Author Topic: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]  (Read 6201 times)

Fuzi

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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]
« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2023, 11:37:11 AM »
With acknowledgement/apologies to TheRetroElevator here it is in 16bit/44.1kHz FLAC.
pixeldrain.com/u/JgejMsK2

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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]
« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2023, 11:40:55 AM »
@likedeeler thank you, I always appreciate your nerdy and valuable investigations:)
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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]
« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2023, 12:07:19 PM »
I've just made a few test runs with VLC and foobar2000 and different buffer size settings...

Thank you for your detailed analysis!

For those who are interested in technical information on digitization of this record:

Playback device: Revox B790
Preamplifier: Clearaudio Phonostage NPV2
ADC: FireWire Audiophile
Digitizer application: Sound Forge 7

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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]
« Reply #18 on: May 06, 2023, 12:25:12 PM »
You've got a Revox B790? Fab!
« Last Edit: May 06, 2023, 03:57:36 PM by likedeeler »

Fuzi

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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]
« Reply #19 on: May 06, 2023, 01:34:22 PM »
Dope 8]

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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967)
« Reply #20 on: May 06, 2023, 02:52:34 PM »
A lovely easy listening album. Thank you for sharing TheRetroElevator. But, and please don't take this the wrong way, do you not think that 24 bit/96KHz is slight overkill?

The sound of one track goes up to 45 kHz. Therefore you need to sample with at least 96 kHz to encode it. Therefore the sampling rate used cannot technically be qualified as overkill. Whether your stereo is capable of reproducing this is another question.

(The answer is: very likely it's incapable. Stereo systems that can reproduce sound up to 50 kHz are in a price range that few people will afford.)
Also even if one could afford a stereo system that could reproduce sound up to 50kHz surely the limitation is that the human ear can only hear sounds up to 20kHz. So 96kHz would not be audible to the average (note average!) human and would just annoy the hell out of the local canine population.

That said I was brought up with 78rpm and later regular vinyl records. So for me even mp3 is a great leap forward. And before anyone says anything, my hearing is still very acute and, yes, I can hear the difference between lossy and lossless files. :)

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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]
« Reply #21 on: May 06, 2023, 02:57:06 PM »

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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2024, 05:06:33 PM »
Many thanks

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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2024, 06:47:24 PM »
I had this album in mp3 version, thanks for the good rip!

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Re: [Melodiya] VIO-66 - Music For Recreation (1967) [FLAC]
« Reply #24 on: February 06, 2024, 07:35:28 PM »
Thank you, Retro Elevator!

@nidostar: I personally use freac to convert WAV or 96 kHz files to 16/48 FLAC. I think my personal hearing stops around 11 kHz, so I would likely not notice anything above 22 kHz encoding.