violeta88
500+ Head-Fier
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Just trying to help since most folks don't have a DVD-A/SACD/lossless Blu-Ray player plus not having that clipping music on any one of those formats as well as hi-rez files. I'm sure there are CDs that clip the waveform but what are you going to do? You get some other really loudly recorded, unclipped music and see if the headphone fails. I guess.
Sorry if my post was too cranky or blunt. I don't even own a high end CD player let alone a good high-resolution disc-based source, as my computer and Apogee Duet 2 are the front end for my stereo, I am finding it is cheaper overall to use an existing computer and use a high quality high-resolution recording interface or usb DAC, to get similar results to higher-end disc-based systems. I guess the point I was trying to make was that whatever the equipment you are using to test headphones, the material needs to be lossless, whether in CD form or otherwise, and needs to be free of clipping and or other overt forms of audible distortion to properly test out equipment. If I were testing out headphones I would use my best digital source and amp, then use a quieter recording with wide dynamic shifts throughout to highlight how it handles the transitions from quiet to loud, instead of using very loud music without quiet sections. Anyway, I didn't mean to offend you or anyone else, I am just unusually cranky today. Anyway, peace.
--Eric