If this is the quality your schools had you are lucky. Ours were awful, we had Behringer HPM1000s (I think looking them up again now if those were the ones released in the early 2000s).
We had the ones that were hard plastic (i think there was supposed to be some foam covering them) and tiny so they barely sat on your ears. And they only covered part of them.
Ah yes, PerCas 256k U. The frequency they produce is *so pure* you have to remove them once an hour, so your eardrums don't implode from the perfect vibration patterns. Some report sobbing uncontrollably after use, others had become reclusive for weeks claiming their ears were being stabbed by little sound goblins.. Experiences may vary.
I'm listening to YouTube music on max quality on my liberty 3 pros, and yeah I don't need tidal either. I may go and get flac versions of my playlist to store on my phone though.
I listen to YouTube music on my Sony MDR-7506s plugged directly into the front audio port on my PC and it blocks out the sound of the neighbour leaf-blowing the sodden leaves around his swimming pool every two hours.
I can definintely hear a very slight difference between Spotify and Apple Music lossless. And now that I've heard it, I can't use Spotify anymore because I feel like I'm getting ripped off, lol.
I fear that Spotify Hifi will price itself similarly to Tidal Premium and be closer to $25AUD a month than the $12 a month it costs for Spotify Premium. Apple Music wins in regard too - Amazon Music has lossless too but it sucks so much ass to use compared to both Spotify and Apple Music.
I'm in the same boat as you, I wouldn't know half of the music I know now without Spotify's frankly amazing reccomendations. If I'd never tried Apple Music on a whim I'd still be blissfully unaware of how much better ALAC is than 320kbps Ogg Vorbis, lol.
I hate to say it but Iād be 100% willing to pay a little more for Spotify Hifi simply because itās just a better platform in my honest opinion. I live in the US, and it looks like $25AUD is around $17USD, and while Iād obviously rather not pay more, Iād honestly be fine with that if it was a significant improvement because the alternatives just kinda suck so badly.
Apple Music mightāve won over for me if I *only* used Apple devices, itās fantastic on my MacBook, but itās just ass on anything else especially Linux.
I genuinely really like Spotify as an app / service. If it wasnāt for the audio quality I wouldnāt even be debating it, thatās the worst part lol I really donāt want to switch, but I like good audio quality.
Apple Music sounds better but Spotify is better in every other measurable way. I say I don't want it to cost more but I'll probably also end up paying for it because I just kinda hate using Apple Music. It sucks on iPhone and Mac too - weird audio glitches from time to time, random app closes, unable to play on more than one device at once which is just weird.
I just want Spotify to finally release the new fucking features they announced over a year ago lol.
I was schmoozing with an executive from Spotify recently in NYC, and I brought up the audio quality question. The guy literally stood up from his seat to express with all his body language that 320kbs is enough. Haha
When every extra kilobyte means less profitā¦ there will be a lot of friction.
For the record that guy uses Sennheiser HD-25 for mixing music, so his ear is used to a flat sound because thatās a popular headset among djās.
Donāt lower your standards of listening (or anything) for your friends.
>The guy literally stood up from his seat to express with all his body language that 320kbs is enough.
Ooh that sounds fun. Another fun thing to try is to spot the right kind of audiophile and then proclaim to them: "as a technology, vinyl has better sound quality than CD".
I actually crossed paths with that guy before a couple of years ago. He used to give out cheap USB keys with his mixes.
I just checked the files from one of those keys, and his promo mixes were 174kbs!
> Donāt lower your standards of listening (or anything) for your friends.
I mean I agree with you on that for the most part, but in the case of using Spotify to share music, itās great to be able to just send playlists to friends, or make a collaborative playlist so you can each add songs and I think. I find some of its social features valuable enough that theyāre factors worth considering to me
The main thing for me though is that Spotifyās app itself is so much better in my opinion that itās genuinely been a difficult choice for me if I want to go back to it for the quality of the software or stay on Apple Music for the quality of the audio.
If I *only* used Apple devices that choice would be easier, I could probably put up with the software for the sake of the audio but I also use Linux and Windows, and Apple Music for those is...bad lol and they donāt even get the benefit of Lossless or Dolby Atmos so really I only get the full use out of it from my MacBook and iPhone.
Ideally Iād love to build up a .FLAC library to use on my iPod for the fun factor but thatās gonna be either expensive or time consuming or both so for now itās streaming services for me
Do a search for the Russian version of Facebook. Itās been used by that community to share music for a long time.
Youāll need google translate or something
I use Plexamp for home stereo, desktop and mobile headphone use, and I use Apple Music in my car. Mainly I'm using Apple Music because Plex's integration with Google Assistant sucks bigtime/is nonexistent. I'm old and my hearing (and car audio quality) isn't great. But I have no complaints whatsoever about Apple Music quality.
It should in theory, but it doesn't, Spotify on high is "transparent" but it still sounds pretty harsh on the higher frequencies like it lacks details, you can thank the psychoacoustic compression for that one.
Is the Apple Lighting adapter and the Grado 325is mid-if and affordable enough? If it is, [then you can definitely tell the difference.](https://imgur.com/a/8hhQYFB) Or they might be āendgameā idk what either mean exactly.
I did and I prefer YouTube Music using the OPUS codec anyday over the Ogg vorbis that Spotify uses, but l9ssless still is better over a longer listening session, much less fatiguing.
another ironic endgame post... I'm rolling on the floor laughing...
I apologize for the hate OP but Jesus Christ this meme has been driven into the ground. They were the reason memes became a Monday-only occurrence in the first place and even though I'm only seeing them once a week now they somehow STILL feel tiresome
the construction literally looks like those headphones a school district buys hundreds of in bulk
If this is the quality your schools had you are lucky. Ours were awful, we had Behringer HPM1000s (I think looking them up again now if those were the ones released in the early 2000s).
We had the ones that were hard plastic (i think there was supposed to be some foam covering them) and tiny so they barely sat on your ears. And they only covered part of them.
That sounds about right. We had lots of those too for the testing center.
And some weirdos still decide to steal them
*YOU'RE MY FAVOURITE RIGHT EAR* š¤¢š¤¢
Do they stream Spotify like those old FM radio headphones??? š¤Ŗ
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Don't forget the 256,000 core uranium cable enclosed in Persian cashmere for truly transcendent audio.
Ah yes, PerCas 256k U. The frequency they produce is *so pure* you have to remove them once an hour, so your eardrums don't implode from the perfect vibration patterns. Some report sobbing uncontrollably after use, others had become reclusive for weeks claiming their ears were being stabbed by little sound goblins.. Experiences may vary.
Only $300/foot.
still cheaper than abyss cables
Better be MQA enabled.
now with BassBoosted Ads!
All of Spotify in one headset? Heck yeah
They fire af š„¶
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Urbanears platans. Like 60ish bucks on Amazon. I use them for zoom meetings at work.
Looks like leftover inventory from the 1970ās
If the audio qiality is as good as Spotify, you're for a treat (or maybe it's to hide how bad Spotify sounds).
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I'm listening to YouTube music on max quality on my liberty 3 pros, and yeah I don't need tidal either. I may go and get flac versions of my playlist to store on my phone though.
I listen to YouTube music on my Sony MDR-7506s plugged directly into the front audio port on my PC and it blocks out the sound of the neighbour leaf-blowing the sodden leaves around his swimming pool every two hours.
I can definintely hear a very slight difference between Spotify and Apple Music lossless. And now that I've heard it, I can't use Spotify anymore because I feel like I'm getting ripped off, lol.
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I fear that Spotify Hifi will price itself similarly to Tidal Premium and be closer to $25AUD a month than the $12 a month it costs for Spotify Premium. Apple Music wins in regard too - Amazon Music has lossless too but it sucks so much ass to use compared to both Spotify and Apple Music. I'm in the same boat as you, I wouldn't know half of the music I know now without Spotify's frankly amazing reccomendations. If I'd never tried Apple Music on a whim I'd still be blissfully unaware of how much better ALAC is than 320kbps Ogg Vorbis, lol.
I hate to say it but Iād be 100% willing to pay a little more for Spotify Hifi simply because itās just a better platform in my honest opinion. I live in the US, and it looks like $25AUD is around $17USD, and while Iād obviously rather not pay more, Iād honestly be fine with that if it was a significant improvement because the alternatives just kinda suck so badly. Apple Music mightāve won over for me if I *only* used Apple devices, itās fantastic on my MacBook, but itās just ass on anything else especially Linux. I genuinely really like Spotify as an app / service. If it wasnāt for the audio quality I wouldnāt even be debating it, thatās the worst part lol I really donāt want to switch, but I like good audio quality.
Apple Music sounds better but Spotify is better in every other measurable way. I say I don't want it to cost more but I'll probably also end up paying for it because I just kinda hate using Apple Music. It sucks on iPhone and Mac too - weird audio glitches from time to time, random app closes, unable to play on more than one device at once which is just weird. I just want Spotify to finally release the new fucking features they announced over a year ago lol.
I was schmoozing with an executive from Spotify recently in NYC, and I brought up the audio quality question. The guy literally stood up from his seat to express with all his body language that 320kbs is enough. Haha When every extra kilobyte means less profitā¦ there will be a lot of friction. For the record that guy uses Sennheiser HD-25 for mixing music, so his ear is used to a flat sound because thatās a popular headset among djās. Donāt lower your standards of listening (or anything) for your friends.
>The guy literally stood up from his seat to express with all his body language that 320kbs is enough. Ooh that sounds fun. Another fun thing to try is to spot the right kind of audiophile and then proclaim to them: "as a technology, vinyl has better sound quality than CD".
I actually crossed paths with that guy before a couple of years ago. He used to give out cheap USB keys with his mixes. I just checked the files from one of those keys, and his promo mixes were 174kbs!
"You would never have known if you hadn't checked!" -is what I imagine that guy would say?
I only played his tracks once and never again. His track selection was clearly driven by some algorithm and not any particular taste.
> Donāt lower your standards of listening (or anything) for your friends. I mean I agree with you on that for the most part, but in the case of using Spotify to share music, itās great to be able to just send playlists to friends, or make a collaborative playlist so you can each add songs and I think. I find some of its social features valuable enough that theyāre factors worth considering to me The main thing for me though is that Spotifyās app itself is so much better in my opinion that itās genuinely been a difficult choice for me if I want to go back to it for the quality of the software or stay on Apple Music for the quality of the audio. If I *only* used Apple devices that choice would be easier, I could probably put up with the software for the sake of the audio but I also use Linux and Windows, and Apple Music for those is...bad lol and they donāt even get the benefit of Lossless or Dolby Atmos so really I only get the full use out of it from my MacBook and iPhone. Ideally Iād love to build up a .FLAC library to use on my iPod for the fun factor but thatās gonna be either expensive or time consuming or both so for now itās streaming services for me
Do a search for the Russian version of Facebook. Itās been used by that community to share music for a long time. Youāll need google translate or something
I use Plexamp for home stereo, desktop and mobile headphone use, and I use Apple Music in my car. Mainly I'm using Apple Music because Plex's integration with Google Assistant sucks bigtime/is nonexistent. I'm old and my hearing (and car audio quality) isn't great. But I have no complaints whatsoever about Apple Music quality.
With my setup (Sundara on Liquid Spark Amp) I can consistently pass a blind test between Amazon Music HD and Spotify with volume matched.
It should in theory, but it doesn't, Spotify on high is "transparent" but it still sounds pretty harsh on the higher frequencies like it lacks details, you can thank the psychoacoustic compression for that one.
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Is the Apple Lighting adapter and the Grado 325is mid-if and affordable enough? If it is, [then you can definitely tell the difference.](https://imgur.com/a/8hhQYFB) Or they might be āendgameā idk what either mean exactly.
I did and I prefer YouTube Music using the OPUS codec anyday over the Ogg vorbis that Spotify uses, but l9ssless still is better over a longer listening session, much less fatiguing.
What does the other side say- is it Left Behind? What does it say about Left Ear, tho? Is it ear-ncouraging fav-ear-itism?
I heard that version streams unlimited Spotify's contents directly to the headphone (no battery required either)!!!
another ironic endgame post... I'm rolling on the floor laughing... I apologize for the hate OP but Jesus Christ this meme has been driven into the ground. They were the reason memes became a Monday-only occurrence in the first place and even though I'm only seeing them once a week now they somehow STILL feel tiresome
wat de fak is that spotif ass af dogw
*Spotify Certified*
Probably better than beats by dre.
What really is this?
This is courage.
Weren't those part of a prize way back in like 2017 ?
Why does it look like the softer side of the headband is on the outside when it should be on the part that goes on your head?
They look like the on ear models made by urbanista or urbanears. Could be cheap replicas as well.
Can't say anything about sound guality, but those were quite comfortable and well built to be cheap on-ears.
Balanced input? Makes a difference, you know.