If you can't hear this then you're not an audiophile
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Tuesday June 6, 2023
David Mellor
David Mellor is CEO and Course Director of Audio Masterclass. David has designed courses in audio education and training since 1986 and is the publisher and principal writer of Adventures In Audio.
@SeanWyseman replies to @AudioMasterclass: There is NO problem. It's not a problem at all except to you. Your ignorance is making what is common use into a problem. That's weird - & is not representative of reality in song production. If you're really an audiophile you're stepping outside your field & commenting on a completely different field but spouting ignorance. You're in no position to comment on the recording business & it's techniques - having already demonstrated you don't know your stuff. Other producers have commented here also - producers who know their craft.
@erikbrodin2198 replies to @AudioMasterclass: @SeanWysemanalso sounds perfectly fine in mono so I don’t know what exactly is the point other than to pontificate on needless bs caused by other needless bs
@jamesportrais3946 replies to @AudioMasterclass: @AudioMasterclass - Most entertaining, but I must take a ittle bit of an issue.
I manufacture high-end analog components. I'm also a musician, and have played numerous instruments in bands & orchestras of all denomination. I know what real music sounds like in all manner of venues.
I simply don't quite understand your fixation on imagery. I'm listening to my workshop set-up which is basic & limited, but hilariously good! Everyone is gobsmacked by the realism - I played the CD of a sadly late friend, Nigel Richard; bagpipe builder and player extraordinare. He (without provocation) said it sounded just exactly as it did in the recording studio. Amazing what O/B's and concrete walls can acheive.
My workshop isn't very large - maybe 5 x 7 metres with the O/B's maybe 2.5 metres from me, situated roughly 1/3rd along the 7mtr, with me near the end wall. The OB's & I occupy that 1/3rd the space, the remainder of which is occupied by the apparitions of melodic performance. A nicely recorded small set up even taken from youtube can sound unnervingly real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mCCMhuKEYw&ab_channel=JasonMraz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIyVu0Ucz8U&ab_channel=SouthernRaised
Well, they genuinely could fit in my room, and they do. Take that second track - the banjo starts right in the far right corner of the room from me. Sounds real - it's there. Rest is kinda mushed towards the centre left with the vocals about a metre forward. Nothing great going on with the imagery here, so why does it sound this good? Without paying autistic levels of scrutiny to imagery (I can feel roughly where it is, and thats no where near the speakers) and I get a strong impression of presence.
Go to the first track. Practically mono. In these sort of live gigs, the speakers could be anywhere but I'm pretty certain I'm hearing the best version taken straight from the mixer desk and post eq-d. Pretty sure it's not the imagery that's doing it for me now?
Neither of the above tracks require ear-splitting volume - you should always listen at realistic levels for acoustic music. Unfortunately for those desiring of orchestral levels of performance, some 106dB will be required.
I don't believe that imagery is as important as you appear to insist. Yes, I have tracks that move backward & forward, left and right. Sure it's a factor, but it's certainly not the most important - otherwise mono would be entirely redundant.Is there no such a thing as a mono oriented audiophile?
@SeanWyseman replies to @AudioMasterclass: @jamesportrais3946 The guy doesn't know his stuff. He doesn't know that there are 3 distinct disciplines & 5 more sub-disciplines that are normally divided up among as many people.
Sometimes you get someone who does it all. But those jobs are divided up - even in the mind of the person that wears every hat. I'm one of them that often does every stage himself because I'm good a them.
But when he enters the dialog with a bold & blatant statement that "you're not an audiophile if you can't hear this" - which is really clickbait because it's false. You can find all kinds of misinformation on YT & this is a perfect example. A guy grandstanding with an opening headline that knows not what & audiophile is. Then says you're not one if you can't hear this. Ridiculous. No audiophile is accurately described as such.
It may be an audiophile who's using his mixing appreciation skills - but that's not an audiophile's domain - figuring out if the mix engineer should have made the right artistic choice. That's not an audiophile that's making those observations even if he considers himself an audiophile - he's not talking about the fidelity of the sound - which is what defines an audiophile.
Why is important to make the correct distinctions - it's not that important unless you want to communicate it to others. Then it's important that you know the roles & definitions or you'll not gain an credibility by not knowing your topic more deeply than the public you are communicating with. This guy doesn't know his topic.
@jamesportrais3946 replies to @AudioMasterclass: @SeanWyseman I'm in your camp Sean, but I'm not certain he needs to be eviscerated 😛 - I can see why you were annoyed, but the guy is trying to promote his channel/business. We only learn through mistakes, and the modern culture of cancellation hardly allows any degree of growth.
I think the guy has 10 years on me which would mean that his formative years would have come from the late 70's-80's when "specifications" sold typically solid-state amplification. Let's not forget that only a couple of decades previously, your audio aspirations would be curtailed by a furniture-centric wife. I've seen "high end" radiograms from the late 60's/early 70's that had speakers, radio, TT, O/R tape recorder, fridge & cocktail bar (seriously!) all built in.
I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. Early SS equipment sounded on the whole shyte but measured brilliantly. This was the era when the likes of Krell was king; megawatts & miniscule distortion combined with practically unlimited bandwidth & vanishing noise. All very nice, but sounded crap. Sandpaper treble, paper mids, bass that you couldn't distinguish from external traffic (you got pumped when you thought a truck on the road outside was part of the plot) and absolutely no depth - your program was nailed to a perspex sheet between your probably three-way speakers with seriously shyte crossovers. Everything we hated about early CD players was encapsulated in this meandering mess.
What that equipment could do was image. Inherently more consistently reproducible semi conductors meant consistence throughout the bandwidth. This means that a fixed pan-point is less likely to wander with varying degrees of frequency. If that's your only selling point, might as well push it - so they did.
Sean, I don't think our man has ever heard a proper stereo soundscape. My experience for more than a few decades has been one that you feel you could walk into. More than a few visitors go looking to the rear wall in order to find additional speakers that aren't there. Funny thing is, being O/B's, they turn around and hear the same phenominon!
I'd like our man to pay a few visits to very different set ups and gain a little experience. His writing, or rather talking doesn't smack of someone who's heard a Class A single ended micro-Watt set-up for example.
Your thoughts Sean?
@keelanbrown7747: Me listening with my $25 assbuds, youtube's compressed 251 or 141 format passed through a garbled equalizer and mono audio with one headphone in but still enjoying the vibes:
@MrudangTrivedi: Didn't hear anything, totally nonsense.
@fairplaygaming4725: turned phone to landscape stereo and suddenly 👀 something different
@Kitty1962: I thought it was recorded that way, so it was intentional.
@christophervan6966: I was listening for a technical problem with the sound so wasn't listening to the clarinet, which sounded just fine. Whew.
@harpinbull5575: Maybe I'm weird, but I'd rather have a stereo image that's "alive" instead of stuck in one place, as long as it's not extreme and there's a decent bit of acoustic ambience that sort of irons it out, such as in the example.
@user-sf3iw7kj9e: I heard about 15 seconds of the most sublime and heavenly elephant farts in all my years on this earth 🥲
@thadboudreaux5692: Thank you Professor 🫡
@lommerdpassievrucht8555: I heard the clarinet moving.
On my momentum 4 wireless😂
@HaasGrotesk: This is some pure BS trying to sound "elite" and put down other people (if you can't hear this then you're bla bla bla) and the giving an example that absolutely no one would find as a mistake but totally ignoring what could be an actual audio mistake. The real thing that I heard was the clarinette keys being struck. That's something you might not want in the recording. Hearing a dynamic sound from the clarinette players head movement is authethic. I'm sorry sir but you come of as an elitist C-word.
@itsyuuto: Doesn't sound like a problem to me
@Navduvalny: я провалил испытание, потому что слушал в моно
@grahamkelly8999: Hmmm, why would an audiophile know that, it could just be the intent of the artist/ engineer.
@BillyBulletPewPew: I heard like a typing noise
@ArnaudSiemons: Funny guy....
@monosurge: I could tell there was an issue with the clarinet but couldn’t tell what. I’m on an iPad so the speakers are centralized. I think in this situation the issue was presenting itself as variations in loudness as it crossed over center. That said, I am in no way an audiophool. Amplifiers are my livelihood so I just have a decent ear for this stuff. Interesting experiment!
@RaspySW: Ugh...I wish I didn't hear it. And I just had regular $100 Logitech headphones on.
@erhan780: i guess my dac and amp does a great job
@jussisiivola876: The clarinet was too loud so propably too sensitive mic or setup on the mic, too loud playing, too close or all at once. Monitor headphones listener here.
@danielreher2876: What? I don't think, that only audiophile people can hear this.... But I think, that it is a really great recording, because of the musically moves of the soloist. He isn't playing an Alphorn or something static like it. So of course there has to be a movement. And a Piano definitely is moving, the Bass needs to be on another side than the high notes. Maybe not fully, but a little bit, I like to hear the piano like I would be the pianist sitting Infront of the keys.
All this movement gives life to the music.
@AudioMasterclass replies to @danielreher2876: Sitting in front of the keys is a good comparison. I’d like to invite comment readers to comment further because it is relevant to our discussion here.
@CapricanDRJ: I don't know what I am exactly. I recall really hating club music in the 90s because I knew for sure that they had plugged it into the gaming audio port rather than the line out. But, that is pretty much where I stop. I am annoyed if I hear artifacts, and sometimes those are part of the original recording. I have spent a bit in tailoring my audio to things that don't annoy me. Not spending a whole lot, but just enough to ensure I don't deal with the annoyances. I have recently decided to replace the capacitors on an aging sound card and this where where I think I diverge from the standard audiophile. I've decided to replace all the capacitors with reasonable general purpose panasonic which have far better stats than any audio rated ones I could find (maybe others, but they were not at digikey). However, I also purchased the burson opamps and have tried a few others. So, my view is more of a system perspective, I should do whatever I can to ensure the opamps receive the optimal power supply, and let them color the music which is what we are technically paying them for. However, I view the idea of a capacitor coloring the music as a defect.
@aldsome: im an audiophile and music enthusiast, I produce music myself, at first I thought it was just purposefully tracked that way but then when u pointed out that IT was the mistake, I was like "no way? its too good to not be that way" tbh I dont mind having small errors as such as long as it produces the actual music it needs to.
@R3fuge: My attitude has always been to look at what the audio professionals are doing - musicians, producers, video editors - none of them care about cables beyond choosing the right kind. (usually, balanced XLR cables)
@Strider9655: I worked in the pro audio industry for 9 years, it's chock full of bullshitters and fake gurus, if someone is said to have a "golden ear" you have to agree or else.
@serz1885: 1:30 i can hear somebody touching instruments with fingers
@mazzonijacopo: Right there's also a whole layer of YouTube doing god knows what to compress this...
@FerencDobos-b2f: I din't heared that the clarinet wondering between left and right channel but I heared rather a distorsion on the high pitched notes that indicate either ther mic was too sensitive, or it was too close to the instrument
@maxdubois6385: I tried my hardest to notice what was wrong, I'm unfortunately physically unable to hear it as I live my life in mono ! Complete deafness in one ear makes it much harder if not impossible to develop sound localization along with some other interesting pros and cons.
@YyoavV: I'm not an audiophile, I couldn't hear the difference, heck I can't hear the difference between a 24 bit 192KHZ flac and a song played in youtube, I didn't hear a difference when I got my DAC and changed my headphone. but when all of these are working together optimizing the sound quality in increments I can't possibly hear. the sound quality difference IS HUGE between now and then. audiophile or not. it's a great rule of thumb irl too. improve in ways that can seem invisible and unremarkable. over time they'll be a huge win
@bassboi2001: I guess I'm an audiophile using a 25$ dollar Sony Bluetooth WI-C100😅
@kristophercesmedziev7762: I picked up the imaging problem with $60 earbuds, I'm not entirely sure this is an equipment thing.
@paranoidgenius9164: This is completely pointless if you have a single speaker phone!🤬
I was eagerly waiting for what you might say, but the answer was 💩
Thanks for nothing dude!
@AudioMasterclass replies to @paranoidgenius9164: Haha, you saw ‘audiophile’ in the title then listened on a mono phone. Some people are beyond help.
@EmergencyChannel: I listened in mono, sounded fine.
@koalafudge: Not an audiophile but there's some wooden tick-tock sound going on in the faint background that kept my attention much more than the imbalance which I just perceived to be the artist swinging the instrument.
@DenverDiscovery: Might help if you suggest having stereo speakers or headphones at the start of the clip. I'm listening via a center channel type at a PC.
I'll play again later with a pair of Focal clears with a DAC and Amp. However, even if I hear the channel changes, it won't stop me enjoying the music.
The music is everything, over analysis doesn't change a thing, except the enjoyment. 🤔
@paulob.moreno7603: Why people needs to hear instruments separatedly in each side? It causes me dizziness. All the sound together is way better.
@MrKutKuGaruga96: ok then, I'm not an audiophile :(
@JohnCurtisDownunder: What an extraordinarily BORING video. What do you do for an encore? Maybe measure two blades of grass to see which grows faster? What an egregiously overly esoteric wank. Maybe you should rename your channel as Audio Masturbators Class.
@AudioMasterclass replies to @JohnCurtisDownunder: Haha. Triggered you good.
@JohnCurtisDownunder replies to @JohnCurtisDownunder: @AudioMasterclass Grammar again, dear boy - triggered you WELL. Adverb needed, not adjective. Didn't you learn the difference at school? At which godawful secondary modern or comprehensive school did you so unsuccessfully attempt to master the English language? Oh well, never mind, eh?
@misakistalker: I have lousy speakers, but I can't tell anything wrong
@RonG-r8t: So, you have to have the experience of a recording engineer to be an audiophile. Who's writing the English language.
@AudioMasterclass replies to @RonG-r8t: Listen to a real clarinet. Listen to this recording. Make your own judgment. If you don’t care, you’re not an audiophile. If you can’t hear it, however much you spent on your system was wasted.
@RKCorinth: I thought it was referencing that "clicking" in the background.
I would have never guessed that the clarinet position was the problem
@makiwa: What I heard is how it was meant to be listened to, not as you stated as something wrong. Because to me I heard nothing wrong.
Oh, and I realise this is an old Video.... Thanks,
@ernestocastillo1696: I heard like a tiking sound as if someone was moving like a flannel or something over a table
@devenpatel3044: I didn't have a problem with the sound direction as I assumed the player was moving. But I heard whisps and some distortion in parts from the clarinet that is what I thought the problem was.
@axelamps1279: I love my music and I have pushed my personal budget for speakers and an amplifier, but I cannot hear this problem whatsoever.
@arie160309: .... aww 😢 i didnt hear it but i can see the bird flies
@RyleyStorm: What of im watching a youtube video which is knows to have bad audio quality, on my phone with mono audio.
@AudioMasterclass replies to @RyleyStorm: Then you’re not an audiophile.
@RyleyStorm replies to @RyleyStorm: @AudioMasterclass NOOOOOOOOOO
@mikail244: 9f course I'm not an audio file I'm just a human after all.
@coolbugfacts1234: You know you're an audiofool when you call it an "interconnect" and not an RCA cable
@chef7734: Placebo is real..
@stevengrey1948: I think i am relieved to know I couldn't hear it. Ignorance is bliss. however, I do have spatial audio DSP on my headphones so maybe it was messing with the signal?
@laser3210: This is not a problem but a feature.
I will feel the sound difference due to movements if it was performed in front of me so I need to feel the same through it’s recording.
@hakimehamdouchi7468: I thought it was by design
PS: I'm not an audiophile, i just like music and have a 10$ araimo earphones. These things suck, but good music is good music
Edit: they don't suck, they were good before I dropped them in a cup of tea
@GamePlayByFaks: I am, neither of any of them, but I heard it instantly.
@lealextn: Not an audiophile, and the clarinet swaying directions was the first thing that popped at me. I thought it was really pleasant, I quite enjoyed it!
@HowToHomeLife: A short list of erroneous audio beliefs: "Tube audio equipment sounds better than solid-state equipment", absolutely false, "The type, style and cost of audio interconnects, speaker wire, power cords and ac power conditioners will affect sound quality", absolutely false, "Vinyl records sound better than CD's", absolutely false, "Vintage analog audio recording and playback equipment and storage media is superior to digital technology", absolutely false, "Human ears are superior to objective testing of audio electronics", absolutely false! This is an "absolutely true" audio fact: Microphones and loudspeakers operating within any acoustic space distort any original sound many thousands of times more than any other piece of equipment in the entire recording and playback chain. The microphone and loudspeaker "room interface" is where the "problems in audio" reside, not in electronics and not in the "emperors new wires"! David Riddle
@conundrum2501: Not an audiophile. Actually I'm next to musically illiterate. Also listening on a mid tier cellphone with mono output so i definitely missed the wobble you are talking about. But i do have high fidelity frequency discrimination... What a musician would call perfect pitch. I can identify frequency to within 10hz up to 25kz. I am so glad you showed the video. It explained exactly what i was hearing. As i said i missed the wobble but what i was hearing was a lot of noise (interference patterns ) and it makes perfect sense looking at the video that he's center stage surrounded by random reflective surfaces.
@angel_machariel: First of all, this is not a a recording/engineering error. The dancing of the clarinet and the post production is deliberate. Secondly the interpretation of performances is not what audiophiles watch for. It's playback transparency for example they look for.
@ryanc473: I genuinely wonder how much of this makes a significant difference in a typical listener. Or, even more than that...can screwing up this sort of this turn like, a solid hit into something that's...pretty good, but needs work.
I imagine there's a reason for this degree of audio engineering, but I'm sitting here as a "typical" listener for lack of a better term going...
Wait, that was the difference? I thought it was something else...and mind you, only think I heard a difference because I was already primed to hear a difference by the video. I don't think I would've spotted it myself!
@TheBlaBlaZone-fw8hg: I'm curious to know, as someone who's only scraping the surface, if this kind of thing is interesting beyond being a measure of your ability to make out details?
Are errors in recordings, especially otherwise high quality ones, interesting curiosities as part of the audiophile listening experience, or just a consequence of your perceptiveness and gear?
@AudioMasterclass replies to @TheBlaBlaZone-fw8hg: It seems that audiophiles mostly accept recordings as they are and try to get the best out of them with their equipment and setup. Musicians seem to listen to the music and mostly ignore technical faults or issues. Anyone who has ever recorded will be fascinated with the recording techniques. They might listen to the music too. They're normally not too bothered with their playback equipment - it just needs to be good, not insanely expensive.
@brunofrye: an audio-fool and their money are soon parted
@AudioMasterclass replies to @brunofrye: For top-end audiophiles though, money flows in faster than they can spend it.
@granskottt: i’ve heard the clarinet player moving and the mechanical sounds the instrument is producing, thought that’s what was wrong😂 Mind you i can’t hear jack above 14 k and am using 30 bucks wireless buds 😃
@honichi1: i kinda understand your point, but also audiophiles are mostly consumers, they dont make their own recordings, if a song is made on vinyl then you get the usual issues associated with vinyl
and then you run all that audio through 160kbit/s youtube audio compression
audiophiles seem to spend a lot to reduce bottlenecks, you spend a thousand on a better cable for noise isolation, cause thats the most glaring issue you can hear at the moment
and all that gets thrown out the window when you listen to mp3 files
at what point do audiophiles have any input on the "tilt" of an audio recording
at most they can make it mono, but then youve changed the recording
and then you might also have different hearing sensibilities on the left and right ear so headphones cant solve that either
honestly quite flawed what youre talking about here
this is a recording issue, not an audiophile issue.
@LordKingOf: Sorry to point this out, but as someone who actively but ignorantly enjoys classical music, therefore no expert: the song played is almost in the fantasy style, full of whimsy, almost like a playful run after enjoying a large patch of wild berries.
All this to say, the panning fits the mood and seems more a stylistic choice than anything else.
I did however notice a persistent ticking during the entirety of the piece, which I was sure was the test.
There were other issues, but that one was the one I couldn’t ignore.
Perhaps better audio should be used for an audio test?
@spookie3000: I heard it and never thought it a problem. On the contrary. When I listen to classical music I like the sound stage to be as wide as possible and I like it to sound like I'm part of the audience. In the audience you also hear the movement of the direction an instrument points. You can hear it directly and through the room accoustics. That's exactly why I don't like (small) studio recordings. They miss the air and liveliness of live recordings.
So what you call a problem is exactly what I think is quality. And I wouldn't be surprised if the recording engineer was exactly after this effect to make the recording sound more spacious.
@TheBlaBlaZone-fw8hg: I couldn't put my finger on it, but I could at least tell it was the clarinet, it felt sharp in my right ear at certain points. I don't know what that makes me.
@james6039: I'm an audiophile, and I did hear it. The simple solution would be not to pan it hard left and right.
@GeorgeWhittam: I head some "fuzziness" on some of the clarinet tones that I wasn't sure if it's the reed or some distortion in the A/D conversion or elsewhere in the signal path.
The movement of the performer definitely made it clear it was as stereo mic technique, not a random flaw in production.
@ExloserEX: Initially, I couldn’t perceive much spatial detail, so I looked for a high-resolution 24-bit version of Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op. 74: III. Alla Polacca. With that, I was able to hear the stereo spatial cues more clearly. I then realized that disabling 'Stable Volume' enhances the sense of stereo movement, making the spatial imaging more apparent.
@jbiley: Just a heads up: if you have "Stable Audio" turned on, you wont hear a thing. Needs to be off.
@trungnc5487: Not only the clip, whole this video was record with L pan matter!
Edit: oh after I see other video with same L pan, found reason is BT connection
@aunermawrin: Two audiophiles walk into a buddy’s house — the Master and his apprentice.
They’re there to test some poor guy’s High-End setup.
They sit down.
The poor guy’s hands are shaking — he’s wearing white cotton gloves as he carefully tweaks the last knobs and dials.
Finally, he presses play on his reference track.
Silence. Music starts.
The Master leans in to the apprentice:
— You hear the drivers?
— I hear them. Still cold, haven’t warmed up yet.
— You hear the cables?
— Yeah. Thin gauge, cheap copper — signal’s choking.
— Power supply?
— Oh, I hear it. Low-end. Got a hum.
The host starts sweating.
— Capacitors?
— Yup. Slurping.
— Resistors?
— Noisy as hell.
— Wall outlets?
— Junk. Probably from Home Depot.
The poor guy’s sliding nervously on the couch.
— You hear the electrons?
— Yeah. Kinda rattly.
— And the protons?
— Softer. Smoother flow.
Finally the host bursts out:
— Guys! Are you even listening to the music!?
The Master calmly replies:
— Music? Oh, that’s an music lover thing. We’re not into that.
@mickalinjezerx7104: I don't have anything special. I can hear some clicking. 3:10 I don't notice the clarinet. I just thought the song was supposed to be like that.
@calo6541: i can hear it even with my old faulty Pioneer SX 5570 and Vintage Aracustic AR monitors and my tinnitus ears, just didn´t recognized it as a problem, taught it was intentional and was looking for distortions, lacking frequencies sound stage mudyness eg. was impressed by the clarity of the recording.
@GiblixStudio: I was more annoyed by the soft clipping sounds here and there as if someone's typing was recorded and layered below the music.
@tu77i: I have been making music for over eight years and the problem that I found from the clarinet was not the stereo image, but the airy frequencies. It felt like a needle poking at the mix. It's subtle, but the high-end sounds out of balance because of that.
@bnb3107: When sir Paul says so, we believe
@Rosso488: Sounds like the clarinet is being a bit wild. I’m no audiophile however I do appreciate good quality and I don’t like using Bluetooth for audio.
@elex5: I’m not an audiophile, but I’ve got a decent mid-range setup. I noticed the clarinet wandering around a bit, mostly staying on the left, with occasional shifts toward the center and a few brief peaks toward center-right, but overall it still sticks mostly on the left. At first, I thought this was intentional for the soundstage, but without a perfect reference, it’s hard to tell what’s intentional and what’s not.
@nilesh-v9x: There's some ticking sound in this audio track😅😮
@bacaw2856: All I learned was that there must be something wonky with my cheap headset, as I can't seem to hear the shifting at all.
@dleon0902: I heard it after you pointed it out on my Motorola g power.
@juliusbelmont350: While i did indeed hear the note jumping and spacing, it didn't sound wrong to me.
Ehh, i'll keep on simply enjoying music as always!
@megferguson8035: I hear it but it doesn’t bother me. I listen to enjoy
@toraow: I've performed in Carnegie Hall before in an orchestra. I have years of experience playing clarinet, cello, and acoustic guitar. That being said, this "mistake" is only a mistake if you consider it one. I find movement to provide dynamicism to any musical performance. I don't find it to be a mistake as I was taught to not be scared to move as a performer. Therefore, I didn't "hear the mistake."
@wolflink115: I dunno if this is normal, but I hear a buzzing sound in the clip as well, not of the clarinet, but from something else in there, not sure what it is though. It might just be my headphones, but it reminds me of the buzzing when you aren't pushing on the strings on a guitar hard enough
Something else that I notice is that the highs seem to be too loud or prominent, but again, that might just be my headphones or maybe I am just sensitive to higher pitched sounds. I dunno but other than that, the song sounds to be very calming and nice.
@oneviewman: As long as you enjoy the music you are good
@tonyb4337: I enjoyed the wandering as part of the performance. I find it adds to the experience.
@salmanbappi8955: I can hear it
@shrippie-4214: hm, I actually did notice there being something wrong with the clarinet or whatever its called, but didn't know why it sounded off
@peterschloglhofer7117: Wait did you hear, well did you smell that? I just shit my pants, i guess you are not an Audiophile then....
@jsjs6751: This is a recording/mastering issue - not an audiophile or equipment issue.
The author could actually make it so intentionally.
Dislike misleading titles.
@harrybaulz666: Audiophile is more like anallophile
@jonmclaughlin4128: I was waiting for a jump scare then entire time.
Good to know that is what you heard. I heard one note jump to the right and otherwise that was about it. I know I have hearing damage about about 12.5KHz I can't hear anything so I had low expectations to begin with.
@GarrisonsMadHouse: It sounded like crap on the first recording
@GarrisonsMadHouse replies to @GarrisonsMadHouse: I didn't hear wandering I heard high break-up
@justinjwolf: No cap, I heard the "problem" the first time. I'm not an audiophile (not enough liquid capital) but am observant and wearing IEMs. If I were an audiophile, I might characterize the dynamics as a problem instead of a "problem".
@dnromeoalphayankee13: The greatest intellectual scam : "audiophile rated" equipment. Every time I have heard one, I have admired my Denons, Harmans and Marantzs even more...
@jegog.: I'm an enthusiast and I heard it but didn't think that it was wrong, though there was one or two notes that jumped to a very different location which caught my attention and I thought it odd. I also heard some fuzziness now and then.
@LeandroSilva-lu9vq: The L to R just sounded like part of the sound design to me but at 1:08 to 1:10 Can you not hear the harshness at the end of the note? Its like this harsh ressonance that is very unpleasant both on my speakers and my headphones.