If you can't hear this then you're not an audiophile [See description for link to followup video]

If you can't

hear

this

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you're not an audio file, those crazy audio files you know, people who would spend a thousand pounds on a one meter interconnect and clearly

hear

the difference between that and their previous 10B cable bought on AliExpress. yes, and by raising the speaker cables a few inches off the ground, they can hear it too. No, I'm prepared to believe that some people can actually hear

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and if I had a non-sarcasm emoji, I'd use it now. I'm ready. believe that some people can actually hear this prompt I didn't quite say it I think if you're seeing this

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maybe you're an audio file that's up for a challenge or maybe you're just curious to know if you can hear what audio files can listen or what audio files they can't listen to, we'll see, so I have a recording and there's something wrong with it.

The challenge is can you hear what is wrong? I can hear him clearly without golden ears, ears made of the roughest flannel fabric. In fact, here's the clip. I'll play it again, so there are two possibilities. Here you heard the problem or you didn't hear it if you are an audio file with thousands of interconnects, suspended speaker cables and everything else and you didn't hear it. so you wasted your money if you can't hear this you can't hear anything for nothing of course I mean all those details that your equipment and upgrades were supposed to provide but maybe you did hear it what did you hear? a moment to restate your thoughts then I will tell you what you heard you heard the solar clarinet wandering in the stereo image sometimes it is the center sometimes on the left sometimes on the right and it can vary from note to note I think we should listen again you already heard This time it is safe and even audio files can listen to it.

You know, sometimes hearing all those little details can make you forget about the proverbial elephant trumpeting in the room. Let me add some credits here. The clarinet soloist is the incredible Roland Hendris. from his album, the clarinet as a prima donna. I know I'm pronouncing his name wrong, but if I tried what I assume should be the Flemish pronunciation, it could be much worse. The piece is VAB's second clarinet concerto and you can buy it on the evil penguin label along with Ong with other original vber music and interesting arrangements. The

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is in the

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Oh, and it's also on Spotify and probably the other streaming services so you can listen to it right now after watching the rest of this

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where I'm at. I'll explain what's going on, some listeners may still have questions. The problem is easier to hear with headphones or closer to the speakers in the direct field, so try here you have a clip of the clarinet alone and I'll help you with a vector. scope screen you will see a lot of blurring on the screen which is the reverberation in the room, what you are looking for is the overall tilt tilted to the left means the stereo image is biased to the left, tilted to the right and then it is biased towards Right, come on, so what's causing this is the recording technique.

I have to say that apart from this problem, I am very satisfied with this recording and since the music and performances are so good, there is a small problem with the stereo image. I'm not going to stop you from enjoying it, first let's look at a

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of the recording session, we can see that Roland moves quite a distance and the clarinet is in almost continuous motion. Now any recording engineer would prefer that the lead instrument not do this. It doesn't move, that's why the piano was invented, but the piano has its own problems, but also any recording engineer, even right out of college, knows that if a performer moves, it's generally not a good idea to try to persuade him that movement can be part of physical expression and the performance will be boring and flat if the performer tried not to move when it is more natural for them to sway a little.

What we can see in this wide shot are several microphones and perhaps not We can see Of all of them, what we don't know is if all the microphones were used and in what proportions they were balanced in the mix. Any stereo microphone setup will pick up movement on the lead instrument, that will just happen and we have to accept it. One way to get a firm center image of a soloist or singer while leaving out large instruments like the piano for now is to use a single microphone fairly close, not as close as you would for popular music.

The sound needs to breathe a little air before playing. the microphone, but what do we see here? Aha, two spaced microphones that in this setup would normally pan all the way left and right if you want to capture motion. This is the best way. An alternative approach is to use a matching cross pair which will capture. movement but not as much as a spaced pair because it is not sensitive to time differences. I also see a third microphone and all three microphones seem to be pointing towards the solo clarinet. The third microphone is spaced by height. this may be to avoid reflections that could affect the sound in horizontally spaced microphones.

The third microphone in this position would almost certainly be centered. This could be a spaced microphone or overhead microphone situation to set up the microphones you think you might need. It helps the session run smoothly, it's better to set up a microphone and not need it than to need it and not have it set up or maybe the third microphone is balanced with the spaced pair. I'd say the spaced pair does the heavy lifting. lifting here, but note that Roland's movements are sometimes up and down if all three microphones are used, this will upset the balance between the spatial microphones and the top microphone the top microphone Shifting the image to the center, so if Roland moves from high center to low left, the image in the stereo sound field will move from center to left.

If Roland stays low and moves to the right, the image will move to the right. Don't forget that the sound comes out from the entire length of the instrument, not just the Bell, this takes into account notes appearing randomly from random directions, as far as I can understand this completely explains the sound we are hearing. I don't want to give the impression that I'm saying that the engineer is doing everything wrong. I said that in all other respects, the recording is excellent and when it comes to my point at hand, it is a matter of taste.

My taste just goes on a different path, so my questions for you, are you an ordinary audio or music enthusiast? Did you hear it? you are an audio file, you heard it if you thought you were an audio file but you didn't hear it, what are you going to do now in the comments? One more thing in the video. I saw a cheeky M7 stereo reverb processor. Somebody has? Any thoughts on this in the context of acoustic instruments in the real world and what the audio files would think of this. See you soon.