Bob Katz

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Listening to Grammy award winning mastering and recording engineer Bob Katz giving a talk to the Sarasota and Tampa audiophile societies.

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What an honor to have Bob Katz spend a few hours listening to my system tonight. He absolutely loved my system, calling it dynamic, effortless, very enjoyable, etc. We played all kinds of recordings (all vinyl).


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BlueFox said:
Did you talk about your compression post, and ask why they don't try to make recordings that sound their best?
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Yes, extensively. He doesn't do that. He hates the loudness wars. He told me, "the only volume control, should be the one in your hand."
 
Mike said:
Yes, extensively. He doesn't do that. He hates the loudness wars. He told me, "the only volume control, should be the one in your hand."
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All recordings have to use some form of compression or 98% of hi-fi systems would not be able to reproduce them and they would just sound uninspiring and bad. The loudness wars just happens to be the extreme of compression use.

Trying to reproduce a Drum kit or Grand piano at full chat without some compression is not going to happen...



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Yes that's exactly what he said. Compression in itself is not bad, abuse of it is.


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