The Audio Belle interviews Michael Fremer - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- 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:
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Analog Planet RUclips Channel:
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I've listened to this man talk for 30 years and I never get tired of it.
That was one of the most entertaining and interesting interviews I've seen in quite a while. He really needs to write a book.
Love these interviews! Thanks Cynthia. I hope I get to meet Michael and you at a show one of these days.
Fascinating !!! Well done Cynthia !!!
As someone below said.....Mr. Fremer needs to write a book about all his cool experiences.
Thoroughly enjoyed parts 1 and 2 of your interview with Mr. Fremer. Such a passion for all things vinyl, not to mention all the cool anecdotes.
Where the hell have you been all my life! Great interview! I will be stalking your channel, in a good way!
Fascinating interview. Learned a lot.
Great interview, very relevant question, which is unusual
Great video
One of the best interview of Fremer , keep up the good work. 👍
Brilliant interview Cynthia! Found you through Steve G. Michael is a legend. I wish you great success with your channel and your life.
George,
Thank you for your wishes!
---Cynthia, The Audio Belle
Always great to listen to Mr. Fremer. All I can say is, that I can listen to vinyl for many hours wich I can not when I listen to a CD. I don't know why. As a musician I have trained ears and I am not an esoteric.
He's the best
13:50 I'm from Greenville NC, and michaels NC accent is "spot on"!😅😂
Great interview.
I like what you are doing, Ms. Belle, and keep up the good work, but you need to make your questions and responses as audible as the person you are interviewing.
Dear Jerry,
I was hoping that one of my viewers would notice and that I wasn't crazy! I had to doctor up the audio coming from my side in my video editing software due to it not being as audible. This will be fixed at Axpona, as I am going to add two more, lapel, microphones to my videos.
Thank you for the feedback and confirming what I had suspected.
---Cynthia, The Audio Belle
I had the same experience while viewing and the background noise at times made it even harder to hear you. However, when in an open public space it is difficult to avoid. Another great interview!
@@TheAudioBelle hi Cynthia! Sorry I just noticed your reply 4 Weeks Later. LOL thank you for replying and hope to see you at Axpona. I'm from Milwaukee Wisconsin and I plan to be there.
Timing is still an issue when playing digital with a device that hasn't a proper clock source.
Enjoyable interview, thank you... Though I am 44 years old and I STILL sneak records into the house (shame).
I find that Cynthia conducted a good interview, she was able to have Michael get into some good topics. Well done.
Riccardo,
I am glad you enjoyed!
---Cynthia, The Audio Belle
At about 8:50. Michael starts talking about time and phase problems with CDs. The problem is present in 16/44.1 in general, not just CDs. And it is not just due to the brick wall filters used.
It is due to the fact that 16/44.1 does not have enough resolution to reproduce the low level (7-10 microseconds) of interaural time differences humans are capable of. 16/44.1 can only reproduce down to 22 microseconds.
I can almost instantly tell the difference between the sound of the same recording, on 16/44.1 and say, 24/192 or DSD, that has a lot of ambient cues present (almost any decent classical recording, for example), just by listening to the overall size of the soundstage. 24/192, for example, can reproduce interaural time differences down to 5 microseconds.
The reason why so many people claim they can't hear the difference between 16/44.1 and 24/192, is because they listen to mostly, modern recordings of pop, rock, hip hop, country, where the recording process removes most natural ambient information, and introduces tons of studio effects that hide it. Given good recordings, with the presence of natural ambient information present, I believe almost anyone can be easily trained to hear the difference between 16/44.1 and hi res.
I don't know if your claim that humans can detect 10 microseconds timing difference is true, but assuming it is, vinyl cannot reproduce that either because it would require a bandwidth of 100 kHz which records don't have. There is no difference between the two media in that regard.
Another thing is that the comparison of different commercial recordings means nothing becaue you cannot rule out that theh differences you hear are due to different masterings rather than the formats. It's a meaningless test. A valid test is the one that Mr Fremer dismisses in the interview: Let someone make a 16/44 digital copy of your favourite LP played on your favourite turntable and then have you compare the two in a double blind test. If you can't tell which is which better than half of the time, that means 16/44 is transparent by human standards, and it means a CD can sound like the LP with all the subleties you like about it. You can do the same test with a 16/44 copy of a hi res file and see if you can detect a difference in a blind test.
"Want to hear another one" shit yeah Mikey
Would love to invite him to my place. I only have a bout 5000 LPs.
To be clear, you cant compare 33 and 45 if they use different masterings.
The next time that you interview Michael, tell him that Trump loves vinyl.