Please recommend high quality IPod Headphones
01 February 2009, 05:19 PM
#31
Also known as daz
It was to give an idea not so much on sq but more the richness of the sound, cd to me sounds lifeless by comparison.
You sure you clicked on the hd version sounds fantastic here granted it's running optical from pc to av amp and speakers.
Sacd is good but again vinyl contains more within the music but it's a step closer granted, and your right about poor mastering on compact discs it's really starting to limit what i enjoy as ive become that fussy, but that's the great thing about the likes of 7 digital least i can demo it before buying.
Course the industry doesn't give a monkeys it's all money to them sod the quality, people are slowly coming around buying the likes of shure and realising the pitfalls of mp3 compression, if you look around recent albums are available on vinyl granted it might be a limited run but they're still being produced.
Ala here for example
Rockferry [VINYL]: Duffy: Amazon.co.uk: Music
Anyway must scoot gym awaits me.
You sure you clicked on the hd version sounds fantastic here granted it's running optical from pc to av amp and speakers.
Sacd is good but again vinyl contains more within the music but it's a step closer granted, and your right about poor mastering on compact discs it's really starting to limit what i enjoy as ive become that fussy, but that's the great thing about the likes of 7 digital least i can demo it before buying.
Course the industry doesn't give a monkeys it's all money to them sod the quality, people are slowly coming around buying the likes of shure and realising the pitfalls of mp3 compression, if you look around recent albums are available on vinyl granted it might be a limited run but they're still being produced.
Ala here for example
Rockferry [VINYL]: Duffy: Amazon.co.uk: Music
Anyway must scoot gym awaits me.
01 February 2009, 05:36 PM
#32
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It was to give an idea not so much on sq but more the richness of the sound, cd to me sounds lifeless by comparison.
You sure you clicked on the hd version sounds fantastic here granted it's running optical from pc to av amp and speakers.
Sacd is good but again vinyl contains more within the music but it's a step closer granted, and your right about poor mastering on compact discs it's really starting to limit what i enjoy as ive become that fussy, but that's the great thing about the likes of 7 digital least i can demo it before buying.
Course the industry doesn't give a monkeys it's all money to them sod the quality, people are slowly coming around buying the likes of shure and realising the pitfalls of mp3 compression, if you look around recent albums are available on vinyl granted it might be a limited run but they're still being produced.
Ala here for example
Rockferry [VINYL]: Duffy: Amazon.co.uk: Music
Anyway must scoot gym awaits me.
You sure you clicked on the hd version sounds fantastic here granted it's running optical from pc to av amp and speakers.
Sacd is good but again vinyl contains more within the music but it's a step closer granted, and your right about poor mastering on compact discs it's really starting to limit what i enjoy as ive become that fussy, but that's the great thing about the likes of 7 digital least i can demo it before buying.
Course the industry doesn't give a monkeys it's all money to them sod the quality, people are slowly coming around buying the likes of shure and realising the pitfalls of mp3 compression, if you look around recent albums are available on vinyl granted it might be a limited run but they're still being produced.
Ala here for example
Rockferry [VINYL]: Duffy: Amazon.co.uk: Music
Anyway must scoot gym awaits me.
I demo'd most of these products separately and unfortunately when i brought it all together and listened to my flavour of choice Trance Music i found it to be one of the biggest disappointments ever!
Luckily I have grown out of dance music and would listen to alot to the likes of Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and UB40 etc etc and my system sounds better than anything i've ever heard.
The only tweek i have made over the years of having the system is I now use a custom made copper based speaker cable which has toned down the treble and gave alot more clout to the system, it even sounds great with good quality dance music
01 February 2009, 08:38 PM
#33
Also known as daz
Monitor audio speakers are simply 
I think the bookshelfs i demoed were the gold ones, gold dust cap in the midbass anyway they were simply stunning, as you say play anything vocal and the come to life so smooth and refined but play rock or dance they'll hate you for it, but that's the nature of the beast afterall.
My current super 5 pro's are fantastic with dance music just the right level of everything it's jazz or orchestral or vocal for that matter that leaves me tearing my hair out.
Hence the sleek customs, light airy no sibilance and a midrange to die for with a bit of bass kick but nothing boomy, iem's for real music lovers, oddly it was my current hifi setup that made me by then, showed me what i was missing out on.
And close to matching the ue 11's at a 3rd of the cost.
The yanks on headfi currently have me interested in diane krall i think, great voice on that lass.
Oddly my av setup sounded far better than a cyrus rigged up to a pair of £600 b&w floorstanders meh go figure lol.
I think the bookshelfs i demoed were the gold ones, gold dust cap in the midbass anyway they were simply stunning, as you say play anything vocal and the come to life so smooth and refined but play rock or dance they'll hate you for it, but that's the nature of the beast afterall.
My current super 5 pro's are fantastic with dance music just the right level of everything it's jazz or orchestral or vocal for that matter that leaves me tearing my hair out.
Hence the sleek customs, light airy no sibilance and a midrange to die for with a bit of bass kick but nothing boomy, iem's for real music lovers, oddly it was my current hifi setup that made me by then, showed me what i was missing out on.
And close to matching the ue 11's at a 3rd of the cost.
The yanks on headfi currently have me interested in diane krall i think, great voice on that lass.
Oddly my av setup sounded far better than a cyrus rigged up to a pair of £600 b&w floorstanders meh go figure lol.
01 February 2009, 08:58 PM
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Glad they're still well regarded - my Studio 20SE's are getting on a bit now
I'll have a listen to the YouTube clip through the hi-fi later on, though all it can do really is prove how badly mastered music destined for a CD release tends to be. (It's still been digitised and compressed before I get to hear it, after all!)
I'll have a listen to the YouTube clip through the hi-fi later on, though all it can do really is prove how badly mastered music destined for a CD release tends to be. (It's still been digitised and compressed before I get to hear it, after all!)
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