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Product Details Audio CD Label: Sheffield Lab ASIN: B013Q7HFHY

Sheffield Lab Over 40 Years of Astonishingly Realistic Quality For over forty years, the award-winning natural sound of Sheffield Lab has been recognized throughout the world as the reference standard for musical and sonic excellence. Sheffield is the label that single-handedly brought audiophile recordings to high profile status with the astonishingly realistic quality of its direct-to-disc recordings. With the highest audio standard for its CDs and downloads, Sheffield's tradition of non-compromise audio continues in the digital era with stunningly beautiful sound, across its diverse catalog of pop, jazz, and classical music. ... they began producing direct-to-disc audiophile recordings, they designated these as Sheffield—Laboratory Series, and soon Sheffield Lab, with the morning glory logo. The pressure of recording direct to disc in 15 to 20 minute takes brought out the best in the outstanding musicians who were on the Los Angeles scene. Rather than playing cautiously, they rose to the challenge, taking risks and playing vigorously. Over the years many fine engineer/producers brought pop and jazz projects to the company. Bill Schnee, Larry Brown, Al Schmidt, and George Massenberg were some of the talented men who produced and engineered for the company, men who could mix complex music in real time with live performances and discs turning. Their spectacular mixes recorded direct to disc became “The Sheffield Sound”, along with the “purist” classical recordings which Doug Sax engineered, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, and smaller ensembles. Sheffield Lab gracefully entered the digital era with Compact Discs which maintain the same musical and technical integrity, proving that there is more to a great recording than the chosen storage medium...." http://www.sheffieldlab.com/

"... You've got three choices for speakers. The cheapest speakers are made with cone drivers. You pump electric current through a wire coil. You stick that coil inside a permanent magnet. Thanks to Maxwell's equations, there is an "e cross B" force that causes the coil to move in time to the music. This would be fabulous if the coil could move air. It seems that sound is a variation in air pressure and a coil doesn't make too many waves. So you glue a paper cone to the coil and then hope that the paper cone picks up the coil's motion. Well, it sort of does. Sometimes. You can lay down a big string of magnets and then stretch the coil in a big long ribbon in between them. Then you truly can use the current-carrying conductor as the sound radiator. These are called ribbon speakers. They tend to perform better, especially at high frequencies, than cone speakers. However, the moving parts of these speakers always end up being much heavier than the (mylar electrostatic speaker). Heavier implies more inertia which interferes with accurate tracking of the musical signal. The final option is...called an electrostatic speaker. If you think back to freshman physics, you can probably remember that an infinite plate of charge create an electric field that is uniform everywhere. If you have another parallel infinite plate, oppositely charged, you get a gap where the electric field is perfectly uniform and then no charge anywhere else. This is how a capacitor is constructed. You just apply a voltage across the plates and it results in an electric field within. ...we...use Mylar...and sprayed-on aluminum.... The output of the amplifier can be transformed up to about 30,000 volts peak to peak and the Mylar can be charged up to a 10,000 volt "bias voltage." Now you have the Mylar really flapping back and forth in between the plates but it still won't generate any room sound until you punch holes in the plates to let the air out/in. This violates our "infinite parallel plate of charge" model but only when the music is very loud, i.e., when the Mylar is almost touching the plates. The problem with electrostats is that the Mylar doesn't move very far. They don't have the excursion of cone speakers. So they have to be big. Very big if you want to play music at concert hall volumes. And a fundamental law of acoustics is that a driver that is large relative to the wavelength it is radiating will beam. The wavelength of a 20 KHz tone is about one inch. That means that a big flat electrostatic speaker will sound great if it is pointing at you but if you are off-axis you'll lose the high frequencies. There are two ways of solving this problem. One is the brute-force American way. You just curve the plates and the diaphragm. Then the wavefront launched by the electrostat mimics that of a line source. So you get all the horizontal dispersion you need. You still have to make the things really tall because there will be no vertical dispersion..." http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/stereo

True... but no amplifier can make a mediocre speaker sound good...

"..The principal determinants of sound quality in your listening room...are the loudspeakers ... My best guess as to why the loudspeaker-comes-first principle has not prevailed in the audiophile world is that a new pair of loudspeakers tends to present a problem in interior decoration. Swapping amplifiers is so much simpler, not to mention spouse-friendlier, and the initial level of anticipation is just as high, (before the eventual letdown)..." http://www.biline.ca/audio_critic/audio_critic_web1.htm#acl

1989 - DMP Mascot is photographed for A Taste Of DMP, (CD-466) cover and would soon become a cult figure. Wikipedia

Taste of Dmp Track Listings 1. 8th Avenue March - Bob Mintzer 2. The Immigrants - Thom Rotella 3. Walkin' Up - Warren Bernhardt 4. Over And Out - Flim & The BB's 5. Echoes From Bahia - Manfredo Fest 6. Martian Love Song - Billy Barber 7. You Are The Music - Gerry Niewood 8. Salamander Pie - Jay Leonhart 9. Tamborine - John Tropea 10. Harmonic - Dick Oatts 11. Kept Woman - Garry Dial & Dick Oatts 12. Pannonica - Andy LaVerne 13. Lullaby - Joe Beck Product Details Audio CD (May 15, 1989) Number of Discs: 1 Label: Digital Music Prod ASIN: B000003DD5

Carver AL-III Speaker review by TNRabbit http://thecarversite.com/yetanotherforum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=1264

Audio CD (December 17, 1993) Original Release Date: 2000 Number of Discs: 1 Label: Reference Recordings ASIN: B00000156H

Welcome to Reference Recordings We at RR believe that how a recording sounds is as important as the music itself. "Prof." Keith O. Johnson, our chief engineer and Technical Director, is a true audio legend, having designed and patented many innovative products in the professional and consumer fields. The RR Sound comes from his singular methods and equipment, hand-built or extensively modified by him. Microphone techniques range from single-point Blumlein to spaced omnis to complex studio mixes, depending on the musical forces and the performing space involved. Our goal is to recreate the sound of real musicians making music in real space. ... the revolutionary High Definition Compatible Digital encoding process, produced and marketed by Pacific Microsonics (recently acquired by Microsoft). HDCD is widely considered to be the most accurate recording process ever invented. For more than 30 years, Keith O. Johnson has served as Technical Director, Recording Engineer and partner in Reference Recordings. His 100-plus recordings for the label have long been considered the standard for high fidelity, and include three GRAMMY award-winners and eight additional GRAMMY nominations. http://referencerecordings.com/

"...(David) Chesky is a hero in the audiophile world because of his company's dedication to superb sonics... Chesky prefers cutting live to stereo (and multichannel) with top-of-the-line custom equipment and variations on the Blumlein technique, using optimally placed mic pairs or a SoundField mic — whatever works with the band or ensemble..... Many Chesky releases are available as hybrid 5.1/stereo SACD releases. Chesky's company also now markets its own high-end loudspeakers, the C-1...our philosophy is trying to document the live event and we do it with a stereo microphone. We set the musicians up very carefully and the electronics are minimal, but we're using the best-sounding equipment we can. When you hear our stuff, it's super-clear — everything is the best wire, the best amplifier, the best mic pre...Pianos are hard sometimes because the [dynamic] range is so big. And that's my instrument, so I'm very sensitive to it. Really, though, a lot of it is getting the musicians to play with each other in a way that is sympathetic with the acoustic space we're recording in. Like Giovanni is used to playing with these big Latin bands and whacking those congas. He's amazing...I really love the work of Reference Recordings. Tam Henderson and Keith Johnson are brilliant. They've done such wonderful stuff. I also really like Tom Jung's work. A lot of the best stuff is coming out of small labels. They have passion...American Idol. McDonald's. Kids aren't out there saying, “You know what? I want to hear the Mahler 8th.” They'll never hear it unless they search it out or someone plays it for them. Same with Coltrane. Same with most music outside of the mainstream. A lot of kids don't even know where to look. There's so much more out there. It's like farming: You have to plant the seeds for the next generation." http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/david-chesky/365494

Chesky Records Jazz Sampler & Audiophile Test Compact Disc, Vol. 1 Audio CD (September 5, 1990) Number of Discs: 1 Label: Chesky Records ASIN: B000003GF3 Dr Chesky's Sensational Fantastic & Simply Amazing Sound Show Audio CD (August 28, 2012) Number of Discs: 1 Label: Chesky Records ASIN: B008FVZHCW Ultimate Demonstration Disc: Chesky Records' Guide to Critical Listening Audio CD (October 22, 2013) Number of Discs: 1 Label: Chesky Records ASIN: B00002MXUH "...Depth, Atmosphere, Midrange Purity, Naturalness, Transparency, Presence, Visceral Impact, Focus, and Transients (or lack thereof) on any audio system..." WADE Audio CD (November 8, 2008) Please Note: Requires SACD-compatible hardware Number of Discs: 1 Format: Super Audio CD - DSD Label: Chesky Records ASIN: B0016KCBNC http://www.chesky.com/

Song for My Father From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares Silva, to whom the title song was dedicated... The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his Allmusic essay "Hard Bop" as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings...

Chesky Records From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chesky Records is a record label founded in 1988 by brothers David and Norman Chesky. The company produces high-definition recordings of music in a variety of genres,including jazz, classical, pop, R&B, folk and world/ethnic. Some Chesky artists include McCoy Tyner, Herbie Mann, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths, Joe Henderson,Chuck Mangione, Paquito D'Rivera, Ron Carter, Larry Coryell, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Babatunde Olatunji, Ana Caram, and Rebecca Pidgeon. Chesky Records also offers binaural recordings, which seeks to replicate 3-D stereo sound so that the recording sounds as if the listener is in the same room with the musicians.They capture this sound using dummy head recording. For its recordings, Chesky Records uses acoustically vibrant spaces, including the Hirsch Center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and St. Paul the Apostle Church located in Manhattan... ...In 1990, Chesky Records released its Jazz Sampler & Audiophile Test Compact Disc, with the first nine tracks devoted to music and the remaining twenty devoted to listening and technical tests for headphones and loud speakers. Other test discs include Dr. Chesky’s Sensational, Fantastic, and Simply Amazing Binaural Sound Show and the Ultimate Demo Disc. In 2007, David and Norman Chesky also started an audiophile music download website called HDtracks. HDtracks allows customers to download high-resolution versions of albums in numerous formats (FLAC, AIFF). The site contains many varied artists and labels. In 2012, Crosby, Stills, and Nash announced that they would be releasing HD versions of its first three albums through HDtracks, and the company also released remastered titles from the Blue Note label, including John Coltrane’s Blue Train, Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch, Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage, Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil, Horace Silver’s Song for My Father and Larry Young’s Unity. Other notable artists includeCarole King, Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. In 2011, Chesky Records incorporated High Resolution Technology in their label, and introduced binaural recordings. The Binaural+ masters are captured in high-resolution (24-bit/ 192 kHz) sound using a binaural dummy head nicknamed “Lars”. David Chesky collaborated with Princeton professor Edgar Y. Choueiri to begin producing binaural recordings. The purpose of the technology is to capture three-dimensional sound and imaging. Chesky Records uses its own custom recording equipment and experiments with different recording techniques and formats...

1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die o Sinatra, Frank – In the Wee Small Hours o Presley, Elvis – Elvis Presley (1956) o Louvin Brothers – Tragic Songs of Life o Prima, Louis – Wildest o Domino, Fats – This is Fats o Ellington, Duke – At Newport (1956) o Sinatra, Frank – Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! o Crickets – Chirping… o Basie, Count – Atomic Mr Basie o Monk, Thelonious – Brilliant Corners o Sabú [Martínez] – Palo Congo o Davis, Miles – Birth of the Cool o Machito – Kenya o Little Richard – Here’s… o Puente, Tito & His Orchestra – Dance Mania (1958) o Holiday, Billie – Lady in Satin o Elliott, Jack – Jack Takes the Floor o Vaughan, Sarah – At Mister Kelly’s o Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Gershwin Song Book o Charles, Ray – Genius of… (1959) o Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue o Robbins, Marty – Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs o Brubeck, Dave – Time Out o Baez, Joan – Joan Baez (1960) o Presley, Elvis – Elvis is Back! o Makeba, Miriam – Miriam Makeba (1960) o Everly Brothers – A Date with the… o Smith, Jimmy – Back at the Chicken Shack o Muddy Waters – At Newport o Evans, Bill – Sunday at the Village Vanguard o Charles, Ray - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music o Booker T & the MGs – Green Onions o Getz, Stan & Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba... http://www.listology.com/list/1001-albums-you-must-hear-you-die

Audio CD (May 11, 1999) Original Release Date: 1956 Number of Discs: 2 Format: Original recording remastered, Live Label: Sony ASIN: B00000IMYA Vinyl Label: Columbia ASIN: B000VNW0M2 Ellington at Newport From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized Ellington's flagging career. Jazz promoter George Wein describes the 1956 concert as "the greatest performance of [Ellington's] career... It stood for everything that jazz had been and could be.". It is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, which ranks it "one of the most famous... in jazz history".."

DMP Digital Music Products From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DMP Digital Music Products Founded 1983 Founder Tom Jung Distributor(s) Telarc International Corporation Genre Jazz Country of origin US DMP Digital Music Products was one of the first fully digital recording labels, generally specializing in jazz artists. Founded by engineer and digital recording pioneer Tom Jung after leaving Sound 80 recording studios in Minneapolis, its first releases in 1983 featured pianist Warren Bernhardt, Jay Leonhart, and the group Flim & the BB's - which were the first non-classical recordings released on Compact Disc. Recordings on the DMP label are noted for their high level of sonic excellence. DMP was one of the few labels to release commercial DAT recordings, has been at the forefront of introducing numerous digital recording technologies, and has been a pioneer in the SACD digital audio format. Notable artists who have recorded for the DMP label include Warren Bernhardt, Jay Leonhart, Flim & the BB's, Lynne Arriale, Joe Beck, Ali Ryerson, Chuck Loeb, Joe Morello and many other

Joe Morello - Drums Greg Kogan - Piano Ralph Lalama - Saxophone/Flute Gary Mazzaroppi - Bass [1] Paper Moon [2] When You Wish Upon A Star [3] One For Amos [4] Take Five [5] Bye Bye Blackbird [6] Somewhere Over The Rainbow [7] Someday My Prince Will Come [8] In Your Own Sweet Way [9] Alone Together [10] Doxy

DMP ‎– dmp CD-506 Joe Morello Morello Standard Time Release Date 1994 Duration 55:44

Telarc Celebrating 25 Years: Classic Collect Track Listings Disc: 1 1. Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite: Introduction and The Firebird and Her Dance 2. Gustav Holst: First Suite in E-flat major, Op. 28, No. 1: March 3. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49 (excerpt) 4. Modest Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Hut on Fowl's Legs and The Great Gate of Kiev 5. Georges Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 2: Danse Boheme 6. Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 "Organ," Mvt. 2 (excerpt) 7. Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (excerpt) 8. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, Mvt. 2 (excerpt) 9. Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Presto from L'Estate (Summer), Op. 8, No. 2/RV 315 10. Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man See all 20 tracks on this disc Disc: 2 1. Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (excerpt) 2. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers (All-Night Vigil) - Mass for Unaccompanied Chorus: Bogoroditsye Devo, Raduisya (Rejoice, O Virgin) 3. Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold: Ride of the Valkyries (excerpt) 4. Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon septimi toni No. 2 5. Elmer Bernstein: The Magnificent Seven 6. P.D.Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex (dramatic oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra), S.150. "Howdy there" 7. Mozart: The Magic Flute: Aria No. 17: "Ach, ich Fuhl's" from Act Two 8. George Frideric Handel: Messiah: No. 7. "And He shall purify" from Part One 9. William S. Gilbert: The Pirates of Penzance: No. 13: Song: "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" from Act One 10. Ottorino Respighi: Church Windows: St. Michael the Archangel See all 20 tracks on this disc Product Details Audio CD (June 25, 2002) Number of Discs: 2 Label: Telarc ASIN: B00006879K

"...Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day..." ...The speech is also well remembered for his use of the phrase "the few" to describe the Allied aircrew of Fighter Command..., whose desperate struggle gained the victory; "The Few" has come to be their nickname..." Winston Churchill 20 August 1940 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_many_to_so_few

They were impressive indeed... This recording was universally well-received... So how loud were these cannons? As it happens, one of the blasts produces a 38 hertz tone that considerably exceeds the maximum recording level of a CD! How can this be? After all, all PCM-based digital recordings have hard numerical limits. Analogue signals are mapped onto a 16 bit space. There can be no value greater than 32,767 or less than -32,768. The way to go louder than ±215 in a 16 bit format is to do a bit of heavy clipping. The signal is wound up so loud that the tops and bottoms of the wave forms are chopped off. Hi-fi types are against clipping, of course, because it introduces rather high levels of harmonic distortion into the signal, making it sound harsh. But surely Telarc wouldn’t have clipped its signal. After all, it makes a point of avoiding signal processing as stated on the CD’s sleeve: I have no reason to disbelieve Telarc. So given the limited technology available in 1978, it’s likely that the whole balancing thing was done by ear. That there was clipping, though, cannot be in doubt. The screen shot above shows the first two-tenths of a second of the right channel of the first cannon blast (digitally ripped from the CD, so there are no equipment limitations imposed on the result). It was only for reasons of keeping the graphic legible that I cut off the other four clipped peaks from this blast. The left channel is virtually identical. Nearly all the 16 cannon blasts show some clipped peaks. There is reason to believe that the clipping occurred earlier in the chain than in laying down the recording on CD... Capturing huge impulse signals is notoriously difficult. I once recorded a public fireworks display on DAT. Even though I was a couple of hundred metres from where the explosions were happening, I had to use the line input rather than the microphone input of the recorder to avoid clipping (later calculations suggested that there were instantaneous peaks of around 160dBSPL!)... James says: October 2, 2010 at 7:29 am One bit of fun I had with the cannons (unsure of the recording it was my fathers) was to play it in my friends car. He had a Suzuki swift with no rear seats instead he had 6 x 12″ high end subs all running off amps capable of around 600 watts rms. We played the cannons at near full volume and it flexed the rear window and boomed out over the street, somone walking along the footpath spun around and ducked to the floor..." http://hifi-writer.com/wpblog/?p=2504