The Super Meter is a unique way to visualize the three most important measurements of your sound. Loudness (LUFS), dynamics (TrueDyn), and peaks (True Peak). The outer rim displays short-term measurements (3-second time span) for a real-time feel of your music, whereas the inner rim displays integrated measurements (from the beginning of your recording).
The LUFS Histogram represents your music's loudness (LUFS) and short-term dynamics (TrueDyn) over time. It is the best way to compare different parts of your songs and see how their loudness and dynamics evolve and compare to one another. You can also see if your material exceeded your True Peak Max limit with red alert dots.
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VU Meters will help you manage your recording levels and avoid overloading, distortion and help you hit your digital converters at their sweet spots by calibrating the meter's 0VU level accordingly. The needle's momentum is set to approximate the human ear response and is well known to be the most 'musical' metering system.
Having access to a real-time frequency analyzer allows you to compare your music to reference material or pinpoint issues such as problematic resonating frequencies or frequency build-ups throughout your mix. Additionally, you can easily zoom in on the left part of the spectrum for better precision at the low frequencies.
UGK's 'Pocket Full Of Stones' is pure, unfiltered rap. Bun B and Pimp C rap about having pockets full of crack, referring to freebasing, dope fiends, pipes and pregnant women clucking for a crack fix. It's one of the realest - and grimmest - hip hop tracks about cocaine going, but - paired with a sleazy, winding funk beat - makes you feel like you're witnessing it all first hand in the front seat of UGK's Cadillac while driving through the streets of their hometown of Port Arthur, Texas. Be sure to watch drug dealing classic Menace II Society to grab a listen of 'Pocket Full Of Stones' as well.
Jay Z's 'Can't Knock The Hustle' is one of the smoothest hip hop and r'n'b jams out there. Mary J. Blige's beautifully delivered chorus is a stellar combo with Jay Z's lyrics about hustling - on the streets and in the music business. It's the opening skit where cocaine gets a full dedication. Jay Z's regular skit man and former Roc-A-Fella Records intern Pain In Da Ass recites part of this exchange between Tony Montana and Omar Suarez in coke epic Scarface. Part of it goes: "There's a bunch of Colombians coming in Friday - new guys / They said they got two keys for us, for openers / Pure cocaine, you tell 'em, capiche?" They do say rap is a form of poetry.
Rap link-ups haven't come much better than Freddie Gibbs and legendary producer Madlib in recent years. The two's most recent project 'Bandana' gifted us with 'Half Manne Half Cocaine', where Freddie delivers KO lyrical punches on top of Madlib's sinister beats. Split into two parts (Half Manne and Half Cocaine), the first half has Freddie telling us how he "just broke up a brick on the East with the clique" and "just turned my mom house to a powder house". In part two he reveals "crack numbin' up my fingertips" how he "sent sixty pounds of Walter White, to White Plains" and that he's "movin' ounces on the Cash App."
Tunes about crack cocaine don't come much harder than NWA's 'Dope Man'. The Compton crew never shied away from delving deep into the culture and happenings of their city - which was hit hard by the crack cocaine epidemic in the '80s - and 'Dope Man' is an insightful narrative into the life of a drug dealer. With classic Dr. Dre breaks and woozy West Coast synths as the track's foundations, Eazy E and Ice Cube spit hard bars about crack, "rock" and smoking "'caine", with shouts of "dopeman, dopeman, give me a hit" in the chorus. While it could be mistaken for glorifying the drug, the track's actually a pretty educational tool about the effect it had on the group's community.
You hear the rainfall in Capone-N-Noreaga's 'Stick You' and you just know something is about to go down. And that it does, as the pair and featured artist Tragedy Khadafi move around Queens, New York on the hunt for a guy that's slung them dodgy cocaine. "Is it getting your shit numb?", Noreaga asks, to a reply of "No, this shit is weak". And so the crusade for a drug heist begins backed by a dusty, piano-tapping golden age East Coast hip hop beat. In and among the searching, gagging and stick-up, Capone, Norega and Khadafi chat about how they are turning "coke to crack" and how they "been buying my coke from the same cat." The plot's so good this could be film noir for the '90s hip hop generation. If only they made visuals to go with it.
Your last line, "Stop nit picking and just enjoy the music" synchs beautifully with the HRT Linestreamer endorsement. I thought the HRT ($350) was VERY close to my fave, the M2Tech ($2500). I'd spend the $2150 difference on more vinyl and live music.
...how much music exists out there has been sufficiently well written, performed, recorded and replicated to justify or be worthy of a $five-figure piece of supportive audio gear. (Supportive in that it's not the source, amplification or transducer.) This presumes it's the music and not the audio jewelry aspect that's important.
I love my vinyl, I love my CD player, no they are not the same but they are not so different. To say 29% of people couldn't tell the difference "well maybe they are just predisposed to rubbish any reproduction format other than vinyl" with 15% on the M2 TECH 32 and 11% on the AYRE QA-9 you have 26% of your responsive audience able to listen objectively. The music for this comparison was outstanding I'll be searching out this release once again well done Mr Fremer on your thought provoking comparisons. Pretty jealous of that front end.
I know others mentioned the hum and you addressed it earlier having to do with a cable choice. Here is why I found the level of the hum unacceptable: it gets in the way of appreciating the music, SOTA analog rig & the high-end ADCs profiled. The hum may account for why 30% reported that the test samples all sound the same. It also made it hard to evaluate the noise floor of each ADC unit -- a key factor in putting together a digital archiving system. None of use would want to spend untold hours creating a digital library where all the files are marred by a low to moderate hum.
DAC's more similar than different. The music cut had slightly more Harmonic body and realistic sense of space, less harshness in the M2Tech DAC's with a slight preference for the 24 bit conversion. Perhaps a more complex music cut, symphonic could reveal greater differences between the DAC's. Thanks for the opportunity to hear theses different conversions.
Ableton Live Lite is one of the most popular performance and production programs available in the world. A powerful music creation tool, Ableton Live Lite enables musicians and producers to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise, and edit musical ideas in a fluid audio/MIDI environment. Explore sonic possibilities in real time whether on stage or in the studio. When you are satisfied with your work, Ableton Live Lite lets you save it or mix it down.
Chop up and mix 2 gigs of samples ranging from deep ambient synth pad loops to vintage drum one shots. These are all designed to inspire your music production and provide professional sounding samples that will shine in your mix. Touch Loops perfectly captures the tone and intensity of each sample, so they enhance and complement any song, wherever you use them. This incredible value can be found in your M-Audio account, ready to be downloaded and chopped to your liking!
If you love great audio, a dedicated music streamer is essential. It can become the center of your hi-fi universe, making every listening session that much more enjoyable. At The Master Switch, we adore music streamers, so we decided to put together a list of the best. By music streamer, we mean a device that has the ability to play audio stored in another location. This location can be over the Internet, in the form of a streaming service like Spotify or Tidal, or an external hard drive. And to complete your system, check out our list of the Best DACs and Best Bookshelf Speakers.
At The Master Switch, it's our policy to return review models that are sent to us. But we really didn't want to let the Naim Uniti Atom go. It works so well, so effortlessly, that we found ourselves using it almost every moment we were in the office. The operating system is virtually flawless, and the Uniti Atom is capable of playing music from just about any source. It even has an HDMI ARC connection for use with your TV. It's fully Roon Ready, and can handle hi-res audio up to 32 bit / 384kHz, as well as DSD. 2ff7e9595c
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