Hi,

I will soon start looking for loudspeakers. Does anyone have any idea
where I could find a CD with just speech to use as part of the audition?

Any other tips welcome ;-)

The speakers are to be connected to a NAD 320BEE and 521BEE as the source.

Regards
Charles


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Hi,

I will soon start looking for loudspeakers. Does anyone have any idea
where I could find a CD with just speech to use as part of the audition?

Emusic.com has a Noam Chomsky CD, plus the "Junkyard Willie Tapes."

Tim

On Mon, 02 May 2005 02:24:37 +0100, "Charles C."
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Hi,

I will soon start looking for loudspeakers. Does anyone have any idea
where I could find a CD with just speech to use as part of the audition?

Any other tips welcome ;-)

The speakers are to be connected to a NAD 320BEE and 521BEE as the source.

Regards
Charles

The BBC shop at Bvsh Hovse in the Strand has dozens of them.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

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Hi,

I will soon start looking for loudspeakers. Does anyone have any
idea
where I could find a CD with just speech to use as part of the
audition?

Any other tips welcome ;-)

The speakers are to be connected to a NAD 320BEE and 521BEE as the
source.

Regards
Charles


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The hi-fi test disc from Maplins - if they still do it - contains good
speech in the phasing test tracks, plus it has good test tracks like
uncompressed music, tank and machine gun rounds being fired, and a jet
flypast. Recommended.


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Charles C. wrote:
I will soon start looking for loudspeakers. Does anyone have any idea
where I could find a CD with just speech to use as part of the audition?

Record a copy of the Archers off R4. It's recorded in an old fashioned way
- ie no heavy compression or overdone EQ.

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To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Record a copy of the Archers off R4. It's recorded in an old fashioned way
- ie no heavy compression or overdone EQ.

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Or poodle along to WHsmiths and take a look in the Spoken word section.
Plenty of good stuff there many radio plays.

Steve

Stevie Boy wrote:

Record a copy of the Archers off R4. It's recorded in an old fashioned way
- ie no heavy compression or overdone EQ.

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Or poodle along to WHsmiths and take a look in the Spoken word section.
Plenty of good stuff there many radio plays.

The Anthony Hopkins version of Under Milk Wood is good.
Try your local library.

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On Mon, 02 May 2005 12:08:25 +0100, Eiron wrote:

Stevie Boy wrote:

Record a copy of the Archers off R4. It's recorded in an old fashioned way
- ie no heavy compression or overdone EQ.

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Or poodle along to WHsmiths and take a look in the Spoken word section.
Plenty of good stuff there many radio plays.

The Anthony Hopkins version of Under Milk Wood is good.
Try your local library.

He has far too strange a voice for assessing audio kit - and he hams
it up to the eyeballs on this one, so no - poor choice.

The best advice I could give is to record a friend in as anechoic a
situation as possible; out in the garden is good. Use an
omnidirectional mic. Even the cheapest of electrets are plenty good
enough for this.

Now, when auditioning the speakers, play back at the same level your
friend speaks at. Close your eyes and decide if you are fooled - could
it be your friend actually standing there, or can you hear
"loudspeakery" artifacts - booming chesty tones, splashy sibilants
etc. Very few speakers will pass this test well as it is about as
severe a test as you will ever apply.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

Make sure the acoustics of your listening/control room are deadened first by
making most walls, ceiling, flat shiny surfaces, non-reflective and
absorbent. Getting a friend to burst an inflated balloon by the speakers
zone will tell you all about "ringing"!
Then sit in a place which forms a perfect triangle with your control room
speakers placed at ear height, if possible.
Try not to use CD medium, if at all possible.
Just patch in a VHF/FM tuner through your chain, select, say, Radio 4 from
the nearest xmitter, have no Eq nor filters in cct, and listen to speech,
live ideally, worts and all. Occasionally hit the Mono (dual) button for a
while and return to Stereo.
Make some off-air recordings on analogue, edit and re-use them for monitor
evaluation and assessment. Try to listen for dentures, breathing, open or
nasal voices, fidgetting on noisy furniture, air conditioning, page-turning,
and studio rumble, too. These quirks are part of the signal and should not
be masked by bad colouration.
Have lots of makes of quiet amps and pairs of speakers at your beck and
call - till you find that Eureka moment!

Having specialised in talks studios environments most of my pro life, I feel
the human voice is very complex to reproduce electronically acceptably.

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Hi,

I will soon start looking for loudspeakers. Does anyone have any idea
where I could find a CD with just speech to use as part of the audition?

Any other tips welcome ;-)

The speakers are to be connected to a NAD 320BEE and 521BEE as the source.

Regards
Charles


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Try your local library.

Good point: spoken-word CDs are free to hire from my library.

Tim