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Music Playback Speed
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04/19/15 04:26 PM
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Ok, this post is for music lovers.
I have always noticed, or it always seemed to me, like my favorite songs sounded better on TV and in movies. I also noticed this effect on the radio, though not as much because let's face it, who listens to the radio (AM/FM) much anymore.
Even Youtube music videos seem to reverberate and echo in some way that a portable or desktop computer player normally doesn't.
I have a theory. I am thinking the MP3 player I have (Sansa) plays a click too fast. When I go to Windows Media Player 11, I slow down my faves to about 98.5% of full speed, and the music reclaims some lost magical quality.
Maybe I am just imagining it?
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Re: Music Playback Speed
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04/22/15 09:33 PM
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I'm not into 50's music, but I can bear witness that the sound systems before digital music sounded better in some way that's impossible to describe to someone who's never heard it. Maybe the proper term is analog music, as opposed to digital? Whatever it was, it had greater depth and substance.
edit: Analog is exactly what it was called, and was distinguished from digital because it was made up of a continuous signal, rather than digital "bits". If one listens to digital music closely, one can almost hear each individual bit, making the music sound almost like static interference. Analog music on the other hand was a continuous blast of deep sound.
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Re: Music Playback Speed
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04/24/15 01:32 AM
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I didn't know anything of these tubes, so I briefed myself. I say if the solid state circuitry transforms the music into kilobits per second (with minute empty spaces in between the bits), then avoid it if you can. If the tubes are the only answer for a decent amplifier, and you can find them, and afford them, then go that way.
Some people feel the tubes are not actually HiFi but instead add something to the music that wasn't there at all. I might disagree with that. I'll have to see. After all, the tube is an amplifier, and it is adding to the sound by amplifying it. So is it changing the sound? Yes. But is that a change in quality or quantity? I haven't heard it (or have I), so I can't yet say.
Either way it matters not. If the alternative to the tube is a transistor that chops the music up into packets of data, that's not really a good alternative to tubes.
It's funny. Even electronic music sounds better when played over analog. I can remember listing to Depeche Mode on a cassette tape. I am assuming that was analog. Boy did that sound great. I heard the same song a million times hence, and never so good.
I wonder why they call it lossless. It might have something to do with a tremendously fast bitrate that echos the frequency of sound itself. Even so, it's not like we haven't heard lossless. We all have. We heard it before compact discs went out of style. All of the CDs were recorded in lossless. They weren't very impressive in comparison to analog.
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Re: Music Playback Speed
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04/24/15 07:24 PM
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The purpose of an amplifier is to take a weak signal from a source (cassette, CD, radio broadcast, phonograph) and make it loud enough for you to hear at a level comfortable to you. An amplifier ideally should give none of its own coloration to the sound--not add or detract from the source material, just make it stronger.
"Transistor" or "solid state" is not synonymous with "digital." The first transistor audio equipment debuted in the late Fifties, and it was all analog. Digital music (CDs) wasn't available until the early Eighties.
If digitized music is sampled and coded at a high rate, using quality studio equipment, its sound should be completely faithful to the original analog master. That's if...
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