Every time a knowledgeable audiophile tells me how true to life a recording sounds, or how a system lacks warmth, or how it has a brittle top, I think to myself – how does he know?? Was he really sitting in the audience at the recording? Does he know what microphones the recording engineer is using? Does he have a reference?
Here is an album that IMHO should be in the toolkit of every audiophile – for its natural and accurate sound. It’s not warm, it’s not bright, it’s just plain accurate. A true reference-quality recording!!
Lyn Stanley International Recording Artist was kind enough to grace the Genesis room at the recent California Audio Show. She brought along the Master Tape of her forthcoming album Potions of the 50s with her to introduce. She not only introduced each song on the album with interesting anecdotes and information about the recording, she sang along to quite a few of them!!!
We did a video, and even over YouTube, the recorded voice and the un-mic’ed and un-amplified singer sounded exactly the same. As Lyn said, the instrumentation sounded to her exactly like what she heard during the recording sessions. Since most of the tracks were done in only one take, even the emotion and feeling of the performance comes across nicely.
Lyn Stanley: Potions of the 50s.
Enjoy!
Gary Koh.