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    TIDAL - The hidden gems

    Interesting that this is a new release but offered in MQA.
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    Solo guitar: Jazz, Classical or Rock

    Nice! Recorded with?
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    Post your female vocal videos

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    Videos of Acoustically-Coupled Audio Recordings

    And MV88+ Vs Blue Yeti Vs iPhone
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    Videos of Acoustically-Coupled Audio Recordings

    Here's a vid comparing the iPhone with Shure MV88+ to Tascam X6 And here's a link to some live recordings made with a Tascam X6. https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/tascam-portacapture-x6-audio-examples
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    Interesting Article About Research on Tinnitus

    I imagine listening to low quality digital sources can permanently damage your hearing. I've tried 20 usb c dongles with my phone, they all hurt my ears. Now the folks who are using such devices may not have as sensitive (golden) ears as me but long term it can't be doing them any good.
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    Videos of Acoustically-Coupled Audio Recordings

    My first impressions are it sounds good but missing some spatial details, how does it compare to the in-room sound? Personally I'm not interested in an iPhone comparison but would be very interested if you compared the Beachtek to a 32bit recorder from Tascam or Zoom.
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    Videos of Acoustically-Coupled Audio Recordings

    Maybe get a stereo mic like this one:
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    Ultimate Analog Server/Streamer: Lucas Audio (LDMS) v Innuous Pulsar

    Interesting, the track you mentioned was streamed from The Bridge album at 24/96?
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    TIDAL - The hidden gems

    Swinging: https://tidal.com/album/1485326?u
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    Michael Fremer AXPONA 2024

    Can you hear a difference between these two?
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    Axpona 2024 who is going and why?

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    Videos of Acoustically-Coupled Audio Recordings

    Some great CD sound here:
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    Cool, when you say use, how do you use it, in what scenario ?
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    Redbook 44.1 kHz standard: theoretically sufficient timbral resolution?

    This is one of the most interesting posts I've read on WBF, thanks! Are there recordings you've done that are available on Tidal etc?
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    TIDAL - The hidden gems

    Finding a good sounding Nina Simone record is like finding a needle in the proverbial haystack. Here's one: https://tidal.com/album/127810809?u
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    So if a small bluetooth speaker is playing symphonic music vs your system playing the same music, you don't think everyone who has heard symphonic music live, would agree your system is better?
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    Agree there is no best for everyone, Johnson introduced this non point into the thread I believe, is that right? @Another Johnson . I am quite sure you believe that some systems can do things better than others?
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    Higher fidelity systems can reproduce the sound of an unamplified instrument (assuming a good recording) closer to the sound of the actual unamplified instrument being recorded.
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    So in your view there is no low v high fidelity, no point in pursuing the latter?
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    Yeah someone can think a crap system that has distortion, bad frequency response, no spatial details is high quality but it's still crap.
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    TIDAL - The hidden gems

    Perfect pop, perfectly recorded: https://tidal.com/album/130036585?u
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    Thats an interesting POV coming from a recording /mastering engineer. Did you ever arrange/mic say a group of singers/players a certain way on stage to give a specific spatial effect?
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    Closing down interesting robust debate again, whats your problem?
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    You were saying people will disagree on what things should sound like, but if we are pursuing high fidelity sound then we should agree on details like where singers are positioned in a particular recording for example.
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    I am reminded of the Audio Note DAC"s I demoed for folks back in the day. They were very midrange centric which made them sound more analog but they didn't reproduce spatial details that should be there. So yes someone can choose not to hear what's on the recording, it's not HiFi though.
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    The interesting thing about the ATC SCM 20T floor stander is that it images far better than the SCM 20 stand mounter which is identical in all other respects.
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    The amp playing a role in the speakers controlled dispersion was just a guess on my part but it makes sense that if the speaker has big heavy drive units/cones, then you need some power to control them.
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    Violin videos: solo or with small ensemble

    Yeah it's not bad, perhaps you can record it for comparison?
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    Hi-Fi is NOT a subjective hobby.

    You're disagreeing, yet you haven't heard. Perhaps as a speaker manufacturer you could buy a pair of ATC 20T's to try out and write it off against tax. Never know you might learn something.

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