I live on YouTube some days. Quite apart from wallowing in nostalgia, it's the ideal place for listening to stuff that wouldn't get a listen if I had to pay up front.
Sound quality can be mediocre of course but some is surprisingly good. However as you say, it's free so who's complaining?
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I listen/watch YouTube as well - some fab classical concerts. SQ when it's in HD is excellent, imo, and at least very listenable most of the time. But then I'm obviously not that fussy.
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Aye me too Jerry I've found a medium which sounds very good indeed , is convenient , and has instant access to millions of albums for a tenner a months What's not to like .
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1+ for Spotify ... more practical than YT for discovering music, building playlists, etc and the quality @ 320kbs is perfect for 99% of what I listen to. Admittedly, some of the old stuff is not that good but still better IMHO than on any youtube videos I have heard so far. just my 2cts
sure its not perfect, but its pretty good. It has the edge on similar stream rate Amazon sound wise and i prefer the Ui I think now, even if its not as forgiving via search. Have to say I will mostly use it with headphones, and imo it sounds best this way
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Because I'm interested in what your experience of cans has been, and in your opinions about them.
I've been on quite a wide ranging journey with headphones the last year or so. What you see in the photo I posted is less than 50% of my current cans holding (see my signature, below), and I have owned and moved on quite a few others over the last year. I'm always interested in the opinions of others, even if we disagree in some ways.
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Interesting what you say about older recordings on Spotify.
In classical music on Spotify, I have often been amazed at the sound of older recordings that I have found pretty much unlistenable in other formats.
Some 60s and 70s classic recordings, on CBS and RCA for example, sound thin and bass shy on CD and LP but have come up full and well balanced and very listenable indeed on Spotify. It's been a bit of a revelation, actually.
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Some tracks may well benefit from a bit of lossy work.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -
Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***