High-Quality Album Guidebook 3
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Description
Book Introduction
The joy of listening to music!
Both music and sound quality are important.
They are impressive individually or in harmony.
Music and audio are a blessing to humanity that have transcended the one-time experience of live music appreciation.
Music can only be appreciated through the tool called audio.
Music reaches the listener through audio, and audio is meaningless without music.
When you listen to good music through high-performance audio equipment, the enjoyment goes beyond the usual listening experience and is doubled.
In the middle of connecting music and audio, we often get involved with mechanical technology and the tastes, sensibilities, and capabilities of engineers. A 'high-quality album' is an album that maximizes the effects of such intervention.
Conan Lee Jang-ho is an audio critic with a unique credibility and topicality. While he pursues mechanical performance, he also engages with the individual aesthetics of music and finds common ground with listeners.
Some people think that if you like music, you'll naturally care about audio, or vice versa, but when you actually meet audiophiles or music lovers, you'll find that they tend to lean in one direction.
《High-quality album guide book Vol.
3》 is a book created for readers who want to enjoy music and audio together.
Both music and sound quality are important.
They are impressive individually or in harmony.
Music and audio are a blessing to humanity that have transcended the one-time experience of live music appreciation.
Music can only be appreciated through the tool called audio.
Music reaches the listener through audio, and audio is meaningless without music.
When you listen to good music through high-performance audio equipment, the enjoyment goes beyond the usual listening experience and is doubled.
In the middle of connecting music and audio, we often get involved with mechanical technology and the tastes, sensibilities, and capabilities of engineers. A 'high-quality album' is an album that maximizes the effects of such intervention.
Conan Lee Jang-ho is an audio critic with a unique credibility and topicality. While he pursues mechanical performance, he also engages with the individual aesthetics of music and finds common ground with listeners.
Some people think that if you like music, you'll naturally care about audio, or vice versa, but when you actually meet audiophiles or music lovers, you'll find that they tend to lean in one direction.
《High-quality album guide book Vol.
3》 is a book created for readers who want to enjoy music and audio together.
index
12 In lieu of the preface
Top 50 Korean Albums 22
Top 50 Foreign Albums 124
My Reference Album 234
Compilation Album 288
Top 50 Korean Albums 22
Top 50 Foreign Albums 124
My Reference Album 234
Compilation Album 288
Into the book
First of all, if the audio device itself has excellent overtone expression capabilities, the individuality of each instrument is clearly revealed, and the tones of instruments are clearly distinguished even in similar frequency ranges.
For example, the texture of each instrument, such as vocals, guitar, and saxophone, is revealed very realistically.
In the most ideal case, the margins are clean, as if drawing an orchid with ink on pure white Korean paper.
--- p.13
The new arrangement, performance, recording, and production captures Choi Baek-ho as a person before he was a singer.
This album is filled with the heartfelt confessions of a person who has lived as a singer for 40 years, not just someone who sang popular songs.
Serious and honest music touches the heart even when you are still.
In addition, the quality of the sound was enhanced with the participation of several engineers.
--- p.37
Depending on the audio system you listen to it on, the speed, rhythm, pace & timing will vary, but fundamentally, it's all about Pat's performance unfolding over a finely broken rhythm and the scenery outside the train that seems to unfold endlessly.
--- p.193
Listening to SACD on a multichannel system will make you feel as if you were invited to a choir performance, and the reason for this is the enormous amount of information and dynamics.
Even the lowest notes of the bass are not just heard, but are clearly distinguished.
--- p.273
Audio is a recreation of the master sound source.
Because everyone has different tastes.
Of course, if the sound is too different from the original tone and pitch, it falls into the realm of distortion.
For example, the texture of each instrument, such as vocals, guitar, and saxophone, is revealed very realistically.
In the most ideal case, the margins are clean, as if drawing an orchid with ink on pure white Korean paper.
--- p.13
The new arrangement, performance, recording, and production captures Choi Baek-ho as a person before he was a singer.
This album is filled with the heartfelt confessions of a person who has lived as a singer for 40 years, not just someone who sang popular songs.
Serious and honest music touches the heart even when you are still.
In addition, the quality of the sound was enhanced with the participation of several engineers.
--- p.37
Depending on the audio system you listen to it on, the speed, rhythm, pace & timing will vary, but fundamentally, it's all about Pat's performance unfolding over a finely broken rhythm and the scenery outside the train that seems to unfold endlessly.
--- p.193
Listening to SACD on a multichannel system will make you feel as if you were invited to a choir performance, and the reason for this is the enormous amount of information and dynamics.
Even the lowest notes of the bass are not just heard, but are clearly distinguished.
--- p.273
Audio is a recreation of the master sound source.
Because everyone has different tastes.
Of course, if the sound is too different from the original tone and pitch, it falls into the realm of distortion.
--- p.301
Publisher's Review
The intersection of music and sound
How long does a memory last? Listening to music is ultimately about remembering the experience.
When you listen to music and feel moved by it, is it always possible to reproduce the emotions in your memory when you listen to the music again?
Depending on the circumstances and state of mind at the time of listening to music, the amplitude of emotion shows infinite differences.
The purpose of the 'High-Quality Album Guide Book' is to introduce to readers albums that offer a high level of musical perfection and enjoyment within the realm of human hearing.
Individual tastes vary greatly, making it impossible to perfectly satisfy everyone's needs. However, by presenting the process and criteria for selecting albums, we present in-depth considerations from various angles so that individual listeners who enjoy music as a hobby can choose high-quality albums, even if they find it difficult to agree with the selected albums.
Our albums, foreign albums, references, compilations
《High-quality album guide book Vol.
3》 is a book that selects albums that have good sound compared to the previous ones.
However, in terms of selection, Vol.
3 has some changes.
We have selected ‘50 of our own music’ and placed it at the front as ‘domestic albums’.
This is because the emotional universality of our music has been overlooked.
For example, this is the power of music like 'Arirang'.
The primal power of sound cuts through the emotions that lie hidden within us, yet can be awakened at any moment when called upon.
I can empathize more deeply.
This is the reason why we selected traditional Korean music that includes fusion along with general pop music.
The author created a separate chapter by collecting the records he used for testing when first listening to audio.
If the listener only listens to the sounds he or she likes, it becomes difficult to be objective because he or she falls into mannerism.
It may not be the music I necessarily like, but by listening to distinct sounds, I think I'll be able to find music and sounds that I can relate to.
The reason I've gathered compilations from various labels is because it's important to hear the consistent values each label holds about their sound, and how they incorporate the philosophy they want to express in their music within the framework of those values.
The music and sound quality that the label puts into the album can help us determine the direction we should pursue in audio in the future.
High-quality album guide book series
The purpose of publishing 'Annapurna's Record Guide Book Series' is not to explain the selected albums and to appeal to readers to seek their consent.
However, the album that the author pursues is not limited to sharing appreciation based on personal taste.
This series seeks to encompass both personal and other people's tastes, and is written and published by collectors and experts who ask and demand the standards and principles for achieving that universality.
Therefore, it would be great if it could serve as a guide to the world of unique albums for readers based on relatable standards and principles, and if the music selected by readers could be shared with many people so that they could find solace in their weary lives through music.
How long does a memory last? Listening to music is ultimately about remembering the experience.
When you listen to music and feel moved by it, is it always possible to reproduce the emotions in your memory when you listen to the music again?
Depending on the circumstances and state of mind at the time of listening to music, the amplitude of emotion shows infinite differences.
The purpose of the 'High-Quality Album Guide Book' is to introduce to readers albums that offer a high level of musical perfection and enjoyment within the realm of human hearing.
Individual tastes vary greatly, making it impossible to perfectly satisfy everyone's needs. However, by presenting the process and criteria for selecting albums, we present in-depth considerations from various angles so that individual listeners who enjoy music as a hobby can choose high-quality albums, even if they find it difficult to agree with the selected albums.
Our albums, foreign albums, references, compilations
《High-quality album guide book Vol.
3》 is a book that selects albums that have good sound compared to the previous ones.
However, in terms of selection, Vol.
3 has some changes.
We have selected ‘50 of our own music’ and placed it at the front as ‘domestic albums’.
This is because the emotional universality of our music has been overlooked.
For example, this is the power of music like 'Arirang'.
The primal power of sound cuts through the emotions that lie hidden within us, yet can be awakened at any moment when called upon.
I can empathize more deeply.
This is the reason why we selected traditional Korean music that includes fusion along with general pop music.
The author created a separate chapter by collecting the records he used for testing when first listening to audio.
If the listener only listens to the sounds he or she likes, it becomes difficult to be objective because he or she falls into mannerism.
It may not be the music I necessarily like, but by listening to distinct sounds, I think I'll be able to find music and sounds that I can relate to.
The reason I've gathered compilations from various labels is because it's important to hear the consistent values each label holds about their sound, and how they incorporate the philosophy they want to express in their music within the framework of those values.
The music and sound quality that the label puts into the album can help us determine the direction we should pursue in audio in the future.
High-quality album guide book series
The purpose of publishing 'Annapurna's Record Guide Book Series' is not to explain the selected albums and to appeal to readers to seek their consent.
However, the album that the author pursues is not limited to sharing appreciation based on personal taste.
This series seeks to encompass both personal and other people's tastes, and is written and published by collectors and experts who ask and demand the standards and principles for achieving that universality.
Therefore, it would be great if it could serve as a guide to the world of unique albums for readers based on relatable standards and principles, and if the music selected by readers could be shared with many people so that they could find solace in their weary lives through music.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: April 30, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 308 pages | 152*210*30mm
- ISBN13: 9791186559888
- ISBN10: 1186559888
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