You need NOS tubes made with the heart of a Supernova is what you want so you can hear the BigBang through your artiste’s music

Anyone you like that isn’t mixing and mastering their albums to shit is Audiophile enough. Music is music

Watts are meaningless. What’s the sensitivity of the speaker when fed 2.83V @ 1m listening position. That’s the important metric

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Bruh… Dithering not needed for a 24 but file… Who’s gonna hear -144dB?

That’s the artiste intent… They think everyone will be listening on momo phone speakers so won’t notice but people are suffering with badly mixed and mastered music… All in the name of making shit loud

It’s the buggiest piece of shit I’ve encoutered

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Yes you can compress vinyl matters like you can CD because of the generally more infinite dynamic range of CD making easy for even louder mastering. So that and the vinyl records will be jumping violently and not play well.

So because of that limitation, vinyl is generally conservative with reducing dynamics just to be louder than another record…

Funny how the medium that was created so more expression of dynamic range could be achieved ended up doing the opposite.

Why do you think orchestras and the other generally more dynamic forms of music jumped to CD quickly after it was invented cos it meant they didn’t have to play at a certain constant loudness threshold and now can have the quietest parts and the most bombastic ones afterward be cause of the whooping 96dB of dynamic range.

Mainstream music went the opposite direction and don’t even use 10dB of dynamic range.

There’s this arbitrary standard of mastering with on 9dB dynamic range as average.

It’s sad.

For example: CD Version of “25” by Adele has an average DR of 5 - https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/184764

Vinyl Version of the same album has a DR average of 11 - https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/99017

That’d 6dB more dynamic range on average on a format that is actually inferior. Sad

Because no headphone can be made without a drawback… It’s an impossibility

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Not the Triangle or Q Acoustics.

Those are mid.

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The stands is what raised the cost to past the €1000. But they’re worth it

7Digital is legit

Sony IER-M9 because it’s made me stop looking for anything new

Go to a CANJAM

I listen:

Music sessions, on the go, when reading, in the background whilst ripping some games, before I sleep and during long flights and trips

“Speed” 🐢

u/Glamour-puss, what’s your budget?

Not really. There’s no genre with intended advantage. There are genres who would suffer from needle hopping because if IMD, Harmonic Distortion and Clipping from the bad mastering and mixing practices that have become the norm. Phonk or whatever that genre is, Noise and very limited, brickwalled sausage fest genres aren’t good to cut on vinyl because they won’t play well. Outside of these, vinyl is genre agnostic

How much are they asking?