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Sound Card Recorder
Powerful voice activated microphone recorder for Windows. Click here to learn more.High-end Audio
High-end audio equipment is created to be the best, regardless of what it might turn out to cost. High-end audio equipment can be extremely expensive. It is sometimes referred to as cost-no-object equipment. Owners of high-end audio are either audiophiles or conspicuous consumers. Audiophiles run the gamut from budget to high-end in terms of equipment price range and are primarily concerned with the quality of music reproduction (accuracy with personal preferences). Needless to say they accept that different equipment have different reproduction characteristics. There is a debate within the audiophile community involving the sonic characteristics of accessories and tertiary equipment, but none regarding the three main equipment categories of source, amplification and speakers (and their constituent components). Some audiophiles with an electronic engineering background dismiss any differences that cannot be measured by instrumentation. Most audiphiles agree that it is instrumentation that is too rudimentary in its current state that accounts for unmeasurable qualitative differences, which is also like saying that human knowledge and understanding of psycho-acoustical phenomena is not complete. High-end audio can refer to the build quality of the components, but more specifically, refers to the ability to reproduce a recording with the highest fidelity to the original performance that has been committed to the recording. Typical qualitative attributes that are scaled by audiophile publications and experts are accuracy vs. warmth, tonal color vs. speed, size of sound stage vs. depth, etc. etc. A theoretically perfect high-end audio system would create the illusion, with eyes closed, of the musical performers actually being present and performing right in front of the listener. There would be no sonic signature that imparts any clue as to the fact that the performance is a playback of a recording instead of a live performance by actual musicians in the listening room. This is obviously more important with performances involving acoustical instruments and without studio manipulations of vocals. Professional recording studios seldom use high-end audio gear for monitoring recording sessions. Instead, studios use their own kind of players, amplifiers, signal processors, and speakers, built to very high standards by the professional audio industry. The professional audio industry's priorities are recording, whereas the home audio market's is reproduction, leading to different emphases. Publications that interested parties can peruse include Stereophile (US), Absolute Sound (US), Hifi News (UK) and Hifi + (UK).
Phone Call Recorder
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