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avoid audio defects during listeing with good products - possible ?

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paulguru89

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As soon as I looked at the HiFi world with the Fidelio X2 the first thing that appeared to me than any other products I had before was the fact that defects of the audio tracks tablets or very poor quality were emphasized much more so mark each single defect.


But to avoid this, what i should to use ? A less detailed headset?
With the high end speakers instead type the Audioengine the situation would be exactly the same or change anything?

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Oh, I can't wait to see the thread replies on this one.

But yeah, basically, use crap so you don't hear other crap.

Not that you're into photography, but an analogy would be shooting with a 'soft' lens which means it has much less sharpness due to its resolving power being low hides pores, wrinkles, and flaws as opposed to something that is tack sharp.

Garbage in, garbage out. Pick your poison. Personally, given the choice I would rather use the best equipment possible and then upgrade your source. It's 2015, if you still have 128kbps MP3's that were ripped off of terribly scratched discs that wasn't using any form of multi-pass error recovery (full of pops, and other distortion) then you need to move on.
 
You more or less just have to get used to the defects in your recordings once you get up to a certain level of gear. There's some speakers and headphones that can be great with good recordings but yet forgiving of less than stellar recordings like supposedly the Sennheiser HD650's (I haven't heard them personally to verify this but they're on my list to try).
 
Ya, that can be an issue. In general you want to look at things designed to sound good, not to sound accurate if you are looking for things that don't show flaws as much. Often that gear will be described as "laid back" or "musical" instead of "detailed" or "precise".
 
Some audio artefacts can be filtered out with software, such as crackles on vinyl recordings.
EQ treble down might help.
Resampling to say half the frequency might help.

If its something you cant filter and you want to keep the quality, then if possible upgrade your audio collection.
Failing that, keep a crapper DAC around.
 
When you have a system that's really accurate the defects do pop out and at first this may seem disturbing to you. But once you get used to it you realize that from now on you can actually tell which recordings are crappy and which are good - and the good recordings really sound better than you ever imagined they could.

My analogy would be that if you were a judge at a beauty contest which had only ugly contestants, you'd probably want to wear frosted glasses to hide their facial hair and pitted skin. But then if you came across a real beauty she wouldn't look much better through the frosted glass.

Remove the glasses and you see the ugly girls just as ugly as they are but the beauty queen will shine in all her glory.

Or something that's probably more familiar to people: After the first beer girls in the bar look mediocre with a couple winners at best, after 12 beers the girls at the bar start to look MUCH better in general. Which way would you like to make your decisions?
 
In my opinion, good speakers that allow you to easily hear recording flaws still beat the hell out of bad speakers that always sound bad. If you can hear the flaws, then the only solution is to stop listening to sources with such flaws, try to equalize offending frequencies away (not possible to do well for all sources - a filter that works for one source won't work well for others - and a filter can't restore information that has already been lost), or to deal with it.
 
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If you can hear flaws in your recordings and they aren't already in a lossless format of some sort that would be the place to start.

I recently picked up Led Zeppelins SACD based of the original Reel 2 Reel transfer. HOLY CRAP it's so much better than any of the remastered albums.
 
Stanley Pain said:
If you can hear flaws in your recordings and they aren't already in a lossless format of some sort that would be the place to start.

I recently picked up Led Zeppelins SACD based of the original Reel 2 Reel transfer. HOLY CRAP it's so much better than any of the remastered albums.
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Usually the flaws are related to the recording setup and technology used. Bob Ludwig for example is a famous mastering producer for producing great sounding records.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-ludwig-mn0000067819/credits
 
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