Anyone you like that isn’t mixing and mastering their albums to shit is Audiophile enough. Music is music
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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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No-Context5479@alien.topBtoAudiophile•Reducing bit sample and depth to save some space, someone can suggest how to set the dither?English1·2 years agoBruh… Dithering not needed for a 24 but file… Who’s gonna hear -144dB?
No-Context5479@alien.topBtoAudiophile•Demons by Imagine Dragons, what's up with the Drums/Bass?English1·2 years agoThat’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
No-Context5479@alien.topBtoHeadphones•research: streaming platforms, do you like amazon music?English1·2 years agoIt’s the buggiest piece of shit I’ve encoutered
No-Context5479@alien.topBtoAudiophile•What smartphone music streaming software allows for the highest fidelity audioEnglish1·2 years agoUSB Audio Player Pro streaming Qobuz
No-Context5479@alien.topBtoAudiophile•i was comparing the vinyl and the digital version of two albumsEnglish1·2 years agoYes 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
No-Context5479@alien.topBtoHeadphones•Why can’t companies make headphones without significant drawbacks?English1·2 years agoBecause no headphone can be made without a drawback… It’s an impossibility
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
No-Context5479@alien.topBtoAudiophile•How can I know if a FLAC I want to buy is really a FLAC and not of poorer quality ? (7DIGITAL)1·2 years ago7Digital is legit
No-Context5479@alien.topBtoHeadphones•If you were to quit this hobby right now with only 1 IEM/headphone, what would it be?English1·2 years agoSony 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
u/Glamour-puss, what’s your budget?
No-Context5479@alien.topBtoAudiophile•Are there any genres of music that have a particular advantage on Vinyl?English1·2 years agoNot 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
No-Context5479@alien.topBtoAudiophile•How much do you think those ASW are worth?English1·2 years agoHow much are they asking?
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