What are you listening to right now?

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Captainhemo

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77800 on: 7 Jan 2017, 12:20 am »


Little Village   -   Little village   '92
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77801 on: 7 Jan 2017, 12:27 am »
     

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SlushPuppy

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77802 on: 7 Jan 2017, 01:26 am »
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority (1969) (Tidal MQA)

This sounds really nice!



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Captainhemo

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77803 on: 7 Jan 2017, 01:32 am »
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority (1969) (Tidal MQA)

This sounds really nice!



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Listened to a few  MQA  albums from Tidal this afternoon myself, some I thought sounded good, some   about the same as teh  1/44,100 stream.
The desktop app crapped on me a while ago, not sure   wtf   :scratch:
Will try  that Chicago album   at some point too

SlushPuppy

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77804 on: 7 Jan 2017, 02:14 am »
Listened to a few  MQA  albums from Tidal this afternoon myself, some I thought sounded good, some   about the same as teh  1/44,100 stream.
The desktop app crapped on me a while ago, not sure   wtf   :scratch:
Will try that Chicago album at some point too

I haven't had an issue with the Tidal app yet. I'm running it on a clean; dedicated music server with Windows 10 Pro. Not sure how other programs running in the background would affect the app. So far every album I've played sounds much better than the CD's I own, but no title sounds better than the SACD or DVD-Audio discs I own - but they're closer than I expected for a streaming service. The treble sounds a bit bright on some albums compared to what I'm used to. Almost all the albums have remastering dates later than my original CD's, so that could have something to do with it. I've found a lot of recent remasters to be too trebley and bass punchy compared to the originals. What is the bitrate indicated on your DAC? Mine shows 96/24. Some user are getting strange bitrates.

elasticnorseman

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77805 on: 7 Jan 2017, 02:21 am »


The Roches     (1979)

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SlushPuppy

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77806 on: 7 Jan 2017, 02:49 am »
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993) (Tidal MQA)



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My favorite song on this album has always been “My Curse”. Stereogum has a good write-up about it:

It’s telling that the most personal, intense lyrics on the Whigs’ most personal, intense album aren’t even sung by Greg Dulli. The story goes that Dulli couldn’t bring himself to sing the words in the studio, as they were just too painful; instead they brought in Marcy Mays of Scrawl to handle the vocals. Putting a woman in Dulli’s shoes this late in the game (“My Curse” was track 8 out of 11) takes the excoriating lyrics and flips them on their head. By inverting the gender, somehow the impossible occurs — the lyrics come off even worse. On an album that seemingly exists to batter an unnamed female into submission, suddenly giving that female a voice (with Greg Dulli’s lyrics, no less) makes for a jaw-dropping experience, and you find yourself going over every line looking for new meaning. “Hurt me baby, I flinch so when you do. Your kisses scourge me.” And the arrangement is pitch perfect, all subtle power — like their most affecting material, it’s softer than you’d expect, but Marcy Mays’ vocal, both live and on record, will make your hair stand on end. “Zip me down, kiss me there. I can smile now, you won’t find out ever.” Vicious and perfect.

SlushPuppy

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77807 on: 7 Jan 2017, 03:45 am »
Deftones - White Pony (2000) (Tidal MQA)

Wasn't expecting this to be in the initial release of MQA titles! Sounds great!

My CD of this album has a black cover. There were many background colors.



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Captainhemo

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77808 on: 7 Jan 2017, 04:58 am »
I haven't had an issue with the Tidal app yet. I'm running it on a clean; dedicated music server with Windows 10 Pro. Not sure how other programs running in the background would affect the app. So far every album I've played sounds much better than the CD's I own, but no title sounds better than the SACD or DVD-Audio discs I own - but they're closer than I expected for a streaming service. The treble sounds a bit bright on some albums compared to what I'm used to. Almost all the albums have remastering dates later than my original CD's, so that could have something to do with it. I've found a lot of recent remasters to be too trebley and bass punchy compared to the originals. What is the bitrate indicated on your DAC? Mine shows 96/24. Some user are getting strange bitrates.

I noted the increased treble levels right away as well, I didn't feel it was "bad",  just different.  I'm not using a dedicated server so it's  doing  double/riple duty , also running  windows 10 Pro. 
I listened to  4 or 5 albums before it crapped so not entirely sure   what happened, even after restarting the app,   no love so a reboot is in order at some point.    For now,  it's back to Roon.
Running a K&K Audio  RakDac MKIV, no  bit rate  indication so can't answer that
Will give it another  go tomorrow

jay
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
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Captainhemo

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77810 on: 7 Jan 2017, 05:14 pm »


Bill Evans   -   Affinity   '78   Tidal, MQA
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Captainhemo

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77811 on: 7 Jan 2017, 06:13 pm »



Bob James / Nathan East   -   The New Cool   '15   Tidal / MQA
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
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Opeth - Sorceress

elasticnorseman

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77814 on: 7 Jan 2017, 10:48 pm »


The Dreaming - Kate Bush     (1982)

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elasticnorseman

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77815 on: 7 Jan 2017, 11:44 pm »


The Stylings of Silver - Horace Silver     (1957)

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SlushPuppy

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77816 on: 8 Jan 2017, 12:03 am »
The Replacements - Tim (1985) (Tidal MQA)



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SlushPuppy

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77817 on: 8 Jan 2017, 12:57 am »
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995) (Tidal MQA)



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SlushPuppy

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77818 on: 8 Jan 2017, 01:59 am »
Dr. John - Dr. John's Gumbo (1972) (Tidal MQA)



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elasticnorseman

Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #77819 on: 8 Jan 2017, 02:02 am »


Kicking Against the Pricks - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds     (1986)

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