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Data Graham posted:I was able to point out the "AAD" or "DAD" or "DDD" etc insignias on his old CDs (indicating whether the disc was recorded/mastered/pressed [I think] in digital or analog) that apparently he'd never noticed before and he was entranced to discover something new. Now find him a disc with sub-tracks. My dad's first CD player from 1986 is the only one I ever saw that had them on the display Rev. Bleech_ has a new favorite as of 01:35 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Sweevo posted:Anyone who claims they can tell the difference is lying, and probably owns $4000 speaker cables with little bags of magic pebbles taped to them. Even if someone really can tell the difference, at a certain point you're just listening to your equipment instead of listening to music and that's sad.
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My emotional connection with certain songs is from when I heard them on my staticky mono clock-radio on a distant FM station at 6:00 AM to wake me up for school, and half their appeal was that I couldn't hear more than the vaguest hint of their melody Getting a pristine recording of it later just made me think "uhh this actually kind of sucks"
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Jul 6, 2021 04:17
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Dip Viscous posted:Even if someone really can tell the difference, at a certain point you're just listening to your equipment instead of listening to music and that's sad. The definition of an audiophile is someone who uses music to listen to their stereo.
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Jul 6, 2021 06:21
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KozmoNaut posted:The definition of an audiophile is someone who uses music to listen to their stereo. Don't hit so close to home, bro 
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Jul 6, 2021 12:24
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KozmoNaut posted:The definition of an audiophile is someone who pays 40 000 to listen to Sting.
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Jul 6, 2021 12:25
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Dark Side of the Moon It's ALWAYS Dark Side of the Moon
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Jul 6, 2021 13:01
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Sweevo posted:Dark Side of the Moon Nah, sometimes it's pristinely produced late 90s Jazz with a female singer and an acoustic piano.
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Jul 6, 2021 13:10
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Sweevo posted:Dark Side of the Moon Dark Side of the Moon is Sting in the same way that, for example, Calvin & Hobbes and Beetle Bailey are Garfield.
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Jul 6, 2021 13:13
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Dicty Bojangles posted:First letter is recording method, second is method of transfer/master, third is nature of end medium. Not quite, it's recording, mixing and mastering. Hence why the first two can change on CDs - if the second letter meant mastering, then it'd always be D since CD mastering is digital by nature. I have no idea why I remember this, those codes were long phased out when I started actively listening to music on CDs. Probably saw it on old CD cases and looked it up once.
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Jul 6, 2021 14:56
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Data Graham posted:My emotional connection with certain songs is from when I heard them on my staticky mono clock-radio on a distant FM station at 6:00 AM to wake me up for school, and half their appeal was that I couldn't hear more than the vaguest hint of their melody “Aerosmith: deuces are wild” Should be listened to on the radio in an old work van
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Jul 6, 2021 15:21
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namlosh posted:Completely agree that A friend of mine ones said that Gangsta's Paradise is the kind of song that gets better the worse your equipment is, and the optimal listening experience is a tinny mono transistor radio.
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Jul 6, 2021 16:02
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Sweevo posted:Steely Dan ftfy
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Jul 6, 2021 16:40
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Ruflux posted:Not quite, it's recording, mixing and mastering. Hence why the first two can change on CDs - if the second letter meant mastering, then it'd always be D since CD mastering is digital by nature. I have no idea why I remember this, those codes were long phased out when I started actively listening to music on CDs. Probably saw it on old CD cases and looked it up once. My mistake and thanks for the correction. I never thought DDA would be a thing but nowadays we have the revival of vinyl and even cassettes but all the recording and mixing is done on a computer, so here we are. Records that have all that 128kbit MP3 warmth.
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Jul 6, 2021 16:46
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Neito posted:A friend of mine ones said that Gangsta's Paradise is the kind of song that gets better the worse your equipment is, and the optimal listening experience is a tinny mono transistor radio. As the only human in history who bought both of coolio’s albums, I can confirm this. Also, pretty sure one of his songs starts with a “radio tuning in the station” static gimmick lol
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Both? Oh friend there is so much Coolio you are missing out on.
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namlosh posted:Also, pretty sure one of his songs starts with a “radio tuning in the station” static gimmick lol Or is it the 1,2,3,4 song?
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EL BROMANCE posted:Both? Oh friend there is so much Coolio you are missing out on. Coolio-ing intensifies… ^^^^^^ I can’t remember… will have to look it up later… might have even been Positive K lol
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Jul 6, 2021 19:05
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Neito posted:A friend of mine ones said that Gangsta's Paradise is the kind of song that gets better the worse your equipment is, and the optimal listening experience is a tinny mono transistor radio.
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Jul 6, 2021 19:10
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Sweevo posted:Dark Side of the Moon When I'm testing new speakers or headphones I tend to use stuff I am super familiar with, but I don't have some specific songs I always test. I usually open up my music library and jump around from there, although I'll usually use AC/DC Back in Black as one thing to test. I have not bought any album more times than Back in Black - I've owned it across multiple mediums over the years. I'm also not an audiophile.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Dark Side of the Moon is Sting in the same way that, for example, Calvin & Hobbes and Beetle Bailey are Garfield. Sting singing "I WANT MY MTVVVVVVV" at the start of Dire Straits Money For Nothing at Live AID woulda confused some drugged out people. Anyway... Mail Day! 4 of the    
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Jul 7, 2021 09:51
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Theres certain albums or songs that where either ripped in the early days of itunes or torrented with odd corruption in the song that sound really bizarre to me if I hear the clean high rate versions these days. System of a Downs Toxicity was given to me by a mate in all of its 64kb/s quality and many of the songs just don't sound right without their highnotes clipped and staticy.
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Jul 7, 2021 13:12
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:Theres certain albums or songs that where either ripped in the early days of itunes or torrented with odd corruption in the song that sound really bizarre to me if I hear the clean high rate versions these days. System of a Downs Toxicity was given to me by a mate in all of its 64kb/s quality and many of the songs just don't sound right without their highnotes clipped and staticy. I remember ripping a Metallica CD myself and somehow through CDDA Ripper managed to pickup me pen-drumming along with the 1:1 rip speed. "Wow Metallica SUCK!" - "Oh wait, thats my bits"
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Jul 7, 2021 13:27
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I was just thinking about Dark City last week....welp guess this is a sign I have to rewatch it now. SLEEP NOW
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Humphreys posted:I remember ripping a Metallica CD myself and somehow through CDDA Ripper managed to pickup me pen-drumming along with the 1:1 rip speed. The version of Lights and Sounds I downloaded in 2004 started to loop at the end for some reason (playing the opening riff at the end of the song) and for the longest time I thought that's just how the song went.
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Jul 7, 2021 14:35
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I don't even know why I had it but I had Steve McQueen by Sheryl Crow that just looped the first line of the chorus for 4 minutes
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CaptainSarcastic posted:When I'm testing new speakers or headphones I tend to use stuff I am super familiar with, but I don't have some specific songs I always test. I usually open up my music library and jump around from there, although I'll usually use AC/DC Back in Black as one thing to test. I have not bought any album more times than Back in Black - I've owned it across multiple mediums over the years. When I test (computer speaker) equalizer settings I use... Fleetwood Mac's Silver Springs because ??? I mean, I like Fleetwood Mac as much as the average person, and that's a good song, but how the hell did I settle on that one?
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Jul 7, 2021 16:21
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My subwoofer test is Gorillaz “Laika Come Home”.
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I had a friend years ago who insisted Cake's "The Distance" was the #1 choice for testing subwoofers given it starts with a very deep bassline.
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Jul 7, 2021 18:42
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Neito posted:The version of Lights and Sounds I downloaded in 2004 started to loop at the end for some reason (playing the opening riff at the end of the song) and for the longest time I thought that's just how the song went.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:11
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Also, if you ever had System of a Down - Legend of Zelda in your MP3 collection...
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George RR Fartin posted:I had a friend years ago who insisted Cake's "The Distance" was the #1 choice for testing subwoofers given it starts with a very deep bassline. "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley also will gently caress up a mediocre sub too - if it plays that bass intro cleanly, it's a keeper.
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Neito posted:Also, if you ever had System of a Down - Legend of Zelda in your MP3 collection... Yeah, everyone knows the real artist was Mr. Bungle
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Jul 7, 2021 22:48
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barbecue at the folks posted:Yeah, everyone knows the real artist was Mr. Bungle I was just going for a "If you had that MP3, your knees crack when you stand up now" kinda thing, but couldn't think of anything witty to put there so just trailed off.
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Jul 7, 2021 23:00
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My knees crack even when I'm not moving. 
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:Theres certain albums or songs that where either ripped in the early days of itunes or torrented with odd corruption in the song that sound really bizarre to me if I hear the clean high rate versions these days. System of a Downs Toxicity was given to me by a mate in all of its 64kb/s quality and many of the songs just don't sound right without their highnotes clipped and staticy. Back in the day of making a mix tape for the car, it was easy to overestimate how much space was left on a side, causing the song you were recording to be interrupted when the tape ran out. If it was at least most of the way through the song, I'd just say "eh" and leave it like that, instead of going back and recording over it with something shorter. And so, to this day, there are a few songs that I'm always mildly surprised when they don't cut off at that exact spot.
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Powered Descent posted:Back in the day of making a mix tape for the car, it was easy to overestimate how much space was left on a side, causing the song you were recording to be interrupted when the tape ran out. If it was at least most of the way through the song, I'd just say "eh" and leave it like that, instead of going back and recording over it with something shorter. Owner of a Lonely Heart is supposed to end with a chair creaking because that's what happened when I was getting up to turn off the recorder positioned next to the record player.
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Some of my favorite recorded songs from early life don't sound right without the radio DJ talking over the intro and outro.
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peter gabriel posted:I don't even know why I had it but I had Steve McQueen by Sheryl Crow that just looped the first line of the chorus for 4 minutes It sounds like something a label or just a jerk would create in order to pollute file sharing services with songs that looked to to be around the correct file size and length but were just garbage. I think I remember that being a thing. Along with oddly named files/misspelled band names to defeat filters that Napster added.
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My favourite was when Madonna uploaded a bunch of tracks off her new album, but all the mp3s were just her saying "What the gently caress do you think you're doing?" Then somebody hacked madonna.com and put up clean rips of all the tracks with the title "This is what I think I'm doing"
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