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    Audiophile Style Podcast: Episode 7 | Ayre Acoustics Interview

     

    Episode 7 is up and being delivered to all the podcast platforms right now. In this episode I talk with Ayre Acoustics team about founder Charles Hansen, products that put Ayre on the map, what makes Ayre special, the QB-9 DAC, and a look into the future of the company. The show concludes with a book and album recommendation and a round of bonus questions where there are no wrong answers. 

     

    Thanks to @Ryan Berry and the Ayre team!

     

    Listen via the embedded player below or subscribe on any platform.

     

    Podcast Setup.jpgAs much as I'd love to deliver this show to everyone in lossless high resolution audio, the podcast platforms only accept MP3. So, I record everything as lossless WAV files using a Neumann TLM 103 transformerless cardioid condenser microphone, then convert to 320 Kbps MP3 to give everyone the best quality currently possible. Given that I'm using a Merging Technologies Anubis analog to digital converter to record, I technically could do everything at DXD (384 kHz) or DSD256, but that's a bit over the top, even for me.

     

    A big thanks to David Chesky for allowing me to use the track East Harlem, from the album The Body Acoustic. The album can be purchased and downloaded at 24/96 from the Chesky Records site here. 

     

    All AS Podcast episodes can be found here, or you can find / subscribe on every podcast platform known to man. If I missed a platform some people use, just let me know. Here are links to the most popular platforms.

     

     

     

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    #Yoda#
    On 2/23/2021 at 6:02 PM, Lighthouse said:

    Still pains me Charles is no longer with us.

    Of course, the passing of Charley as a brilliant and disputatious mind with independent opinion is a bitter loss for the HiFi Audio community and Ayre in particular.
    Unfortunately, I was not able to meet him in person, but only had a stimulating email conversation with him now and then.
    I know Ryan, Ariel and Brent, and I am confident that they will lead Ayre Acoustics and its motivated team into a bright future. Charley knew what was coming and set the necessary course in time. 

     

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    Just listened to this.  You really needed a few hours instead of just one, but...

     

    Anyway, I got thinking about the best version of Boom Boom.

     

    I think my conclusion is that the real question about this should be: Live Boom Boom or studio?

     

    Consider these -

     

     

     

    In my opinion, both completely slay any studio recording.  

     

    But, thinking about it, generally my favorite recordings are live in origin.  Whether it's the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East, Jethro Tull at Carnegie Hall, The Who at Tanglewood, Chicago at Tanglewood, Zappa at most anywhere, or dozens of others, they all are much more entertaining and involving than studio recordings.  That is especially true of jazz.  (Of course, some groups fairly well suck performing live!  Avoid them.)

     

    This is why I like a lot of YouTube music recordings.  The quality usually stinks, but they are often very engaging.

     

    Perhaps I don't like slick and refined and prefer human.  I've found that as I've improved the sound quality at home over the years, this has become even more true.  Maybe that speaks as much to what most recordings are engineered to as anything else.

     

    That's my answer, and unlike Brent I'm sticking with it.

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