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what you can conclude though is if you download there are a hell of a lot of badly encoded mp3's out there... If you encode yourself they should be very good if you take time to find good encoders
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Any problem you are having beyond that is you.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
If you're going to play FLAC files (particularly when testing them against CD's) you really should invest in a DAC.
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I really got stuck into that about 4 years ago when my eldest took up the clarinet. Learning by ear is great - but also useless if you know a recorded version of a tune only to turn up to a rehearsal to discover it will be played in a different key.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
I have one, an Audio Alchemy with audiophile cred reclocking and beefed up PSU etc., but I never got round to connecting it up! For learning guitar and bass, I find the existing system 'good enough'. It is, of course, a great deal less revealing a system than our main hi-fi which is in a different room. I am comparing the sound of online videos against that of CD or FLAC and commenting, negatively, at the loss of data on the online videos.
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It is worth remembering this has not always been the case, early MP3 converters were buggy and lousy, so many people's experiences of MP3 back then (downloading thousands of badly encoded songs off Pirate Bay) were pretty bad.
The streaming services all provide excellent quality, and if you really, really believe lossless is better, then several have that pricing tier as well.
Vinyl is a different thing altogether and is as much to do with feel and character of the medium as it is quality, vinyl is better because it's "worse", long may it be so...
Speccing a DSP system for a seminar room. Professor of music waves spec sheet for some shitty piece of prosumer kit, saying "Whatever you specify must match or exceed every number that this does". Turns out the speakers he's using don't reproduce anything over 22kHz, but he still wants 192kHz sampling. Shitty quality 192kHz sampling with 190ms latency (for voice reinforcement). Over a Dante link that tops out at 48kHz. Into a room with no acoustic treatment and some of the worst reverberation I've ever heard - it's almost exactly 6m x 6m x 3m.
Twat.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
He calmed down a lot when he realised I had some idea what I was talking about, and stopped playing Top Trumps.
https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
(Don't worry, it's not by Neil Young .)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Anyone tried one?
No idea what SCM50 means. As for hearing the bass, I too can hear bass but not bass with the definition I need to hear each bass note so that I can attempt to play it. I am on the lookout for a CD with that song on it - no luck in Dublin recently - but am confident I will get one soon. My point is that now that the videos are in HD, it is about time the audio part caught up. CD quality is perfectly adequate in that regard.
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The bit you seem to be missing is that the problem isn't in the technology, but in the mix.
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Not anything I don't know, but very well put. All this 192kHz stuff is like insisting your telly puts out infra red and ultra violet.