sleepysurf
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The Jan issue of S'phile has a fascinating Industry Updates column (p. 14, Jason Serinus) profiling recording/mastering engineer Cookie Marenco, and the recent Bay Area Audiophile Society experiment at her Blue Coast Records studio, comparing live vs recorded music. The column is not yet available online, but hopefully will be soon. She recorded flamenco guitarist Jason McGuire, and demo'd the impact of various mixes, played back both on her studio monitors, and an "audiophile" system, and compared to a live performance. Two of the recorded tracks are available for free download as 44.1kHz/24bit wav files. I converted them to FLAC, and played them via my Squeezebox. For those with CD players only, they can be burned to a CD for playback. More info here...
http://bluecoastrecords.blogspot.com/2008/12/stereophile-profiles-marencos-recording.html
http://bluecoastrecords.blogspot.com/2008/12/stereophile-profiles-marencos-recording.html