From trumpeter Gabriel Mervine to pianist Tom Amend and guitarist Bill Kopper, The Audiophile's Guide: The Loudspeaker
is a stunning musical work that, purchased along with its companion
book, will bring countless hours of pleasure to your listening room.
Whether you are a beginning or an advanced audiophile, once you follow the setup steps in The Audiophile’s Guide, The
Loudspeaker, you will be able to get closer to the sound of live
music and bring out the missing magic of your system. Imagine your
speakers disappearing and in their place the sound of live music. The
Guide and its companion hybrid SACD (playable on any disc player) take
you step-by-step through the process of dialing in your system. And how
we do it in the Audiophile's Guide: The Loudspeaker is all new. Imagine
disassembling a full track of music from Gabriel Mervine's Quartet,
where each player demonstrates their own sound and how it is played back
on the system. The Guide helps you get each instrument right and then
walks you through how it should sound once the track is assembled and
the band plays fully. This is a new way to get down to details and makes
it easier to focus on tonality and placement. The Guide moves on to
help you get the harmonic overtones right. We've recorded a special
track that focuses on these hard-to-reproduce upper harmonics. It is all
here, plus the last five demo tracks on the Reference Music Disc are
alone worth the price of the disc. Whether you want to challenge your
system, make certain it's working properly, or spend a few hours
tweaking it to perfection, The Audiophile's Reference Music Disc and its
companion book, The Loudspeaker, are both must-have
components. This is one direct-to-master recording you don't want to
miss out on. Each music track is sonic perfection available as a
direct-to-master exclusively from Octave Records.