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Analog Corner #290: The Haniwa LP Playback System In Heavy Rotation

Sidebar: In Heavy Rotation

Berlin Philharmonic: Bruckner's 7th Symphony
BPM D2D 2 LP test pressing

Raconteurs: Help Us Stranger
Third Man LP

Sasha Cooke/The Colburn Orchestra: If You Love For Beauty
Yarlung LP

Teodross Avery: After the Rain: A Night For Coltrane
Tompkins Square LP

Tyler, The Creator: IGOR
Tidal, Qobuz until vinyl arrives

Betty Carter: The Music Never Stops
Blue Engine Records 2 LPs

Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz
Impex 45rpm 2 LPs

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InnerFidelity Headphone Measurement Procedures

This story originally appeared at InnerFidelity.com

I spend a lot of time measuring headphones and talking about the measurements. Well ... why hog all the fun? Below you'll find a step by step run-through of InnerFidelity's headphone measurement procedure for InnerFidelity's headphone measurements, which can be found here.

Enjoy!

Headphone Measurement Proceedures - Introduction and Equipment

Headphone Objective Measurements Overview
There are two camps in the world of audio: objectivists and subjectivists. In an oversimplified summary, objectivists believe…

InnerFidelity Headphone Measurements Explained

This story originally appeared at InnerFidelity.com

Headphone measurements are complicated and relatively difficult to interpret. The following is written to help you understand InnerFidelity's headphone measurements, which can be found here.

Frequency Response

Understanding the Problem
Headphone frequency response measurements are not only difficult to make, but also quite difficult to interpret. Headphones can't be measured with normal measurement microphones, they have to be measured like they are used—coupled to a microphone that mimics the acoustic…

InnerFidelity Headphone Amplifier Measurements

Tyl Hertsens created a large database of over a thousand headphone and amplifier measurements while writing for InnerFidelity.com, where these files originally appeared.

All current headphone amplifier measurements can be downloaded in a single PDF book here.

Updated to fix links and add sheets: February, 2016

Clicking on a link below will allow you to download one datasheet at a time.

Single-Ended Solid-State Amplifiers
AURALiC Taurus MkII
Antelope Zodiac Platinum
Bakoon HPA21 Current Output
Bakoon HPA21 Voltage Output
Burson Audio…

InnerFidelity Headphone Measurements

Tyl Hertsens created a large database of over a thousand headphone and amplifier measurements while writing for InnerFidelity.com, where these files originally appeared.

Explanations about what the measurements mean can be found here.

A description of the equipment and how the measurements are taken can be found here.

All current measurements can be downloaded in a single PDF book from 2016 here.

Updated to fix links and add sheets: July 11, 2017

Clicking on a link below will allow you to download one datasheet at a time.

Full-Size Open…

David Bowie: Curated

I remember when I first heard that David Bowie had died. I was half-listening to the radio as I prepared for work. I was stunned. I just looked at my partner. To my surprise, a tear ran down my cheek. I had always been rather sniffy about people who got emotional when famous people died, people they had never met, who had never heard of them, who had lived lives of wealth. But, as we drove to work in silence, there was real grief in the car. Bowie was gone. Bowie had always been in my life. It was a single of his that introduced me to the power of vinyl. "The Laughing Gnome" (1967) may now…

David Bowie: Curated Page 2

Unlike some rock singers who fancy going a bit soul, Bowie was steeped in the genre. He had the feel, the love, and the voice to bring it off. With backing singers such as Vandross and Ava Cherry, this is the real McCoy. Occasionally, it gets a tad muffled around Carlos Alomar's and Earl Slick's guitar (in "1984," for example), but they can be heard clearly enough in a barnstorming "Moonage Daydream." The (then) new songs from the not-yet-released Young Americans, such as "Can You Hear Me," are sublime. This is genuine soul, and he sounds as if he is loving it. Often, it's playful, such as…

Fostex M22RP/S M-S microphone

Coincident stereo miking (footnote 1) has two advantages and one disadvantage. Its advantages are that it gives the most stable, specific imaging of any mike technique, and its outputs can be summed for mono reproduction without loss of quality. Its disadvantage is that, in most of its configurations, it tends to produce an overly narrow, shallow soundstage. Crossed figure-8 microphones produce adequate soundstage width, but their rear sensitivity makes them susceptible to audience noise interference at live concerts, and they may pick up too much hall sound at distances which provide the…

Fostex M22RP/S M-S microphone Specifications

Sidebar: Specifications

Decription: High-output ribbon middle-side stereo microphone. Output level: –54dBm; –148dB EIA. Source impedance: 600 ohms. Recommended load: 250 ohms.
Weight: 1.6lb.
Price: $1095. Approximate number of dealers: 700.
Manufacturer: Fostex: 1 Chome-1-109 Tsutsujigaoka, Akishima, Tokyo 196-0012, Japan. Tel: +81 42 546 4974. Fax: +81 42 546 2335. Web: fostexinternational.com. US distributor: Fostex Corp. of America, Norwalk, CA 90650 (1988); American Music and Sound (2020). Web: AmericanMusicAndSound.com.

Revinylization #13: Tone Poet, Analogue Productions, ERC reissues

For jazz fans, a new batch of releases in Blue Note's Tone Poet series—vinyl reissues remastered with care and cut from the original analog tapes—is reason for celebration. Fortunately, the batches come frequently. The latest releases, as I write in late October 2020, are very solid, musically and sonically.

Herbie Hancock's reputation, at least with me and I think generally, is as a pianist of great versatility, which is to say, he is all over the place stylistically. That's true on My Point of View, Hancock's second record as leader, which veers from soul jazz (with Grant Green on…