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post #1 of 22
6/21/10 at 5:11pm
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I just ordered a M50 and it should be here in a week or so. I want to make sure I have good quality music to play when it comes.  I know mp3 files and most mass music is horrible quality and compressed. Where can i get FLAC or lossless or really good quality songs? 

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post #2 of 22
6/21/10 at 5:14pm

iTunes store maybe? Or just listen music on youtube... 

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post #3 of 22
6/21/10 at 5:15pm
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Originally Posted by earerror View Post

iTunes store maybe? 


The files are the same as the ones that can be downloaded online. Usually they are 192kbps.

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post #4 of 22
6/21/10 at 5:22pm
Honestly, these M50's sound great with all music, good or not. I'm listening to Pandora right now and while it doesn't sound amazing it's very enjoyable. Big fan!
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post #5 of 22
6/21/10 at 5:29pm

With the M50, bitrate isn't important so much as an accurate recording. Most streaming sources should sound just fine. I noticed a few of the songs I like on youtube have been ripped poorly, so I just pick different versions of them from the list.
 

You don't have to be too picky.

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post #6 of 22
6/21/10 at 7:22pm

Buy CDs :)

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post #7 of 22
6/21/10 at 7:50pm

With my M50's I do hear quite a difference between MP3 and FLAC files. Any who, ever hear of torrents? Do a little a research and you'll find all types of media at your fingertips. Not condoning nor condemning, just throwin' it out there.

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post #8 of 22
6/21/10 at 8:01pm

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/498414/lazerproof-by-major-lazer-la-roux-free-album-download#post_6728655 ?

Try that.  Coded straight from the producers.

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post #9 of 22
6/21/10 at 9:46pm

The M50 is quite revealing. Maybe not out of an ipod or something similar, but definitely using an amp.
 

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Originally Posted by screwzloos View Post

With the M50, bitrate isn't important so much as an accurate recording. Most streaming sources should sound just fine. I noticed a few of the songs I like on youtube have been ripped poorly, so I just pick different versions of them from the list.
 

You don't have to be too picky.

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post #10 of 22
6/22/10 at 2:54am

FLAC can be found quite easily and is highly recommended with the m50 I find the difference between 320kbps mp3s and flacs massive.

 

Of course you can always get a few cd's of your favorite artists. FLAC's are more often then not ripped from CD's after all.

 

And I'm not sure what streaming service screwzloos View Post uses but if I listen to anything on Youtube or what not it's horrible even at 720p+ the sound is below even 320kbps mp3's.

 

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post #11 of 22
6/22/10 at 3:44am
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Originally Posted by steve823 View Post

I just ordered a M50 and it should be here in a week or so. I want to make sure I have good quality music to play when it comes.  I know mp3 files and most mass music is horrible quality and compressed. Where can i get FLAC or lossless or really good quality songs? 


You know this for a fact? Since you apparently don't have any good quality songs, how exactly did you test out this fact?

 

The bias and hate against MP3s is way overblown, being perpeutated by people who parrot what they read online without even trying it.

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post #12 of 22
6/22/10 at 9:06am

If you want uncompressed music, you can download a good selection ($$) from HDTracks. Also Linn Records has them, but they are classical.

There are other sites.

 

The M50's are revealing, but the Beyers, in general will be moreso. M50's will mask the more subtle differences (for the good) of high compression MP3's and lossless.

 

shane

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post #13 of 22
6/22/10 at 9:14am
Originally Posted by Souchirou View Post

FLAC can be found quite easily and is highly recommended with the m50 I find the difference between 320kbps mp3s and flacs massive.

 

Of course you can always get a few cd's of your favorite artists. FLAC's are more often then not ripped from CD's after all.

 

And I'm not sure what streaming service screwzloos View Post uses but if I listen to anything on Youtube or what not it's horrible even at 720p+ the sound is below even 320kbps mp3's.

 


The audio on youtube is always the same between the different video resolutions, and more often than not the played bitrate is well below the original upload bitrate. Either way, it's not great.

 

HD radio stations like on DI.fm or iheartradio.com are more in line with the quality I've grown to love with good headphones.


Edited by screwzloos - 6/22/10 at 9:16am
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post #14 of 22
6/22/10 at 9:21am

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Originally Posted by Mr Joboto View Post

Buy CDs :)


YES.

 

Often cheaper, and you can create whatever portable files you wish. Whenever I buy a CD, the first things I do are to rip the files as .wav with EAC, then create portable doubles as ~290 VBR, Lame -V 0.

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post #15 of 22
6/22/10 at 12:10pm

x3 Mr Joboto on the CD purchase!

 

I buy a lot of my cds used (cheap) from either Amazon or one of a couple of local shops then I rip them into lossless FLAC for home stereo and fairly decent quality VBR mp3 for the iPhone.


The nice thing about archiving in FLAC is that if you want to do a CD for a roadtrip or something you can burn an exact copy of the original from the FLAC files.  Most of my CDs see a CD player/ripper *once* and then they get archived for backup purposes just in case.

 

I also get FLAC (even 24/96kHz high resolution from the original studio masters!) at HDtracks when they have something I want.  Search www.archive.org for FLAC of some interesting stuff too.

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