OllyNewport
New Head-Fier
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Just wondering but...
I bought a pair of Shure SE535's in September. When I did this I started encoding into ALAC/M4A lossless, and before I go out and buy any CD I search for what is considered the best sounding version of said disk. (Typically a Japanese or original release, I've got a Japanese Polydor P20P release of Jimi Hendrix's Experience Hendrix and the original CD releases of Led Zeppelin... thanks to my dad there.)
I've started getting really annoyed by the way newer music is mastered, basically pushing the envelope of the 'loudness war' again and again. So whenever I get a new CD I'll open it up in Soundtrack Pro and check out the waveform, look for compression... then complain about it on Twitter.
...I'm not quite there for the crazy £1000 power adapter power supply, I don't have that kind of money to burn to that degree.
I think I realised I was becoming one when I had a 25 minute Skype rant to my friend about a contemporary classical composer compressing everything and letting peaks hit 0.2dB.
I think I'm going to start buying releases (if available) in vinyl and converting it to a 24/96 recording for portable purposes, but I don't really have equipment for that (and don't really know what's a good turntable from a bad one.)
I bought a pair of Shure SE535's in September. When I did this I started encoding into ALAC/M4A lossless, and before I go out and buy any CD I search for what is considered the best sounding version of said disk. (Typically a Japanese or original release, I've got a Japanese Polydor P20P release of Jimi Hendrix's Experience Hendrix and the original CD releases of Led Zeppelin... thanks to my dad there.)
I've started getting really annoyed by the way newer music is mastered, basically pushing the envelope of the 'loudness war' again and again. So whenever I get a new CD I'll open it up in Soundtrack Pro and check out the waveform, look for compression... then complain about it on Twitter.
...I'm not quite there for the crazy £1000 power adapter power supply, I don't have that kind of money to burn to that degree.
I think I realised I was becoming one when I had a 25 minute Skype rant to my friend about a contemporary classical composer compressing everything and letting peaks hit 0.2dB.
I think I'm going to start buying releases (if available) in vinyl and converting it to a 24/96 recording for portable purposes, but I don't really have equipment for that (and don't really know what's a good turntable from a bad one.)