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Post by jandl100 on Apr 10, 2017 20:04:52 GMT
I suspect that my satisfaction with Spotify Premium is at least in part that the astonishing depth and breadth and sheer extent of the available music catalogue has moved me away from the "audiophile" category. The sound I get is easily good enough for me to enjoy my music streaming adventures - adventures being the operative word. I am simply wallowing in a glut of new musical discoveries, utterly fantastic. My musical tastes have broadened considerably since I began streaming. Music is very important to me and streaming has literally changed my life. As quite a few have seemed to have noticed, my hifi box-swapping is at a far lower pace these days. I'm too busy listening to the oh so easily accessible new music. Better-than-CD, hi rez, MQA, blah blah ... meh, I neither need nor want it. It's simply not relevant to me. Those familiar with Serge from other forums may understand if I say that my system fed by Spotify Premium is already 'adequate'.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Apr 11, 2017 8:55:10 GMT
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Post by Chris on Apr 12, 2017 5:21:51 GMT
Now,you might all get the hump at this but I'll post it anyway. If you want to try some of these services then search eBay for them - Tidals there for £3 - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192137341846 Well worth it to try.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 12, 2017 12:48:16 GMT
I doubt very much that that is legal, Chris.
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Post by Stratmangler on Apr 12, 2017 14:56:34 GMT
I was thinking the same myself, Martin. And I was bought up being told that if it looks too good to be true, then it usually is too good to be true. Why would someone want to purchase a dodgy service provision, when the supplier already gives you a month of service free?
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 12, 2017 15:16:45 GMT
Says Berlin but seems to b Polish...
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Post by Chris on Apr 12, 2017 18:16:31 GMT
Don't think it's illegal,just a loophole.
And just because something may be illegal doesn't make it wrong.
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Post by mikeyb on Apr 12, 2017 18:46:44 GMT
Buy the right Sandisk memory stick and receive 90 days free trial of Tidal Hi-fi.
I've enough to do me 1 year for £45 and have 6 x 64gb memory sticks lol
Need to be redeemed by year end though.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 13, 2017 19:14:08 GMT
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Apr 13, 2017 19:38:18 GMT
It is indeed. We spend enough time as it is trying to get the best out of digital replay without having to worry about this kind of thing buggering it up!
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 13, 2017 20:04:40 GMT
Indeed. And, as one of the comments below the main test says, this just ensured that it's only the pirates who get the music sounding as it should!
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Post by MartinT on Apr 13, 2017 21:00:07 GMT
Record labels still don't get it. Stop fighting the pirate market and start doing it better. Grr!
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 13, 2017 23:45:23 GMT
I took the watermark test mattmontag.com/audio-listening-test/I scored 11 out of 16, just on my laptop and with Sennheiser in-ear. The tracks I failed on were all more upbeat lots going on / poorer recordings where I failed to really detect a significant difference. Hard to redo on my Hifi and be completely unknowing. If I give it a few days I will have largely forgotten though Long may it remain only this one idiot label doing it. Wonder what the others think of it / why they have not followed suit?
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 14, 2017 7:09:08 GMT
The watermarking can be easily heard on some 'low density' music, or where there are silences between notes. It can be pretty obvious on some slow piano music. Especially, for me, on headphones. For busier music it isn't an issue. --- it's not totally unlike the vinyl swish you can get on a less than perfect LP pressing.
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