jabbaskillet

maybe you should get a more revealing system?

 

 

Ludicrous. Depends on the song, certainly, but there are definitely audible differences between many high bitrate lossy files and their lossless counterparts. These differences are minor, of course, and probably don't matter to everyone. But saying that lossless is for data preservation only is ignorant.

Improvements to gear/system would improve any lossless and lossy audio. That's not the point. ABX test a lossless file with a high bitrate MP3 transcoded from the same lossless. I 100% guarantee no human could tell the difference on any system.

 

I listen to my music through a Schiit Bifrost DAC, Schiit Asgard 2 headphone amp, and Sennheiser HD 800 headphones, so don't think I'm not deeply invested in this passion of mine.

 

If your human ear can't tell the difference then you need to spend a few thousand more dollars to force yourself to hear a difference to justify those few thousand more dollars.

LOL. I like that. 

I used the service a few months ago on a free trial. It's great.

The sound quality is much better than spotify.

I'm guess most of you don't have systems set up for streaming music or playing lossless audio, but for those of us that do this is really interesting.

The $20 price point is the only reason I didn't keep it, but I'm heavily debating canceling spotify and switching to tidal.

Seriously? If you've been in the audiophile world long enough, you should know that, if the masters are the same, there is no audible difference between Tidal's lossless stream and Spotify's high-bitrate option for streaming. There is a material difference between lossless and very high bitrate lossy, but there shouldn't be an audible difference. The purpose of lossless is for preservation of the data, not its consumption. The streaming nature of Tidal means that we won't be able to store the lossless files or archive them to HDD, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, etc.

 

Lossless streaming is absurd because streaming's purpose is purely for consumption, and there is no way that a human could tell the difference between a lossless file and a very high bitrate lossy file in a blind test of the same audio.

 

It's cool that artists are supporting high quality audio formats, but if the mastering is bad there's really no point. 

On point. Spotify needs to work with artists to release several masters of old releases. I'd rather subscribe to a more detailed and source-conscious Spotify than send $100 to some guy in Europe for an old CD on Discogs.

Anyone get their orders from Rough Trade yet? Let me know if their clear vinyl has the sticker...

3XLP plus shipping was $42.14 from Young Turks.

I was searching Google for the gatefold of the new Courtney Barnett album. I've been getting back into buying music, so it was only natural that I'd find some place like this eventually.

Anywhere to get the tote by itself?