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[13] Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Part 1 (conclusion) (ADD) 7:07
Stephen Roberts (bass), Oundle & District Choral Society, St. Ives Choral Society, St. Neots Choral Society, Huntingdonshire Philharmonic, conducted by Christopher Brown, with Arthur Willis at the organ of Ely Cathedral

Recording Venue: Ely Cathedral, Ely, England
Recording Date: July 7, 1984
Recording Engineers: John Atkinson, Ivor Humphreys (footnote 6)
Microphone: Calrec (AMS) SoundField Mk.III, set to coincident figure-8 pattern at 90 degrees
Recorder: ReVox…

[14] Corey Greenberg: Eden (AAD) 3:14
Corey Greenberg (electric guitars)

Recording Venue: KBTS-FM Studio B, Austin, Texas
Recording Date: December 16, 1987
Recording Engineer: Corey Greenberg
Microphone: none (uh-oh...)
Recorder: Otari MX5050B-II ¼" 2-track and MX5050B-III 4-track open-reel recorders at 15ips (NAB EQ)
Recording Equipment: Tascam board, Yamaha SPX-90 digital effects unit, Chandler Tube Driver guitar preamp, Urei LA-4 compressors, Canare cable
Transfer to digital: Manley Analogue to Digital Converter, Aiwa HD-S1 DAT,…

[15] Pink Noise at -20dBFS (DDD) 1:24
Correlated between channels, then uncorrelated from 0:42

[16] Bass Decade 1/3-octave warble tones at -20dBFS (DDD) 2:47
Center frequencies: 200Hz (Index 1), 160Hz (Index 2), 125Hz (Index 3), 100Hz (Index 4), 80Hz (Index 5), 63Hz (Index 6), 50Hz (Index 7), 40Hz (Index 8), 31.5Hz (Index 9), 25Hz (Index 10), and 20Hz (Index 11)

[17] Midrange Decade 1/3-octave warble tones at -20dBFS (DDD) 2:32
Center frequencies: 250Hz (Index 1), 315Hz (Index 2), 400Hz…

[20] The Harmonic Series, 500Hz fundamental (L+R) (DDD) 0:24
500Hz, 1kHz, 1.5kHz, 2kHz, 2.5kHz, 3kHz, 3.5kHz, 4kHz, 4.5kHz, 5kHz, 5.5kHz, 6kHz, 6.5kHz, 7kHz, 7.5kHz, 8kHz, 8.5kHz, 9kHz, 9.5kHz, 10kHz, at -10dBFS

[21] Second-harmonic distortion (L+R) (DDD) 1:42
500Hz at -10dBFS + 0% second-harmonic distortion (Index 1), then 10%; 0% (Index 2), 3%; 0% (Index 3), 1%; 0% (Index 4), 0.3%; 0% (Index 5), 0.1%

[22] Third-harmonic distortion (L+R) (DDD) 1:42
500Hz at -10dBFS + 0% 3rd harmonic…

[27] Spot frequency tones at -20dBFS (L+R) (DDD) 6:15
10Hz (Index 1), 12.5Hz (Index 2), 16Hz (Index 3), 20Hz (Index 4), 25Hz (Index 5), 31.5Hz (Index 6), 40Hz (Index 7), 50Hz (Index 8), 63Hz (Index 9), 80Hz (Index 10), 100Hz (Index 11), 125Hz (Index 12), 160Hz (Index 13), 200Hz (Index 14), 250Hz (Index 15), 315Hz (Index 16), 400Hz (Index 17), 500Hz (Index 18), 630Hz (Index 19), 800Hz (Index 20), 1kHz (Index 21), 1.25kHz (Index 22), 1.6kHz (Index 23), 2kHz (Index 24), 2.5kHz (Index 25), 3.15kHz (Index 26), 4kHz (…

WARNING: TO AVOID DAMAGE TO YOUR LOUDSPEAKERS AND HEARING, DO NOT PLAY THESE TRACKS AT HIGH LEVELS

[30] 19+20kHz at 0dBFS with spoken warning (L+R) (DDD) 0:21

[31] 20kHz at 0dBFS & -20dBFS with spoken warning (L+R) (DDD) 0:31

These tracks will be of no concern to the audiophile who is just interested in music, but will be found very useful to those with a spectrum analyzer. Track 30 tests a CD player or D/A processor for intermodulation distortion—see Stereophile's reviews for more information. While only…

Stereophile Test CD 2 STPH 004-2 Total playing time: 74:28

Warning: Because of the high peak:mean ratio of the sound of the instruments in tracks 1-4, you can easily set the playback level too high for the tracks that follow!

Music Tracks:
[1] Channel Identification 0:37
[2] Channel Phasing 0:46
[3] Acoustic Drum Solo 3:37
[4] Acoustic guitar solo 3:07
[5] Igor Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat (excerpt) 0:56
[6] Sergei Prokofiev: Flute Sonata in D, Op.94, Allegro con brio 7:00
[7] Franz Schubert: Ave…

The Brassworks was a chamber group formed in 1985 by musicians living in the Champaign-Urbana (Illinois) area, which is home to the University of Illinois. Members of The Brassworks were drawn from the university community, as well as from the Air Force Band of the Midwest at nearby Chanute Air Force Base. The group was dissolved in 1991 when most of its members took new positions at various locations around the country. The arrangement is from an unpublished manuscript by Charlie Caranicas, who was at that time a student at the University of Minnesota.

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Test CD 2 was produced by John Atkinson with the invaluable assistance of Robert Harley; master-tape assembly and digital editing by Doug Doyle on the Sonic Solutions Sonic System at Digital Brothers, Newport Beach, CA; booklet text by John Atkinson, with contributions from Robert Harley, Peter W. Mitchell, and Corey Greenberg; booklet design and production by Diane Harris and Janet Resnick; booklet cover illustration by Janet Resnick. Our thanks to David Manley and VTL for the loan of the Manley Reference Analogue to Digital Converter and for the use of his studio, to…