[pedalhead]

Thanks, good info.  I'll sign up for a trial soon & see what it's like compared to Tidal, which is great for sound quality, pretty decent for choice, but suffers from a buggy PC client and horrifically non-gapless playback.

 

[benjitb]

Thought I'd chime in here with all this Tidal talk.

Anyone else taken the "Tidal High Fidelity" Test? http://test.tidalhifi.com/
 
I did horribly from my laptop with it's awful soundcard, I used good headphones so felt suitably sheepish.

 

[pedalhead]

  Thought I'd chime in here with all this Tidal talk.

Anyone else taken the "Tidal High Fidelity" Test? http://test.tidalhifi.com/
 
I did horribly from my laptop with it's awful soundcard, I used good headphones so felt suitably sheepish.

 
hehe yes I did it...got 4/5. Two of them I guessed (one correctly, one not).  The others I thought I could hear some subtle differences. Emphasis on the subtle!

 

[benjitb]

   
hehe yes I did it...got 4/5. Two of them I guessed (one correctly, one not).  The others I thought I could hear some subtle differences. Emphasis on the subtle!

I got the first 2 right then failed the rest, i believe boredom was the reason. That's my excuse and i'm sticking to it.

 

[pedalhead]

 
I got the first 2 right then failed the rest, i believe boredom was the reason. That's my excuse and i'm sticking to it.

 
Quite right too .  Actually, I thought Tidal may have made the differences more obvious...kudos to them for not doing that.

 

[Mattyhew]

   
hehe yes I did it...got 4/5. Two of them I guessed (one correctly, one not).  The others I thought I could hear some subtle differences. Emphasis on the subtle!

 
I Find that FLAC comes through on the songs you've heard 100s of times, because its then that you notice the extra details, simply A/B'ing 20 secs worth of a song you've never heard before seems like a poor test. I mean I was only willing to listen to each one through once on either quality. 

 

[pedalhead]

   
I Find that FLAC comes through on the songs you've heard 100s of times, because its then that you notice the extra details, simply A/B'ing 20 secs worth of a song you've never heard before seems like a poor test. I mean I was only willing to listen to each one through once on either quality. 

 
Yup, fair point...always better to be hearing familiar tracks.

 

[smial1966]

Stay tuned for a competition (delayed from Wednesday) later today to win a pair of headphones... 

 

[Sceptre]

Looking forward to the competition later today, but wondered, which car paint schemes should I gen up on?
 
Loving the varied subjects you are testing us on though !
 
Regards
 
Sceptre

 

[smial1966]

Bristol Cars 1952 - 2002.

Looking forward to the competition later today, but wondered, which car paint schemes should I gen up on?

Loving the varied subjects you are testing us on though !

Regards

Sceptre

 

[Mattyhew]

Bristol Cars 1952 - 2002.

 
What an esoteric subject.
 
I must confess I had to Google Bristol Cars ^^

 

[alvin sawdust]

My mate's dad has got an old Bristol in his garage that he has never got round to restoring. All aluminium body if I remember correctly.

 

[pedalhead]

Phwwooor...nice pair of Bristols...
 

 

 

[glassmonkey]

  Thought I'd chime in here with all this Tidal talk.

Anyone else taken the "Tidal High Fidelity" Test? http://test.tidalhifi.com/
 
I did horribly from my laptop with it's awful soundcard, I used good headphones so felt suitably sheepish.

I got 4/5 and the one that I missed was the horrifically compressed Killers track. I didn't guess, but I did listen to tracks several times and found the biggest difference is generally in the bass. I listened on my cheapo Kurzweil 'monitors.'

 

[smial1966]

Competition time:
 
I think it apposite to start offering a perk based competition system ...
 
... just kidding!  

 
 
As the prize is very nice and worth around £300 this competition will run for just over a week until 18:00 on Sunday 22nd February (Competition open to Head-Fi members/UK residents that have already posted in this thread only. Judges decision is final. Prize posted to winner)   
 
It's time to let your poetic juices flow and compose a limerick. 
 
A limerick is a form of poetry, especially one in five-line anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. The first, second and fifth lines are usually longer than the third and fourth.
 
As Mark (meet co-organiser) is an endurance cyclist and top bloke, the first line of the limerick is:-
 
`There was an endurance cyclist called Mark ...'
 
... the rest of the limerick is yours to compose, so be creative and have fun, but please don't be obscene or lewd. Multiple entries are encouraged. Mark will judge the limericks with me. Funny, bizarre, zany, surreal and wacky humour will be favoured.  
 
So what's the prize?
 


The Furutech ADL H118 headphones with upgraded iHP-35 (1.3 metre) cable. 
 
The headband and over-the-ear transducer shape make the H118 Headphones supremely comfortable, an observation everyone makes before suddenly being captured by the sound, upon which they fall silent! The ADL H118 is balanced in a completely audiophile way, a very Furutech way! Scintillating tonal colors and textures, intimate and close harmonic interplay, a sense of space and quiet backgrounds, the resonance of music itself creates an involving emotional experience when you’re THIS CLOSE to the music!  
Furutech Pure Transmission technical tidbits abound; high noise attenuation, 40mm high-resolution extra-large high-flux neodymium drivers, a ring engineered to keep ultra-high frequencies in coherent phase and excellent transient response from extremely light-weight coils made with copper-coated special aluminum alloy wire.
 Hi-Fi Choice review - http://www.adl-av.com/pdf/HiFi%20Choice%20(UK)%20--%20ADL%20H118.pdf
 Hi-Fi World review - http://www.adl-av.com/pdf/HiFi%20World%20(UK)%20--%20ADL%20H118.pdf
 
But what the ***** does this have to do with Bristol Cars?!?