Having purchased some nice headphones and a dac for my PC, I now sometimes notice weird sounds when playing tracks. The noise sounds like crackling, clipping, tiny pops in the background. Like overloading an amp. Very distorted. (Yes, yes, I realize this is hard rock/metal and distortion is a thing, but I find this noise sounding just like errors in the recording)
I'm hoping this is simply a matter of the recordings being this way and I can just hear it more easily now. So I'm thinking maybe some of you can help with a second pair of ears with your headphone setup and see if you hear it as well?
Here are some tracks and timestamps. The links are to Tidal by the way (I have tried other services, like Spotify and it's the same there):
* Iron Maiden - Still Life: Listen at 3:30 and forward (during the solo)
* Night - Under the Moonlight Sky: Listen 0:00 -- 0:15 (the intro)
* Tool - Invicible: Listen between 7:20 - 7:40
You may need to increase volume a bit. The noise in the Maiden song is more subtle than the next one, and the final one (Tool) it is very noticeable. I used Tool because that's supposed to be a modern great hifi mastering and Maiden is from the 80ies.
Lots of thanks!
I'm hoping this is simply a matter of the recordings being this way and I can just hear it more easily now. So I'm thinking maybe some of you can help with a second pair of ears with your headphone setup and see if you hear it as well?
Here are some tracks and timestamps. The links are to Tidal by the way (I have tried other services, like Spotify and it's the same there):
* Iron Maiden - Still Life: Listen at 3:30 and forward (during the solo)
* Night - Under the Moonlight Sky: Listen 0:00 -- 0:15 (the intro)
* Tool - Invicible: Listen between 7:20 - 7:40
You may need to increase volume a bit. The noise in the Maiden song is more subtle than the next one, and the final one (Tool) it is very noticeable. I used Tool because that's supposed to be a modern great hifi mastering and Maiden is from the 80ies.
Lots of thanks!