Recent content by merifon

Yes, I don't like so much Amazon Music and its low smoothness but sometimes use it for background due to prime subscription

Just to mess up, if I recall correctly Amazon Music app on iPhone usb dac connected, upsampled anything to 192khz, at least some years ago. Anyway if I address directly my WiiM Pro from Amazon Music app, it shows 320Kbit 16bit 48KHz, maybe this is the native resolution from Amazon. Not possible...

Sometimes I use Amazon prime music and I noted that if the HD/UHD WiiM app prefs switch is set to off, streaming goes 256Kbit 24bit 44.1KHz, whilst if set to on, streaming changes to 320Kbit 16bit 48KHz. Anyone knows where downsample came from in both cases? Is from Amazon direct or locally done...

There are troubles on some AWS services and Tidal rely on these to allow identification, maybe on geographical basis. I had intermittent problem from the morning but now it seems to work.

Yes and me too was on this idea but the demo was unbelievable, nothing to do with Dolby digital or any other 7.1 and other booming effects, also the embedded stereo down mix, even with loosing stage, is surprisingly good and dynamic. Limits are in the need of a super accurate production and this...

A strict requirement about LUFS, like atmos has, is missing. This would solve many DR problems. I guess the 2023 remaster has in part to thank the atmos needs... Anyway, I attended in a "selected theater" with "selected sources" to a Dolby atmos demo and this convinced me that is a huge...

Another exemple, search on Tidal "A space in time" by Ten years after. You'll get four albums: remaster 2004, remaster 2017 and two remastered 2023 in Dolby atmos, one of these contains also the original 1971 master. Loudness of 2017 is definitely too high, triggering possible limiter eventually...

Not always, but it's certainly a fact that many streaming masters are designed to sound loud, ultimately triggering the various services' automatic limiters. Since the volumes of different tracks can vary quite a bit, if you focus on the ones that sound quieter than the others, it's possible...

Tastes are sometimes stranges, I'm just curious if there are some aspects that I could missed that justify a second try

Obviously, tastes are not up for debate, but why would I prefer Deezer to Tidal, for example? I tried it ages ago, but it didn't leave a good impression: no connectivity, no lyrics management, higher cost, and other small shortcomings. Maybe is it improved?

Didn't you consider to activate the trial period? In any case, be sure to comparing the same exact editions and set (if possible) a test environment where switching from one service to the other is instantaneous, to avoid any biases. Consider also that producers hardly spend time to make...

This was I thought at a glance when switched from spot to Tidal but in reality is just a more clean and essential interface (no bells and whistles) and after a while I started to like it's suggestions, far more interesting than the usual mainstream from Spotify. In terms of connectivity...

Tidal cost less, pay more the artists, gives better suggestions, much more clean app and hasn't bullying behaviors versus minor editors...

Or simply let the files be as they're produced... This would avoid any complaint, and earable or not, everyone would be happy. The "main problem" isn't the bit depth or the sampling rate but the habit to make different masters. Despite the LUFS requirements by streaming services, producers...

I think the line input of 610 was designed keeping in mind a full range signal incoming from pre amplifier. In my previous set-up it was turned on even by just the little "thump" noise from powering on the pre. Now I have a dedicated and filtered subwoofer output and it starts only if overall...