Mark I noticed in my system some video's on youtube have a glitch and the loudspeakers goes BOOM/SMACHK
or some pop music the singers get too close to microphone and shout in it, it sounds like SHWEEEEERRRKKKKK so loud.
It is just accentuated a lot by my fast amplifier and is very very loud.
If I listen to Jerry Lewis I can clearly hear there is a delay in his voice in both L/R and much clipping and messing around. It is like sabotage.
Same with Tutti Fruti, it is quite horrible what they did as recording. Because the songs are OK, just they sound awfully bad.
or some pop music the singers get too close to microphone and shout in it, it sounds like SHWEEEEERRRKKKKK so loud.
It is just accentuated a lot by my fast amplifier and is very very loud.
If I listen to Jerry Lewis I can clearly hear there is a delay in his voice in both L/R and much clipping and messing around. It is like sabotage.
Same with Tutti Fruti, it is quite horrible what they did as recording. Because the songs are OK, just they sound awfully bad.
It were his hips bumping against the microphone.
Maybe YouTube isn’t the best choice for quality playback?!
Maybe YouTube isn’t the best choice for quality playback?!
give one suggestion of a good recording of a DG release from another record company? (please no banjo recording of 1935)
Just about ANY DG LP and CD from 1980 to 1985.... they used digital recording and the end result sounded like crap.
Here's one... I know... I actually have this box set.... performance is great, sound sucks.
There... it's not my just my opinion... it just sounds shrill...
BTW- you asked for what... a "DG release from another record company".... since when does DG release from "other record companies"? DG is a "record company"... Have you ever heard DG's digital recordings from the early 80s? If not, then kindly go find one or accept the experience of us older folks who have DG products from the time.
Now, back to Chinese Cheap DACs.
Here's one... I know... I actually have this box set.... performance is great, sound sucks.
There... it's not my just my opinion... it just sounds shrill...
BTW- you asked for what... a "DG release from another record company".... since when does DG release from "other record companies"? DG is a "record company"... Have you ever heard DG's digital recordings from the early 80s? If not, then kindly go find one or accept the experience of us older folks who have DG products from the time.
Now, back to Chinese Cheap DACs.
no, just tell me which record of this released by other company you like more the sound and why?
Sound shrill... let see I never heard this one yet.
(btw what you just show was released in 1962, it is a digital copy of the master re-released...)
You can listen to original re-mastering from Warner.
I agree it sounds weird, the Warner release is hundred times more relaxed, still old sound.
The old recording is still just not up to todays standards, why listen to this? Bruno Walter sounds way better...
Sound shrill... let see I never heard this one yet.
(btw what you just show was released in 1962, it is a digital copy of the master re-released...)
You can listen to original re-mastering from Warner.
I agree it sounds weird, the Warner release is hundred times more relaxed, still old sound.
The old recording is still just not up to todays standards, why listen to this? Bruno Walter sounds way better...
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What seems interesting to me is that some of those early digital recordings have digital artifacts that are pretty audible in the vinyl releases. However, I would expect that the digital was supposed to measure better than the vinyl.
One of the most obvious issues with early AD/DACs was the shrillness of massed strings when they started to get moderately loud. They become a mass of shrill sounds, it grits my teeth.
In a symphony hall, when the strings get going you hear two masses, first and second violins and the cellos to the center... there is absolutely no shrillness, no harshness at all.
Those encoders just didn't like complex large symphonies... somehow they handled smaller things a lot better. Like Old And In The Way (yes, it has a banjo)... but that was an analog recording... I have both the LP AAA and CD AAD. It is bluegrass and the banjo and mandolin sound very good.
"give one suggestion of a good recording of a DG release from another record company?" Incomprehensible language...
You mean "state a recording of this music by an other record company that you like better"?
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^ What's wrong with the banjo? You don't like bluegrass and American folkloric?
My systems are not cheap either, yet I love hearing good bluegrass... and yes, the banjo is one heck of an instrument to tell you how good your system is... it has dynamic range, it is metallic so it has very fast transients and high frequencies.... In my youth I heard live bluegrass a lot... if you get a recording that accurately recreates the banjo AND the mandolin at the same time, you got a good recording/playback system.
My Nitsch DAC does a fantastic job on this when I download it from Tidal HiFi on this stream. But this is made in the US.
So do the Topping D90LE and Burson Swing which are(were) made in China.
Speaking of cheap Chinese... for a few years now I've had a Topping NX4 which I use for my portable rig.
My systems are not cheap either, yet I love hearing good bluegrass... and yes, the banjo is one heck of an instrument to tell you how good your system is... it has dynamic range, it is metallic so it has very fast transients and high frequencies.... In my youth I heard live bluegrass a lot... if you get a recording that accurately recreates the banjo AND the mandolin at the same time, you got a good recording/playback system.
My Nitsch DAC does a fantastic job on this when I download it from Tidal HiFi on this stream. But this is made in the US.
So do the Topping D90LE and Burson Swing which are(were) made in China.
Speaking of cheap Chinese... for a few years now I've had a Topping NX4 which I use for my portable rig.
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No I don't like American folk music nor banjo, nor bluegrass.
I look at this album cover as curiosity, same way of that Karajan recording,
Tidal use a lot of compression....
The Nitsch, has certainly no place in a serious audio system... I can't stand any of Schiitt products neither!
Btw, the price of audio is now up the roof for ATCs, Spendor, etc, I can't believe the ridiculous prices
I look at this album cover as curiosity, same way of that Karajan recording,
Tidal use a lot of compression....
The Nitsch, has certainly no place in a serious audio system... I can't stand any of Schiitt products neither!
Btw, the price of audio is now up the roof for ATCs, Spendor, etc, I can't believe the ridiculous prices
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Compression on Tidal? Huh?
We have a subscription to Tidal HiFi. They play a lot of 24/96 and 24.192... no added compression.
I'm getting a hunch that there's a lot of "feelings" in your opinions of equipment and music you've never heard.
Besides... what's a "serious" audio system? A pair of d'Agostino monoblocks and Wilson speakers... you know, a million bucks of equipment that sounds like it had its life sucked out of it and sounds nothing like the real thing? But. ooooh.... it has pedigree, it sounds great in my house when I have it on the room where I show off my Ferraris which I never drive... oh, gotta go now, can't listen to music... my trophy wife needs a ride to get enlarged from DD to DDD.
You don't like American folk music.
OMG. You know, I'm not a native to the US, I'm a Western European, but I LOVE American folk music... well, I guess I love most music anyhow...
Good morning, America, how are you?
So Don't you know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Come. tell me, honestly, you don't want to just get up, take your girl on the dance floor and have a great time? I've done it... it's FUN.
Here. listen to the train...
BTW, right now the song is playing through my NuForce DDA100, which is class D amp with built in PWM driver. I think it was made in China.... so the moderators won't be too mad...
So, yes, there are good made in China DACs.
We have a subscription to Tidal HiFi. They play a lot of 24/96 and 24.192... no added compression.
I'm getting a hunch that there's a lot of "feelings" in your opinions of equipment and music you've never heard.
Besides... what's a "serious" audio system? A pair of d'Agostino monoblocks and Wilson speakers... you know, a million bucks of equipment that sounds like it had its life sucked out of it and sounds nothing like the real thing? But. ooooh.... it has pedigree, it sounds great in my house when I have it on the room where I show off my Ferraris which I never drive... oh, gotta go now, can't listen to music... my trophy wife needs a ride to get enlarged from DD to DDD.
You don't like American folk music.
OMG. You know, I'm not a native to the US, I'm a Western European, but I LOVE American folk music... well, I guess I love most music anyhow...
Good morning, America, how are you?
So Don't you know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Come. tell me, honestly, you don't want to just get up, take your girl on the dance floor and have a great time? I've done it... it's FUN.
Here. listen to the train...
BTW, right now the song is playing through my NuForce DDA100, which is class D amp with built in PWM driver. I think it was made in China.... so the moderators won't be too mad...
So, yes, there are good made in China DACs.
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“compression” is ambiguous.
If you speak of “compression” as used in the loudness war, then you can’t avoid it if it’s in the recording.
If you speak of “compression” as in audio transport formats (e.g., FLAC), then it’s not much of an issue as modern formats employ lossless compression. Although MQA is not lossless.
If you speak of “compression” as used in the loudness war, then you can’t avoid it if it’s in the recording.
If you speak of “compression” as in audio transport formats (e.g., FLAC), then it’s not much of an issue as modern formats employ lossless compression. Although MQA is not lossless.