jelly Roll music being played live by young and older muscians (not variations of - the pure thing)- it is remarkable. I like both, honestly.. PS- Jimi played sounds and got colours!! I get what you mean. More recently I was really taken by Tame Impala's Lonerism LP in much the same way I did hearing Dark Side of The Moon and SGT Pepper or Are You Experienced (or many things Hendrix did). Colors, space, emotions--- I love it all. I get reached in wonderful ways. Miles used to refer music and sound getting into one's body... I guess that is what soul really is.
@2ChukBuk
6 жыл бұрын
Good discussion. It really is about the dynamics for me. From a whisper to a scream and back down again. Tension and release. It is really a visceral response as opposed to an intellectual one. I love the sound of a recording that is uncomplicated, recorded with great microphones, and clean. The less going on sonically between the artist and my ears is a good thing.
@vicverdi9402
5 жыл бұрын
FWIW.. in his very famous Public TV documentary series re Giuseppe Verdi, Burt Lancaster states emphatically that Verdi (not Wagner or Brian Eno)was the "inventor" of ambient music ala very famous chorus in Nabucco..
@MrSteamDragon
6 жыл бұрын
I think thats it. In our small audiophile world, If you can’t get your rocks off on the “sound” that a piece of music makes through your system (putting aside for 1 moment a great compostion, a wonderful lyric, beat or musical stucture), then maybe you are not yet quite an audiophile. If you can also get your rocks off on all the others aspects of music that I just mentioned at the same time, then wow....it can bring you to tears at times when all that works together. So yeah Steve, you are spot on there mate 😎
@jimolson9671
6 жыл бұрын
I am a retired engineer and I’ve been on audio file since I was 16. My field was electrical engineering. The one thing that I noticed most audio files neglect is there room acoustics! That is by far the most dominant characteristic of any sound system. A few room treatments in the right places will make a $10,000 stereo sound better than it is for me
@jimolson9671
6 жыл бұрын
The lack of room acoustic treatment came back the hundred thousand dollar stereo sound worse than it $10,000 stereo in the proper room with acoustic treatment. Yay MHL!
@dalefriesen7812
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah! When the whole thing comes together and takes on a life of it's own and it's right. It's exciting. I get it. Thank you for the link to audiostream. I Appreciate Herb Reichert's work.
@InnocuousOctopus
6 жыл бұрын
I think a large part of what you're talking about is timbre. It comes from the harmonic undertones and overtones produced by the instruments. Variations in the strengths of the harmonic vibrations is what makes different instruments sound distinct. A fascination with Timbre is what makes me spend hours playing with the different settings on a synthesizer instead of doing my actual keyboard practice. 😅
@sometimesreviewsandthinkin5056
6 жыл бұрын
Humble and great. The audiophiliac
@TheMB2333
6 жыл бұрын
This dialogue is reminding me of the first time I tried Peyote.
@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac
6 жыл бұрын
Is that a good thing?
@radiojet1429
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, I enjoy every second of your videos. John Lennon said that the one-note feedback start to "I Feel Fine" was the very first guitar feedback recorded for release. The sound of music - Pete Townshend playing his P-90 loaded, cherry-finished Gibson SG through his full stack Hiwatts with Partridge transformers, dual 6CA7 output tubes tubes driving Fane loudspeakers on "Live At Leeds", is guitar harmonic heaven - all captured on Studer mobile recorders, I believe. When George Harrison played "Rumble" perfectly for Paul and John, they said"You're in the group" and the rest is history. Rattle and Hum, rules :-)
@blitzbbffl
6 жыл бұрын
Radio Jet - I couldn't agree more. Live At Leeds truly is a great example of guitar harmonic heaven. When listening - I cannot remain seated!
@gregoryggood
6 жыл бұрын
These are some great ideas and suggestions today.
@therealistic1z
6 жыл бұрын
Yep. This the basic business rule of the whole audiophile thing...you experiment (at a substantial cost..) The ways you can enjoy sound. Then, you change a cable a cd player an amp and boom, you get the sound you always wanted. That's the whole indestry. The other thing is age/taste, so when you're young and you rock you are super happy with jbl's and when you grow up and look for those magic fine touches of jazz, you can't get it from your old rock boxes and you start the journey to "your sound" which took me 25 years....
@roberte.andrews4621
3 жыл бұрын
The best experience a music lover can have is listening to a live performance at fairly close proximity, so that room acoustics and extraneous noise do not intrude. Alas, few commenters on these pages have ever heard a massed symphony, a big band or a classic monster organ in a large hall or cathedral. These are the references that set the standard for reproduced musical performances. Today, it's difficult to find a pure unaltered track that hasn't been "enhanced" by electronic trickery. No bookshelf speaker, for instance, can move enough air to replicate the dynamic range of even a small jazz ensemble, let alone a mighty 9-foot grand piano. But, lacking familiarity with the real thing, folks are content to go on with a pale shadow of what the live audience heard and never question the verity of the snake-oil salespeople on line, in print or at the audio dealer showroom.
@Dobermanator
6 жыл бұрын
Even within music, it is the sound that becomes an attraction or preference, otherwise and as an example, all guitarists would be playing the same notes on a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard. Musicians like to refer to it as "tone" in lieu of sound.
@stephengriffin4120
5 жыл бұрын
Hello Steve. Love this chat you are doing. Don't know if this will be your thing but I find the sound of electronic band Yello to be absolutely out of this world. Album called "toy" is so sharp, detailed, spacious........ For me it has it all.
@blue_blue-1
3 жыл бұрын
And I am the audio-freakitout, too.
@henryhartley9993
6 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Page nailed the art of sound and space with drums on the recording of when the levee breaks from the 4th album, absolutely stunning, Link Ray and the raymen, the rumble, classic..........
@johnholmes912
3 жыл бұрын
if you're listening to wagner you're going to need a big sounding system
@millercroger
5 жыл бұрын
For me it was always about the sound, hardly ever the vocals until later in life.
@frederickfranchi6408
6 жыл бұрын
Finally I have to agree with you Steve, chesky records for digital rules just love the music on that demonstration disc!!!😎
@draganantonijevic2441
6 жыл бұрын
Good acoustic guitar can rumbling too... if you play it like Lightnin' Hopkins, Son House etc.
@bradknight724
6 жыл бұрын
Eno- Do the Strand! I get it! Thanks Steve!
@rollstuhlwolf
6 жыл бұрын
The hills are alive...
@paulphilippart7395
6 жыл бұрын
Oh yea not forgetting Stina Nordenstam....and she closed her eyes, and the world is saved...oh man real depth...
@LookSee
6 жыл бұрын
YES! This is Audiophilia. Sound immersion! Audio reproduction tantalizing and seductive, be it raw or tender, the food to feed our soul. Dive deep and surrender by any means possible.
@paulphilippart7395
6 жыл бұрын
You should check out David Sylvian,and nine horses especially Burnt Friedmans mix of nine horses(aka members of Japan). The space and depth is quite something ......
@rickg8015
6 жыл бұрын
Paul Philippart Yep.. Snow Borne Sorrow is a good intro and easier to penetrate than the latter releases.. Ditto on Friedman with Can’s late great Jaki on drums/percussion..
@jstantoni
5 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy you take on audio equipment and music; it is great. In this episode you mentioned Jimi Hendrix use of guitar distortion in his music. Then you linked it back to Fred “Link” Wrey’s 1958 instrumental hit “Rumble”. It seems like you were implying that Wray was the influence for Hendrix’s guitar style. If this is true then you are in error on two counts. First, Jimi Hendrix in several interviews credited Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones) as the main influence on his guitar style. Second, it was Guitar Slim with his 1951/1952 Imperial recordings that added distortion his guitar at least six years before Wray.
@jonldavis
6 жыл бұрын
do you ever come out to peoples houses and help them set up a nice system, for a price of course?
@rickg8015
6 жыл бұрын
It’s a good article.. Herb should expand on it more - soon. For those who are electronically inclined look up his ‘Flesh and Blood’ and ‘Feral Eye’ amp articles/designs. Oh, If we can read between the lines, Jimi can play between the notes..
@MrAlvarochahin
6 жыл бұрын
Your hair is looking specially awesome today
@nicholascremato
6 жыл бұрын
I have never connected to anything the way I have connected to music.
@Mikexception
6 жыл бұрын
Composition means little. Exceptionally sounding instruments, , arrangement, interpretation and finally perfect reproduced sound is whole thrill. Ive seen article and - o my... first time I found someone to say the same me This phenomena I stated in 2013 here too. www.diysound.eu/?page_id=12. under "RLC cooperation" Many has changed in my system since, speakers too, modifications of diagram made back to original, but that is valid as before. .
@sometimesreviewsandthinkin5056
6 жыл бұрын
Phil Spector has never been matched in my opinion. The greatest producer of all time. Better Than George Martin imo.
@moonlight-kh6uz
5 жыл бұрын
Can you please present something about what frequencies people actually hear? I recently downloaded a Stereophile flac file with different test frequencies. I was surprised that 10kHz was the last frequency I heard. I kinda hoped to hear to at least 13kHz. I was using Audirvana + on iMac, an old Dragofly DAC, and average Audia Technika ATM-M50x headphones. I mean, maybe that is the reason why a consumer should focus only on mid range, e.g. speakers that emphasize mid range like BBC even if that means degradation of high frequencies that most people do not hear anyways (at least based on the Stereophile frequencies tests)?
@sometimesreviewsandthinkin5056
6 жыл бұрын
Digital is good analog is good its more about the player and software with digital.
@Mikexception
6 жыл бұрын
I confirm - digital itself is innocent. But the problem started with unusual reason - the recording gear increased in complexity, potential and quality and lowered it's price Mastering of recordings on screen is unlimited and easy . and sound is usually very engineered, tech specs are at high all time too much spec effects and sound of different CDs boring and repeatable. By comparison old vinyls each has unique sound character
@sometimesreviewsandthinkin5056
6 жыл бұрын
I agree I love vinyl too.
@johnpick8336
5 жыл бұрын
It's about quality SPL's ?
@saeedrahimi5121
3 жыл бұрын
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@xfloodcasual8124
3 жыл бұрын
Americans love it big
@torstenhranchuk7
6 жыл бұрын
Steve what do you think about FiiO hi rez certified gear is it not the cheapest way to get hi rez sound ? what do you think Steve????
@carlitomelon4610
6 жыл бұрын
Agreed! Where's that link to Herb's article?
@billbones1000
6 жыл бұрын
Again using live music as a benchmark for sound, you the man Steve! For me (and most musicians I know) notes are NOT the most interesting part of music. Overtones are god. It's overtones and a musicians facility to hear, blend and manipulate overtones that are the true indicator of somebodies chops. When we say " this instrumentalists has a unique voice on their instrument" it's their overtone concept we are referring to, not the fundamental notes they play.
@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that!
@scottyo64
6 жыл бұрын
I think that is the first time I have seen you respond to someone! Nice!
@billbones1000
6 жыл бұрын
Steve Guttenberg Audiophiliac thank you Steve! Really love your vibe and what you are doing here. I listen not so much for the hifi stuff but more for your general open minded and free spirited vibe. It's a nice little way to start the day with the morning coffee. I'd love to hear you do a longer form podcast of just reflections and interviews with other NYC audio/music/recording characters.
@jackallen6261
5 жыл бұрын
Run a 5Y3 rectifier tube instead of a solid state rectifier and then use a 6AU7 preamp tube as opposed to say a 12AX7 and WILL get a very different sound....oh and don't forget to drop the negative feedback loop. Yes tubes DO have a sound all their own...if you let them With negative feed back and lots of head room (12AX7 tubes have a MU factor of 100 where 6AU7's have around 70) less head room? more warm coloration...Just sayin.
@jeremywhittler8591
6 жыл бұрын
Broadcast tables and V-FET. Dynavector or Benz- Fill us in which DAC can do that people.
@sometimesreviewsandthinkin5056
6 жыл бұрын
Hendrix spector Eno pioneers
@AndyBHome
6 жыл бұрын
What does Steve say at 5:35? "I guess that's why I am an audio$#%^*"? Even the closed caption thing thinks he's saying "audio Greg," which I am pretty sure is not right.
@drewrobertson6286
6 жыл бұрын
Audio crack
@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac
6 жыл бұрын
Audio critic
@drewrobertson6286
6 жыл бұрын
Steve Guttenberg Audiophiliac That makes more sense, thanks for the clarification
@bilguana11
6 жыл бұрын
That big and beautiful sound is missing in perfectly measuring headphones; too sterile.
@mrpositronia
6 жыл бұрын
The art of sound is dying. Anyone can select presets and make music that sounds like countless others. That's why analogue is the best for sound (in my opinion), it has distinctive characteristics that are achieved by trial, error and circumstance, that can only be 'modelled' by digital processes.
@sometimesreviewsandthinkin5056
6 жыл бұрын
mrpositronia bullshit
@sometimesreviewsandthinkin5056
6 жыл бұрын
Sorry ha was feeling a little argumental
@mrpositronia
6 жыл бұрын
Andreas Landgren hehe no worries. Was only going to say 'okay' anyway. :)
@jeremywhittler8591
6 жыл бұрын
If you're feeling like this , try it. Your going to need an MC cartridge like a Dynavector 5X/2X. There is an aspect to the ritual if the gear is right. Forget specs- it's the Dynamics of the format . Ghram Slee Pre-? Forget about it , welcome to your new reference- critical listening especially with single ended tubes.
@HouseofRecordsTacoma
6 жыл бұрын
I want new and complex sounds. Not another stairway or free bird.
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