Mr. Tang, your 13:52 video had more important information than any thing I have watched, or read. Your wealth of knowledge is endless. Thank you for sharing it with the World.
You've made me curious as to understand better the differences between cassette and vinyl. I have 2 great albums, one is Pink Floyd's animals on cassette a first edition from the 70's (no dolby) and the other a 70's Barclay James Harvest's Time Honoured Ghosts. What Ive noticed from comparing them is that the vinyl is more likely to be "colored" in some way either by dust or by the cartridge itself having it's own sound signature. (you can hear that alot with tss tss cybilant sounds) Whereas the first edition cassette sounds lovely with no dolby, no hx-pro, it just sounds high fidelity. Although I thought a lot of cassettes from late 80's to 90's came from digital bin's being recorded on high speed dubbing machines through DAC's, so I am unsure if pre-recorded cassette sound amazing. If a cassette sounds bad, you can change the sound through a graphic equalizer, but with vinyl you can also change the cartridge. I still have so much to learn, but with your videos im learning more, keep up the great work!
Mr. Tang, where can I purchase Japanese pressed vinyl records in the United States? or would I have to purchase online in Japan? Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.
Sorry to answer too late cos I seldom watch all comments, we have global shipping for first edition Japanese vinyl ,you can ask for listings jamessam@netvigator.com goo.gl/photos/qN8RX6MoWw4sxUja7
your explanation really makes sense, James. Thanks! I also collecting japanese vinyls but just a begjnner. I always this question: as we all know many of great musicians that we listen based in US, UK etc....., does it mean the japanese vinyls producers get only copies of original master tapes from those original countries? or the original master tapes ? or digital formats? for the purpose of making the master disk. Regards, rudy
Sorry for the late reply , actually all branches of the same record company were using the same master copy ,they are same quality but Japanese record plant are the meticulous for sound quality!
@@jamestang1702 thanks again for sharing your experience James..... yes i notice japanese pressing lot quiter and less static somehow.... it seems better material n manufacture 👍
@@rmuliana78 Not just quiter ,the soundstage is much deeper ,better mid and low ,you can compare with other vinyl by standing 6-10 ft in front of the speakers.
I don't understand why DSD and CD versions are placed so low on authenticity of the original sound of the master tape... even further than compact cassette? A lot of CDs are cut from the original master tapes, and thus have an excellent chance of sounding very close to the master tape. And regarding Japanese vinyl pressings, for western releases they are usually cut from a copy of the master tape and not the original. So it's a tradeoff... quieter vinyl vs. higher quality source.
Throw away your brainwashed and outdated knowledge ,you need to feel the music not discuss it to get the truth! Come listen how actual master tape sound before you judge 😎🎵🎵🎵 listen tye NY times author who wrote two dozen of hifi and hi tech books diginsider.com/2017/11/11/the-other-sam-the-record-man/
@@jamestang1702 Thanks for sharing the video. It's hard to tell which sounds best because they are not level matched, but it was very interesting nonetheless. Interesting you used Money for Nothing as the example, as Brothers In Arms was recorded to digital tape and not analog.
Record company Cassette tapes sound like crap, lots of tape hiss on poor quality tape , maybe Your cassettes sound good but no way in the US. Japanese pressings often times are very quiet but have no bass either.....
Mr. Tang, your 13:52 video had more important information than any thing I have watched, or read. Your wealth of knowledge is endless. Thank you for sharing it with the World.
Thank you so much for your good comments!
Respect man! I love your work and i hope someday i will have the pleasure and money to visit your museum. Great great job!!!
Thank you so much,you are always welcome,stay safe !
學到好多 對年輕一輩很重要 thx！
多謝你的支持🙏🙏
學了很多歷代黑膠唱片知識
Thank you for watching🙏
You've made me curious as to understand better the differences between cassette and vinyl.
I have 2 great albums, one is Pink Floyd's animals on cassette a first edition from the 70's (no dolby) and the other a 70's Barclay James Harvest's Time Honoured Ghosts. What Ive noticed from comparing them is that the vinyl is more likely to be "colored" in some way either by dust or by the cartridge itself having it's own sound signature. (you can hear that alot with tss tss cybilant sounds)
Whereas the first edition cassette sounds lovely with no dolby, no hx-pro, it just sounds high fidelity.
Although I thought a lot of cassettes from late 80's to 90's came from digital bin's being recorded on high speed dubbing machines through DAC's, so I am unsure if pre-recorded cassette sound amazing. If a cassette sounds bad, you can change the sound through a graphic equalizer, but with vinyl you can also change the cartridge.
I still have so much to learn, but with your videos im learning more, keep up the great work!
Mr. Tang, where can I purchase Japanese pressed vinyl records in the United States? or would I have to purchase online in Japan? Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.
Sorry to answer too late cos I seldom watch all comments, we have global shipping for first edition Japanese vinyl ,you can ask for listings jamessam@netvigator.com
goo.gl/photos/qN8RX6MoWw4sxUja7
增知識👍
your explanation really makes sense, James. Thanks! I also collecting japanese vinyls but just a begjnner. I always this question: as we all know many of great musicians that we listen based in US, UK etc....., does it mean the japanese vinyls producers get only copies of original master tapes from those original countries? or the original master tapes ? or digital formats? for the purpose of making the master disk. Regards, rudy
Sorry for the late reply , actually all branches of the same record company were using the same master copy ,they are same quality but Japanese record plant are the meticulous for sound quality!
@@jamestang1702 thanks again for sharing your experience James..... yes i notice japanese pressing lot quiter and less static somehow.... it seems better material n manufacture 👍
@@rmuliana78 Not just quiter ,the soundstage is much deeper ,better mid and low ,you can compare with other vinyl by standing 6-10 ft in front of the speakers.
I don't understand why DSD and CD versions are placed so low on authenticity of the original sound of the master tape... even further than compact cassette? A lot of CDs are cut from the original master tapes, and thus have an excellent chance of sounding very close to the master tape.
And regarding Japanese vinyl pressings, for western releases they are usually cut from a copy of the master tape and not the original. So it's a tradeoff... quieter vinyl vs. higher quality source.
Throw away your brainwashed and outdated knowledge ,you need to feel the music not discuss it to get the truth! Come listen how actual master tape sound before you judge 😎🎵🎵🎵
listen tye NY times author who wrote two dozen of hifi and hi tech books
diginsider.com/2017/11/11/the-other-sam-the-record-man/
ruclips.net/video/EjbFB1XH6Ks/видео.html
@@jamestang1702 Thanks for sharing the video. It's hard to tell which sounds best because they are not level matched, but it was very interesting nonetheless. Interesting you used Money for Nothing as the example, as Brothers In Arms was recorded to digital tape and not analog.
James💯分
Thank you for watching🙏
James, 很多謝你的資料。
我有一個問題想問：唱片公司為什麼不找回數十年前當年的母帶，例如鄧麗君的，張國榮的，Beatles 的，Beyond 的等等（母帶是100％), 再由母帶做母盤，再由母盤做金屬壓模，再由金屬壓模做黑膠唱片, 那豈不是重現當年頭版黑膠唱片的質素？如果是這樣，我相信很多人會買。因本人在這方面知識有限，我的問題可能另人見笑,請見諒，謝謝！
我同樣是這樣想，希望重現從前的聲音，但是據我的驗證，就算母帶保存良好，自1994年以後的母盤已經没有音場，所以它的復刻版全部都沒有音場，差過CD 和youtube! 我想這是成本的考虑，也許他們没有察觉或明知故犯只是為减低成本!這是一埸人類音樂文化遗产的人為災難!所以你見到来這裡聽過母帶的訪客都表现很激動甚至落淚!
@@jamestang1702 謝謝你的回覆。
1994年後由母帶 (母帶的物料是什麼？是否和卡式帶的一樣?) 再做出來的母盤(母盤是金屬制的?) 沒有音場，有沒有可能是因為當時的技術現已失傳? 母帶是否和畫家的作品一樣，不能100%復制? 我的意思是就算能復制到70%以上已經勝過母帶的兒子母盤、開卷式磁帶和卡式帶，那便值得做了。
請問你和演藝學院共同建立的全球的音樂數據庫進展如何 (樂曲數目大致如何?)？建成後我們一般市民可否下載來欣償？有否版權問題? 我相信在音樂數據庫裡的樂曲 (雖然是數碼方式)，其質素比任何音樂串流平台提供的和家中的黑膠、CD或卡式帶都更好。謝謝。
@@hctang853 母帶亦分原始的和remastered 的，因為聽得多和有其他大量不同media 的版本，要鑑定母帶的考貝製作年代並不太困難。我為人類打造的音樂本檔案巳超過十二萬曲，但由於版權問题，教授知學生現只能親自到本館鑑聽。我之前以為他們可以豁免。刻錄金属母碟的傳統技術很可能已經失傳!
@@hctang853 如果唱片公司邀請我共同製作，應該可以直接將母帶數碼化成16 bit CD ,也可有母帶的7-8成音質，已經夠震撼了！
@@jamestang1702 那音質豈不是超越了數十年前的頭版黑膠？如果錄成24/192 或更高，那麽便絕對更震撼了，是樂迷的天大喜訴。我想唱片公司們不找你是因為他們根本不知道可以這樣做，亦或如這樣做了的話，他們擔心現有的黑膠和CD便沒有人買了。
7:18 chart 咁即係聽CD會好聽過而家嘅Hi-Res，可唔可以咁講？幾時講下而家流行嘅file，例如wav，flac，dsf等等，thanks
照佢個chart，即係唔駛晒錢買SACD，聽翻cd重正，有d顛覆我嘅思維
@@cibckwong 主要係remaster失真，由其係復刻碟，如果係DSD母帶直接壓SACD又唔同講法
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Record company Cassette tapes sound like crap, lots of tape hiss on poor quality tape , maybe Your cassettes sound good but no way in the US. Japanese pressings often times are very quiet but have no bass either.....
We have a lot of japanese cassette Vs us and others , the conclusion is Japanese cassette has better bass than the rest !