Want to know what song(s) you guys listen to when breaking in new headphones.
Or in other words, what song is your absolute go-to when you get those new cans, IEMs or headphones?
I'm just getting into higher-end gear myself so I'd love some recommendations. That, and branching out with music is always good.
Spotify Playlist of all the suggested songs:
danpanIf you don’t mind me asking; how did you do it? Manually? I have to sync playlists across Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music, and any tools to assist would be wonderful!
I like a wide variety:
Skinny Living - Only I
Droeloe - Wake the Warrior
Dominique Fils-Aime - Birds
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Ludovico Einaudi - Twice (Reimagined by Mercan Dede)
Luca Stricagnoli - Last of the Mohicans
All have good range, imaging and high quality mastering.
far corporation's stairway to heaven, not zep version, but that's great too, rush the necromancer of caress of steel and kid gloves of grace under pressure, sniff n the tears driver's seat, fm the black noise album, home of radio kaos by roger waters and last 3 tracks on his amused to death lp, broken bones, picture that and wait for her of the ittlwrw lp, doctor of orbitals blue album, lush of the brown album, leslie west's on the moon, and people get ready single. jeff beck live in Tokyo, Fleetwood mac's crystal and dreams in fact the rumours lp in full steve Miller's bingo album, especially sweet soul vibe, new model army the winter album, last 3 tracks, and conversations and were I am of the from here lp. Steve hillage these uncharted lands, joe satriani shapeshifting album...pick and chose the best ones, justin Sullivan's clean horizon new single and be sure to pick up his new lp surrounded, released on 28 may along with the much anticipated re release of navigating by the stars lp, ..to be going on with!!
I still find that Spotify is a great place to explore music, and I can download Spotify to MP3 without Premium. And I can barely tell the difference between Spotify and Tidal, so yeah Spotify still the best choice.
Sketchy - ✓
Takes a licensed file that you've downloaded, sometimes a steamed version. Plays back the file at 10X, 20X speed or more (the process is often done at a centralized farm) ✓
Basically the equivalent of taking your audio line-out, plugging into line-in and playing the source really fast and re-records the music at the same rate to a lossy format with lots of compression. ✓
At the minimum, you're starting out with a digital file of some format, then it's decoded to an analog signal, played back and recorded at the same really fast-rate, then re-encoded in any number of popular formats, no longer with DRM attached, and it doesn't really matter if you have the option of 320VBR or CBR MP3 - a LOT is left out during this "process" or service. It's full of holes, but might sound perfectly fine in your car or even through a dedicated player. It's hard to "miss" something you've never heard before. ✓**
**Source: 25+ years ago working part-time and at a moderately high-end AV store. I was a full-time undergrad student working to support my habit - back then, entry-level was Denon, Citation by HK, B&K Components to Mark Levinson, McIntosh, Carver - B&W, NHT, Thiel, Snell, Magnepan, what great memories! A plain and simple fact: some just can't discern - "Is It Live or Is It Memorex?" That's 100% OK, and now in my mid-fifties, I'd probably have to fake the ability to answer that question with my "old" ears.✓✓
BowRatThanks Bowrat!
I found out that Apple’s iTunes app has a built-in feature to convert my DRM free tracks to MP3. Works well enough for my needs :)
I hope you’re still enjoying your ears!
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