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@Claritas yeah, but you get to hear so much stuff you've never heard with a good quality subscription. I'm not in a place to buy this many cds. I am starting to go back to the same album so many times I'm thinking about buying a few.

God bless youtube! It helps me figure out what to take seriously and what to avoid.

Not what you're asking for but when I switch subscriptions, I use soundiiz to regenerate my library. I wouldn't descibe it as doing a good job but it's significantly better than nothing.

I cancelled the first time, but those are so generally praised by those more knowledgeable than I, I have give them a go.

Sure hope the laoner gets here today so I can decide if they are worth it.

Awesome been waiting for the restock

...but Rostropovich also sounds different on either headphone. I owned a HD600 first so it seems... "truer" to me, but I think that is only priority of ownership. It didn't seem crazy to think there was a violinist or cellist (or for that matter, any musician) here who could say why they prefer their instrument on one headphone over another (or any, for that matter), but then again, I'm not a musician!

As a woodwind musician, listening is a much different experience than playing. Still throws me off after 20 years, even when I'm at a live performance. The player's sinus cavity is part of the instrument, turns out.

Honestly don't know if me being a cello player gives me better insight. The way I play the cello sounds totally different from from the pros I've heard and it's even different from whoever claimed first chair in my orchestra. The way you hold it and bow all has an effect. Only way I could compare is if I heard Rostropovich live and through the HD 600

Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, The Velvet Underground.

Oh and The Clash. Always The Clash.

Bach, going on over 20 years. I don't think John Sebastian has dropped below 50% of my listening in the past dozen years.

I enjoy Glendale, and listening to the coyotes howl at the sirens.

Airplanes overhead, small trucks, cars, speeding bikes, tricycles, neighbours with karaoke machines or just drunk talking, not to mention my dad's 30+ birds in an aviary just outside my window :(

In the place I'm at now, there's actual silence. There's major parts of the day where I hear no vehicles.

Award season! When do nominations start?

I nominate the streaming platforms that nowadays have more content for a start. Tool is streaming. Tool even knocked Taylor Swift from her top position on the charts for a while, that is funny...

I mostly listen to classical though; I know others are less happy with its catalog.

...and could be a cool input on Gun/Yggdrasil LPCM->2.0

AV Receivers (Mandatory) require multichannel PCM (LPCM) output, regardless of ATMOS/DTSMA/TRUEHD. So question is, is WIN10/MacOS LPCM just sitting there for simple output thru USB (then TrueMB does the magic)? Hmmmm.

If hell freezes over it needs a new DAC...

How about dragonfly Cobalt? I guess they do have some color scheme to show the file resolution.

If you are ok with just sample rate and not bit rate, although if it isn't 44.1, it's always 24 bits (all I have seen) used geek pulses go for cheap and sq is decent.

Only the celing fan bothers me when I am trying to listen to speakers in the same room.

Somehow listening to full-size headphones naked feels wrong, but listening to IEMs feels ok. Independent of temperature...

Actually, yes, there's silent central AC. I have 2 of them, and the neighbor has 2 more on the same side of our houses. They could all 4 be running and we could nearly have a whispered conversation.

New ones ain't cheap, though!

Surface Pro? A mark 1 or 2 Pro is cheap.

The first iPad Pro 9,7. Better than chord mojo imho

@Gaspasser Could you explain more? I had an ipod touch but its horrible scrolling down all the saved albums, especially on a small screen. But with the update, can you search only your album folder? That would help a lot... What other filters are there? I'm thinking of getting an ipad...

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/sorting-and-filtering/

Yes you can search albums/artists/playlists
It is easy to use on my small iPhone 7 screen.

Apparently I’m in the minority who like the update
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/20/spotify-users-frustrated-update/

the marketing seems to hint a lot at this being close-ish to their top shelf offerings. i would happily pay $1k for a slightly stunted or ugly/utlitarian Solaris... so i'm intrigued to see where IO lands.

No dynamic bass like Solaris but maybe a baby Andro? Would be awesome!

I've never loved any BA IEMs. The closest I've come was the Noble 5, but there's always something a little weird about them that causes me fatigue. It's been a few years since I bothered buying one, though, so maybe they've improved.

I think the 1st gen Fiio X3 or X5 cable would work, too

Don't worry. He will return with an alias.

It’s not subjective, just listen to anything not in the foreground. (Conditional on having a good enough headphone/chain)

LAME has been the best mp3 encoder for years now. They keep a list of "nasty" test samples that are known to cause problems:

http://lame.sourceforge.net/quality.php

AFAIK, no one has submitted a sample in quite some time that causes problems at high bitrate encoding with the more recent builds of LAME. Pretty much all remaning issues are @128kbit/s or lower.

Need to watch out for Joint Stereo. I personally prefer 320CBR (stereo).

Besides MP3, AAC and OGG should work fine.