J&R In The News
WABC Eyewitness News Reports: J&R Has Not Cut Corners
Nina Pineda, WABC, Channel 7 Eyewitness News Team reports on expectations for Holiday Shopping in New York, highlighting J&R Music and Computer World.
“Sensing there would be an uptick in consumer confidence the electronics buyer for J&R didn’t cut corners on inventory ordering. John Heller of J&R said, ‘We don’t want to be out of stock, that’s bad for our customers.’ So the downtown store is flush with the season’s hottest gifts, lightweight netbooks, inexpensive digital frames, and tiny 200 hundred dollar camcorders.
“Big ticket items like the giant LCD’s and high-end computers will be cheaper than usual this year…”
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NYC Celebrates the Yankees!
J&R would like to congratulate the New York Yankees on their 27th World Series win! We were proud to have a float in the parade that worked its way through the Canyon of Heroes. Andy Pettitte, along with his family were on the J&R float.
The last World Series victory for the Yankees was in 2000, so it had been almost a decade since the Yankees had a ticker-tape parade. Fans started lining up as early as 4 in the morning in anticipation of the celebration.
We here at J&R are beyond thrilled to have been a part of the parade. It truly was an honor to be a sponsor of this event. Enjoy these photos from the parade!
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The Death of High Fidelity
Have you purchased a Billboard top 10 CD lately? If you have, more often that not, it’s probably very loud. That’s awesome, isn’t it? Not exactly. Most of the public is unaware of this, but this is probably the worst thing you could do to sound reproduction. This is done through a process called Dynamic Range Compression (DRC). In simple terms, it reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal. In a normal song, there are highs and lows. Quiet chapters, and loud chapters. With excessive DRC, all the nuance and range between different parts of the song are lost. To the untrained ear, this might sound good since records with heavy DRC are louder. However, you are not hearing what the artist intended you to hear through their music. It’s akin to going to an art gallery, and then having the curator smearing paint all over the art because they think it’s better that way. Generally speaking, many people have never heard a pristine, clean recording, so they have no frame of reference as to what something with minimal compression sounds like. The video below illustrates the detriment DRC is to modern recordings. It really hit the nail on the head.
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