Vinyl sounds like vinyls for a lot of reasons and nothing Digital sounds that way.
Though I think there are a few SACD masters that captured a lot of what I liked with Vinyl recordings.
The difference is subtle, you need OK gear to hear it, and you need to be listening for it rather than enjoying the music. It’s not tonality, but rather the way certain tones present themselves, some digital masters are just so bad it really makes no difference to me.
Generally I personally find compressed audio more fatiguing to listen to, but if it’s something I can’t get an uncompressed copy of I don’t cry about it…
You can learn to A/B almost anything, I find compressed/uncompressed easier than some digital amp comparisons.
i just remember when i had a dragonfly black that i didn’t really notice really any tonal differences… and tones are more what i care about when it comes to my sonics
also to note there are a bunch of more scientific vinyl collectors on youtube (examples being people like techmoan and VWestlife who talk about the technical detail and the latter case debunking myths about cheaper turntables)
my scientificness is like “ok if this costs hundreds of dollars more than this there must be a specific reason such as much higher frequency ranges (even though thats only logical if you have super hires files due to shannon nyquist and mostly only in harmonies) or the fact they are made of materials that will objectively create a better sound”
basically i am being rational with my money spending
It can either be the driver (doesn’t have to be metal some soft drivers can sound metallic), or the tuning, people typically find that when a headphone lacks around 6k ish, it can sound metallic
Do you think it’s possible that a headphone can out perform another one only when played at a specific volume? For instance, if headphone 1 sounds better played at 65-70db than headphone 2, but at 71db+, headphone 2 sounds better.
I would say the aiva is the quickest in treble, but the elex is the quickest in bass and midrange. I think the 1990 is going to be faster in treble than the lcd 2 classic, but the classic would be quicker in midrange and bass imo
Something that most likely sacrifices fidelity, just something that sounds bad not on purpose I guess? It really depends on the track and the person tbh.
What comes to my mind that I wonder about specifically would be some shoegaze and black metal records. I would think some albums under that category would qualify?
Yeah there are def some great recordings in that genre, there are even some great masters and recording in some genres like lo fi or noise which is funny. It really just depends on the track
An example of a great recording of Death Metal is the album Blackwater Park by the band Opeth. I have a FLAC of that album and it is just done very well.