rincewind
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I don't know if anyone's interested in this, but sometimes when I'm listening to a piece of music, whether it be on my mp3 player, or cd player, or (usually) my PC, I'll hear a strange noise in a piece of music and say "Gee, I wonder if that was just a badly encoded mp3/ape/flac/wav or if the original is like that" or (WORSE) "Oh ****, I hope that's not the left speaker on it's last legs!"
For example, I'm listening to Machine Head's Through the Ashes of Empires right now, track 3, "Left Unfinished". Now I've just setup Foobar to use ASIO. The music is coming from a WAV file created using Exact Audio Copy from the original CD while a friend was visiting for TESTING purposes Anyway, I like to test my WAVs before even converting to APE for backup to hdd (call me super paranoid). Anyway, at 3m08s into the song when they really start playing faster before going back into a verse, I'm hearing quite a bit of subtle distortion coming out of my left speaker. I can also (even more clearly) hear it through my Senn HD650's which although running off the same (trusty) amp, eliminates the speakers as a cause. I also listened using WaveOut and DirectSound 2.0. Again, they both had the slight fuzz on the left hand side.
Now, wouldn't it be nice if there was an area you could post up "weird noise like a clicking/crackling/distortion heard on track X of CD Y by artist Z" ??? And ppl who own the CD could have a listen on their system and say "errrr u have a problem, it's fine" OR "hey yeah! wow, that's screwy... but ur system is fine"
Cos I find it hard to believe that a band which is into using high-tech for their recording would release a CD with such a glaringly obvious "noise" on their CD. I can hear it very ocassionally now and then on some of the other tracks too, but that is the most obvious example.
Reckon this would go very far?
PS, I really DO want to know about that Machine Head song lol Tell me if u hear the slight *bad* distortion in the left channel at 3.08-3.30 on track 3!
For example, I'm listening to Machine Head's Through the Ashes of Empires right now, track 3, "Left Unfinished". Now I've just setup Foobar to use ASIO. The music is coming from a WAV file created using Exact Audio Copy from the original CD while a friend was visiting for TESTING purposes Anyway, I like to test my WAVs before even converting to APE for backup to hdd (call me super paranoid). Anyway, at 3m08s into the song when they really start playing faster before going back into a verse, I'm hearing quite a bit of subtle distortion coming out of my left speaker. I can also (even more clearly) hear it through my Senn HD650's which although running off the same (trusty) amp, eliminates the speakers as a cause. I also listened using WaveOut and DirectSound 2.0. Again, they both had the slight fuzz on the left hand side.
Now, wouldn't it be nice if there was an area you could post up "weird noise like a clicking/crackling/distortion heard on track X of CD Y by artist Z" ??? And ppl who own the CD could have a listen on their system and say "errrr u have a problem, it's fine" OR "hey yeah! wow, that's screwy... but ur system is fine"
Cos I find it hard to believe that a band which is into using high-tech for their recording would release a CD with such a glaringly obvious "noise" on their CD. I can hear it very ocassionally now and then on some of the other tracks too, but that is the most obvious example.
Reckon this would go very far?
PS, I really DO want to know about that Machine Head song lol Tell me if u hear the slight *bad* distortion in the left channel at 3.08-3.30 on track 3!