Playground for practical listening exercises

[lejonklou]

I never listen to in-room clips through speakers, as I find the room-upon-room sound (there’s room resonances in the recording and then there’s room resonances that my speakers are interacting with) too messy. I always listen with headphones. For convenience often iPhone to Airpods Pro 2.

[matthias]

I never listen to in-room clips through speakers, as I find the room-upon-room sound (there’s room resonances in the recording and then there’s room resonances that my speakers are interacting with) too messy. I always listen with headphones.

+1

[Spannko]

I never listen to in-room clips through speakers, as I find the room-upon-room sound (there’s room resonances in the recording and then there’s room resonances that my speakers are interacting with) too messy. I always listen with headphones. For convenience often iPhone to Airpods Pro 2.

Interesting. I know what you mean by the room-upon-room sound, but I’m usually ok with that for some reason.

[lejonklou]

I never listen to in-room clips through speakers, as I find the room-upon-room sound (there’s room resonances in the recording and then there’s room resonances that my speakers are interacting with) too messy. I always listen with headphones. For convenience often iPhone to Airpods Pro 2.

Interesting. I know what you mean by the room-upon-room sound, but I’m usually ok with that for some reason.

I could probably get used to it if I try it some more.

I will try it on the next pair of clips and check whether it’s easier or yields a different result than headphones!

[Arjen]

Would you mind doing this comparison again Pete please. I usually try and listen to clips without reading the opinions of others, but I failed on this occasion so I can’t rule out expectation bias. Also, the GJ track is heavily dynamic range compressed (DR7) and no doubt manipulated in all manner of other ways to make it sound acceptable in loud environments and on suboptimal playback systems. Have you got a cd which isn’t so compressed and also hasn’t been remastered at a later date, which usually means that it has had a higher level of compression applied, and will be the version streamed by Spotify. I know it’s not an easy ask, but hopefully you’ll have a suitable cd in your collection.

Thanks for the suggestions. It'll be a week or so before I can do more clips.

Managed to find time to do the clips today:

A: https://photos.app.goo.gl/SYQxzoQcoK6szoM78
B: https://photos.app.goo.gl/AatZvYdkyaSXekoG7

Just listened now. A to me, a more pretty listen.