Aroma Thunder?
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Right...that's the only driver that is DD...my bad.
Cross posting some very short impressions from the FATFreq thread regarding Grand Maestro and MSE...
TL;DR - love both, but MSE works better for my library.
Finally getting to demo the Grand Maestro. I definitely vibe with this sound too but thankfully I don’t feel the need to buy these. They sound a bit less U shaped to me than the MSE with some added mid bass and overall fuller and more organic mids. For vocals, I’d say GM is the better set. I do not however like the vocal oriented switch as it’s too mid focused for me but I appreciate how different it is to the non vocal side. I listen to a large amount of electronic and for me the MSE works better there with its leaner and snappier sound, it also sounds larger and more spacious to me as a result of the leaner signature.
Both are excellent sets imo, FatFreq is becoming one of my favorite brands if they keep pushing out these bass oriented sets.
TL;DR - love both, but MSE works better for my library.
Every time I buy an album on qobuz, I wish I had bought sublime. I would have saved so much money at this point. Still have not subscribed to them.
Nope! Checked with the wife, and there’s no conflict with any family plans. Looks like it’ll be a whirlwind CanJam year for me, planning to go to every US based edition, including Dallas and its inaugural event.Skipping CanJam Chicago?!
Part of me was thinking this is a bit extreme even for us audio junkies, but last year I really appreciated the nuanced differences between the three shows I attended (NY, Chicago and SoCal), and suspect that wasn’t a one-off thing. Maybe I’ll burn out planning to go to four shows in one year, but who knows, maybe not. Currently excited about it.
Subscribed two years ago, had the same internal debate about whether I’d buy enough instead of “just stream”. Haven’t looked back; Sublime has been great.
It’s weird, but it kinda reminds me of the old days when Tuesdays were big for going to Best Buy to purchase Blu-Rays. Now, I tend to buy s few albums every Friday and it gives a touch of the same experience, and with the Sublime discount, new albums are usually less than $10. Gives a different spin on New Music Fridays when you buy vs. stream, at least for me. Funny how our brains sometimes work.
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100% agree, I’m a big Bandcamp supporter… over 1600 releases in my collection! While I’ve started to enjoy Tidal recently, I still love my Friday night Bandcamp shopping ritual - as noted before, the closest experience to actually being in a music store flicking through CDs and vinyl.
Well in that case you better do so and subscribe quickly
I usually try to avoid to preach but seem to fail when it comes down to Qobuz. It simply doesn't want to get into my head how anybody seriously interested into music (and more than one special genre but various kinds of music) could subscribe to Tidal instead of Qobuz (if both are an available option).... Night and day in attitude to me, like fast food vs. a real meal.
Sorry, but I just don't like Tidal's commercial only background and stick to the service that was audiophile orientated from day 1 and years before Tidal even existed...
And concerning the catalogs - I had no problems with both. Sure you might not find the obscurest of the obscure sometimes, but each service is better or worse in certain genres (Qobuz is better for classical imo, Tidal might have an edge in Hip-Hop/R&B).
Qobuz combined with Bandcamp and - lucky me - my own collection is all I ever needed. I definitely never missed anything that really matters to me...
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Feel free to preach, some of us might not take any noticeWell in that case you better do so and subscribe quickly
I usually try to avoid to preach but seem to fail when it comes down to Qobuz. It simply doesn't want to get into my head how anybody seriously interested into music (and more than one special genre but various kinds of music) could subscribe to Tidal instead of Qobuz (if both are an available option).... Night and day in attitude to me, like fast food vs. a real meal.
Sorry, but I just don't like Tidal's commercial only background and stick to the service that was audiophile orientated from day 1 and years before Tidal even existed...
And concerning the catalogs - I had no problems with both. Sure you might not find the obscurest of the obscure sometimes, but each service is better or worse in certain genres (Qobuz is better for classical imo, Tidal might have an edge in Hip-Hop/R&B).
Qobuz combined with Bandcamp and - lucky me - my own collection is all I ever needed. I definitely never missed anything that really matters to me...
I guess it depends what you are after. I’m not really sure I understand the context of Tidal’s “commercial only background” vs Qobuz’ being “audiophile oriented”. I probably don’t care either if I’m being honest.
Maybe I’m just a not-quite-audiophile with heathen taste in music
Yep, purchase discounts are very good on QoBuz sublime and as I use HQ player on my PC which natively integrates QoBuz streaming, it is super easy to audition an album I'm interested in in high quality, than purchase it at a discount. if I want it in my permanent collection, I am very happy with QoBuz in this use case scenario, worth every penny.
u12t with the bassiest module? I'm going to keep trying...because I have nothing else to do haha.
