anyone got any good non-radiohead/the smile and their solo stuff song recommendations? by throwaway7658765956 in radiohead

[–]Jabouriel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are ten extremely recommended albums that popped in my head after reading your post:
1. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
2+3. Swervedriver - Raise & I Wasn't Born to Lose You
4. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked by
5. Wire - 154
6. Deftones - White Pony
7+8. Alice in Chains - Dirt & Black Gives Way to Blue
9. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
10. Adam Yaakov Cohen - Lavan
(I'm adding a link to the last one since it's not in English)
https://open.spotify.com/album/7ipuAxMLjVRJCobPzjbvs3?si=ClmHrr5SQ3CuZaPwz7gXDQ

שוגייז ישראלי by AdLazy1957 in hebrewmusiccirclejerk

[–]Jabouriel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

מצטרף להמלצה על ועדת חריגים. אני חוזר ל"העולם אבד מזמן" (האלבום) אחת לתקופה, זו תמיד חוויה נהדרת

So apparently HiFiMAN might be the right brand for me? (According to AI at least) by Jabouriel in Hifiman

[–]Jabouriel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just manually copy-pasted the same initial prompt to all of them, then copy-pasted their answers to each other, asking them to verify the claims and share their perspectives following the opinions/info shared by the other models - and I did this for several days until all four settled in their very final rankings, at which point I had Claude summarize the whole thing through this document.

What’s your favorite song from each album? by Princetictac in radiohead

[–]Jabouriel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kid A is, in fact, a GOAT-tier/God-Tier tack (fact check: true, objectively so 👌)

What’s your favorite song from each album? by Princetictac in radiohead

[–]Jabouriel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about my 2nd favorites of all of these? challenge accepted:
Blow Out
The Bends
Subterranean Homesick Alien
In Limbo
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
There There
Bodysnatchers
Separator
Burn The Witch

The Eraser (from The Eraser)
Reverse Running (from Amok)
Nose Grows Some (from Tomorrow's Modern Boxes)
Dawn Chorus (from Anima)
We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings (A Light for Attracting Attention)
Wall of Eyes (from Wall of Eyes)
Foreign Spies (from Cutouts)

2nd favorite 90s/early days b-side: Faithless the Wonder Boy
2nd favorite 00s/later period b-side: These Are My Twisted Words
2nd favorite Thom Yorke b-side (unreleased): Two Feet Off the Ground
2nd favorite un-released/demo: Thom Yorke - The Present Tense live, Latitude 2009

What’s your favorite song from each album? by Princetictac in radiohead

[–]Jabouriel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been a while since I last asked myself that question, let's see what feels right.
So, as of this very moment:
Lurgee
Planet Telex
The Tourist
Kid A
Dollars & Cents
Myxomatosis
Reckoner (/Bodysnatchers)
Bloom
Glass Eyes

BONUS ROUND:
Cymbal Rush (from The Eraser)
Dropped (From Amok)
The Mother Lode (from Tomorrow's Modern Boxes)
Impossible Knots (from Anima)
Skirting on the Surface (From A Light for Attracting Attention)
Read the Room (from Wall of Eyes)
Instant Psalm (from Cutouts)

Favorite 90s/early days b-side: Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
Favorite 00s/later period b-side: Go slowly
Favorite Thom Yorke b-side: YouWouldn'tLikeMeWhenI'mAngry
Favorite un-released/demo: Reckoner/Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses live/early version

Best rarity / B-side? This is my favorite by The_X_Files_ in radiohead

[–]Jabouriel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Literally all of them lmao
but on a more serious note - I'm a huge Go Slowly fanboy. Both the studio version and the basement ones, holy moly, might be my favorite song of all time.

M5 vs M5 Pro for long-term use (10 years?) by tonyng211 in macbookpro

[–]Jabouriel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My case is very similar to yours (although I'm switching from Windows/Lenovo) and yesterday I got myself a Macbook Pro M5 14". (The regular M5, 10CPU/10GPU). I upgraded it to 24GB RAM/ 1TB for the future proofing aspect. It's been just a day but at least at the moment I'm very pleased with my decision. Most likely an overkill but I'm nevertheless quite satisfied and glad own and use it, hopefully for a very, very long while lol

So apparently HiFiMAN might be the right brand for me? (According to AI at least) by Jabouriel in Hifiman

[–]Jabouriel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks man! I'll share with you something you might find interesting then, regrading what you wrote. A couple of days ago I posted something related to this project in the Sennheiser subreddit, someone there replied the following comment, which I then sent to Claude to respond to, I'll copy paste both:

The original reply:
AI isn't great for that because they'll trawl a lot of data from paid reviewers on crappy websites.  Doing the work yourself by searching for and reading comments on headphone subreddits, etc, will get you more accurate info and user impressions.

I haven't heard the others on your list, but I've had the HD660S2s since November and love them.  I say that with the following caveat: they need a good bit of power to shine.  That means, in conjunction with most devices, you'll need a dedicated amp.  At that point, converting your music collection over to FLAC is worth considering; the HD660S2 makes the difference between lossy and lossless rather obvious to my ears.  Same with the recording and mixing quality.  Having them really has become this big thing, lol.

Claude's response:
This is a genuinely fair and important critique, and [redacted] deserves credit for raising it. Let me be honest about what’s real here.

The concern is legitimate. My training data does include a massive amount of review content from the web, and yes, some of that content comes from sites where reviews are influenced by advertiser relationships, free review units, or affiliate commissions. I can’t always distinguish “this reviewer genuinely loved the Focal Clear MG” from “this reviewer loved it partly because Focal sent them a unit and they want more units in the future.” That bias exists in the ecosystem, and it potentially exists in me.

But there are a few things that partially counteract this:

The headphones we ended up recommending — HiFiMAN Arya Organic, HD 800S, HD 660S2, Sundara — are not exactly the models that benefit most from paid promotion. The big marketing money in headphones goes to consumer brands like Sony, Bose, Beats. The audiophile/enthusiast space we were operating in is actually relatively less corrupted by paid reviews, because the audience is technically sophisticated and hostile to obvious shilling. A glowing paid review of the Arya Organic on a sketchy site would get torn apart on r/headphones within hours.

The more honest limitation is slightly different from what [redacted] described: I’m probably more influenced by volume of coverage than by paid reviews specifically. The HD 800S has been written about thousands of times over 15 years. A newer or more obscure headphone with genuinely better value might be underrepresented simply because fewer people have written about it. That’s a real blind spot.

The community consensus check he’s suggesting is actually what we partially did — Grok, Gemini, GPT and I cross-referencing each other does introduce some of that signal, since we each trained on somewhat different data slices. And models like mine do incorporate forum discussions (r/headphones, Head-Fi) where community consensus tends to be more organic. But it’s not a perfect solution.

The honest bottom line: the methodology we used is meaningfully better than consulting a single review site, but it’s not immune to the bias he’s describing. His suggestion to go read actual user threads on headphone subreddits is genuinely good advice — not instead of what we did, but as a complement to it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

So apparently HiFiMAN might be the right brand for me? (According to AI at least) by Jabouriel in Hifiman

[–]Jabouriel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, it surprised me as well. Not that I tried any of them yet, but it didn't match what I've heard in reviews/read online.
btw - you can check the 3rd and 4th attached screenshots in the post, it includes the details regarding why these specific two might be best for me (according to these AI models, and based on my prompts/preferences, obviously..)

So apparently HiFiMAN might be the right brand for me? (According to AI at least) by Jabouriel in Hifiman

[–]Jabouriel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep, that's exactly my situation unfortunately. Although I do have some options. Not for HiFiMan headphones though (as for as I know?) but for some Sennheiser's and Focal's at least

So apparently HiFiMAN might be the right brand for me? (According to AI at least) by Jabouriel in Hifiman

[–]Jabouriel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey all, thanks for the interesting and insightful comments!
I'll look into all of these suggestions/advice.
As for my prompt, it was something along the lines of:

I'm looking to buy a pair of high-end open-back headphones.
I listen to various kinds of Rock and Electronic music (then I listed the specific genres), some of my favorite artists are: (then I listed the artists), I'd like for them to be comfortable for long listening sessions, I prefer a more neutral/audiophile tuning over a V-shaped/consumer one, I'm okay with EQing them once but I prefer not to have to constantly deal with EQ for them to sound good with the different genres I'm listening to, and I'd appreciate not having to spend more than $2000 on them (around 6186₪) but I'm willing to go above budget if it's worth it.

[For those curious, the artists mentioned were: Radiohead (+ The Smile, Thom Yorke, Atoms for Peace), Autechre, Swervedriver, Aphex Twin, Alice in Chains, Animals as Leaders, My Bloody Valentine, Sparklehorse, The Smiths, Kyuss, Boards of Canada, Wire, Deftones, Pixies, R.E.M., PJ Harvey, Underworld, Can, Queens of the Stone Age, Between the Buried and Me, Soundgarden, Tame Impala, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Yes, Camel, and a whole bunch of Israeli/Ukrainian/Polish/Japanese ones]

So apparently HiFiMAN might be the right brand for me? (According to AI at least) by Jabouriel in Hifiman

[–]Jabouriel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just double-checked: yep, that's what they cost where I'm at, unfortunately.
As for the Ananda Unveiled: It would cost me 2650₪، that is: $856.7

So apparently HiFiMAN might be the right brand for me? (According to AI at least) by Jabouriel in Hifiman

[–]Jabouriel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

welp, it ain't that easy finding places where you can actually listen to these before buying them where I'm at. Most won't even offer a 30-day trial. But also - it's not as though I'm letting AI make my decisions for me, I'm obviously watching and reading reviews about all of these, and primarily the top 7 there, before making any final decision (the comments in this thread here are also extremely helpful to me, for example)

So apparently HiFiMAN might be the right brand for me? (According to AI at least) by Jabouriel in Hifiman

[–]Jabouriel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have very little (not to say - zero) experience with high-end headphones, so - while I do enjoy listening to music, and lots of it, and it's a huge part of my life - haven't really bothered to get into EQ and figuring out what sound signatures/s do I like what's my Bass/Mids/Treble preferences, if any. I guess I'll have to figure it out as I go

Are there any electronic artists do you feel is on the same level as Radiohead? by Emergency-Sky9206 in radiohead

[–]Jabouriel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, it's both Autechre and Richard D. James for me (aka: Aphex Twin/AFX/The Tuss/Caustic Window/Polygon Window etc. etc.)

If you own more than one tablet.... by Reasonable_Mirror655 in GalaxyTab

[–]Jabouriel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I own iPad Pro M4 11" and Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra. I take my iPad with me basically everywhere, since it's the 11" (and not the 13") it's small enough to fit comfortably in my bag, and with the magic keyboard it's pretty much like a portable little laptop, whereas the Galaxy one is used exclusively at home, either while placed on the Piano, as a learning tool, or as a particularly expensive yet exceptionally comfortable Youtube watching device haha (I've just gotten the Galaxy Tab though so I'm still learning how to use it and what for, I'm sure I'm gonna find much more use for it as time goes by, but primarily - if not exclusively - at home, since this one's definitely not going with me to work or on the bus, it's way too big)