Like how years ago I ripped and converted my DVDs and now I want to rip them all again and keep them in their bit-exact MPEG-2 format for archival reasons

Watched them now. Really informative and actually enjoyable to watch. Thanks for sharing that!

To be honest nothing beats CD audio in my opinion

I found it.

I don't really have issues with bit rate, I have issue with compression especially if bands upload it with lossy compression already.

Jokes on you my one's only a USB and it makes the shhhh sound go ____

And both make a great balanced breakfast.

Sean Olive also speculated this.

yes AND I WANT MORE KNOBS

Correct, but I paid $70!

I blind-tested, to the best of my ability, my Enleum AMP-23R against an Atom amp (made of plastic!) with Hifiman’s Susvara and couldn’t tell a difference. I have mild hearing damage but it shouldn’t be that bad.

Besides the Susvara, I also tried Focal’s Clear and Audeze’s LCD-5. The Clear isn’t said to “scale” particularly well and I’m not familiar enough with LCD-5 to have heard differences there. This was done in my quietest room, which is acoustically treated and quite silent.

That said, I am not a practiced listener by any means and my audio pursuits are based on feelings of “this sounds like live”. I did this test alongside an upgrade-chaser with more discerning ears and we came to the conclusion that it didn’t make an audio difference but they look or feel nice. Our findings weren’t upsetting, I primarily upgrade for aesthetics and wasn’t aware that it was meant to sound better.

I don't sadly. Will try to look again later

128 kbps? No problem, yt music doubles it so its not bad bad

we got pampered

Not quite ringing in my ears but I would get fatigued after a 1-2 hour listening session. Upgrading my amp and DAC did away with the fatigue and I could enjoy music again. Always at safe volumes though.

So I have a somewhat different story - downloaded a song from YouTube about 8 years ago. Stumbled upon it on my phone again a year ago, and tried to find it in better quality. Song, and artist, seems to have been erased from the internet.

Oh well, at least the song is a banger and I have a copy lol.

FWIW I EQ the LCD-5 and have multiple profiles depending on what mood I’m in. So I am a big fan of EQ. I’m more trying to meme the people that believe you can EQ a HD660 into a LCD-5 (believe me I have tried).

And no doubt here! Got them 9 months and they eliminated my desire for other headphones because when EQ’d they’re perfect for me. Happy listening and I hope you get a chance to listen to a pair one day!

Closed/openbacks dont make a difference on that front, I'm also running some chunky/thicc glasses myself.

I'm not much of a basshead - more so than sheer volume and quantity of bass I like mine restrained and NOT bleeding into the mids or bloating, so on days I'm craving for bass my XS + bassboost button on my ifi zen dac v2 makes me very happy. The Sundara is a slightly warmer presentation, with bass slightly less tight/controlled IME.

I have a very bogus but at least a crude approximation of how loud I’m listening with my headphones with the built-in iOS loudness feature https://imgur.com/a/Fbes920/

Do you have the band’s name? I like digging for stuff like this.

Because an answer that fits that bill does not exist.

In my response, I suggested that OP tries A/B-testing so he can hear the difference - that'd be the least wordy answer, because if you wanted to really nerd out about technical details we are going to go on forever lol

I mean, it makes perfect sense.

Always keep the highest quality copies available for archiving and transcoding into future more efficient formats.

A true audiophile knows source is king, and until you can get your hands on some import SACD's of quality timber, or if you were lucky enough to see it fall, live, back in 74', you're just listening to a parody of the original record.

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