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"DAR A LUZ" by Marta Gomez & Nicolas Buenaventura An exceptional album that I've been listening to since the day it was released. I don't understand spanish at all but I really feel the beauty in the words. Pure vocal bliss.

I recently discovered ECM records … a ton of good stuff in their catalogs. Excellent + well recorded music -> https://tidal.com/playlist/ceca5d09-fa65-46a0-893b-15328fd1b45b

Get a minidsp (2x4 HD or higher) and use the parametric EQ controls to bring down the highs. If you cannot take measurements just use frequency response graph from published reviews as guide. Treble should not be that much different from room to room so you can use those as reference for where...

Got it. There is a distinct clipping I hear with iphone + headphones but not main stereo + headphones so does not seem related to the speakers. I rarely listen to metal anyways so it’s possible there are multiple sources of the noise and I’m just not hearing what’s already in the recording.

Hmm not sure I follow why that applies to this case … isn’t clipping mostly an issue with how the amp is handling the higher input signal? This is a pretty audible noise we’re dealing with here

I can replicate the noise on my iPhone + bluetooth headphones. Turning on loudness normalization makes it a lot better and I bet if I used Roon it will mostly go away (I find their volume leveling works a lot better). FYI on my main stereo I cannot hear any clipping so its definitely a problem...

Totally agree! Before streaming I had practically stopped listening to music because I was bored with what I grew up with. Nowadays I always give a listen to latest releases (whatever the genre) and I find more excellent music than I have time to listen to. Every couple of months I stumble onto...

I got into this thinking it’s just background music. I was wrong. Some avant-garde stuff in there but hopefully you’ll be convinced much before. Play from the beginning. Darkened room with visual patterns on a big screen helps (underwater slomo screensaver on Apple TV did it for me)...

I guess I should have said “McDonalds cannot serve up better food even if it wants to”. But you bring up a great point about untrained taste buds getting overloaded with fried salty food. That was primarily my diet at one point in time and similarly with music choices … but I’m a tinkerer so...

Agreed! Yes I've seen his other movies and own a bunch of them. Patiently waiting for the next one that’s coming out this year.

The French movie Delicatessen was one of the most memorable movies I ever watched mostly based on the unusual theme and the amazing sound effects that are weaved into the story Check out the trailer on IMDB https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0101700

My take on this via an analogy. There will always be Michelin star restaurants who employ skilled chefs and source the ultimate best ingredients and equipment to serve up fine food to people who care enough. There will always be McDonalds which cannot serve up better food because they employ...

To clarify what I meant was … those clipped 0dB spikes in your recording could be getting further exacerbated downstream eg Roon will do this unless volume control is passed down to the DAC (not sure if this is a general bug but that’s the situation with my current setup)

You could be getting clipped. I frequently run into clipping issues when playing digital streams via apps (especially recordings that are already too loud). I’ve found Roon level normalization with volume pass through to DAC to work well for taming loud recordings with my current setup. To test...

I heard an interesting argument that a lot of older recordings mastered on tape don’t sound so good because tape fidelity reduces with each recording pass … so bands that were aiming for perfection in the studio were penalized whereas albums like “Kind of Blue” which was recorded in just two...

Right … I got you. I guess I was thinking more in terms of power delivery (?) If an amplifier has a finite headroom does that also mean it can run out of gas much sooner when a sudden demand is made of it thereby introducing an audible reduction in “dynamics”? Sorry I don’t remember much from my...

Your brain? I find that my brain quickly learns and adjusts to new equipment making it the new normal so I tweak and setup as soon as possible before that happens. Here are a few things I did besides EQ - 1. Careful rug placement + diffusion panels + toein made a huge difference in treble...

A car’s acceleration is much more perceptible than its top speed usually … especially when top speed is attained rarely or for very short durations. So is it (similarly) the rate at which a stereo can go from quite to loud and back the primary factor that contributes to “dynamism”?

Back when I was a kid I used to have hard drives full of bootleg concert videos. Pretty sure they were pixelated and horrendous sounding :) I’ve always wondered why there are not more live concert videos … can’t find them on streaming services either. A few I can recall at the moment are...

I will miss the sound of an SLR reflex shutter … which reminds me that there will be niche camera brands for some time to come.