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Getting better sound in your dj sets (Tony Andrews interview)

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  • October 27, 2012 at 9:32 pm #30889
    NewportDJ Drew
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    Sure you can have great sound quality but it costs space. we can get 192000 samples per second in 24 bits but a 3 minute song will be in the hundreds of megabytes… (note at 96k three minutes of audio is 100 megabytes and a comparable mp3 is about 8 megabytes).
    So the game of trade offs begins.
    As an individual, you must decide what your lowest common denominator is for your files.
    My choice is I am happy to use 320k mp3’s as the trade off ratio of quality to file size is pretty damn good.

    October 27, 2012 at 9:36 pm #30890
    Maximlee
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    Will, post: 30996, member: 46 wrote: How far up the food chain are you, exactly? Not to sound rude, but I have never heard of you. You are thinking about this too much.

    I buy new music every week. I spend a good 15+ hours listening to new tracks I buy, every week. I pick out the best ones that I like and use them for DJ’ing. The only way to get most of my tracks is via Itunes or Beatport, and I am a broke office worker/cubicle slave. So I’m buying MP3’s and AAC’s.

    If you are going to play WAV’s fine. I’m working on finite hard drive space, and a finite budget. If I can deal with a loss of just a fraction of fidelity, I’m pretty sure a room full of semi inebriated people who are there just to have fun are not going to notice a difference either. So yea, I think that you speaking on behalf of what DJ’s should or shouldn’t do is a bit pretentious.

    All that i have said is refering to a large club system… the best being Funktion ones. This is a dj that has been in the game for longer than the both of us…. hear that he says… 1.19 are the golden words [media=youtube]jgJfRg69qZA[/media]

    October 27, 2012 at 9:58 pm #30892
    NewportDJ Drew
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    So the question is…. why aren’t audio albums being released on DVD or blue ray now that such wonderful high quality audio files can be manufactured? The CD format is over 30 years old and antiquated!

    October 27, 2012 at 10:05 pm #30893
    NewportDJ Drew
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    Maximlee, post: 31046, member: 2165 wrote: All that i have said is refering to a large club system… the best being Funktion ones. This is a dj that has been in the game for longer than the both of us…. hear that he says… 1.19 are the golden words [media=youtube]jgJfRg69qZA[/media]

    Those stacks look like a whole lot of ‘no idea what phase interaction means’.
    Here is a test. Get a tone generator run two identical sine wave tones 180 degrees out of phase and listen to what happens.
    With speakers, if the magnets are not lined up you will get phase interaction and cancellation. (Sure there are time align circuits which can fix this problem). So no matter how good your file is it wont be reproduced faithfully at all if your speakers are not aligned.

    Oh and the best pa systems are made by Meyer.(MILO)

    October 28, 2012 at 12:00 am #30895
    Maximlee
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    Newportdj Drew, post: 31049, member: 244 wrote: Those stacks look like a whole lot of ‘no idea what phase interaction means’.
    Here is a test. Get a tone generator run two identical sine wave tones 180 degrees out of phase and listen to what happens.
    With speakers, if the magnets are not lined up you will get phase interaction and cancellation. (Sure there are time align circuits which can fix this problem). So no matter how good your file is it wont be reproduced faithfully at all if your speakers are not aligned.

    Oh and the best pa systems are made by Meyer.(MILO)

    What i have learnt from this thread is everyone thinks there right. How can any of us argue with the words from a man that has been making speakers for longer than alot of us have been on this earth? Just because we read something on the internet doesnt mean we are an expert.

    p.s 3am mix is phat

    October 28, 2012 at 12:31 am #30896
    NewportDJ Drew
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    True, I like to think that the knowledge I have is correct, but like most things, there are always varying degrees of ‘right’. I am paying quite a few thousand dollars to gain an advanced diploma in sound and technical production, so I do like to think what I am paying to learn is true! 8). One of the best things I have gained from my course is that capturing and reproducing audio is a lifelong journey and the art of ‘manipulating electricity’ can never be perfected no matter how much knowledge you have nor how long you have been ‘doing it’.

    PS. Thanks for the props on 3am 8).

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