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The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language defines ‘high fidelity’ as the reproduction of sound with little distortion, giving a result very similar to the original.IIn this case ‘distortion’ doesn’t mean noise, it means any change to the original This reprint of a 2019 KEF Blog article examines excatly what High-Fidelity is.
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Despite the fact most of us would much rather just stay home, humans are social creatures – always have been and always will be. That’s why every culture has fairs and festivals and centuries-long traditions that are all celebrated with music at the center of each. The world changes but many of these traditions are passed down from generation to generation, keeping our ties to our past resilient. Our connection to music is part of what makes us human.
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In the audio world we hear a lot about ‘soundstage.’ The soundstage is the three-dimensional placement of instruments on a stage or in a studio during the performance. Soundstage also comes into play with movies and other audio/video content. Where the actors are on-screen relative to each other is normally reflected in the mixing of the soundstage.
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Music is a fundamental human experience. Music has been described as the “universal language,” but that’s not necessarily true. Rhythm may be universal, but music is the product of the culture from which it comes, and each culture has its own vocabulary, idiom and story-telling rules.
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Billy Joel’s Grammy-nominated eighth album, The Nylon Curtain, was released on September 23, 1982, peaking at Number 7 on the Billboard Albums chart, but the influence the album had on music and production in the early 1980s can’t really be overstated. The anxiety, confusion and general feeling of doom that had settled over the country in the previous few years were summed up nearly perfectly in the nine-song set. Joel has said The Nylon Curtain is one of his personal favorites, and “the recording I’m most proud of and the material I’m most proud of.”
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