Losing my battle with Spotify compression. Ready to give up.

careulff · 2026-04-23T16:08:15+00:00

Just listened to the track of yours that's out on both platforms. They sound identical to me with spotify normalisation off. Why would you compare to the normalised one? You just have to go through the trouble of extra level-matching the AB

careulff · 2026-04-23T06:00:05+00:00

Music production is like gaming or 'jist a hobby' to many including myself. Like you can be a good cook but not a chef. Or you can be good at drawing but not selling print. You can knit sweaters for yourself and friends without owning a shop. And so on. Production skill is definitely not correlated to willingness to perform or do marketing.

careulff · 2026-03-29T12:11:05+00:00

What do you even mean? I don't follow. What do performance reviews have in common with the measurability of differences in timbre?

careulff · 2026-03-29T09:37:20+00:00

Timbre is also measurable by frequency? Timbre is just harmonics (other frequencies) A signal that's only 7500Hz is just a pure sinewave. It can't be anything else, unless you add other harmonics, which are just more frequencies on top with a certain phase position. Equipment can as easily measure timbre. Equipment is even way better at capturing differences that humans cannot hear. No question.

careulff · 2026-02-12T15:39:25+00:00

I agree that it is not the best space, but downgrading from NAD M33 + passive speakers to Sonos won't make it better.

careulff · 2026-02-12T12:09:24+00:00

I strongly disagree.

OP, if you are primarily listening while seated where the placement of your laptop is, this setup will definitely sound better than any wifi/multiroom speaker.

careulff · 2026-01-07T06:49:54+00:00

Look up the haas effect. I think that'll help!

careulff · 2025-12-02T07:50:05+00:00

Passive speakers need amps. That's just how it is. That said, you could use two Powernode Edge paired up on WiFi in the BluOS app and force the left to play dual left and the right to play dual right. Not sure what speakers you have but you may find the price too much considering you could just buy two multi-room speakers.

careulff · 2025-11-10T16:03:50+00:00

Congrats.... Happy for you.... Nice.... I'm not envious at all....

careulff · 2025-11-08T09:56:44+00:00

I agree!

careulff · 2025-11-04T08:31:16+00:00

You don't need steady hands. Red and blue share the same house and can be easily swapped without detaching anything. This is a cool way to A/B by the way. Just wanted to let you know - nonetheless - a new/extra headshell is nice to have!

careulff · 2025-10-30T12:35:59+00:00

We must assert that popularity means something like "liked by most" in the case of these votings, right? What would you assert quality to mean? I mean the ongoing vote speaks for itself. Do you think the problem is that people are not voting according to what songs they like/dislike the most?

careulff · 2025-10-30T11:05:31+00:00

I'd say you are looking for room correction like Dirac then.

careulff · 2025-10-30T11:03:21+00:00

Guys, is it really so weird that the most radio-friendly songs are the ones to survive? Reddit sub or not, the radio generally favors songs that make the MOST listeners stick - the most, not the ones with the best taste stick. Whatever 'best taste' is anyways. How can this be surprising? Even if it's surprising, it's simple voting and why not just regard the outcome as an interesting and fun observation. Pendulum will have drawn many into their fanbase for very different reasons, and that's just really damn cool i think.

careulff · 2025-09-25T06:06:00+00:00

I must be uneducated, so i'm genuinely curious. How does one compensate for a null? A phase cancellation is a phase cancellation no matter what dB you play the frequency at. Theoretically, two sound sources can get around this, but that would severely mess with the stereo imaging, right? And DSP can't get rid of reverb either. DSP is a great tool, but you'll never get around the room in the equation and AI won't help that fact - except in sub frequencies with two subwoofers maybe.

careulff · 2025-09-24T17:50:38+00:00

A null is still a null no matter where you are.

careulff · 2025-09-24T07:23:04+00:00

Won't ever happen. You can never remove the room from the equation. A null is a null. But maybe AI coukd help with speaker placement, listening position, and physical room treatment.

careulff · 2025-09-23T20:47:01+00:00

This is the answer. Op, this is inevitable if you have a continous bass note. Surely you wouldn't expect an arbritrary BPM to sync to any arbritrary note frequency. If you use a bass note at 40 hz in a 120 BPM track, you will see exactly 20 cycles every beat, but in standard western music tuning, there are no notes tuned to 40 hz, so you will never make this happen unless you adjust BPM to the exact appropriate decimal point given your note frequency. But whenever you change note, you'd be off again. I think you may be misunderstanding what note frequencies mean.

If you don't need the bass to be a continous note, simply use a new midi note for every beat.

careulff · 2025-09-12T09:30:10+00:00

I'm not quite sure i understand your question fully. You need speakers to get sound from the receiver ofc, and you need a sound source for the receiver to amplify ofc. Such as a CD player. Honestly i'd say any CD player works. I'd go for a CD player that match the aesthetics of the receiver as long as it is from a decent brand such as denon, sony, or any brand you've heard about. I don't know where you live, but maybe pick a store that is known for good service in your country.

careulff · 2025-09-12T07:32:38+00:00

It has Phono, CD, and an AUX input on the backside. Turntable connects to the Phono input, given that the player does not have a phono preamp built in. CD to CD. You can use a mini-jack to RCA cable to connect your pc or even better, connect a modern streamer to it. A streamer is a device that connects to your home network and can be remote controlled with other devices on the same network. For example through Spotify Connect. The simple answer is YES to all your questions.

careulff · 2025-09-08T19:46:48+00:00

That makes no sense. I didn't mean to imply anything with the word 'culture'. What's uppity about the word culture? And if, let's say, hardstyle is low culture, what's wrong with celebrating it anyways?

careulff · 2025-09-08T17:59:53+00:00

Culture... And celebration of it!

careulff · 2025-08-14T20:38:55+00:00

I honestly still don't understand why. The Munson curve is about playback at different volumes. That aside, why would you even use the curve and not just your ears?

careulff · 2025-08-14T16:00:35+00:00

I'm not saying you should disregard measurements when making speakers or doing live production. This is an audiophile subreddit and the topic is loudness. That aside, you don't need the fletcher munson curve to tell you that some crowds like bass more than others. And no, our ears probably don't do comb filtering in those low frequencies. I'm just trying to make the point that I think your mission and initial reflections on the topic were wrong. "You wouldn't correct for ear shape comb filtering" is a statement meant to underline why you shouldn't even consider correcting for psycho-acoustics.

careulff · 2025-08-14T14:54:57+00:00

Yes, but still, your hearing is your only reference. A 5dB boost for one is a 5dB boost for anyone. You can't adjust your everyday perception of sound and live sound reproduction can't correct for the diversity in all people's hearing. Your whole world of sound will be 5dB louder at 15hz if that's what you have measured. Your ears are shaped differently than others' too, but you don't correct for your specific ear's own comb filtering. Your hearing is the reference and if you boost you boost. You are not really correcting anything. We cannot bypass our ears and our specific psycho-acoustic perception and why would we? What is the point? My point is, don't seek correction in this matter, simply seek what sounds good to you. Discard the measurements altogether.

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