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Vinod,

Quite a task you have taken up!!! All the best for you.

Somehow I have not found Agi releases upto mark wrt sound quality. And I am a guy who doesn't care about sound quality. Even I can make out there is a problem with the sound quality.

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Originally Posted by Vinodkumar

If I may add...Some of the recent remasters have been too bright (too much EQ-ing) or adding compression which results in the song being very loud and loses its original quality . Recently acquired "ilaiyaraaja - fire star - synth-pop and electro-funk from tamil films" on vinyl with lots of expectation. The whole thing sounds very digital to me. Some of the songs are good.. but, the rest are no match to the original ACD quality. Nothing can beat Analog Tape Masters. Some of the newer remaster CD's that I acquired is not up to my expectation. I'm looking into creating DSD files out of old Vinyl of IR (instead of 24 bit, 192 khz). The sampling rate for DSD is 64 times that of the CD sampling rate(44.1). The idea is to preserve the entire signal spectrum as is. Once I get this file, I can then apply EQ in the Digital domain without affecting the source. Its a very interesting and expensive project...

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Vinod, (BTW, long time no see )
You may have to convert DSD to PCM to apply equalization. From what I hear from audiophile circles, it is the digital manipulation that messes with the sound signature. If you think about it, IR's older albums, even when digital were mixed live in analog to stereo. Kavi Alexander of Water Lily Acoustics, always records (mostly in stereo) and mixes in analog and only in final stages he converts to PCM for releasing CDs. So, I guess probably a 24bit/96Khz would be more than fine and you can use DEQX (www.deqx.com) for equalization while playback or use your computer/open source software.
@Chelian - I am not sure how much you can accomplish in remastering when the old master itself is messed. Maybe some of these are just the same 16bit/44.1khz stereo tracks with some equalization. I have mentioned before there are quite a number of IR's old album either in analog or in digital that are much superior in recreating the acoustics and closer to the sound of real instruments (eg. thanikkattu raaja - analog, singaraveLan - digital (guessing)).

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Originally Posted by Sureshs65

Vinod,

Quite a task you have taken up!!! All the best for you.

Somehow I have not found Agi releases upto mark wrt sound quality. And I am a guy who doesn't care about sound quality. Even I can make out there is a problem with the sound quality.

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Thanks Suresh.. Its been fun so far. Instead of getting the remastered CD's, I'm now looking for good quality vinyl records...

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Originally Posted by kiru

Vinod, (BTW, long time no see )
You may have to convert DSD to PCM to apply equalization. From what I hear from audiophile circles, it is the digital manipulation that messes with the sound signature. If you think about it, IR's older albums, even when digital were mixed live in analog to stereo. Kavi Alexander of Water Lily Acoustics, always records (mostly in stereo) and mixes in analog and only in final stages he converts to PCM for releasing CDs. So, I guess probably a 24bit/96Khz would be more than fine and you can use DEQX (www.deqx.com) for equalization while playback or use your computer/open source software.
@Chelian - I am not sure how much you can accomplish in remastering when the old master itself is messed. Maybe some of these are just the same 16bit/44.1khz stereo tracks with some equalization. I have mentioned before there are quite a number of IR's old album either in analog or in digital that are much superior in recreating the acoustics and closer to the sound of real instruments (eg. thanikkattu raaja - analog, singaraveLan - digital (guessing)).

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Kiru.. yes... its been a while.. hope you are doing good.. Regarding applying eq, I'm sure you can also do that in the digital domain. I do own a dac which comes with a software in which I do apply eq and rumble filters in the digital domain. You are correct about the digital manipulation ruining the original quality (hence my quest for dsd/dxd :) ). When you say older IR albums, are you referring to the process of manufacturing vinyl (recorded digitally and created as analog in the form of Vinyl) ? Couple of weeks ago, I recorded a hindi movie of IR (Kamagni brand new lp) at 24/96 and downsampled to 16/44.1. Here is a sample (http://soundcloud.com/raja4ever/kamagni-sampleclip) . Its pretty close the original vinyl record. Once you go beyong 24/96, its hard to distinguish the difference..

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K - adhu onnu thaan baakki! album release date innum therila

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No surprise ! The survey is done by "Thatstamil" who are well known IR worshippers :)

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Originally Posted by raja_fan

No surprise ! The survey is done by "Thatstamil" who are well known IR worshippers :)

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oho appo avingalum enga "cult" dhaana - poga poga - unga cult definition redefine panna vendi irukkum bola irukke.
"major religion" status kedaichudum pola irukkE!

Another "Expect super duper news on NEPV next week" tweet doing the rounds.

One of friends, on twitter, (Dileep) saw Lakshmi Mancu, Mohan Babu's daughter and producer of 'Gundello Godavari' at the airport. He asked her when the music release was. She said that it will be next and that the songs are terrific and the wait will be worth it. Ofcourse we can't expect the producer to say something else but nice to know one Raja album will come out next month.