Comments on: New music available now, tell us what you think.

By: bblue

bblue — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:37:18 +0000

Hi Shaun,

Yes, I understand the predicament re: DVD’s. However, I still believe that you should offer each recording at its best available native bit and sample rate with no conversions applied! And indicate which ones are at the native rate. Then, if you need to add a 48k version of a 44.1k master (for example), that’s cool. At least those who aren’t concerned about DVD compatibility won’t be penalized by the conversion.

Pro Tools ‘Tweakhead’ settings are quite good, but they aren’t inaudible on good monitoring equipment.

–Bill

By: DEP

DEP — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:24:11 +0000

Excellent, I was really peeved that I had missed the Kersten recordings, and now have them and the sampler too. Thank you very much! You are definitely broadening my music appreciation.

By: Michael G...

Michael G... — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:24:39 +0000

What a splendid wall of noise!!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:09:31 +0000

Hello Bill, Shaun from B&W here.

When we first offered 24-bit files a while ago it was with a 44.1khz sampling rate. However, going on feedback from comments on this blog and elsewhere, there were a lot of issues copying those tracks across to DVD.

As this is something a lot of our users like to do – and something we encourage them to do – it made sense to switch to the standardized format of 24-bit 48khz.

To ensure the high quality we pride ourselves on, each of the albums was up-sampled by experienced engineers at Real World Studios to ensure the tracks maintained their quality.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards

Shaun

By: bblue

bblue — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:08:34 +0000

I’d like to know, on the 24-bit 48k re-releases of previous albums, such as Gwyneth Herbert or parts of Little Axe, what is the purpose of up sampling them from 44.1k to 48??

Up sampling serves no purpose other than a minor degradation of quality. If all that is available is 24 bit 44.1k, why not just leave them alone?

–Bill

By: Lorenz

Lorenz — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:45:22 +0000

Sound quality is outstanding, that is for sure. As for the music, not my usual choice but intriguing for sure! What I would love for one of the next months: something Asian. Lots of music from Africa is rather easily accessible, I haven’t really heard anything cool from Asia, besides sugary pop songs. There must be more and I’m curious to hear it!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:37:35 +0000

I really enjoy the Spiro album. I listen to it often. The sound stage is quit convincing on my dipole speakers.

By: GilesG

GilesG — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:57:29 +0000

Oh wow! This is the most invigorating album I’ve heard in a long long time. I love the individual sounds and the layering. And of course it sounds awesome on my Quad/B&W rig!!

Live in Box really keeps up the quality across the piece, whereas my previous favourite B&W album – A Town Called Addis – tails away as if there’s a loss of inspiration.

I just want to listen to Live in Box over and over again. Marvellous.

By: YTT

YTT — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:43:08 +0000

It’s very folk music like, but it transcends its genre. Interesting though not easy. I liked most the White Hart, which was most compelling. Some of the tracks sounded even a bit too academic, but they often made you want to listen them again. And that means music of good quality.

By: tomhubboaterTr

tomhubboaterTr — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:11:39 +0000

yep .. nice album … go ahead with this !!

.. not initially .. but after listening a 2nd time.

TX
Thomas