Octave Records and DSD Studios
Octave Records and DSD Studios
Octave Records is a division of PS Audio Inc., a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of some of the world's finest high-end audio equipment. Octave's mission is to represent the state of the art in musical recording, providing a gold standard for the industry to follow in both technological achievements and artists' welfare. We believe in preserving all that is good in service of the music and those artists that create and record it. To hear what we do, go to our home page: HTTP://www.octaverecords.com
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Always thought my LS35A was made as a studio monitor. With the right front end they were magic, even with no deep bass. Really nice with my Dynaco Stereo 70 on the 16 ohm taps. I’d like to find an album mastered with them.
Yes can tell different
32 bit more room as 24 bit gose in red volume led
Studio MONITORS are monitor! They are made to show you the BAD part of the music and that’s why they criticize it… HiFi speakers try to show you that everything about a particular music is perfect
What about the idea of having a pair of speakers which reproduce any genre of music which when recorded in room at realistic volume levels from speakers set 11 feet apart with the microphone 8 feet distance from each speaker resulting in the same track recorded from line out to line in into the same recorder exhibiting the same subtleties throughout all of the original recording when compared on full range headphones.
Too bad I can't buy Uncle Festive at a higher sampling rate. That was more than a generation ago, so the master recordings may not still be around.
I am personally fine with mp3 320 kbps, but I also have to say that I don't have any great audio setup.
Thanks Paul. I’ve learned a lot here in this brief video. 1. About SACD format and how it works. And 2. That it’s designed for middle aged audiophile farts who are trying to get that extra level of quality out of Pink Floyd and Steely Dan. Resulting in 3. Me having zero interest in this format lol. I appreciate you breaking it down and the comments section here has saved me a TON of time not going down this rabbit hole. 🙏
Please post some of your recordings 🙏
So what is best for me on a Computer PC. i have a sound card that can play 16-bits or 24-bits and betwen 44.1 Khz - 48 Khz - 88.2 Khz - 96 Khz - 176.4 Khz - 192 Khz ... Witch one is best do you think? Thx for a good video. / Sweden!
DSD will not require any error correction like SACD and CD’s need, so a DSD file will always sound superior. What about PCM conversion to DSD? That changes the sound, is it better? I think so.
as most dacs are dsd inside does pcm really exist anymore?
Quantum computing.
If more hifi enthusiasts get to hear a great pair of studio monitors very few of them would want to go back to hifi speakers and all the cable bullshit.
You own the most expensive microphones in the world...and your desk looks like it's being held together with bubblegum, lol.
Audiophile speaker systems are designed to cater our psychological preference of hearing by emphasizing and attenuating specific freq bands and, in some cases, intentionally allowing a certain extent of distortion (saturation) to happen. They strengthen the strengths and alleviate the weaknesses in the original music file. Studio monitors are designed to reproduce sound as loyal as possible to its original state without purposefully applying any artificial optimization or coloration. They not only objectively show all the delightful nuances in the original music file but also ruthlessly reveal all the flaws and downsides in it.
Well most people only stream music from Spotify etc. So let the service determine your streaming speed and the send you appropriate quality audio. If the Internet speed is high, Spotify etc should stream lossless audio automatically. So whether or not one can really make out the difference or not, what's the harm in streaming lossless audio if the internet speed is fast. I think Spotify already does this, I'm not sure though. KZread determines the video quality automatically (and hence the audio quality too)
But what about pre-emphasis? Some CDs have pre-emphasis, and most RIP tools do not apply de-emphasis.
How do you know/verify that FLAC files are from lossless source and you're not actually just buying a lossless of a lossy?
When i dj on studio monitors it sounds so incredible really struggling to understand why i should use “dj” speakers with boosted eqs in bass etc when i have an amazing clear sound and all the controls on my mixer, feels like i should just take my studio monitors over 15 inch with 18 subs like im being told i need…
Ocvtave Sacd. Bach Cello concertos excellent disc terrible packaging, Octave don't seem to want to address this problem
Beautiful studio !
is flac best got 1tb
Usually the near field monitors will produce LESS bass frequencies then the far field monitors. the near field woofer will be 5" to 8" in most cases, the far field will be 8" and above... a good mixing engineer (and most of us do) usually will mix most of his time on the near filed, and will switch to the far field from time to time for reference. also a good mixing engineer will know how the mix his creating on the near fields will translate to headphones, car system, audiophile system etc.. mixing on a far field monitors only, will produce a lack of bass most of the time as far field are giving bigger bass response, the room usually will enhances it, and the engineer will mix with less bass accordingly.
Hires is a waste of time.
I dont think i need a subwoofer when i have a qarter wave T-line BMS12S330 with Icepower1200A2 + tube input. But its easier to use a subwoofer for better bass placement i can agree on that 100%
Great explanation! Thank you for this
JBL L100s are monitors, but an awful lot of audiophiles use them as their mains. And my Alesis Monitor Ones have a great soundstage.
DSD sounds really really good, it blew me away, even in ABX 😅
I cam here searching for the best audio format: MP3? FLAC? WAV? OGG? But you listen to your music on a turntable?!?! That's all I need to know. Moving on to the next video....
Isn't the vast majority of SACD titles simply a conversion of the PCM recording to DSD? Very few were actually recorded in DSD...
Iyaze asking questions
I've found that higher bit depths are useful in the recording and production process, if you want to manipulate the files with processes like time-stretching etc... Also can be handy for things like field recording... But, for the end user, the listener, it's completely unnecessary and pointless...
Way to not answer the question …
So does that mean you can’t stream well recorded music ?? If I stream or play off a cd the same song all I hear is a little different volume.
We did a blind test the other day and definitely heard the difference especially with material that was more sparse. There was definitely more depth and space at 24. With more dense music it was harder to hear but still there. This was in a studio so you probably would miss these details in noisy environments.
I have found that any track off of the Gary Wight Deam Weaver album helps fine tune the sub.
You say 'flat', for me, it's 'clean'. I've just retired my pair of 1981 B&Ws which I bought 24yrs ago 2nd hand. 22yrs of listening, still going strong, gifted them to a mate. Seriously gorgeous they are. Strangely, I'd describe them as warm and crisp. When I'm ready for MartinLogans I'm sure I'll appreciate them. As a DJ tho I prefer monitors for playback as well as practice. I enjoy the unforgiving detail. I'm now on a set of huge KRKs and subwoofer, to me the sound is scrumptious. Unless we're talking top-of-the-line speakers, I'm a monitors girl through and through.
This old fart looks so confused by everything.
I just did a blind test: the same track in mp3 and FLAC, stereo to mono and reduced db levels, switching left to right and back after x seconds. It was a hardstyle track. It’s most noticeable when the bass drops, the uncompressed side being clearer and with more boom, sharper punches (idk how audiophiles call this) but while it is noticeable, it’s minor, but something you’ll definitely hear once you’re used to FLAC.
Which of the two had the punchier bass?
About dynamic range, I have yet too experience more of that than Mike Oldfields "Amarok". And that was on CD in the early 90´s. Most hires I have heard didn´t even try to go nearly as far as what Oldfield did back in the day of Amarok.
That's what EQ's are for. I run a double system and mix studio monitors with some old band speakers. For listening both together sound best. When i'm working i just run the monitors.
I don't listen to anything lower than a gigabit. I got very resolving ears.
Hahahahahaha pinche Juan!
If hifi speakers aren't flat and bring "life" to the sound.... most likely eq skewed for more bass / punch / excitement etc. then this means they are also equally as likely to sound BAD with certain material. For example too much mids/bass/highs. I'd rather stick with something flat that's tuned to the room.
I disagree completely. A proper studio monitor is a Hi Fi loudspeaker. You are selling hype over substance. A loudspeaker is a tool used to reproduce sound from an electrical voltage or signal. It can do it accurately or inaccurately and increments in between. Technically there is no difference in the engineering design of a studio monitor over a hi Fi loudspeaker. Unless of course you design the loudspeaker to be inaccurate. Then you are promoting and selling BAD loudspeakers and marketing them as “better” than accurate. There is nothing in the physics or in double blind research indicating that ANY hi-fi loudspeakers are preferred over good studio monitors. I conducted double blind tests at Harman. I tested a $1500 studio monitor against a $15000 hi-fi speaker. Both measured great with good directivity index. They tied, every test we ran them through.
Finding version of flac in some songs is tough
SACD ONLY " . "
Before encoding, converting, ingeniering and all that stuff it is all about that way it is recorded, its ils sound designed and well mixed. Whatever the artists you are converting for doing the comparaison. A good sound engenier will give a perfect 320 MP3 with a minimum loss by inverted phase and there you know that you have the best quality on your FLAC or whatever.
B.S. Just get a pair of good monitors, even the cheap ones Eris 3.5 for 100 bucks or so and they sond better than most overpriced audiophile crap. And, the amplifiers are in the speakers and they connect bluetooth so you don't need other overpriced components.