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Hook wrote:mines can differentiate the 192 mp3's from original discs so even tho space is compromised, ripping at 256/320kb gives me a bit of both scenarios...better than 192kb but I can still store multiple albums on one disc...the VBR WMAs have their merits but...*sigh* y can't they invent a *.ape disc player jed?!
(...Rovin...) wrote:dont bother to listen to anything less than 320kbps since it come like u wasting time
when i 1st got internet long time i used to think 128 was good & since i had dial up was 20-mins to get a friggin song so was level 128 back then ...somehow i never find d highs used to sound good but then i knew after ....especially when u have comps u can easily hear d faults in a poor download - does make ur good speakers sound like sh1t
as for tuning : buy d damn original Iasca SQ CD & done ...[end of thread] ....
De Hero wrote:How do I play FLAC files in the car ? I did Rockbox my Sansa player. But the Pioneer deck wont recognise FLAC.
BTW does anyone reccomend a lossless format that the Pio WILL recognise ?
Am using EAC to rip - at 320kbps - to a wav file. Not sure if better can be done.
Any guidance will be appreciated.
Sully wrote:De Hero wrote:How do I play FLAC files in the car ? I did Rockbox my Sansa player. But the Pioneer deck wont recognise FLAC.
BTW does anyone reccomend a lossless format that the Pio WILL recognise ?
Am using EAC to rip - at 320kbps - to a wav file. Not sure if better can be done.
Any guidance will be appreciated.
I thought that rockbox would have worked, I guess it doesn't output to the deck as audio, it still sends the encoded file.
Another option (albeit for ipods) is to encode using the apple lossless codec.
Sully wrote:On the pioneer site AAC is listed as one of the formats that can be played by some of the mid to higher end units. You could try encoding to apple lossless and try it. I don't know if the sansa would support playback of AAC. That's another thing to try.
X_Factor wrote:what stuff u guys know that has decent subsonics?
Hook wrote:so with all these tunes u folks call...the only person who explained why he chose some of them was SR...why do u guys like these songs for SQ?
my personal favourites are:
Toto:
Rosanna (for the ghost notes on the snare drum EDIT: and the pre-chorus drum fill that pans left to right)
Africa (for the cow bell in the EDIT: INTRO of the original version on the far right)
EDIT:I won't Hold You Back Now (the brass accompanyment with the main guitar solo is done first by trombome and then french horn..the difference should be clear as the first has a much lower component (u should almost be able to feel it in your doors/kick midbass) and the second is more ambient sounding)
Rush:
Show Don't Tell (for the roto-tom intro...but basically all Rush songs have very busy basslines that a good system should keep up with)
Sarah McLachlan (Mirrorball):
Sweet Surrender (pinch harmonics on the intro)
Fear (extreme left/right panning on the back-up vocals near end of intro and hi-hat tapping before the verse)
Posession (plenty to listen to there...esp two stick clicks before drum fill intro)
Sade:
Ordinary Love (lead vocal is dead centre and bass sounds 'bubbly' with the synth)
Cherish the Day (from the Lover's Live album...bass creeps in at the middle of the first verse...a proper EQ/XO setting won't get the fade from front stage to sub on the bass fill)
Pearls (voice/synth and EQ on her voice on the album can highlight the faults in ur high-mid settings)
Nirvana (Unplugged...entire album, Cobain's voice is dead centre and everything else pans out)
Roxette:
Listen to Your Heart (low bass note before the verse is easy to muddy up)
EDIT: Must've Been Love (in the tune itself there are triangle/chime sounds that plays very specific rhythm patterns on the extreme left and right..good for EQing as most systems don't properly play above 14kHz anyway and good for checking channel separation)
The Carpenters:
I Need to Be in Love (for the harp and flute on the intro)
EDIT: All You Get From Love is A Love Song (hall reverb on the percussion intro that pans centre to left and the scratcher on the extreme right...also the snare sound as it comes in by itself has a very "wet" sound altho it sounds like it was recorded in isolation as it's dead centre)
Fourplay:
any song, any album...lots to listen to...very processed instruments but their percussion line is busy enough to keep u listening out for stuff
thas about all I can remember off the top of my head, but thas the bulk of it
angel_player wrote:BUMP!!
I was actually searching for this thread... thought it very interesting and well alot of the good songs have been mentioned, I imagine there is quite a lot more to be added
I would like to add to the list: Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler (the extended 7:02 album version) I like this song because her voice tonality is very distinctive and goes quite well with the pure 80's instrumental background. The crashes in the instrumental very efficiently introduces each new part of the song. Bonnie's voice also does well to introduce each anti-climax and chorus climax. The entire songs goes higher and higher in each line and leads up to the following, when her moods just explodes....
Every now and then I fall apart
(Turn around bright eyes)
Every now and then I fall apa
And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you'll only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
Cause we'll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
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