Dec 19

今晚去左睇張學友演唱會,第一次現場睇張學友,領教了什麼是大師級流行歌手! 唱慢歌當然沒問題,但跳跳紮時歌聲都很穩很鏗鏘,真的很佩服!

不過,現場的音響太太太大聲了,可能比上次去看容祖兒時更厲害,之後耳鳴是早就預計了,但今次其中一隻耳內竟然疼痛…… 真變態

Jul 04

專輯還未推出時,網上已出現搶先版,不過音質差得不能再差,不單爆音、拆音,還要是單聲道!File properties 仲要扮雙聲道… 勁! 泄漏者總算有點良心。

May 28

A week ago I managed to find ONE cantopop HDCD that actually contains extra resolution bits. I didn’t have time to analyze the waveform graphs yet, but I’ve listened to a few tracks.

I find the HDCD version to be softer and less “plastic”, which in proper terms should be “better dynamic range”. Also when the music is more complex (and louder), a 16-bit CD would sound compressed, as if the instruments are fighting for bandwidth and none of them gets enough of it. I am so used to this unpleasant feeling that I was surprised when that didn’t occur with the HDCD version. Upon further listening, it does happen with HDCD, but limited to the most complex passages.

I gotta find some time to compare the waveforms. (It will be funny as hell if the comparison proves that it’s only a placebo effect.) (But I’m confident it isn’t.) I guess the writeup will be done in Chinese instead… afterall it’s CANTOpop. And… man, will my favourite singers release HDCD albums?

May 17

我不太買流行曲CD,在記憶之中看到第一隻粵語流行曲HDCD應該是謝霆鋒的 (後來發現王菲應該是第一個),當時只查探了一下,知道HDCD應該比CD優勝,但沒有能夠解碼HDCD的器材,也就沒有探究下去…

幾年前發現 Windows Media Player 10 是電腦上唯一能夠解碼HDCD的播放器,但只憑聽覺去測試並不太可靠 (placebo…),所以又不了了之…

幾個月前發現有個插件可以截取並儲存 Windows Media Player 的輸出,我用王菲、謝霆鋒、容祖兒的 HDCD 做了些測試,發現這些所謂 HDCD 只是 re-dither 到 16-bit CD 的過程中用了HDCD器材,但並沒有 HDCD 的額外資料,即用普通CD機播放或HDCD機播放都沒有分別…

今天,我發現了第一隻真正有額外資料的 HDCD — 王菲的《唱遊》!!! 趁我還有聽力時應該盡力去研究一下,遲些會 post 測試結果。

Apr 01

Jacky Cheung Concert 07

在網上看到的, 是張學友今年巡迴演唱會的舞台… 幾型嘛…. 驚覺自己很久沒聽張學友