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Post by Mr Whippy on Apr 30, 2018 21:36:30 GMT
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Post by Chris on May 1, 2018 4:27:54 GMT
Plenty musical worth
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Post by brian2957 on May 1, 2018 7:41:52 GMT
Agreed . Really enjoyed these videos .
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Post by MartinT on May 1, 2018 11:53:46 GMT
The Beatles one is a classic.
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Post by Slinger on May 1, 2018 12:42:39 GMT
I think it can depend on the encoding too. Received wisdom is that 320kbps will be superior to 128kbps.
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Post by dsjr on May 1, 2018 14:51:59 GMT
I have a non album? Tangerine Dream track which I lifted from their site's 'radio' at one time, a Nick Mason remix of 'Invisible Limits' which is a bit different from the finalised released article. long story apparently as to why his mixes weren't used and this one was apparently found on a cassette discovered when the Hansa Studios were being broken down for redevelopment (I think the story goes). This tape was given substantial sonic restoration and possibly some enhancement and on a 128 rate MP3 it sounds great, albeit with no top over 14khz which is the main loss in low bitrate MP3's I gather, coupled of course with the cassette source response limitations no doubt.
No idea if the story above is fully true, but Teedee's session tapes from the Virgin era apparently disappeared long ago and maybe Virgin have them in a vault somewhere, who knows... Apparently a few years ago, it took Simon Heyworth some considerable work to locate almost all the King Crimson archive session tapes and finished 1st generation masters - all told in Robert Fripp's diary on the DGM website as these albums were re-released a few years ago and 5.1 remixes done on those that could be..
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Post by yomanze on May 1, 2018 15:03:11 GMT
As an interesting recent experience I finally got around to building my new media server, running BubbleUPnP and JRiver. Once I had it all running, something didn't seem quite right to me, aside from the joy of running the server headless, and controlling TIDAL via my phone into it. Plug it back into a monitor to run through settings, and notice that BubbleUPnP by default was transcoding files to 320kbps mp3. I turned this off to ensure that original files (FLAC) are used, and et voila, the niggles disappeared.
I will still enjoy listening to lossy Spotify with cheap headphones, but for HiFi, the differences are enough to pay attention to.
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Post by MartinT on May 1, 2018 15:30:03 GMT
Don't dismiss Ogg (the compression format used by Spotify), it sounds considerably better than mp3.
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Post by Mr Whippy on May 6, 2018 1:14:46 GMT
I'm just curious as to how one can view them as musically bankrupt and another as musically satisfying. What's going on? Blind prejudice? Auditory processing radically different?
Back in February I shagged my much-loved Chinese dual-sim Cubot Note S by continuing to use it while charging. I decided to replace it with another Chinese offering in the shape of a K3 from that well-known Oukitel brand. I chose it for the 6000mA battery, full HD screen, 8 cores and reasonable reviews. It arrived, and I was less than convinced. At £130 and twice the price of the Cubot, it wasn't a bargain. The screen, made by Sharp, had a different look to the Cubot. High resolution videos did look good, but lower resolution ones were harder to accept. On the other hand the Cubot seemed to make the most of whatever the resolution was. After comparing them I just had to accept it was just more of an open window.
8 cores. Should be faster. Well, it wasn't. Didn't really matter that much. It did look rather smart, to it's credit.
The main redeeming feature I found was when I came to listen to videos and mp3s. Voices were noticeably clearer with inflection and intonation I'd never heard before. Quite a surprise. The bottom had new substance and the top better detail. Everything sounded more interesting and held my attention. When I went back to the Cubot it sounded rather flat by comparison. And so I'm now rather enjoying listening to mp3s and videos.
The Beatles. "Get Back" was there but has since been removed with one or two others. Why? I don't know. Luckily I downloaded it. It sounds better than "Don't Let Me Down". Instruments have that solid palpability and there's that great sense of open space.
Anyway, some others that sound pretty fab - although some might not agree:
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Post by tonedeaf on May 16, 2018 7:14:49 GMT
Don't dismiss Ogg (the compression format used by Spotify), it sounds considerably better than mp3. I agree totally with that. Used to listen to music via my mob/PDA years back and had the OGG player instead of the standard MP3 WMA or whatever was around in the early noughties. OGG sounded cleaner, louder, and more detailed and was my decoder of choice. Not sure what is around nowadays as I rarely listen through headphones anymore |
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