Madeline enjoyed her first music listening session today. To those who don’t know, Madeline has 2 parents who are arguably ridiculous enthusiastic in their appreciation and fascination with music.

For Maddie’s first listening session, we chose The Beatle’s “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. We listened to the album from the beginning through George Harrison’s “Within You, Without You” at which point Maddie decided that she was ready for her nap.

Maddie in the sweet spot

Maddie enjoyed sitting in the sweet spot of the HiFi for the first few tracks. Beginning with Paul McCartney’s “Getting Better”, she and Jen enjoyed dancing in the den.

Maddie and mommy dancing

Listening Notes:

Jen:

“Did you know that The Beatles, in recording “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” used tapes of calliope music to create the atmosphere of the Pablo Fanque circus performance that inspired the song. George Martin resorted to tapes of calliopes playing Sousa marches. He chopped the tapes up into small sections and had Geoff Emerick throw them up into the air and then re-assembled them at random.”

 

David:

“The MoFi remaster didamazing things to bring out the subtleties and details of the original recording. Brilliant, wide sound stage. Amazingly improved dynamics compared to the original stereo LP.”

 

Maddie:

“phbttt phbtt blatht”

 

Technical Notes:

Recording: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab half-speed remaster pressed on 200 gram JVC “super vinyl” ripped at 24bit/96000kHz using Rega RB250 fully modified tonearm > Pro-ject Tube Box SE II preamp > TAscam US-144 > Peak Pro 6.2
Playback: Apple Mac Mini > Roland UA-1ex (sp-dif) > Parasound 7100 > Parasound 5124 > Paradigm 7seMKii/Velodyne dd15

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