Porque la Música Importa
Realmente estar en presencia de artistas comunicandose directamente con una audiencia debe ser el criterio más importante para medir la experiencia de reproducir música electrónicamente.
Debido a la naturaleza del oído humano, es extremadamente difícil (¿quizás imposible?) que la alta fidelidad nos engañe y nos haga creer que estamos ante músicos y cantantes reales que actúan en un espacio real.
Pero la profundidad de nuestra respuesta intelectual, emocional y física respuesta a la experiencia musical está directamente relacionada con el realismo de la ilusión musical generada por un sistema de audio.
Mejora del estado de ánimo
La música estimula la producción de adrenalina y dopamina en el cerebro, activando el centro de placer para crear una sensación de bienestar completamente natural.
Mientras la buena música(según lo definido por ti) reproducida en un teléfono puede ser preferible a la mala música reproducida en un sistema high end, la combinación de tu música favorita en la mejor calidad de audio con un buen sistema de audio crearán una experiencia estimulante y poderosa.
Desafortunadamente, el ominpresente formato de archivo MP3 descarta la mayor parte de la información musical, por eso los reproductores portátiles almacenan más canciones y los servicios streaming pueden trabajar con anchos de banda bajos. La información descartada es claramente audible como los detalles, perdida de "aire", amplitud, y el tiembre vocal e instrumental.
Algunas grabaciones están manipuladas deliberadamente para sonar artificialmente alto a través de la compresión de rango dinámico al aumentar los niveles promedio, subir el nivel de pasajes silenciosos y disminuir el nivel de los más ruidosos. La principal víctima de la conocida como "Guerra del Volumen" es el flujo natural de la dinámica cambiante. Un factor crucial define el realismo de la reproducción musical.
Nada de lo cual contribuye al avance del placer de escuchar.
Para el anális y el placer musical
La música es importante para nosotros, demasiado importante para permitir que convierta en MP3 o que sea aplastada por la compresión del rango dinámico o disminuida por un equipo de audio inferior. Es por lo que continuamos creando los CD's de DALI.
El CD que ahora tienes entre tus manos es nuestra cuarta compilación de una serie muy elogiada. Estas colecciones representan nuestro mejor esfuerzo para ofrecer herramientas de confianza que te ayuden en una evaluación efectiva, una demostración de exactitud y musicalidad de los componentes de audio.
Esta compilación contiene un mix de nombres más y menos conocidos en varios géneros, grabados, mezclados y masterizados utilizando diferentes métodos. Dale un giro, o dos, en un sistema de audio de calidad. Preferiblemente en un sistema bien conocido. Lo más probable es que escuche y aprecie lo que hemos considerado como una calidad de sonido superior en la mayoría de las canciones seleccionadas.
¡No esperes que te gusten todas! ¡Los gustos son distintos! Pero esperamos que te inspire introduciéndote en una o dos canciones y/o artistas de los que nunca hayas oído hablar.
Larga vida a la buena música, buenas grabaciones y buenos sistemas de audio. Larga vida al buen y viejo CD!
¡Que disfrutes!
VOL 4 ARTISTS
EVA CASSIDY
Refusing to bend her music to music industry conventions and expectations, Eva Cassidy was known only within the DC area during her lifetime. Eva left behind one live album, a duet album, and various studio demos and live recordings. In the intervening 20 years, Eva Cassidy’s music has proven timeless and universal.
TOM JONES
“We wanted to go back to basics, go back to the source, it was just me singing live with a rhythm section - no overdubbing, no gimmicks, no complicated horn and string arrangements, just get the song down in an entire take, capture the meaning of the song, its spirituality, its life, and capture that moment, right there. And I think that’s what we’ve done,” says Tom Jones, the 75 year old singer from Wales, describing ‘Praise and Blame’.
EIVØR
Born in 1983 in the Faroe Islands, Eivør’s early musical forays were steeped in Faroese musical traditions. At the age of sixteen she released her self-titled debut album bearing the marks of this fruitful starting point. While an enduring love of Faroese culture remains at the heart of her work, its expression has been widened through profound interaction with other traditions.
MICHAEL PENN
In the early ‘80s, Penn formed the group Doll Congress, which garnered a fervent local following but never expanded their fan base outside of Southern California. In 1987, Sean Penn hosted Saturday Night Live and brought Michael along as a musical guest; the performance revived his interest in music – and the rest is history!
JACQUES LOUSSIER
When Jacques Loussier presented his jazzy version of Bach with his PLAY BACH in 1959, not even his producer at Decca Records expected that a million copies of the five albums would be sold by 1965. In Paris, London, Berlin, Tokyo, Sydney and New York, Jacques Loussier polarised as well as unified the classical and the jazz worlds. Called a pioneer and even “the grandfather” of crossover, Loussier’s tasteful work was acknowledged by Glenn Gould: “Play Bach is a good way to play Bach”.
VESTBO TRIO
Vestbo Trio could be the band that draws you back to instrumental music again (it’s about time!). Inspired by the sound and timbre of jazz music, and always aiming to connect with the listener like a great singer would, Vestbo Trio’s music has a charm that will delight you.
MUSICA TEMPRANA
Misa Criolla is a masterpiece when it comes to recording. You can hear the room – it is extremely difficult to record the sound of a room, but in this case you can feel the atmosphere and the air around the voices of the choir for a sublime sound experience.
ZEMTSOV VIOLA QUARTET
Verano Porteno is a demonstration of how to record a string quartet. Although this is some of the most difficult music to record, on this recording you can actually hear the individual instruments. On the track, the instruments are precisely positioned and the beautiful piece of music indicates the width of the stereo image.
HANS ZIMMER
German-born composer Hans Zimmer is recognized as one of Hollywood’s most innovative musical talents‚ having first enjoyed success in the world of pop music as a member of The Buggles. The group’s single Video Killed the Radio Star became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video to be aired on MTV.
JAMES BLOOD ULMER LIVE EXPERIENCE
James Blood Ulmer is often compared to Jimi Hendrix. Similarities consist in the completely new languages developed on the guitar. Especially the new wave and punk movement brought musicians like James Blood Ulmer to the attention of a wider audience.
HE XIU TAN
He Xun-Tian is a distinguished composer, professor, doctorial tutor and dean of the department of composing and conducting of Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
LAURIE ANDERSON
Laurie Anderson is one of today’s premier performance artists. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
BOUBACAR TRAORÉ
Bougoudani is living proof that music and musicians from Mali have been a great influence on many music genres and bands worldwide.
INFECTED MUSHROOM
Duvdevani Amit and Erez Eisen formed Infected Mushroom back in 1996. This electronic music, mega-revolutionary duo is renowned as sonic innovators, crafting hypnotic arrangements, complex layered melodies and synthetic rhythms known as “Psychedelic Trance,” leaving behind all their dying “Trance” cousins in the mainstream…
LUKAS GRAHAM
Happy Home is a bit different from the “ghetto pop” genre – a term Lukas Graham often uses about his music – and was written in collaboration with Rasmus Hedegaard, one of Denmarks best DJ’s. Lucas’ strong vocal and honest lyrics create an insistent and intense atmosphere, forcing you to listen.
