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GamePro201X t1_isu0ls7 wrote

>Would buying one of these headphones just to listen to music on spotify be a waste of money?

Nope not at all! It's actually pretty hard to tell the difference between Spotify premium, and something a bit higher quality unless you know what to look for. If you really do want something higher quality then you could switch from Spotify to another streaming service (I recommend Qobuz personally, but there are others like Deezer, and Tidal)

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madmidget OP t1_isvdgn5 wrote

But the thing is, I heard that the problem is not necessarily the size of the audio file (mp3, flac, etc), but rather the quality of the recording. Even if a song you're listening to is flac, if the recording was shit then it won't sound good with revealing headphones.

Do you agree with this? Or do you think its nonsense? These are just things I read while researching, I have no idea if its true lol

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djtoshiba t1_isvedco wrote

The recording quality depend of when/where the artists was in the studio, when/where the album been mix and mastered.

So it's way before the distribution cd, vynil or streaming.

You only need to choose a good streaming service and pickup good album and having fun !

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madmidget OP t1_isvfaj1 wrote

This makes things much more simple. Thanks for the response!

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GamePro201X t1_isvedz4 wrote

This is definitely true. However, most songs sound fine, and I think people over exaggerate how bad your average bad recording can sound. Yes, it can be bad, but in my opinion it’s never bad enough for me to not want to listen to a song I enjoy. Half the time you have to focus on the music extremely hard to even find anything bad about it!

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madmidget OP t1_isvfkob wrote

So basically, its not really worth hunting down good CDs right? I should just focus on finding a good streaming service (tidal) and getting a good headphone + amp/dac

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GamePro201X t1_isvgclj wrote

Well I think CDs are good if you want a physical medium for music, but in general lossless streaming services do the same thing and are a lot cheaper/convenient than collecting CDs.

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thms0 t1_isx7x9d wrote

Yes Or your MP3 320kbps could be a 128kbps upsampled. So the best way is to use Spotify or Tidal.

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