notthere
New Head-Fier
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Hi,
I'm posting this thread here because I only listen to music on the computer, so it may be a somewhat different matter on other hardware.
Although I suppose it is more dictated by the music one enjoys rather than the hardware one plays it back on.
And to illustrate that, here's the last.fm tag cloud of genres I enjoy:
So... I naturally don't have the choice that lovers of classical music or jazz apparently have.
And while contemplating whether to get better headphones or a headphone amp (current setup is: DT770 Pro + Soundblaster X-Fi PCIe), I listened to quite a few mostly FLAC and 320kbit mp3s. And with this setup alone, I already heard so many things wrong with the audio files that I in fact got a little sick from it (sick not as in vomiting but I REALLY desperately wanted to just listen to something without noise or distortion). I couldn't help but wonder "so what could even improve if I buy this or that?". Because I DID indeed find some files that sounded virtually noise and distortion free to me.
What I would really want would not for that little noise/distortion that is left to disappear but for the other 90% of files I have to possess just the same quality. Because that would be the much bigger difference. However, I don't think that's possible short of sending awesome equipment and capable technicians to the bands I enjoy?
And I wonder whether better equipment (for me, not the musicians ) may not make the issues even worse, by making them more audible. At least I know I didn't pick up a lot of that stuff with my AKG K141... and sure as hell not with the some-noname-30-bucks-things, before I got introduced to the awesomeness of higher quality headphones.
I'm posting this thread here because I only listen to music on the computer, so it may be a somewhat different matter on other hardware.
Although I suppose it is more dictated by the music one enjoys rather than the hardware one plays it back on.
And to illustrate that, here's the last.fm tag cloud of genres I enjoy:
So... I naturally don't have the choice that lovers of classical music or jazz apparently have.
And while contemplating whether to get better headphones or a headphone amp (current setup is: DT770 Pro + Soundblaster X-Fi PCIe), I listened to quite a few mostly FLAC and 320kbit mp3s. And with this setup alone, I already heard so many things wrong with the audio files that I in fact got a little sick from it (sick not as in vomiting but I REALLY desperately wanted to just listen to something without noise or distortion). I couldn't help but wonder "so what could even improve if I buy this or that?". Because I DID indeed find some files that sounded virtually noise and distortion free to me.
What I would really want would not for that little noise/distortion that is left to disappear but for the other 90% of files I have to possess just the same quality. Because that would be the much bigger difference. However, I don't think that's possible short of sending awesome equipment and capable technicians to the bands I enjoy?
And I wonder whether better equipment (for me, not the musicians ) may not make the issues even worse, by making them more audible. At least I know I didn't pick up a lot of that stuff with my AKG K141... and sure as hell not with the some-noname-30-bucks-things, before I got introduced to the awesomeness of higher quality headphones.