Posted on 04/06/2024 7:24:27 PM PDT by thecodont
From the November 2021 issue of Car and Driver.
What's blasting from your car speakers, and more important, how does it sound? For sound-system engineers at the audio-equipment manufacturer Bose, a playlist is more than tracks that slap. To test stereos, they need songs representing a variety of sounds and recording techniques to make sure new systems can re-create a song with the depth of the original recording.
To have a common reference point, Bose engineers all over the globe share a master playlist. "Every system engineer knows these tracks inside and out," says Mark Armitage, head of the acoustical-engineering team at the company's Michigan field office. "It makes for a universal language we can use when testing and tuning."
Armitage says the 54-track Bose playlist is updated periodically, and engineers can use it alongside a smattering of their personal favorites or recent Grammy winners. He walked us through a few selections from his test list.
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As usual for people on FR, I won’t actually read the article, but if it doesn’t mention anything (literally any song) off Boston’s first album, it’s just wrong.
That album was an audio masterpiece.
Dire Straits Money for Nothing is absolutely the best. It takes great fidelity to reproduce a sawtooth wave and keep it sounding so raspy.
Money For Nuthin is one of my Go-To’s for mix and/or master reference. No matter how loud you crank it, it always, just sounds amazing. A Masterpiece for sure!
The quiet parts of the music are just as important as the noise.
sigh. BOSE?
Buy
Other
Soumd
Equipment
Amar Bose genius was to understand 40 something men, who have money, have hearing loss in specific frequencies. If you use an equalizer to boost those frequencies, old men with money think they sound great. Bose 901’s and all the subsequent bose trash are sonic abonimations.
Buy,Other,Sound,Equipment
Women mystified and confounded me just as much then as they do today.
That cannot be possible. Aren’t FReepers among the more intelligent human beans?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4226418/replies?c=328 I’ve got a photo of it.
MFN cost me a fortune. Showed up the clear difference between a set of standard speakers and electrostatic speakers. Dire Straits owes me a bombshell for that.
My niece was at that show.
I’ve always thought that having the audience sing your song to you is probably one of the highest compliments a band could have.
If you like Petty and the audience effect, you should listen to Breakdown, when they played live at the Wiltern in 1985. It’s my favorite live version of that song.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4MlFMLlxLgUmGHu9VAdXLz?si=qzc9bJPjRsexs4490cXKAw
Sorry. I posted something belonged to another thread.
I think I lost my hearing from blasting “Lucifer” on my headphones.
Any/every cut from that production masterpiece is good for EQ’g sound.
Amar Bose may be a genius but none of the rest describes me.
No every listener who agrees calls in... ;-)
count me in...
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