Ed2 : CD – Blue Note ref 0602435689845 – 2021
Presentation
This is the CD version of Norah Jones’ new album.
| Label | Blue Note |
| Reference | 0602435689845 |
| Format (speed) | CD |
| Type | CD 16 bits 44.1 kHz |
| Master | Digital 16 bits 44.1 kHz |
| Mastering/Pressing | Europe |
| Original recording | Digital |
| State | US |
| Year original | 2021 |
| Year production | 2021 |
Waveform
The waveform represents all the Tracks of the album.
Seeing this type of curve on a CD is no longer a surprise, you can easily recognize the compression of the dynamics compared to vinyl and streaming. With a DR8, some examples with the yellow zones where the signal is compressed. This is the case for all tracks. When listening, this compression limits the opening of the music, the sound space and the dynamics.
Spectrum
The interesting features on this curve are the following:
- The two curves between CD and streaming are totally overlapping. This indicates that they will have the same sound balance (excluding the effect of compression).
- In the yellow zone, we can see that the CD effectively cuts at 22kHz (limitation of the format), while the streaming in 24/96 goes up higher in frequency..
Spectrogram
Spectrogram is another representation of frequency versus time of a track. For each channel (right and left), horizontal axis represents time, and the vertical axis represents frequency. The amplitude is represented by the intensity (brightness) of the color of each point in the image.
The yellow arrow represent the normal collapse at 22 kHz (sampling frequency CD at 44.1 kHz) of the CD.The black part shows no signal above 22kHz.
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