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James Tanner - Bryston

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MEMO: To All Bryston Customers
SUBJECT: Cowboy Junkies 176 Digital

July 2015

HI Folks

One of my favourite albums of all time is being re-mastered by Peter Moore (the original mastering engineer) at 176/24 resolution on an all Bryston system.

The Trinity Session
Album by Cowboy Junkies

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The Trinity Session is a 1988 album by Cowboy Junkies, their second album.

The music was recorded at Toronto, Ontario's Church of the Holy Trinity on 27 November 1987, with the band circled around a single microphone.


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• Bryston Middle T loudspeakers

• Bryston BDP-2 Digital player
 
One of my favourite classic albums. Margo's got a fantastic soothing voice. Excellent recording and sense of space in the church.
I've several pressings of this and will be tempted by this 176 version I'm sure!
 
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tunes said:
One of my favourite classic albums. Margo's got a fantastic soothing voice. Excellent recording and sense of space in the church.
I've several pressings of this and will be tempted by this 176 version I'm sure!
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1987 is a classic Album well let me tell you about in distant universe a long long time ago we had Mono the albums not the disease .

Classic is getting younger by the day.
 
James Tanner - Bryston said:
Hi Rob

I will find out more but Peter Moore is the original engineer and has the original tapes which I believe are analog tape as well - will report back.

james
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I recall when the CD debuted, there was quite a buzz around the album being recorded with a single calrec ambisonic mic directly to RDAT. don't get me wrong, i'm not discounting that aspect. Whites off Earth Now was recorded the same way and was pressed by MFSL. The dynamics on the Whites LP will startle you for an acoustic record, its one of my faves.

Mining for gold was a popular track for resolution, in a well treated room you could plainly hear a ventilation fan turning far into the background when Margo pauses in between phrases .
 
Hi Folks,

Spoke with Peter Moore today and learned that the recording will be offered as a 2 record LP set first then a CD and finally a digital file (hopefully)

Also the original was recorded on an RDAT as well as a Video Tape machine and the RDAT was not used as it sounded awful.

james
 
Lol!
Classic in the outstanding, enduring way, not in a 60s-70s rock genre kinda way :)
Your comment makes me smile though as i feel the same way when people talk about nirvana, or afrika bambaataa, or james blake being classic. Ages us really fast :)

Garth said:
One of my favourite classic albums. Margo's got a fantastic soothing voice. Excellent recording and sense of space in the church.
I've several pressings of this and will be tempted by this 176 version I'm sure!




1987 is a classic Album well let me tell you about in distant universe a long long time ago we had Mono the albums not the disease .

Classic is getting younger by the day.
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MEMO: To All Bryston Customers
SUBJECT: Bryston IAD Sound Card TEST

July 2015

Hi James

We tested your new Bryston ‘Integrated Audio Device’ in our BDP-2 digital player against the old card on our ‘Cowboy Junkies Mastering Project.’

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E ROOM MASTERING

The exact same Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions file played out via AES/EBU of the original BDP-2 audio card into the BDA-2 D/A Converter with up sampling on. This was then recorded ‘analogue’ at 176.4khz_24bit using the DAD (Digital Audio Denmark) AX24.

We then replaced the old sound card with the Bryston IAD and the exact procedure was repeated. The 2 files are aligned and phased match on parallel tracks and played, switching A & B between the two.

No Contest, empirically proven, Night and Day Difference. As if a wool sweater has been removed!!

The High frequency definition is outstanding, in fact, it is scary how rolled off the old card top end was. Slight improvement in bass transients. Sound stage was much more stable. Less sibilance on voice. Upper midrange was more open. Depth perception much deeper and wider (better resolution of high frequency reverb reflections)

Congrats James

Yours Truly
Peter J. Moore
President

E-mail: [email protected]
Web: The E Room Mastering and Restoration
 
Hi James if it was a video recorder was it ADAT (records digitally on VHS tape IIRC) or an analog videotape recorder. If the latter, I'm just curious which format of analog videotape.
 
Hi James
ADAT hadn't been invented yet.The first ADAT recorders shipped in March 1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAT

Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions was recorded in Nov 27, 1987.
I used a "Digital Audio Processor" which converted Analogue to Digital PCM and then converted that into a Black and White Video signal
Which was then recorded onto a Sony Betamax (analogue video recorder) as the DATA storage device only!! (Not Analogue Audio)
Sony PCM-F1 on thevintageknob.org
 
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