I love early Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and Styx. Serpent Is Rising by Styx is not so loved by their fans, but it has some wonderfull recordings. -The drums in As Bad This for example. When I finally found it in the basement of a vinylstore in the 90ies. I felt empty from not having that goal anymore😀. I heard its almost Virgin tracks once and then had it transfered to digital. -Not the same but...☺
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I think usefull but often inadequate. For example I believe that some tests, but not the most used for comparing vinyl to cd, would show that vinyl has its sonic advantages compared to cd besides its measurably inferiour performance in other areas. I base this only on my hearing and a gut feeling. I dont have much technical knowledge.
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Ops, maybe, after all the speakers are the most distorted components of the chain, right ?
I regard that as common knowledge.Still I think that good measuring source ad amp generally makes a difference. Pass's designs often do not measure particularly welll,but I Imagine the right tests could reviel qualities that we dont focus on as much as thd. I never heard Pass amp
Because I know more than 'that'. I don't hide behind what other people said or wrote, I wrote things that I experienced myself. You talked about 'nuance' or micro details etc, what do you know about all that? Only good ears who know about it and if you are one, you will have no problem identifying the YT files I mentioned. My intention about the files was to say to OP that if he had tried enough he might end up with extra ordinary amps, amp that for example transparent enough so it will show how good one of the YT files is and how bad the other one is. I can say that because I have such amps. Amps like VSSA will not be able to do it. If people say that YT files are bad bla bla bla, it mostly is people trying to restate what other people said, trying to say that his standard is much higher than that, not really trying to say the truth. Such people will fail miserably in ABX test of comparing files of YT quality versus a better format.
I disagree with this MANTRA. Amps can sound different regardless of THD. Lack of distortion should give nothing but goodies. If your system is measured good but it is terrible to hear then you measured the wrong things.
Using two fixed reference speakers (one is a minimum phase design) and many amp prototypes, I prefer to say that it is more about amplifier quality than speaker's. It is actually my favorite quality aspect; an amplifier that is extremely capable of separating instruments and vocals.
In Srajan's review of Bruno's Purify, he didn't mention about this quality aspect. Probably class D is still having issue with this quality aspect??
Well, it seems that it is not as you say.....
" YouTube uses an audio coding called ACC-LC which means Advanced Audio Coding. This codec by default uses compression which means that the original audio has a loss (lower quality).
By using this ACC encoding, videos within the server will lose audio quality at all times. It is impossible to play music in lossless formats such as FLAC and Lossless (500-1000 kbps) in a YouTube video."
Como escuchar musica con mejor calidad en YouTube - Master Prieto - Medium
In addition, the vast majority of people who upload audio to YT, choose the lowest sampling rates (MP3 128 Kbts / sec) to make the process faster.
I don't think so...
I give this example, a 10 stages amplifiers with 100 db of feedback, measures well, sounds not very well, damping is infinite etc.
A class A, caps coupled output with current dumping amp measures OK vs class Ds etc, it sounds superb.
I prefer transistors in class AB , and low class A bias, for PP, or single ended with caps output. Anyways one rule could be:
1. you can always improve your sound system, there is no limit.
More info.
"Audiophiles will likely also be disappointed to hear that not only is 256kbps the current max bitrate for YouTube Music, but we now know that the YouTube Music team has no plans to offer anything higher than that. That means no 360kbps bitrates and certainly no YouTube Music lossless audio."
Looking for YouTube Music lossless audio? Best you get is 256kbps
"Audiophiles will likely also be disappointed to hear that not only is 256kbps the current max bitrate for YouTube Music, but we now know that the YouTube Music team has no plans to offer anything higher than that. That means no 360kbps bitrates and certainly no YouTube Music lossless audio."
Looking for YouTube Music lossless audio? Best you get is 256kbps
I don't think the 256kbps of youtube is an issue. For serious listening just use other sources, it will always sound better and more authentic.
For casual listening, I am super happy with youtube quality, it depends mostly of the recording, a bad recording in high resolution is still a bad recording.
For casual listening, I am super happy with youtube quality, it depends mostly of the recording, a bad recording in high resolution is still a bad recording.
That's what I said. You are simply restating what other has stated. Everybody knows that you can set different audio quality with YT (of course I always choose 'HD'). Now, you're ready to ABX 256k versus higher bitrate, to see if I knew what I was saying?Well, it seems that it is not as you say.....
You measured the wrong things. What did you measure? What were the measurement objectives? Are you using NE5532?
So long as the amp has a flat frequency and phase response and the channels are well matched this isn't an issue.
Sure it is not an issue. The issue is it's price hehe...
Instrument separation quality is not just nice to listen to but I think it is necessarily so in order for voices and instruments to sound natural... Many amps that is good with vocals (let's say lateral mosfet) are not good with instruments... Many amps that is good with instruments (let's say hex mosfet) are not good with vocals... You want an amp that is SOFT when producing human voices but AGGRESSIVE when producing highly dynamic instruments... Not mixed up. I observed that for an amp to be able to do those opposite traits it has to be good in instruments/voices separation.
If I may, you want an amp that will reproduce soft when the recording shows soft, and will reproduce aggressive when the recording shows aggressive.
Exactly. But you will see that most amps will mix them up. Either all soft or all aggressive. Human voice is naturally soft while drums are not.
The only way an amp will mix them up is via distortion of one form or another, you know this
Yes, the question is how a soft vocal can run side by side with aggressive instrument? At the same time? I'm just starting to look into this quality aspect. No serious findings yet.
No? Ask academia50:
Its a rare quality aspect with amplifiers. It will give you goosebumps.
Interesting, because I think they live side by side on the recording. Maybe use an amplifier that produces no audible distortion.
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