What do you think the future holds for digital music/audio ?
HansD-NL
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No, he is saying that a good studio room has a calibrated/reference sound and Roomfit can help re-create that scenario at home.
ok so all studios sound the 'same' and are setup to be within a know acoustic parameter that roomfit recreates as close as possible 'at home'
castalla
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It all sounds totally esoteric & of little practical use for the average user who just wants to play a few tunes. 
The settings WiiM provide like
EQ for your headphones.
EQ for badly voiced speakers, e.g. the too bright Dynaudio Emit M10s we have in our TV setup.
RoomFit (bloody geniius)
all bring us as listeners closer to the mastering engineer’s decisions.
The artist almost never has a say.
EQ for your headphones.
EQ for badly voiced speakers, e.g. the too bright Dynaudio Emit M10s we have in our TV setup.
RoomFit (bloody geniius)
all bring us as listeners closer to the mastering engineer’s decisions.
The artist almost never has a say.
this something that really annoys me about streaming, having to always be 'connected' .. no internet and your world stopsThankfully I own all my favourite albums on cd and vinyl so I can live offline
.. some services offer 'offline' option which i use and save in 'loseless' as i have plenty of storage on my PC,. Even cars are moving to an 'always on connected' state where you need to be in communication with the 'mothership' .. 
slartibartfast
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Not only that. Streaming services often only have the latest and greatest compressed master which sounds nothing like the original album.this something that really annoys me about streaming, having to always be 'connected' .. no internet and your world stops
question = does the 'quality' of your internet connection have an influence on the sounds we hear ? seeing as many 'audiophiles' spend thousands on cables power supplies etc
I have 'fttp' which is fibre optic into my home, but many still have a 'copper' wire connection somewhere in the system.
I have 'fttp' which is fibre optic into my home, but many still have a 'copper' wire connection somewhere in the system.
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Most people rip or have ripped their physical collection to a lossless file format and can live happily ever after with both the convenience of ‚streaming‘ and not having to be online.this something that really annoys me about streaming, having to always be 'connected' .. no internet and your world stops
So I have done. And if there‘s something I really like I acquire it the one or other way, but in any case, it will be on my server and back-ups.
Ad. #28: No influence. The music is sent as data packages. If one is lost the receiver asks for it to be sent again. Silence may occur, but that has nothing to do with copper or optical fibers but servers and the odd denial of service attack on part of the infrastructure.
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Forget all about that voodoo. If it reaches your streaming device it is as good as anything.
If you want to read something else I recommend the Naim forum
.I dont worry about such things. I just listen. I use the cables that come with the equipment. I plug it into the wall outlet. I let it stand on the feet it came with. And to my 63 year old ears with tinnitus it sounds good. And considering two of my favorite groups are the Who and ACDC which the lead singers are almost deaf I figure their opinions don't carry much weight.
Ah, Accadacca! Thunderstruck, when Malcolm puts on the rhythm on the left side. I want a beer just thinking about it at 1425 on a Tuesday.
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I have some records which were recorded in an almost empty cinema, no curtains, seats, etc, and the acoustics were so much different, and in many ways better than recordings made before everything was stripped out prior to the cinema closing.
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When you play them back you don't want to add more reverberation thoughI have some records which were recorded in an almost empty cinema, no curtains, seats, etc, and the acoustics were so much different, and in many ways better than recordings made before everything was stripped out prior to the cinema closing.
HansD-NL
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While recording you can make use of the natural reverb and reflections of a particular room and lots of recordings are made in big open (empty) spaces. Reproducing/listening back on speakers in an empty room is another thing altogether..I have some records which were recorded in an almost empty cinema, no curtains, seats, etc, and the acoustics were so much different, and in many ways better than recordings made before everything was stripped out prior to the cinema closing.
castalla
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What any of this has to do with the future of music is beyond me
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Did you read the first post?What any of this has to do with the future of music is beyond me
thats me 'just wanted to play a few tunes' .. then i stumbled into 'Wiim-world' ' ..It all sounds totally esoteric & of little practical use for the average user who just wants to play a few tunes.
The mix of a studio recording has to be a bit of a compromise. It may sound fantastic on the studio monitors but, it will get played on all sorts of equipment, headphones, car systems, cheap portable stereos etc. to see how it sounds before the mix is finalised.
So I don’t think a ‘one eq for all’ ever works in the real world. Almost every lister will adjust their equipment to try and get the sound to their liking.
So I don’t think a ‘one eq for all’ ever works in the real world. Almost every lister will adjust their equipment to try and get the sound to their liking.
