Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
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Wadia171i
I use Tidal Hifi and Audirvana and play records. Shop half price books and used record stores some of my best records cost 99 cents. Just the other day found and original pressing On prestige label Coltrane Bajia sound fabulous 10 bucks they had no idea what it was worth. . Tired of using stored music only have about10 thousand songs getting old listening to the same old thing.
There's plenty of new and old music available to download in FLAC. No need to be stuck listening to the same stuff over and over again.
Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
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sludgeogre
You should check out his remix of Tears for Fears that is on HD Tracks. He really opens up the detail and dynamics in that old album. Really enjoyed it. It also comes with the original mix so you can hear the differences. I ended up just deleting the original album and keeping his versions. I hope that he gets to do some more remixing/mastering soon. ....
He's done quite a few remix/master projects. I've really been enjoying some of his King Crimson, Yes, and Gentle Giant surround mixes.
Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
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Jhnsmj
He's done quite a few remix/master projects. I've really been enjoying some of his King Crimson, Yes, and Gentle Giant surround mixes.
Where can you get those King Crimson remixes? He did those years ago for a CD release, but I can't find a digital release anywhere!
Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
Sorry, I only know of the discs. Surround mixes are on dvd and blu-ray.
Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
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sludgeogre
Where can you get those King Crimson remixes? He did those years ago for a CD release, but I can't find a digital release anywhere!
https://www.dgmlive.com (FLAC)
Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
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sludgeogre
I hope so as well. A couple of the best concerts I went to were Porcupine Tree shows. What an incredible performer, as well as his drummer, that guy was nuts.
You should check out his remix of Tears for Fears that is on HD Tracks. He really opens up the detail and dynamics in that old album. Really enjoyed it. It also comes with the original mix so you can hear the differences. I ended up just deleting the original album and keeping his versions. I hope that he gets to do some more remixing/mastering soon. He's probably the most brilliant mind in music. No one else can write, perform, and record like he can.
Wow a Porcupine Tree fan! I can't believe how many people I've turned on to tree. One of the best rock bands period. Great songs well recorded. Have you seen the video on YouTube of the Hatesong incredible drumming. Damn what a great band.
Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
Music Only Setup
Sierra Tower w/ RAAL in Satin Espresso
SVS SB13 Ultra Subwoofer
Marantz SA-KI-PEARL SACD Player
Sony HAP-Z1ES Network Audio Player/Music Server
Mapletree Line 2C RM Tube Preamp
Parasound Halo A21 Power Amp
ATS Bass Traps and Acoustic Panels
Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
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Wadia171i
Really I have never heard MP3 sound as good as cd which is what you are saying. On my system MP3 is compressed and dry sounding. No top end it is totally aweful I mean I can hear the difference night and day. Wish it did sound better I would just pay for Spotify and be done with it. I can hear the difference on my Riva Turbo X Bluetooth speaker MP3 is aweful for critical listening IMHO
The human memory and ears are so fallible. The only way to be sure is to do an ABX test. Use a high quality playback program like foobar2000 to do a blinded ABX comparator test and prove to yourself that you can hear the difference. Unless you've done so, you cannot claim to hear the difference as the human auditory memory is fallible. The normal human ear cannot tell the differences in the high quality sound compression. Yes, I am insisting that an MP3 encoded in a high quality way (using LAME encoder at V0, V1, or V2 variable bit setting) is indistinguishable from the CD to almost anyone on a reference system. The only way to prove it to yourself is to perform an ABX comparator test between the FLAC file and the MP3. Crappy MP3s don't count. You need to encode it yourself with an error-free rip from a CD (using Exact Audio Copy) and LAME encoder... not relying on automated encoders from some other third party program.
If you have excellent or "golden ears", you won't be listening to the music per se, but various subtle distortions in parts of the track that might sound different. Most files will are indistinguishable, but there is a rare bird once in a while that is easy to ABX because some portion of the track cause an obvious echo or distortion under compression. To my ears, LAME V2 setting is transparent on probably 99% of audio tracks (not distinguishable from FLAC) on reference headphones. I may have average ears. And by the time we're 40 years old, almost all of us have lost some amount of hearing. And 50? Hmmm..... even an experienced sound engineer who can claim that he can hear differences because he will have hearing loss on audiometric testing. There are many "golden ears" out there with an uncanny ability to discriminate subtle sound details. But in general, audiophiles consistently overestimate their own ability. I remember one especially picky audiophile in my office who had mild sloping to profound sensorineural hearing loss but still insisted on paying tens of thousands of dollars for speakers. Maybe his marked hearing loss allowed him to focus on low frequency distortions that might otherwise not have been audible to normal ears.
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,16295.0.html
http://www.chrismyden.com/bestmp3guide.php
Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
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bkdc
The human memory and ears are so fallible. The only way to be sure is to do an ABX test. Use a high quality playback program like foobar2000 to do a blinded ABX comparator test and prove to yourself that you can hear the difference. Unless you've done so, you cannot claim to hear the difference as the human auditory memory is fallible. The normal human ear cannot tell the differences in the high quality sound compression. Yes, I am insisting that an MP3 encoded in a high quality way (using LAME encoder at V0, V1, or V2 variable bit setting) is indistinguishable from the CD to almost anyone on a reference system. The only way to prove it to yourself is to perform an ABX comparator test between the FLAC file and the MP3. Crappy MP3s don't count. You need to encode it yourself with an error-free rip from a CD (using Exact Audio Copy) and LAME encoder... not relying on automated encoders from some other third party program.
If you have excellent or "golden ears", you won't be listening to the music per se, but various subtle distortions in parts of the track that might sound different. Most files will are indistinguishable, but there is a rare bird once in a while that is easy to ABX because some portion of the track cause an obvious echo or distortion under compression. To my ears, LAME V2 setting is transparent on probably 99% of audio tracks (not distinguishable from FLAC) on reference headphones. I may have average ears. And by the time we're 40 years old, almost all of us have lost some amount of hearing. And 50? Hmmm..... even an experienced sound engineer who can claim that he can hear differences because he will have hearing loss on audiometric testing. There are many "golden ears" out there with an uncanny ability to discriminate subtle sound details. But in general, audiophiles consistently overestimate their own ability. I remember one especially picky audiophile in my office who had mild sloping to profound sensorineural hearing loss but still insisted on paying tens of thousands of dollars for speakers. Maybe his marked hearing loss allowed him to focus on low frequency distortions that might otherwise not have been audible to normal ears.
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,16295.0.html
http://www.chrismyden.com/bestmp3guide.php
Interesting I'm not saying I have ge I will do the test sounds like fun. I guess most of the MP3 I've heard is third party rubbish. I'll give it a shot. I've always said I don't care how it was done just want it to be involving and sound good. I have some Orleans that actually sounds good on MP3
Re: What other equipment do you use with your Ascend speakers? What is your next upgr
Mixed Music / 5.1 Home Theater system
Sierra 2's LCR
Rythmik E15HP
Def Tech bipolar surrounds
Anthem MRX510
Emotiva UPA7
Amazon FireTV
Oppo 103D
VPI Classic 1 with Soundsmith Carmen
Manley Chinook phono pre-pro
XBOX 360
LG OLED 65E6P
Slowly upgrading to 4K / Atmos.. next step is probably the Oppo 203,
