ClassicRock1976
New Head-Fier
Hi all
I´m hoping the people that have been listening to Hi-Res Audio for a while might be able to post their suggestions for the definitive songs that clearly illustrate the superiority of Hi-Res Audio (to be clear I dont want to start a fight about if anything above 16/44.1 is even worth it etc)
Let me explain where I´m coming from:
I´ve been living under a rock for the past few years apparently. I had no idea of even the existence of Hi-Res Audio. I was happy with my 320kbps mp3 collection for the longest time (which I thought was CD quality) - spent literally years building that collection, putting all the cover art, even lyrics in the metadata
After my External HDD with all my music failed (no backup) a friend of mine convinced me to sign up for a Spotify Premium account. I went ahead and did that and have been making do with that since
Recently read about Hi Res Audio and the numbers show the format to be way superior to mp3 or even CD
I decided to take the plunge and see (or hear) for myself if the difference is that significant. If I find that it to be so, I´d like to start to rebuild my music collection and also slowly build a HiFi System worthy of Hi-Res Audio at home
I decided to go about this by beginning with a portable player that wont break the bank
Cayin N3 player (that allows external HDD connection)
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/cay...oax-out-for-150.833932/page-147#post-13519991
What I want is a definitive playlist of Hi-Res and Normal Spotify quality MP3 songs to load onto the player for the following 2 reasons
1. In order to listen to the versions and convince myself that Hi-Res is definitely the way to go (and use the same to blow away my friends and show them the difference)
2. And secondly I´d like to use this same playlist (and the N3 player) to test the audio equipment that I want to purchase down the line for enjoying the music at home
I´d be grateful if you guys can take a stab at naming songs that you think the difference is night and day for such a playlist
Thanks
I´m hoping the people that have been listening to Hi-Res Audio for a while might be able to post their suggestions for the definitive songs that clearly illustrate the superiority of Hi-Res Audio (to be clear I dont want to start a fight about if anything above 16/44.1 is even worth it etc)
Let me explain where I´m coming from:
I´ve been living under a rock for the past few years apparently. I had no idea of even the existence of Hi-Res Audio. I was happy with my 320kbps mp3 collection for the longest time (which I thought was CD quality) - spent literally years building that collection, putting all the cover art, even lyrics in the metadata
After my External HDD with all my music failed (no backup) a friend of mine convinced me to sign up for a Spotify Premium account. I went ahead and did that and have been making do with that since
Recently read about Hi Res Audio and the numbers show the format to be way superior to mp3 or even CD
I decided to take the plunge and see (or hear) for myself if the difference is that significant. If I find that it to be so, I´d like to start to rebuild my music collection and also slowly build a HiFi System worthy of Hi-Res Audio at home
I decided to go about this by beginning with a portable player that wont break the bank
Cayin N3 player (that allows external HDD connection)
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/cay...oax-out-for-150.833932/page-147#post-13519991
What I want is a definitive playlist of Hi-Res and Normal Spotify quality MP3 songs to load onto the player for the following 2 reasons
1. In order to listen to the versions and convince myself that Hi-Res is definitely the way to go (and use the same to blow away my friends and show them the difference)
2. And secondly I´d like to use this same playlist (and the N3 player) to test the audio equipment that I want to purchase down the line for enjoying the music at home
I´d be grateful if you guys can take a stab at naming songs that you think the difference is night and day for such a playlist
Thanks