The Audio Belle interviews Michael Fremer - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2020
- At Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2019, I interviewed Michael Fremer of Analog Planet. We talk about a variety of subjects, including how he became an audiophile, his love of vinyl, and different questions I had about vinyl --- 120g vs. 180g, virgin vinyl vs. recycled vinyl, 33 1/3 vs. 45 rpm, and half speed records. He also shares some life stories with me, including a time when he was asked to assist with the re-mastering of The Beatles' Abbey Road.
Michael has been mentoring and helping with the development of a 13 year-old writer, Malachi Liu, who has also been contributing to Analog Planet's articles.
Analog Planet Website:
www.analogplanet.com/
Analog Planet RUclips Channel:
/ @analogplanet
The concept of private property when it comes to physical music formats is a good one.
Especially when it comes to vinyl, because those last forever when treated properly.
You really know your stuff and how to put people at ease. Great interview!
Great interview! Looking forward to Part 2.
Awesome interview TAB so nice of Michael to share his thoughts with you, well done.
Great interview Cynthia! Thank you!
This guy is such a beacon of truth, comedy, knowledge, experience, etc. It’s a good thing we’ve got Michael Fremer as our analog and vinyl ambassador. ✌️🎶 🔊🙂🎵
Really good interview. Enjoyed it.
My favorite Audio Man who has the best hurmor in Audio great knowledge also
Who's Better,,,,,,
Very good video Audio Belle, thank you. Micheal is a legend.
Vinyl is denser than air (which samples the sound from the source and transports it) so the number of particles for storing the information is more and it is analogue. Digital samples less than air and has to convert back and forth, each step causing distortion...but it is very handy and as the technology improves, problems will be ironed out. Fremer is anchored in his position.
I remember being at a Stereophile show in NY back in the 80's or 90's and Conrad Johnson had a room and they were playing music from a CD and I begged them to play an LP and they did and it sounded much better. I think the CD player was their modified Philips that everyone was modifying back then.
I remember when Fremer joined the crew at Stereophile. I was so elated to have someone speaking my language. Early digital sounded like nails on a chalkboard to me. I have always credited Mikey with keeping vinyl from vanishing for ever. The resurgence happening today rest on Fremer’s shoulders.
Cynthia, this interview was fantastic. I love listening to Mr. Fremer - he's a wealth of knowledge. Thank you so much for interviewing him.
Excellent.
Great interview and any audiophile knows who Michael Fremer is. But, for those that are audio enthusiasts that stumble across your RUclips page, you may want to start off with who your interviewing and who they’re with or represent. I think you’d gain more viewers that way. Great interview and it’s nice to see a unique and raw perspective! Keep up the great work!
Michael is always entertaining
He’s a Legend
Great respect
Michael Fremer knows his stuff
Yes, And he is real and funny.
High resolution streaming is better than CD, wow. Hold on, i'll comment again in the future.
My first record was The Jungle Book. I wish I still had it.
This was a great interview Cynthia. Michael has long trashed the sound quality of CDs, but this is the first time that he in a very articulate way went through the reasons why he doesn’t like their sound. I agree that the early CD sound was very flat and somewhat brittle and people at the time were very taken by the quiet background they were experiencing. There was a rush to embrace the “new” technology. At the same time you started to have live drums being replaced in the studio by synthesized drum machines. One of the effects was that the drum samples at that time could not reproduce the decay of an actual cymbal, so it would decay not to infinity but suddenly drop off a cliff much like he is describing in the CD playback which then makes listening fatiguing. Great job. Love Michael.
@8:49
Michael, that explains a lot.
;-)
Fremer rocks.
You're actually right Belle. CD is better than streaming. The problem with streaming is controlling jitter. This issue is blurring everything to death. To compare it to something else. A 4k picture resolution is nothing worth shown on a projector out of focus
Jitter is a real thing. But the overall fidelity with high resolution dwarfs it. Better imaging, soundstage, air, transparency. I'd want a record for the long-term. But you'll get a far better preview with high-res streaming than a CD.
Arh michael man who knows his stuff
love Michael! one of the only reviewers I trust. cool to learn he has 16,000 records
Cookythecook
I’m sure he has more
Did Michael say he has16,000 records? I think he has a lot more than 16,000 from the looks of Jana’s Stereophile video of his home.
You calling Mike a liar?
I had to stop and hear the mills brothers
Red Book/ CD technology, is limited to 20Khz. Actually 18Khz in order to brick wall filter by 21Khz.
While vinyl has had up to 122Khz cut on it.
90BD S/N? Good noise floor of a house 40dbSPL? Typical 50dbSPL? Threshold of pain/ ears bleed - 120dbSPL? Workers are not allowed extended time in 110dbSPL.
Glenn,
I am a vinyl girl come Hell or high water!
---Cynthia, The Audio Belle
@15:23
Measurements:
The reason that folks, that swear by measurements, conclude that digital is better than vinyl is due to one or more of the following:
1) Their measuring tests are not measuring one or more aspect of what needs to be measured. They think that they know what to measure, and are unwittingly missing something.
2) They are not measuring correctly.
3) They did not professionally dial in the many vectors of the turntable, to achieve getting their stylus to track at its best (and this is a big deal).
4) Their measuring equipment is not up to the task.
If they are using a record player from Walmart, and some random records, and listen on Bose speakers, then they will not be able to hear what they need to hear.
No two records sound the same.
No two sides of the same record sound the same.
Some records will sound very, very similar. But no two are exactly the same.
If your equipment does not reveal the differences, then there is no point in using that equipment to conduct a test.
You have to professionally clean your records.
You have to cherry-pick your records (90%+ of pressings suck, 8% sound very good, and only 1 or 2% sound fantastic -- and only on one side). It is rare to find a fantastic sounding record on both sides. And to further complicate matters, there are some records where 100% of them do not sound good (Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell is one example).
This is why knowledge of which stampers to seek out and which ones to avoid is important. And even stampers known to have great sound quality only gives you a shot at landing one of the great sounding ones (even the right stamper sometimes yields nothing special sound quality).
So these people that do measurements think that they are doing them properly, when they are not.
Perhaps,
My favorite measurement is my ears. :)
---Cynthia, The Audio Belle
@@TheAudioBelle Exactly.
The people that swear by measurements would tell you that you are not holding an apple in your hand, if their measuring equipment did not register that apple in your hand.
They keep trying to convince us that our ears are wrong, because their measurements say otherwise.
So there has to be a reason for why their measurements do not agree with reality. And I say it is because of 1-4 that I outlined in my original comment.
Of course our ears are right. So they are doing something wrong with their measuring. But the problem (the disconnect between their camp and our camp) is that they are not hearing what we are hearing. So they swear that they are correct, and we know that we are correct. But they really believe that they are correct (well, some are just trolls looking for attention). And it is because they have sub-par audio equipment and/or issues with how they are testing.
If "measurements" people heard Michael's stereo, it would be like them getting cold water splashed in their faces, and they would finally realize that they were doing something wrong with their measuring.
Cheers!
I almost stopped watching the first minute, I thought the whole interview would be 2 second cuts. I'm glad I didn't.
Dear Tony,
I had received a few other comments about that as well, so I will be including the words "Sneak Peek" during the introductions that show the cuts. Thank you for the feedback!
---Cynthia, The Audio Belle
@@TheAudioBelle No problem, thanks for a great interview!
The audio in this interview is shockingly bad.
Fremer is awesome. Can't say the same for the poor audio and edits on this interview. Can't hear some of the questions and fade outs at the beginning of an answer?? Thumbs down
PT Invite,
I appreciate the feedback. Can you tell me the timestamps where you had trouble hearing some of the questions? I can't post over the video but if it is something I can fix then I can re-edit it and give you a link with an improved copy of the video.
Also regarding the fadeouts, do you mean my Sneak Peeks that I do at the beginning of my videos?
---Cynthia, The Audio Belle
Cynthie? 😂
I disagree it is a new world but steaming is not that great.The artist loses royalties and the quality is as good of its location of the start..stop start...it's another conversion of condensed bits bites etc.Vinyl rules.!!!