![]() We didnt complete our comparison, but our partial results were: This is very weird but i listened to these songs:ģ)Carl Orff (London Phil.): Carmina BuranaĨ)James Brown: Its a mans, mans, mans world I actually used Spotify to find new music, then added that to my Tidal playlist, just prior to writing this. Compared to Spotify, the Tidal App is lacking on all fronts but SQ. For ordinary people, with ordinary gear, I would point them to Spotify for that reason alone. I would also like to point out the obvious: Spotify is ten times greater as to point you to potential new music to listen to. I did try plenty of headsets for that mobile phone, but only the MM400 exposed Spotify for real. The headset did cost me about the same as the mobile phone. The difference is like night and day, with the Note3 and the MM400. This effect is not that easy to pinpoint on lower end gear, and easy to get wrong.įor the fruity gear, I simply do not know. Mp3 is designed to do just that, and OggVorbis obviously has much the same effect. A perceived increased in clarity and separation, is a common experience, going from lossless to lossy. But the difference is documented quite well.Īlso, the Spotify lossy compression, loses parts of the music that is less characteristic for voices and instruments. Typically, the church of denial, is all over people hearing the difference. ![]() In short, if you do not hear this difference, hi-fi is not for you. The difference is greater than going from a low end cable to the highest end cable. Or put in a broader perspective: The difference is just as great as changing from mid range gear, to higher end gear. If you go Tidal Hi-Fi on top of that, you do not need much gear to hear the difference. If you know what to listen for, that is.Īs for PC, Spotify do not support ASIO, while Tidal does. So if you usually hear differences between gear, you should hear this one as well. On the right gear, the difference is clearly audible. These were left untouched by Google when I uploaded them, and I cannot hear a difference with these versions in an ABX test. I deleted all of the Beatles iTunes tracks from Google and ripped Lame vbr -0 MP3 files from my CDs. I was able to successfully pass an ABX between one of these Google converted MP3 256 files and the CD-ripped FLAC version 12/15 and 13/15 times in 2 consecutive tests with the song "In My Life" from Rubber Soul, focusing on Ringo's bell strikes on the ride cymbal. I allowed Google to upload the iTunes AAC 256 versions of the songs, and then I downloaded these converted songs back to my PC. I have the Beatles stereo box-set from iTunes and the CDs. Unfortunately, Google transcodes any uploaded AAC file to an equivalent bitrate MP3 file (up to 320 kbps). And while the Google Lame MP3 320 CBR files sound audibly transparent with the equivalent CD to my ears, I can see that the AAC format is technically superior to MP3, and I would prefer to use this format if I could find a streaming service that worked as well as Google's does for me. I love the Google music service with their 30+ million streaming songs and the ability to upload up to 50,000 of my own songs that are seamlessly incorporated into the Google library shuffle system along with genre, artist, album, and song radios. ![]() Apple does a great job maintaining the highest quality audio with their AAC versions.
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