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Generally, I tend to like music created by drummers.

Excellent, thanks. A sprinkle of Hooverphonic in there and great drums.

@AdvanTech Yes, I tried on speakers, too, but the best I have is a Dynaudio Music 5 smart speaker. Great sound, yes, but in terms of microdetail/plankton my headphone rig is far ahead. Tonality is sometimes nicer on the Dynaudio, but still, piano …

@RKML0007 Yes, that’s the thing: I play the piano myself, I know exactly what it should sound like. I did play the trumpet for a while, too, so there’s that. But then, I play acoustic guitar as well, and I love many recordings of that instrument. Same for drums, though good recordings are not so plenty there, and it requires really good and detailed equipment.

I guess you’re right, @Cellist88 . All those overtones are hard to capture. I wonder what a piano tuned for just intonation would sound like, at least in the key where that works, then. :)

They are amazing! The best drummer i have ever heard live plays for them, Larnell Lewis. You can check some videos with him on youtube, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd1X5JWaGgQ

Edit - Hope i can catch them again.

My favorite group of the last 7 or 8 years. Also check out We Like It Here, Sylva and Empire Central. Lingus has 32M views on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XJ_s5IsQc

Larnell Lewis is a beast savant.

Check out "We Like it Here"...another standout. Good stuff!!

It’s here! First impressions: Great value for the money, great resolution, nice tonality. If I keep liking it like I do right now, this will be “my closed-back” for quite a while.

Unfortunately, I do hear a small difference between the stock cable of my Clear Mg and the Forza cable @Emojiless sold with the Mini C. Which means I’ll have to buy a longer Forza cable sooner or later. Sigh.

Yeah, I also heard a difference on the Clear OG. Glad you like it!

One example of a song that had nearly painful treble before and doesn’t anymore: Funky Butt Strut by Wonderbrazz.

Which streamer are you comparing it to? (If any)

It had been simple USB from a Pi 4 before.

It’s here! \o/ First short tests suggest that it indeed sounds a lot better than Pi USB and is also considerably better than CCAudio optical. Yay! :) Unfortunately, I have to work a bit now before I can really start testing.

Where abouts are you located? I haven't read of a DHL strike, but I fully support them (except when it holds up your or my package, then I'm against it).

EDIT: sorry, you're German! I thought I knew that lol, with your pf post on the fret wanker. One of my all time faves.

This phenomenon can work both ways, depending on the differences between the two.

I think it has to do with the fact that one often can’t tell if something is “supposed” to sound some way on a recording, and you don’t realize that something’s missing until you hear it on better gear. Once you hear the latter, the former’s flaws become obvious.

Headphone is a game of two halves.

It’s a revisit of old hits, recorded “live” in a studio on analog equipment. The sound is absolutely addictive.

Not a musical term, but I'm a fan of the insulting "sitzpisser". Means what you think it means, a man who sits when he pisses. "Warmduscher", which is incidentally a London-based band, is also a fun insult, it lit means "warm showerer" but is used derisively to refer to what we would call a "wimp"

Another word we don't have that the Germans do that is more useful is "Fremdschämen" which lit means "strange shame [to be]" or the kind of embarrassment you feel when someone else makes an ass of themselves right in front of you, kinda the opposite of the popular Schadenfreude.

My friends can tell that I mean the same thing when I call a pianist "a technician." Plenty of those around, especially on the competition circuit.

Not a big difference, but a bit less digitus, rounder, more air and plankton.
Unusable for > 48 kHz, though, audible clicks that are not there in the original.
I wonder how an actually good source like a Pi2AES might sound.

And no noise when switching frequencies. \o/

Invaluable information, but even more important: Great people, much less internet-style madness than elsewhere, though we had our share, too, of course.
Great place to be.

Over the past year? I thought you'd /always/ been here!

:D

Hehe, actually, I thought the same. It’s one of the very few recordings I remember from my teens where listening again with good hardware wasn’t like “Wow, I never heard all this then!”, but more like “Hm, I did’nt remember it sounded so bad …”
The remastered version from 2015 is actually quite a bit better (though not a revelation at all, too), and it contains the songs missing from the original soundtrack.

I'm gonna have to find that one. Just recently listened to the soundtrack from Phantom of the Paradise. Another horror/comedy that came out in the mid 70s when I was a kid and is kind of a cult classic around here. And yeah, I still remembered the lyrics :-)

I love Rocky Horror! Used to go to the midnight shows when I was in high school.

I really like the DunedIn Consort! I just placed an order for a few SACDs from them, including Bach's Magnificat. I also picked up their recording of Handel's Messiah as it's pretty cool hearing it with such a stripped back ensemble. Will contrast nicely with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir version I also picked up. :)

Yes, I’ve heard a few others of their recordings, and I liked them all.

Might be a matter of synergy, too.

Or preferences. That's just as important as synergy

True. Detail matters a lot to me, combined with punch and energy and musicality. The Clear Mg is very good at that combination, IMHO.

When I’m down, it calms me down, which isn’t that bad, too.

I appreciate this comparison. I sometimes fall down this rabbit hole and want to compare all the versions of The Cure tracks.

I’ve done a similar comparison with Pixies CDs I bought in the 90s vs Apple Music streams. Even though the streams are lossless, they are remastered and don’t have the same feel as the original. I definitely prefer the 90s discs

It depends. I think that the Michael Jackson remasters of Bad and Thriller are quite good, e. g.. They are louder, yes, but they don’t really lose anything (the originals didn’t have more dynamic contrast, anyway) and add some detail and separation.
OTOH, that’s 80s, not 90s, and from a time when digital production wasn’t common yet.

I only wish I had a longer cable.

The amp’s probably not suitable for sensitive IEMs, though. Volume is controlled via discrete resistors at 32 levels + high/low gain, and the lowest level is probably too loud already. My preferred listening level with the Timeless is below 9 o’clock.