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The Computer Audiophile

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  1. I still can’t believe how cheap streaming music is today. There’s no better value for consumers in all of media. I know some of us are a little crazy, but I was trying to think of a monthly price that would make me think twice about subscribing to Tidal. I’m too embarrassed to say how much the service is worth to me / what I’d be willing to pay :~)
  2. Hi @joelha, I absolutely love this article. If people read only one paragraph, they must read the final one. It really hits the nail on the head, at least for me. Some of the stuff that's possible today, wasn't even a dream of mine many years ago. I remember thinking, what if Apple sold lossless audio via iTunes? That would be the most amazing thing ever. I'd never have to leave the iTunes app or my house for that matter. Now, that seems laughable. We have high resolution streaming everywhere, all the time, different versions available, different mixes available, it's really endless. When I think about my audiophile wish list, it has some really cool items, but none of them are moonshots. They are all doable becuase of some of the things you mentioned. Thanks for the article. It's great to take stock in how far things have come and the enviable position we as audiophiles are in today. I'd say that even the most fantatical objectivists and subjectivists can agree upon the items you mentioned. That's saying something! Nice way to start the week Joel.
  3. It appears that Proton exists solely because of privacy and security concerns, and does the best in the industry to protect both. Consumer data is encrypted at rest, not even Proton can access it. Google on the other hand, continually mines your life's worth of communications, to make money off of it and sell you out.
  4. I wish you were wrong, but I don’t think you are. I use Proton for a lot of things. I’m waiting for the day I find out it too isn’t what I though.
  5. For many apps, the companies are way ahead of us. The apps won’t function without calls home. I use Pi-Hole and it helps but also reveals how much our devices call home. It’s insane.
  6. It actually does the exact opposite by adding crossfeed.
  7. This is very important. Bacch and other crosstalk cancellation techniques are really cool! I’m not against them at all. In fact, anything that can make audio more enjoyable for people, and not remove choice from others (like MQA on Tidal), is fantastic. The presentation of music is hugely different when using XTC. It really must be experienced, to see if you like it. I’m more of a purist for the most part. I want to hear what’s on the recording, as intended by those involved. If they listened to the mix using XTC, then I’ll need XTC to reproduce it as they intended.
  8. I’d rather stick a pencil in my neck.
  9. Even experts in the field of XTC will acknowledge what I’m saying. This isn’t something crazy. XTC is really cool, but it can’t deliver what the engineers wanted, unless they used it to monitor while creating the mix. It changes the sound from what they mixed.
  10. Seriously. Think about your logic. Your using a tone control that nobody uses while mixing the music, yet saying it’s what the engineer intended.
  11. Do you know of any engineers using the Bacch plugin or hardware while mixing? I know of none. P.S. I’m not dumb enough to think the sound is baked in with the plugin. I’m talking about using Bacch while monitoring the mix. Without this, your statement must be false by any use of logic.
  12. The Bacch plugin, or Bacch hardware, changes the sound greatly. Unless this is used at the time of the mix, which would make all non-Bacch versions sound terrible, there can be no way an engineer will know what it sounds like. It’s like saying turning your bass adjustment tone control to the max is what the engineer intended, even though he has no such adjustment. Do you see the impossibility?
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