Something Ive Pondered...

Not a whole lot.  Since starting to read on Head-Fi the amount of metal I listen to has decreased even further from an already substantially slowed down level from a few years ago, while the amount of electronic music and jazz has gotten even higher.  That may have happened anyway, I'm not sure.  I've noticed that larger ensemble classical works are much more interesting now, though I'm not yet spending much time with them.  Mostly I just receive more enjoyment and notice much more detail with music I already like.  It's intoxicating to notice never before heard little details in songs that I've been familiar with for years and years.

The amount of classical and oldies has jumped up exponentially from none..to a couple oldies, a couple classicals and just pleasing songs. I have been listening to more rock these days. Rock is a hard genre to play and make it sound good. modern rock especially. i stopped listening to it as the earbuds i had back when i was a non audiophile just sounded weird. i am able to start again now that i have a couple different setups and ability to EQ to my liking. :D

currently loving these songs:

sweet child of mine- never cared for it before

hotel california-never cared before either

flower dance by dj owkanari....wow this song is fantastic. requires an +8dB treble boost and +2dB bass boost ...but is amazing with it

a hymn for tomorrow by alan- shure's make this song sound fanatastic. highs get too hot after a while so i use my ultrasone's with these usually.

Yes. I use to listen to so much electronica. Then on my T1's it sounded awful, so now I've moved towards things like Sublime(the album Sublime is very well recorded), Van Morrison, and Antonio Jobim. Basically very well recorded oldies. Though the thing that still give me goosebumps is well recorded/mastered electronica (i.e. Daft Punk's first 2 albums, Jon Hopkins, Danger, edIT/Glitch Mob).

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Originally Posted by Swatcsi 

Yes. I use to listen to so much electronica. Then on my T1's it sounded awful, so now I've moved towards things like Sublime(the album Sublime is very well recorded), Van Morrison, and Antonio Jobim. Basically very well recorded oldies. Though the thing that still give me goosebumps is well recorded/mastered electronica (i.e. Daft Punk's first 2 albums, Jon Hopkins, Danger, edIT/Glitch Mob).

haha you have the SRH840 i see. envious. my SRH440 has been said to be much more analyticalll..... sure...that's cool and great for picking out stuff...but ,......man do they get hot. the vocals just kill you. especially with those really high elongated ones running through a good source, DAC and amp

CD ripped lossless file+Wolfson WM8740+ AD(forgot the pre amp) + AD8397 Opamp +SRH440 = blown ears

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Originally Posted by vese 

Sublime is a hell of an album, I'm a big fan of the group altogether though. I often get goosebumps when listening to a new song or something I haven't heard in a while and I hear something new or really interesting, small things like that make you crave better and better quality.

ill check out the album tmmrw. it sounds very clean and well recorded. i don't really like the spacey sound of the live "around the world" song by daft punk though :/
 

Yes, very much so. Usually I cycle between genres quite a bit, but I definitely see my tastes being molded by my audio setup.

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Originally Posted by vese 

Its really good to hear other people are exploring genres because of getting into audio, it happened to me pretty drastically, I went from strictly electronic music and hip hop/rap to enjoying very orchestral music again because of my audio setup.

Before getting into audio, I listened to music sometimes. But now, I listen to music *all* the time. :D

Usually I explore a genre for a few months, then slowly discover another, keeping that for a few months, then another. I sometimes move back to old genres, but a lot of time I move into new ones. My Spotify favorites list is the strangest bloody mix of genres, and I love it!

It's great to hear others are doing something similar, I thought I was just weird.

With electronic music my cycles were shorter, mostly because there were *so* many genres!

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Originally Posted by bowei006 

ill check out the album tmmrw. it sounds very clean and well recorded. i don't really like the spacey sound of the live "around the world" song by daft punk though :/
 

 

Yea I only feel the first two albums were amazingly mastered/recorded. The first album was done in their bedroom, so it has that charm of analogue'y garage band music. And half of their second album was very good, while the rest was heavily compressed. I one of my the best recordings I've ever heard is the CD I got from during the christmas gift exhange, Diamond Mine  by King Creosete. Just sounds amazing! 

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Originally Posted by vese 

Honestly Sublime and Radiohead blow me away very often when I hit them on a playlist recording-wise and sound-wise. Something  like 4 minute warning gives me goosebumps every time..going to listen to that RIGHT NOW 

I'll check out Radiohead tomorrow, I've seen their CD around, just never picked it up, looks good though.