I never knew that very well said by a musician and engineer I respect very much and when you think about it he is right I've heard all these songs million times but every time I upgrade my system I hear new things in the song that were always there but it's my equipment that's letting me here at. Also I'm an audio enthusiast not a audio file I don't have enough money to consider myself an audio file nor am I willing to spend more than a $1000 on any individual peace equipment.
I needed to actually built my entire repro system myself, because no HiFi speaker can give me the impact of a 50ltr standart 12/2 PA enclosure to start with....isually 80hz up to 15khz but you can feel the bass even played at usually room listening volumes.... Now I have a fully custom system which can repro 30hz up to 18khz flat with max 126dB SPL.. Enough headroom for everything...you feel the low end even as a volume setting which allows normal conversations... That's my form of high-end... And I listen mostly to drum&bass/funk/techno/classic EM (tangerine dream, Kraftwerk) and I built it to follow my needs... It's not for classical Musik.. No sir...but Eric Johnson - Manhatten does the trick ;) don't let someone telling you what you need... Chose your stuff according to your Music taste....only....you have to live with it, no one else...
I got an email from tidal like a week ago saying my hifi plus subscription price is dropping. I am paying 27 a month CAD is going down to 13.99. Not often prices ever go down on anything 👍
M O R E of this please. I pray for a ‘Darko selects electronic’ show. Friday night, a glass of wine, taking an hour to watch a 9 min video alongside a juicy soundsystem. Yes please! This is a perfect detox to a brutal week.
Im not going to disagree, but at the studio level, and especially with recordings created in the last 30+ years, you're going to have a level of excellence that is fairly even. After that has been achieved, the quality of your delivery is what its all about (considering you have the quality of audio equipment able to reproduce said delivery)
Sure, gear info is often interesting, but I'm almost never in the market for new gear. The biggest reason I watch all your videos is specifically to broaden my playlists and to learn about music that is outside of my awareness. Thanks for that and please keep it up!
As a huge Prince fan, who purchased the Old Friends For Sale on release day back in 99, it’s nice to see 5 Women getting some recognition in the audiophile world. I’d also recommend When The Lights Go Down from the same album.
John, I just read and viewed the post on your website, "Hi-fi show music is still a broken record - and, therefore, so am I". I felt the need to let you know how much I enjoy (and agree with) the subject matter and...how much I enjoy the professionalism of your website look and feel. The quality of your videos is also excellent quality and very enjoyable to me. You've really increased my enjoyment of this hobby for me and have helped to enlarge the types of music that I now enjoy. Kudos and thank you. 🎵
You mentioned Atom TM sometime ago. Most of your suggestions are not my cuppa genre-wise but that one's audiophile gold for me. I'mma check the rest of these!
When I read the news about Tidal a week ago, I thought about your earlier comments about its Hi-fi plus plan. Well, they apparently listened to you, John!
Tidal finally did what I needed them to do in order to add them to my lineup. Now just add a playback information REST API like Spotify has so I can pull the playhead position, BPM/Temp, Album art, etc of the current track through an API, and I'll be 100% sold.
At the Bristol HiFi show last year, Spendor were blasting out Shamanic Tales by Astrix to demo their A4 speakers. It was the first time I’d heard it, and it went straight onto my “showcase” playlist despite it being rather long. The soundstage is incredible.
I mostly follow your channel for excellent music tips. Stuff I’ve not heard in years or long-forgotten stuff that slipped past my radar. I used to be into audiophile gear but I’m past that now. Apple Music and Momentum 4 headphones are a humble setup that do me fine. Music > Sound.
So good to see electronic music represented in the audiophile sphere... the stuff coming out these days is on the next level of production and sonic soundscapes... yummy.
Honestly, CD quality is pretty much all you'll ever need. They've been trying to push hi res formats for ages in the hope you'll replace your entire library yet again like folks did when CD hit the market. In reality, CD is good enough for most folks..mixing and mastering has waaay more affect on sound quality.
Thats mostly true.. with one caveat.. 48kHz tracks play better with the vast majority of current devices and software.. cellphones.. TVs.. tablets.. consoles.. laptops etc.. some can play 44.1 bit perfect but the vast majority is designed for 48kHz integers.
This was a great video despite me being a strictly Spotify subscriber. The breadth of my listening is so massive and I appreciate someone curating some tracks specifically for system tests. It narrows things down to something finite yet nicely varied. I look forward to running these tracks through my setup. Thanks Darko👌
Thank you for a wonderful and very eclectic playlist. That Perro del Mar song right after Rammstein is such a great combo...can't imagine them at an audio show 😅(it would be great though). You should do more videos like these, showing us what you are looking for in different tracks.
John, have had Qobuz since day one. (3 years now). Cd and hi-rez at my fingertips. Havent tried any other, at this point i don't feel the need. Of course circumstances can change. Love your reviews here in the states. (Michigan)
I’m finding your channel very helpful as I re-invest in my love of music. I was wondering if you’ve ever considered creating or recommending playlists?
My ultimate demo track (but also far too long) is the 28 minute version of "The Box" by Orbital, it's basically 4 songs in one. Has good dynamic range, electronic sounds, piano, harpsichord, great stereo image, actual bass plus male and female vocals. The CD single has them split but they released it as a single track on a second disc of early pressings of In Sides.
Marquee Moon is one of my top 10 all-time favorite somgs. Tidal does have the album in MAX . A lot has changed since MQA was deprecated. But in my opinion to my ears, some of the MQA recordings were better than the FLAC replacements offered up now.
Just came to say this is a great playlist (popped the fleetwood mac song onto the end hinted at, why not). A great mix of raw band feel, electronic precision, wall of sound and top notch polished production. A song in there for everyone I think and as a result there will be a song in there that everyone will not like as much.
For such a nice guy who always very clearly explains the scope of his videos, you do attract a lot of weirdos and fanatics who only hear what they want to hear and comment on what they think they've heard. Or who just make random statements. Thanks for sticking to it and largely ignoring the nutters John!
I like your taste in music, not that it's all up my street, I appreciate the diversity. I listen to a lot of Bluegrass, new and old, but no one in the audio system CZcams world ever gives an indication of how new speakers, amps, streamers, dacs, and the like deal with the high lonesome sound of Bluegrass. Come on, John 😉
Atom(tm) for the win! Love that album! And his production and sound quality within the realm of electronic music is immaculate. Try that album out, y'all.
Just cleaned and played a used vinyl record of Tears for Fears/The seeds of love. Real bass, drums and guitar on an 80's production! And amazing sonics.
Thank you John !! I really enjoy your content, wit and taste in music. I have used shazam to identify funky music you play as an interlude, many times, this is a bonus! ... as for the haters, they are all a tad tiresome. Ta' mate.
I have a feeling that whole video idea was to achieve ppl stop watching only parts they interested in, using time codes and watch whole video 😂. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I like to find mix between music I listen regularly and those HIFI demo showroom songs, when testing a device. As I believe many newer audience, is searching a way to listen to their favorite songs, on bigger fidelity and exploring backrooms of their songs that they did not even know that they exist full of new details. One of the song which I like to test HIFI is Steven Wilson - Luminol. Steven is well know in production world as a savant, when it comes to mastering and producing. This song have many production and musicianship qualities to test sound. You can test by seeing how unit separate layers, how the soundstage opens, texture in details, the attack and definition of bass. But also as it is a longer progressive track, it has it`s share of also mellow parts with just vocals to test imaging and clarity. David Sylvian - I Surrender is so impeccable produced that it is a good track to test gear no matter the source and is also there to test smooth warm sound. Radiohead - National Anthem for bass and sub bass etc. I am jumping of joy when I discover music that I enjoy and is superbly produced, because that dynamic range of song is all about HIFI. Great video as always.
You should put " Hugh Maselka - Stimela or Lady from the Hope Livealbum in your playliste.. it is an phenomenal Album with some African rythims. It is so engaging and if you d ont tap with your feed the system is to steril ( based on my own experience)✌️😉
At this point Spotify is in a dilemma to launch Hi-Res audio. They just have to include it in the premium plan without a price bump or just don't launch it at all.
I guess you don't want people to post their pet lists, but...... my hi-fi go-to has always been 'Slave To The Rhythm', which to me is the ultimate blend of good music and good production.
My top six demo tracks Strength Of Character - China Crisis (Original CD Master) Papa Don't Preach - Madonna (Original Vinyl) Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire - Joni Mitchell (Original Vinyl) Mustapha - Queen (Original Vinyl) I.G.Y (International Geophysical Year) - Donald Fagan (Original CD Master) It's Grim Up North - The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu (Original 12" Vinyl) - just for a laugh to see if your system can cope with it! Note: No remasters in this one - all originals - for example the Joni Mitchell track - all digital versions just don't have the incredible wide soundstage as the original vinyl
Probably not applicable to most who tune into this channel but the loss of DJ integrations in the new pricing or rather the increase in price if you want it is a huge negative for me.
Gotta say John, I've found some fantastic songs and artists following your demos. Keep up with the left of field recommendations. Tidal Australia doesn't seem to feel the love for the Ramstein track :( cant find it.
I've created a playlist and added those tracks on Apple Music. Prince one is on there at 16/44. (I'm a physical media - vintage audio gear person). John? Have you heard of a duo called Parallox who are from Oz? They're really good. They do their own music and cover's. Including the whole first two Human League albums. Being a synth nut (Dance is actually my fave genre), it's great to hear albums from my teens get a reinterpretation. I hope you will like them too? Travelogue especially is an inspired reimagining. Stay safe.
oh yeah, just re-discovered AtomTM recently and my top one is Riding the Void. That sharp bass grips my guts on R3's with Hegel. Btw is that the new H190v? Is that so much of the difference against original H190 and mostly...how is the phono MM input?😊
Is a, for example, a 192 hi rez, just an up sampling of lower rez, or is it created from the master digital or otherwise material or digital master ? On all platforms we don’t have this info. Is it less or more than upsampling on a user DAC ?
Great news for Tidal users. Too bad that Logitech just turned off their connection to Tidal, thus forcing us Squeezebox ecosystem users to switch to Qobuz, which still integrates properly.
As Alan Parsons said, "Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music, they use your music to listen to their equipment."
I never knew that very well said by a musician and engineer I respect very much and when you think about it he is right I've heard all these songs million times but every time I upgrade my system I hear new things in the song that were always there but it's my equipment that's letting me here at. Also I'm an audio enthusiast not a audio file I don't have enough money to consider myself an audio file nor am I willing to spend more than a $1000 on any individual peace equipment.
He didn’t actually say that.
@@realleescoggins I stand corrected. An anonymous Slashdot commenter said it. It is, however an accurate statement in my opinion and experience.
I needed to actually built my entire repro system myself, because no HiFi speaker can give me the impact of a 50ltr standart 12/2 PA enclosure to start with....isually 80hz up to 15khz but you can feel the bass even played at usually room listening volumes.... Now I have a fully custom system which can repro 30hz up to 18khz flat with max 126dB SPL.. Enough headroom for everything...you feel the low end even as a volume setting which allows normal conversations... That's my form of high-end... And I listen mostly to drum&bass/funk/techno/classic EM (tangerine dream, Kraftwerk) and I built it to follow my needs... It's not for classical Musik.. No sir...but Eric Johnson - Manhatten does the trick ;) don't let someone telling you what you need... Chose your stuff according to your Music taste....only....you have to live with it, no one else...
@@realleescogginsright? I think that was Abraham Lincoln.
I got an email from tidal like a week ago saying my hifi plus subscription price is dropping. I am paying 27 a month CAD is going down to 13.99. Not often prices ever go down on anything 👍
M O R E of this please. I pray for a ‘Darko selects electronic’ show. Friday night, a glass of wine, taking an hour to watch a 9 min video alongside a juicy soundsystem. Yes please! This is a perfect detox to a brutal week.
It's all about the quality of the original recording master....
Im not going to disagree, but at the studio level, and especially with recordings created in the last 30+ years, you're going to have a level of excellence that is fairly even.
After that has been achieved, the quality of your delivery is what its all about (considering you have the quality of audio equipment able to reproduce said delivery)
One nite alone. Solo piano and voice by Prince.
The cover has piano keys and a nest with blue eggs.
Beautiful album.
Sure, gear info is often interesting, but I'm almost never in the market for new gear. The biggest reason I watch all your videos is specifically to broaden my playlists and to learn about music that is outside of my awareness. Thanks for that and please keep it up!
The “Hmmm” at the end of just about all the bloopers take were hilarious!!😂
Nothing beats almost every Yello track for hi-fi demos.
Darko, I rarely comment, but your are my smooth relaxing time listeting or viewing your audio. Thank you.
It's wonderful to be able to follow you on Tidal too, I appreciate what you do, thank you.😊👋❤️
Darko's 6 tracks is a baker's half dozen. Always good value with you John, many thanks for the music. My life improves...
As a huge Prince fan, who purchased the Old Friends For Sale on release day back in 99, it’s nice to see 5 Women getting some recognition in the audiophile world.
I’d also recommend When The Lights Go Down from the same album.
!00% Slept-on album. Yes, it was a contractual obligation album, but when you're Prince, even your throw-aways are gonna be pretty spectacular.
John, I just read and viewed the post on your website, "Hi-fi show music is still a broken record - and, therefore, so am I". I felt the need to let you know how much I enjoy (and agree with) the subject matter and...how much I enjoy the professionalism of your website look and feel. The quality of your videos is also excellent quality and very enjoyable to me. You've really increased my enjoyment of this hobby for me and have helped to enlarge the types of music that I now enjoy. Kudos and thank you. 🎵
You mentioned Atom TM sometime ago. Most of your suggestions are not my cuppa genre-wise but that one's audiophile gold for me. I'mma check the rest of these!
Hey Netflix, Disney, HBO, are you taking notes? A price drop is possible.
So pleased you mentioned Prince .... The whole album is brilliant ....
Still love that you love Autechre. Draft 7.30 is a record I use to test gear changes. Cheers!
When I read the news about Tidal a week ago, I thought about your earlier comments about its Hi-fi plus plan. Well, they apparently listened to you, John!
Tidal finally did what I needed them to do in order to add them to my lineup.
Now just add a playback information REST API like Spotify has so I can pull the playhead position, BPM/Temp, Album art, etc of the current track through an API, and I'll be 100% sold.
I now have a Darko Hi-Fi DEMO tracks playlist in Roon! Thanks! I've been into Qobuz but giving Tidal another try with the price cut.
At the Bristol HiFi show last year, Spendor were blasting out Shamanic Tales by Astrix to demo their A4 speakers. It was the first time I’d heard it, and it went straight onto my “showcase” playlist despite it being rather long. The soundstage is incredible.
Holy moly AtomTM HD is an absolute audiophile journey over DLNA using Mojo and Poly and SE846.
You’re going to be in trouble if Dianna Krall releases an IDM album.
The Smile -"Speach Bubbles" sounds wonderful.
I mostly follow your channel for excellent music tips. Stuff I’ve not heard in years or long-forgotten stuff that slipped past my radar. I used to be into audiophile gear but I’m past that now. Apple Music and Momentum 4 headphones are a humble setup that do me fine. Music > Sound.
I always see music that I listen to on your videos and it makes your content that much better.
Companies usually don't tend to give out "gifts", maybe Spotify CD quality will actually release this year and their trying to stay ahead.
You should make an official Darko Audio Spotify playlist if you don't have something like that out there.
You're going to make me watch it again to write down the songs, aren't you? 😆 😑
So good to see electronic music represented in the audiophile sphere... the stuff coming out these days is on the next level of production and sonic soundscapes... yummy.
Honestly, CD quality is pretty much all you'll ever need. They've been trying to push hi res formats for ages in the hope you'll replace your entire library yet again like folks did when CD hit the market. In reality, CD is good enough for most folks..mixing and mastering has waaay more affect on sound quality.
Thats mostly true.. with one caveat..
48kHz tracks play better with the vast majority of current devices and software.. cellphones.. TVs.. tablets.. consoles.. laptops etc.. some can play 44.1 bit perfect but the vast majority is designed for 48kHz integers.
It's nice that some hifi content creators have realised this and are spreading the word. ❤
The " HD " track is awesome.
THANKS JOHN, LOOKING FORWARD TO TRYING YOUR SUGGESTIONS 🤗😎💚💚💚
This is great news. Thank you! I can now enjoy tidal natively on my WiiM pro plus at that price
Killer playlist... thanks so much for this! Yup... amazing sound to show how good 44.1/16 streaming can be. I've been a very happy Tidalee for years.
This was a great video despite me being a strictly Spotify subscriber. The breadth of my listening is so massive and I appreciate someone curating some tracks specifically for system tests. It narrows things down to something finite yet nicely varied. I look forward to running these tracks through my setup. Thanks Darko👌
One track I often recommend is the opening track “Shona Bridge” from Michael Brook’s fantastic album Cobalt Blue.
Thank you for a wonderful and very eclectic playlist. That Perro del Mar song right after Rammstein is such a great combo...can't imagine them at an audio show 😅(it would be great though). You should do more videos like these, showing us what you are looking for in different tracks.
John, have had Qobuz since day one. (3 years now). Cd and hi-rez at my fingertips. Havent tried any other, at this point i don't feel the need. Of course circumstances can change. Love your reviews here in the states. (Michigan)
I’m always a big fan of El Guincho’s “Pop Negro” album this time of year. Just never gets old.
I do believe When Lights go Down from the same album from Prince is as good song as any to test things and that’s my humble opinion 🙂
I appreciate John very much, unbeknownst to me, so far, personally
I can never tire of listening to Babylon Sisters - dont mess with Chuck and Bernard! Great channel
I’m finding your channel very helpful as I re-invest in my love of music. I was wondering if you’ve ever considered creating or recommending playlists?
My ultimate demo track (but also far too long) is the 28 minute version of "The Box" by Orbital, it's basically 4 songs in one. Has good dynamic range, electronic sounds, piano, harpsichord, great stereo image, actual bass plus male and female vocals. The CD single has them split but they released it as a single track on a second disc of early pressings of In Sides.
Thanks for a great selection of music, nice change to see some of my favourites suggested as test tracks. Happy Tidal user here come 10 April.
Visited Steely Dan Gaucho and loved it on my humble system. Thanks👍
Marquee Moon is one of my top 10 all-time favorite somgs. Tidal does have the album in MAX .
A lot has changed since MQA was deprecated. But in my opinion to my ears, some of the MQA recordings were better than the FLAC replacements offered up now.
Love the Ghostly Int. tee!
Just came to say this is a great playlist (popped the fleetwood mac song onto the end hinted at, why not). A great mix of raw band feel, electronic precision, wall of sound and top notch polished production.
A song in there for everyone I think and as a result there will be a song in there that everyone will not like as much.
Thx for the nice tracks! Sharing music is one of the great joys in life. Try Why Why Why Why Why from Sault, it keeps moving me
Tnx so much for these pearls 😊🙏 Really nice recordings and great music
For such a nice guy who always very clearly explains the scope of his videos, you do attract a lot of weirdos and fanatics who only hear what they want to hear and comment on what they think they've heard. Or who just make random statements. Thanks for sticking to it and largely ignoring the nutters John!
Interesting songs. Especially AtomTM. The Prince is way too bright to be considered any kind of reference.
morph the cat, Donald Hagen - baby face, lou reed - Saturday Night, Cold Chisel - limbo, Yello - you and your sister, this mortal coil ✅ 🎧
I like your taste in music, not that it's all up my street, I appreciate the diversity.
I listen to a lot of Bluegrass, new and old, but no one in the audio system CZcams world ever gives an indication of how new speakers, amps, streamers, dacs, and the like deal with the high lonesome sound of Bluegrass. Come on, John 😉
my fav track of princes "the vault" is "when the lights go down" they wig out it has a real freedom to it.
Maybe it's my hearing, my brain ....or maybe just a matter of taste...but Qobuz to me just sounds superiour by a smitch.
Qobuz is better!
Atom(tm) for the win! Love that album! And his production and sound quality within the realm of electronic music is immaculate. Try that album out, y'all.
Just cleaned and played a used vinyl record of Tears for Fears/The seeds of love. Real bass, drums and guitar on an 80's production! And amazing sonics.
Thank you John !! I really enjoy your content, wit and taste in music. I have used shazam to identify funky music you play as an interlude, many times, this is a bonus! ... as for the haters, they are all a tad tiresome. Ta' mate.
I have a feeling that whole video idea was to achieve ppl stop watching only parts they interested in, using time codes and watch whole video 😂. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
It's a short video. Short enough not to time code.
Thanks for the great suggestions
Great info and playlist. Anxious to get your take on the CSN100. I know Randy loved and would like to get opinion. Thx.
You are amazing reviewer and person love your channel you bring us so much information that we need❤❤❤❤
I like to find mix between music I listen regularly and those HIFI demo showroom songs, when testing a device. As I believe many newer audience, is searching a way to listen to their favorite songs, on bigger fidelity and exploring backrooms of their songs that they did not even know that they exist full of new details. One of the song which I like to test HIFI is Steven Wilson - Luminol. Steven is well know in production world as a savant, when it comes to mastering and producing. This song have many production and musicianship qualities to test sound. You can test by seeing how unit separate layers, how the soundstage opens, texture in details, the attack and definition of bass. But also as it is a longer progressive track, it has it`s share of also mellow parts with just vocals to test imaging and clarity. David Sylvian - I Surrender is so impeccable produced that it is a good track to test gear no matter the source and is also there to test smooth warm sound. Radiohead - National Anthem for bass and sub bass etc. I am jumping of joy when I discover music that I enjoy and is superbly produced, because that dynamic range of song is all about HIFI. Great video as always.
i haven't watched this video yet (on my list) and it's too late now @ 1am... but check out Biosphere track 'field' from the album insomnia...magic!!
I spotted the Aphex Twin mug. High 5.
Unspoken by Pacific! (which incidentally features El Perro Del Mar) is a delicious track for testing bass, or the lack thereof. 😋
Try Joe Cocker’s version of 5 Women, also good production but not as compressed as the Prince version.
Just listened to Friction with some headphones on, what a great track!!
You should put " Hugh Maselka - Stimela or Lady from the Hope Livealbum in your playliste.. it is an phenomenal Album with some African rythims. It is so engaging and if you d ont tap with your feed the system is to steril ( based on my own experience)✌️😉
Great album ! Grazing in the Grass also a killer track
Stimela is stunning - musically and recording.
Unfortunately for some, Tidal cancelled its military and first-responder 40% discount. 😟
At this point Spotify is in a dilemma to launch Hi-Res audio. They just have to include it in the premium plan without a price bump or just don't launch it at all.
Where can I find the Hi-Res section? I don’t see it
Rammstein "Heirate Mich" ...... a difficult pill to swallow....hahhaha to put it mildley.
It's a great day to love music ❤
I use Rammstein’s song Herzeleid from the same album (Herzeleid that is) as Heirate Mich, that one gives more “info” on how system sounds
I guess you don't want people to post their pet lists, but...... my hi-fi go-to has always been 'Slave To The Rhythm', which to me is the ultimate blend of good music and good production.
By who? I’ve got 4 results…
The Nightclubbing album is incredible, especially I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
I'd also like to know which version you're referring to. I got like 30 results on Apple music.
Ever try Audirvana? Roon is great with the polish and extras but if it is sound quality Audirvana is the winner. JMHO
What I don’t get: Why not just use Qobuz? Hi-Res mostly, and sounds better as Tidal and any streaming platform (compared at the same Bitrate)…
I tried both and found Qobuz to be better,too
He liked TIDAL Connect, among other things. I use Qobuz/Roon and enjoy saving money over TIDAL.
My top six demo tracks
Strength Of Character - China Crisis (Original CD Master)
Papa Don't Preach - Madonna (Original Vinyl)
Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire - Joni Mitchell (Original Vinyl)
Mustapha - Queen (Original Vinyl)
I.G.Y (International Geophysical Year) - Donald Fagan (Original CD Master)
It's Grim Up North - The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu (Original 12" Vinyl) - just for a laugh to see if your system can cope with it!
Note: No remasters in this one - all originals - for example the Joni Mitchell track - all digital versions just don't have the incredible wide soundstage as the original vinyl
Your music taste is what brought me to your channel in the first place. Thank you!
Probably not applicable to most who tune into this channel but the loss of DJ integrations in the new pricing or rather the increase in price if you want it is a huge negative for me.
I love hifi show music but too much already. Love it.
What about the new 1985 Waterboys album This is the Sea on vinyl?
Gotta say John, I've found some fantastic songs and artists following your demos. Keep up with the left of field recommendations. Tidal Australia doesn't seem to feel the love for the Ramstein track :( cant find it.
The Tidal execs must have watched your previous video on pricing John! 😉
Anything by Monolake works wonders for me when I'm testing speakers/headphones etc.
Thanks for the tip.
Saw Rammstein live. Loud is an understatement. Nice though…
I've created a playlist and added those tracks on Apple Music. Prince one is on there at 16/44. (I'm a physical media - vintage audio gear person).
John? Have you heard of a duo called Parallox who are from Oz? They're really good. They do their own music and cover's. Including the whole first two Human League albums. Being a synth nut (Dance is actually my fave genre), it's great to hear albums from my teens get a reinterpretation. I hope you will like them too? Travelogue especially is an inspired reimagining.
Stay safe.
I Love U (Like I Love My Drum Machine)
oh yeah, just re-discovered AtomTM recently and my top one is Riding the Void. That sharp bass grips my guts on R3's with Hegel. Btw is that the new H190v? Is that so much of the difference against original H190 and mostly...how is the phono MM input?😊
Is a, for example, a 192 hi rez, just an up sampling of lower rez, or is it created from the master digital or otherwise material or digital master ? On all platforms we don’t have this info. Is it less or more than upsampling on a user DAC ?
I was getting a veterans discount and only paying 5
99 a month. They are getting rid of the discount with this new change
Damn, I was about to get that, too
Loving the ghostly swim shirt 😎🤙
I wonder if their price cut is in response to Spotify releasing 'hi res' imminently.....?!?
BT Firewater. Superb. Or anything from ESCM.
I love that Tidal is giving better quality for the same price. Pretty unheard of these days.
Literally every other service did that except Tidal. Apple Music did that. Amazon did that. Only Spotify doesn’t know how to do HiFi.
Unheard of? Apple and Amazon did that years ago.
I’m still waiting for Spotify to sort themselves out. Hopefully they will not increase their price now
Great news for Tidal users. Too bad that Logitech just turned off their connection to Tidal, thus forcing us Squeezebox ecosystem users to switch to Qobuz, which still integrates properly.