Asian music (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) - Page 56

Recently have been listening to lots of FictionJunction and their subgroups (mostly FictionJunction YUUKA) lol

 

I still listen to FictionJunction and especially Kalafina.  Enjoy most of what Yuki Kajiura works on, since she usually creates a good pairing with vocalists and violin. 

Anyone experiences sibilance in fripSide's "Only My Railgun", especially BA200 users?

FictionJunction are great! Though I got the stone cold album, and it has a very shrill frequency during the chorus, wondering if that's a production flaw. Would like to see Yukka collaborate with Yuki again in the future

 

Guckkasten

 

 

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

 

 

Nell

 

MC Hotdog is interesting to listen too. and if you understand some of the things he is saying its pretty funny

 

It really felt like that, in 2010 / 2011.

 

I remember comments like "I even see some people now buying audiophile gear now whom listen to J-pop "

 

 

Now it feels like half of the audiophile market are J-pop lovers or something lol.

Personally, I find the claim that Asian music is mixed too bright completely unfounded. I don't know what those people listen to, but I've been listening to Asian music (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Singaporean) since the 80's, and I also listen to a ton of music from the west, and there's no evidence to support one is brighter than the other. 

I wouldn't say bright per se either, but I do tend to avoid J-pop because I can't stand those unnatural-sounding, high-pitched female voices. My brother listens to that music all the time....can...not...stand...it...at...all. T_T

I mean, the anime is good an all, but those voices sound SO fake. My parents can't stand listening to that stuff either because they think they sound like grade school students.

^ *facepalm*

 

Yay MC Hotdog!

Edited by miceblue - 12/17/12 at 5:29pm

That's just one segment of J-pop though. There are plenty of female Japanese singers who don't sing in that "buriko" style. 

J-pop and J-rock recordings got so much better in the past few years.  I decided to become an audiophile because of J-Rock. Didn't really respect music that much before that.

Lots of the Anime OP recordings before 2012 have this problem, its gotten much better, but it's still quite bad compared to mainstream J-Rock and J-pop. I really liked the second SAO opening, but the recording was so bad that I thought something went wrong with my HD800. I love Only My Railgun btw, but it just sounds bad with high-end gear. 

 

Well what do ya know! I sign up for head-fi to ask questions about headphones and I end up finding a vibrant Asian music community :3

 

Here's a list of my favorite artists (that you should definitely check out!):

 

Bolded are my favorites (Click to show)

 

I might as well ask here rather than another part of the forums (considering you all have experience with Korean/Japanese music)

Would the DT880 + FiiO E17 be a good combination for listening to Asian pop, rock, metal, soft piano songs, and rap? [essentially a wide range of music!]

Thanks for any help!

 

PS: Is this thread mostly for discussing anime music? I noticed in the OP they mentioned jpopsuki, and I'd love to add other head-fi'ers to my friends list and compare music!~

maybe with 250 ohm version,you could try the E17 thread in portable amp section, a reply will be fast

 

how long have you listened to exist-trace?

I went to Dazzle Vision and exist+trace's concerts at Sakura-Con 2009 and 2011 respectively...not my favourite kind of music, but cool to see in-person.

As for anime music, I heard the Audio Technica ATH-ESW9 is a fairly good choice as it does vocals really well (I personally haven't heard it before).

 

P.S. Welcome to Head-Fi and sorry about your wallet!

Edited by miceblue - 12/19/12 at 9:16pm