When using the CMS to display images from a collection, it is best to create a thumbnail to use on listing pages and then an optimized version for the detail page. 2+MB per image in the collection is a performance killer.
When large images are being reduced down to 500px (the size of your responsive images from webflow on desktop), they are highly compressed down. As a photographer image quality is an issue and I can tell you that reducing the steps in sizing produces a much cleaner image. I would target 1000px for the listing image versus 2100px. That would bring your upload size down to 264 KB.
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Forgot to answer your original question; easiest way would to just place the embed element in a container since you are using containers on the rest of the site. That will control the width of the embed.
All of this is leading to my latest 'discovery'! The artist, Keb' Mo' (Kevin Moore, nickname Keb' Mo') has just recently pierced my musical radar. He has won 5 grammys but never entered my musical orbit. It's not like I never heard of him. I've known his A&R man, Michael Caplan for 25 years. Michael even signed one of my artists to Sony in 2005 but never mentioned, except maybe in passing, Keb Mo' (or, for that matter, Matisyahu or G Love & Special Sauce who he also discovered).
In 2022, I just decided to get into Keb' Mo' so I simultaneously bought 2 Keb' Mo' albums. Unbeknownst to me, one was his 1996 debut album Keb' Mo' and the other was Good To Be, which was his latest, released in 2022.
I don't have an alternate LP version and since Tracking Angle is an online resource that covers both music and sound quality let me say that as the album progresses, the instrumentation becomes more involved but in no case does it sound out of place in what is a basic blues album. It just showcases the stretch of the material and track by track the recorded sound remains timeless as if it could have been recorded yesterday.
Now, 25 years and probably many tours later, comes the latest release Good to Be. I expected another contemporary blues album but what I got was an ear opener, and, as an artist myself, an unexpected pleasure discovering where another artist needed to go in order to expand his creative base while staying within the bounds of his chosen genre.
Picking standout tracks is impossible. It's the first album I've heard in a long time that makes me want to play it straight through every time, aided by the sound, which is as technically fine as any digitally recorded state of the art release in my experience can sound.
Michael, no disrespect to John, but as I wrote a few months ago, I think Tracking Angle would be well-served by more standardization across the review scores. I do not doubt these are fine albums, but four 11 scores on these? Unless you believe that these albums are in the same stratosphere as Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme, Aja, and the Ornette Coleman you just reviewed...
I am not differentiating between live recordings and studio. The ones I listed before are studio. For live recordings, the only one I own that I would rate sonics 11 is Eva Cassidy Night Bird 45rpm (highly recommended). But to use your phrase, a "super score" should be just that. It is not about fairness, it is about transcendence, the creme de la creme. If you are saying that in your view, these Keb Mo albums sound as good as the ones I listed, and if you think his music is in the same very small league as the others, then we agree
Music is such a personal thing I don't worry about how that gets rated or over rated, but I agree that I see way to many recordings on this site getting an 11 for sound. . It looks to me like most reviewers here use it as a relative rating comparing the version under review to the versions that came before. Maybe I'm in the minority, but IMO a 10 (or11) for sound should be reserved for the very finest. The few albums you pull out when somebody asks you to show them what your system can do. Reference recordings, the best of the best. An album that sounds so good anybody can appreciate how good it sounds even if not their favorite music.
Aja is a perfect example. Is the UHQR as good as Aja can sound,? Quite possibly. Is it a recording I would pull out to show off my system to someone who wasn't a diehard Steely Dan fan? No way. Sorry all you Steely Dan fanatics, but it simply is not reference quality sound no matter how much better it is than any previous version.
I don't see how personal taste and judgements can be standardized. I think it best to judge the numbers for each writer based on your personal experience. That way you can judge who's engaging in "rating inflation". There's a wine reviewer who gave a 93 to a relatively inexpensive wine so i tried it. I will never pay much attention to him again!
I agree taste cannot be standardized. I do not dispute the Ornette Coleman 11/11 even though I do not think I would enjoy it at all. I recognize his place in the canon, and I trust you on the sonics rating. But I think it is important to be grading on a curve. I'm pretty sure fewer than 10% of the Fremer reviews are 11/11. That's extremely helpful for us to know--it assures us that an 11 is killer. Just a few weeks ago I bought Jerome Sabbagh on your 10(music)/11(sonics) without a moment's hesitation (and who's ever even heard of this guy!?) Needless to say, just a magnificent listen and one of the best sounding records I own.
I'd like to be able to do that with other TA reviewers as well. But it strains credulity to think that Keb belongs with Miles, Steely Dan, Trane, etc on music; or is as good sonically as those albums or Vintage.
i appreciate you realizing that scores can't exactly be standardized. i can't speak for the other reviewers, but i rate things on a very conservative scale. sound only gets an '11' if it's among the best sounding records i've ever heard from any era. musically, the only album to which i'd give an '11' is my favorite album of all time, brian eno's 'another green world'. even all of my other favorites would only get a 10. but each reviewer has their own interpretation of the scale and readers will simply have to interpret it for themselves.
Yes, this is exactly what I'm trying to say--11's should be only for immortals, just a few 10's, 9 is an awesome sounding record...If each reviewer forced themselves to a curve as you describe, even if it was just their own curve, that would probably be sufficient. Thanks
Thanks, John. I really appreciate all of that. Just to be clear on the Aja--I did not mean the original, I meant the UHQR reviewed by Michael a couple of months ago. I do think that's 11/11, but I agree that Steely Dan sonics are often overrated due to the musical content. I have not heard the SRV vinyl, but I know it by reputation and it is on my list. Rock on!
The Stevie Ray Vaughan track 'Tin Pan Alley' from his 'Couldn't Stand The Weather' album is a staple at every HiFi Show I have attended since the late 1980s. I used to hear it a lot at the U.K.'s HiFi News Shows out near Heathrow Airport, London, England during the 1980s and 1990s ... and beyond. More recently, I have heard it at the annual Munich High End Show in Germany. It seems that audio designers and vendors really value this track for its sonic merits and to bring out the best in their audio electronics. Mind you, it does sound very impressive. The original U.S. Epic pressing is plenty good, but if you would prefer something more 'audiophile', the U.K.'s Pure Pleasure Records released an excellent 2LP version in 2005, pressed at Pallas in Germany. I have both editions and they are both well worthwhile. I also like the Keb Mo' album reviewed here. It's another good one!
Note to self: This John French is the guitar player from Twisted Sister, not the drummer from Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. My wife knew that other John French when she was a kid and he worked at a record store in her neighborhood.
First time I heard Keb' Mo' was walking down Beale St. in 1996.This music store had "More Than One Way Home" playing out to the street and it just sucked me right into buying that great album "Just Like You" and I've been a huge fan ever since.I was fortunate to catch a solo Keb' live in Brisbane, Australia, where he found the time, after playing at The Byron Bay Blues Festival, to play for all who couldn't make it to the festival.A true blues man.
On Nov. 5, 2005, two contractors working at Valero Energy Corp.'s Delaware City, Del., oil refinery died from nitrogen asphyxiation. Interviews conducted by the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) indicate the two men were assigned to re-attach piping to a vessel as part of preparations to bring the vessel back online.
Based on the results of CSB's investigation at press time the agency is expected to issue its final investigation report in October one possible scenario is the first victim may have inhaled concentrated nitrogen while working outside the confined space, directly above the access opening on top of the reactor, and then passed out and fell into the vessel.
After the first contract worker collapsed inside the vessel, witnesses told CSB the second contract worker entered the vessel, likely in an attempt to rescue his fallen colleague. The two workers "were quickly overcome" by the high-purity nitrogen gas, explains John Vorderbrueggen, PE, CSB's lead investigator for the Valero incident.
"They were in an environment that had probably less than 1 percent oxygen," Vorderbrueggen says. An oxygen concentration below 19 1/2 percent is considered unsafe for workers; when the oxygen content drops to about 8 or 10 percent, Vorderbrueggen adds, "you don't have much of a chance."
"You will not recognize you're in trouble in time to take action to save yourself," CSB Investigation Manager Bill Hoyle concurs. "That makes it an extremely hazardous situation, despite the fact that [nitrogen] is the largest constituent of air we breathe."
CSB compiled data from federal agencies, media reports and other sources to track workplace deaths and injuries between 1992 and 2002 that were caused by nitrogen asphyxiation. According to CSB, during that decade there were 85 nitrogen asphyxiation incidents, resulting in 80 fatalities and 50 injuries.
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