[peterdc]

New upload from Deerhoof. The beauty of low-end very specific audio recording. This is an engineer's dream retro drum sound. It would never work even slightly in most songs but with Deerhoof - beautiful. https://youtu.be/CHP3hTNVqKM Apart from the sweet drums, it's as peculiar as you should expect from Deerhoof.

 

[Saraguie]

  New upload from Deerhoof. The beauty of low-end very specific audio recording. This is an engineer's dream retro drum sound. It would never work even slightly in most songs but with Deerhoof - beautiful. https://youtu.be/CHP3hTNVqKM Apart from the sweet drums, it's as peculiar as you should expect from Deerhoof.

Good sound....but LMAO the drummer wearing Beats.

 

[tlink]

The whole Lorde Album - Pure Heroine.  This is my favourite headphone track from the album:
 
**** CLICK HD ON THE PLAYER BOTTOM RIGHT AND CRANK IT  

 
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[FFBookman]

re: priorities: Signal chain theory is on my side. Source is most important because it can't be fixed down the chain. I stay by my challenge that pure source/DAC through average down-chain gear will sound better/more emotional than bad source through good gear. You can't shine that turd enough to make it not a turd.
 
I think almost everyone under 50 has just accepted the downgrade in quality that the mp3 era brought us.  Convenience and quantity have been beating the hell out of quality the last 15 years. It's just the way it is. Standards have been lowered. Quality of production has diminished due to slashed budgets and rampant bootlegging.
 
Evidence: the discussion in recording studios about distribution quality - "it doesn't really matter anymore" that has been happening since phones, streaming, and mp3 took over the mainstream listening environment.
 
Enough regular people can't even care to pay attention, as is evident by the number of Spotify and Apple Music subscribers, actually paying to rent 10% audio files in 2016.
 
The "is cd good enough?" discussion is quaint because it's been replaced by "does anyone really even care about anything anymore?"
 
The other reason I know I'm right is market-driven - music lovers purchase hi-res more than low-res. People that do buy music have stopped buying low-res, at least that's a step in the right direction.
 
OK back to 10% music streams ALL AROUND THE WORLD FOR THE FUNK:

 
 
And here's a look at how the specs of TVs have changed over the years. I'll be doing a similar chart for stereo sets.
http://wfnk.com/blog/2016/04/team-eye-vs-team-ear-part-1-tv-sets-through-history/

 

[peterdc]

All good points. I will add though, being in music production myself, that "loudness" also diminishes quality: dynamics are squashed. This is partly in an attempt to stand out on radio etc but also because lower end bitrates in mp3 encoding introduce artefacts in very quiet material. Mastering is often done a few times for different end platforms.
 
To demonstrate here's a short video. I've been using this tool recently and it's proving invaluable.
https://youtu.be/iv67sjuq2go

 

[FFBookman]

 
All good points. I will add though, being in music production myself, that "loudness" also diminishes quality: dynamics are squashed. This is partly in an attempt to stand out on radio etc but also because lower end bitrates in mp3 encoding introduce artefacts in very quiet material. Mastering is often done a few times for different end platforms.
 
To demonstrate here's a short video. I've been using this tool recently and it's proving invaluable.
https://youtu.be/iv67sjuq2go

spot on. it's a chicken or egg type of discussion. radio does indeed pump for total loudness using multi band compressors, and so have producers since the beginning of time. digital production technology has increased this exponentially in the last 20 years.
 
digital has no physics, it's all theoretical math.
 
the format restrictions imposed by lossy, perceptual compression codecs add to the issue. indeed they even justify a total loss of realism. i know people that use mp3 sounds while mixing, already starting with lossy sounds and compression artifacts. it's kind of the sound of the day. anti-quality.

 

[nephilim32]

Hanz Zimmer's 'The Dark Knight score' sounds incredibly clean and brilliant.
Also, Fear Factory albums like Demanufacture and Genexus are incredibly well produced, mixed and mastered.

Can't lose people! No matter what kind of high end gear you have.

 

[FFBookman]

 
just like a train... wow

 

[ronaldme]

Eric Clapton- Unplugged
Lorde - Royals
John Mayer - Neon (Live in Los Angeles)
Stevie Wonder - Too High
Blof-harder dan ik hebben kan
Fame-David Bowie (live-A Reality Tour)
 
This is really WOOOOW !!! 
Got To Get Better in a Little While (Live in San Diego) - Eric Clapton 
echt uit je dak gaan nummer .. 

 

[TheNoose]

Frank Sinatra, SINATRA AT THE SANDS
It comes on Vinyl, my set is FLAC
 
Golden Years great sound track, crystal clear...great dynamics live!
 
"Sinatra at the Sands is a 1966 live album by Frank Sinatra, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded live at the Copa Room of the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
It was Sinatra's first live album to be commercially released, and contains many definitive readings of the songs that are most readily associated with Sinatra."

 

 

[Nirvana1000]

Great EDM track with hypnotic vocals.

Aurora -Running With Wolves(Host Remix)
https://youtu.be/-A5CPyNVQt8

 

[FFBookman]

Great EDM track with hypnotic vocals.

Aurora -Running With Wolves(Host Remix)
https://youtu.be/-A5CPyNVQt8

maybe we'll get lucky and EDM will go away some day.
 
is that randy rhodes as your avatar?

 

[Nirvana1000]

Yes it is.
1 SRV
2 Hendrix
3 Rhoads
My top three.
Listen to the original version(live) if you dont like EDM

 

[FFBookman]

Yes it is.
1 SRV
2 Hendrix
3 Rhoads
My top three.
Listen to the original version(live) if you dont like EDM

i will check out that original next time i'm plugged in to some speakers.
 
i like your list, can't argue with that. i'd put eddie hazel in there, maybe change the order a bit. but yeah.

 

[FFBookman]

ghetto destruction...