Please tell me I'm not going crazy

[ZacKaffeine]

Hey everyone, 

 

Over the last few months I've become a fan of Jess Glynne and was pretty excited for her new album. But for some reason on almost every song is some serious distortion/crackling on certain frequencies. At first I got worried it was my new set of Sonys but I switched headphones, switched devices, redownloaded the songs, but still heard it. So then I went to Youtube and can hear it there as well. I figured the last test would be to purchase a FLAC version of one of the songs and listen to it that way. It's still there. One song in particular is called "Thursday." I don't want to tell you where in the song is because I want to see if others hear it without guidance. Would anyone mind giving it a listen and see if you hear it? It's hard for me to believe that a good-sized star would have production issues like this but I can't think of any other explanation. Thanks so much everyone, this has be driving me nuts for days. :D

 

Zack

[AnotherSpin]

6 hours ago, ZacKaffeine said:

Hey everyone, 

 

Over the last few months I've become a fan of Jess Glynne and was pretty excited for her new album. But for some reason on almost every song is some serious distortion/crackling on certain frequencies. At first I got worried it was my new set of Sonys but I switched headphones, switched devices, redownloaded the songs, but still heard it. So then I went to Youtube and can hear it there as well. I figured the last test would be to purchase a FLAC version of one of the songs and listen to it that way. It's still there. One song in particular is called "Thursday." I don't want to tell you where in the song is because I want to see if others hear it without guidance. Would anyone mind giving it a listen and see if you hear it? It's hard for me to believe that a good-sized star would have production issues like this but I can't think of any other explanation. Thanks so much everyone, this has be driving me nuts for days.

 

Zack

 

Would you name some decent recording of Bach, Schubert or Mozart, where you hear the same for someone to check?

 

[church_mouse]

@ZacKaffeine - though the music is not for me, I took a listen and you are not going crazy.  That is one very poorly recorded/mastered album with lots of distortion/break up.  

[ZacKaffeine]

1 hour ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

Would you name some decent recording of Bach, Schubert or Mozart, where you hear the same for someone to check?

 

I’m actually unaware of any, maybe you’d like to recommend some? Sorry if my choice of music is frowned upon here ?‍♂️

[ZacKaffeine]

1 hour ago, church_mouse said:

@ZacKaffeine - though the music is not for me, I took a listen and you are not going crazy.  That is one very poorly recorded/mastered album with lots of distortion/break up.  

I appreciate you taking the time to do that. Thanks so much :)

[AnotherSpin]

34 minutes ago, ZacKaffeine said:

I appreciate you taking the time to do that. Thanks so much

 

You welcome)

[IanRM]

On 10/19/2018 at 1:21 AM, ZacKaffeine said:

Hey everyone, 

 

Over the last few months I've become a fan of Jess Glynne and was pretty excited for her new album. But for some reason on almost every song is some serious distortion/crackling on certain frequencies. At first I got worried it was my new set of Sonys but I switched headphones, switched devices, redownloaded the songs, but still heard it. So then I went to Youtube and can hear it there as well. I figured the last test would be to purchase a FLAC version of one of the songs and listen to it that way. It's still there. One song in particular is called "Thursday." I don't want to tell you where in the song is because I want to see if others hear it without guidance. Would anyone mind giving it a listen and see if you hear it? It's hard for me to believe that a good-sized star would have production issues like this but I can't think of any other explanation. Thanks so much everyone, this has be driving me nuts for days.

 

Zack

Just had a listen out of interest on Qobuz and didn’t hear distortion at all. Just normal compressed sound from this type of pop song.