callesoroe wrote: > Why not trust your own ears, instead of what "others" might have > heard...... > I can defanately hear the diffference on my system, and thats it for > me....
Its a bit hard to do properly , I switched back and forth with spotify premium 320k ogg (better than wimp 256k mp3 for us squeezebox users ) many times to determine this for myself . A. Its not a blind test ,the mind works in such ways that is actually much more important than some think when evaluating subtle differences and due to the power of the mind some "obvious" diffrences even things you -think- are there and are quite convinced about , just vanish when do it blind. B. I dont rely know what spotify are doing with their sources . sometimes all is fine sometimes I hear differences or more correct -think- I hear them , but i cant verify as never do this blind . Sometimes the differences are to big to be explained by the lossy format which leads to.... C. What mastering is this its not always the same as my CD versions ? You can mitigate this by using more obscure artist or genres that certainly not "master for iTunes " and use their latest work , then there is less likely to be several versions out there . D. What ever else ,I can only control what my files are . so all of it can be just apples and oranges anyway . E. When using the smartmix plugin I never notice when i track is from my own collection or from spotify premium , so the diffrences if they are there, are subtle enough to only show in direct comparison *So my own conclusion , Spotify -seems -to me a bit inconsistent regarding sound quality , but I cant quantify or qualify .* Also It's definitely not enough testing and not done blind so I cant really tell the world that for example "CD always sounds better than Spotify premium" i dont have data to back such claim . Regarding listen to what "others might have heard" if some one does a really well done blind test with a lot of data . I'm prepared to take that over my own non blind tests as the psychological and placebo effects are inescapable no one is unaffected not even audiophiles . Maybe a Spotify premium vs CD ,community blind test :) that would be a thing , but I doubt you could reach an agreement with them , and I also doubt they would disclose their procedures to get the tracks into the system . I'm not totally cloth eared (even if years in heavy industry have damaged part of my hearing ) I'm generally not happy with soundquality of online music most web radio sounds horrible to me and I cant for the life of get why people would want tor route youtube to the hifi yuk ?! Spotify premium the service that I find useful enough to pay for and the price is not to much for my use. Some people compare the price with what it takes to buy this stuff and then even wimp hifi would be considered cheap but thats not fare you compare renting vs owning stuff and other differences . like that spotify has sadly adapted to use radio sanitized versions that and the "parenteral advisory sticker" as an atrocity against our culture imo . They have both versions but it can take some fudging to get the real version and its not simple to tell . Heck the public broadcasting company "SR" in Sweden does not use these versions if not forced to ,sometimes the record company does not give them the uncensored version so thats what we hear on the radio . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102351
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