 BLUEPORT SOUND SELECTS AKG K 1000 HEADPHONES FOR ACCLAIMED LIVE RECORDINGSAKGPosted 2003-06-14 For more than twenty years, Jim Merod, founder and chief recording engineer at Blueport Sound, has tracked live performances for a virtual who's who in the blues and jazz world. He has worked with famous artists like Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Flanagan, Gatemouth Brown, Los Lobos, Art Farmer, Tito Puente and many others. His numerous recordings have earned praise from high-end audio journals. When Merod needed a pair of headphones to monitor his famous recordings, he turned to AKG Acoustics, a worldwide leader in microphone, headphone and wireless technology and chose the K 1000 as his "on-location" solution.
"AKG K 1000s are like wearing an amazing set of speakers on your head," states Merod. The author of Jazz As A Cultural Archive (Duke University Press 1995), Merod is as demanding about the quality of his recorded sound as he is about the caliber of musicians he works with. "With the AKG K 1000s, you comprehend near-field sound as well as the subtlety of ambient sonic cues in three-dimensional space. Music and spatial information truly comes alive like it does in a superior multi-channel home theater system."
Merod is also happy that the K 1000s have allowed him to lower the SPL he monitors at because he doesn't have to crank up the level to hear all the nuances and spatial cues of the music. The K 1000 uses a completely open, freely-vibrating dynamic transducer that is suspended in front of each ear that ensures that each ear receives a portion of the signal from the other ear. These binaural acoustic cues allow a listener to perceive a much more open, diffuse, "out-of-head" listening experience than is possible with any other headphone. Since the K 1000 doesn't actually push on or around your ears, they are very comfortable to wear for extended periods of time too.
Merod notes, "I think I've trained my psycho-acoustic understanding of live music feeds so that I understand individual parts and the whole of a sound field as I perceive it. When I was introduced to the AKG K 1000s, a great deal of what I was missing from headphones was solved."
Jim Merod finds the unique design and function of the AKG K 1000 is an ally to his recording methods. "The K 1000 is a wonderful partner in my work because they're extremely accurate and immediately musical. They help me translate the way sound after mastering will emerge from good speakers so that astute listeners can permanently enjoy these recordings at home." In sum, Merod says, "the K 1000s are without equal! They've made my working life better, easier and more fun."
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