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LOL ... I am not sure the discussion is going the right direction ...
and I got to google like 90% of what you guys are talking about ... but its interesting as I am still at the noob learning phase of this ..

anyway .. I do have a certain standard when it come to listening to music ... maybe it come from the time when I was in school and I use to run the AV for the school and the sound for the school during school event shows .. just that I put it aside when i grew up and never really learn much about it ..

anyway my sound system at home is shameful ..lol its just a sony bluray home theater with a bunch of random speaker I can connect it with ..
basically .. my PC use hdmi out to the sony bluray home theater for the sound and hdmi out to my 55" HD LED 3D TV ..lol
so obviously I love HD stuff ..lol

anyway .. I am a portable person .. because in Singapore ..most of us live in small apartment call flats ...
and if I am to blast any sound system .. I would find my neighbors of the whole block or the police at my door ..

coincidentally .. I was thinking about getting the Fiio Alpen-E17 .. hmm maybe I should rethink ..
recently .. I have upgraded my portable audio setup to ..Sony MDR-1R headphone and FiiO E07K ANDES amp
from my old setup of Philips x O’Neill STRETCH TR55LX headphone and GoVibe amp ..
my player is my old iphone4 which i connect with a LOD cable .. now I am using Samsung galaxy S4 as my phone which i sometimes also use as my player..
I just ordered and still waiting for my Shure SE215 limited edition to come to upgrade from my a-JAYS ..

 

next on my shopping list is a classic ipod ..with the 160G so I can try out those raw files which require more space against what my friend told me not to do ..lol

anyway .. you guys are lucky .. in my countries .. there ain't much of this kind of good stuff around .. >.<
most people here care more about look and I am quite certain most are carrying imitation fake beats dr.dre.

but I still got to support many idols so .. i got limited budget ..lol
but anyway .. i went forward with all this .. is because of the music i listen to ..which is all japanese idols ..
its actually a different kind of music ..which always don't seem to sound right for me ..
Thats why Í am doing all this now .. to find that perfect sound to me for japanese idol songs ..
i am not sure .. but strangely for this i find that the lower mid end headphone earphone seem to do better than high end ones ...
maybe its the player , amp or phone ...

or maybe its because the CD quality ? ..
its something I never think about .. thats why this topic is interesting to me ...

hi, i am just from ur neighboring country malaysia for iem headphone, give final audio design a try, they got nice bass that wont mix up with the vocal ^^ I still like the sound from FAD heaven 4^^ the more expensive FAD maybe better never try them yet i am more of a hifi guy than a headfi guy ^^

it's interesting that u found that cheaper headset sounded better, maybe its the DAC limitation or mayb u can try iFi iUSB power to condition the USB power ^^

ya, tis went the wrong direction for a while but well... i did update with some info saying after i did an ABX test i am able to hear audible differences in the bass of the song from the album version vs the single version. but for the vocal part, I don't seem to hear any differences yet

But then what is the issue regarding the audio quality of the mentioned AKB CDs? Faulty writing equipment? If there is a disparity when comparing them with the other CDs and the audio problem only happened somewhat recently, then it was either a mess-up that they didn't bother fixing, tools that went bad they didn't bother changing, or a conscious decision to give people lower quality music in my opinion. The last one shouldn't be the case, and if it was the first one, then they should've fixed the issue already.

 

I finally did some ABX test, and it seem that I am able to hear audible differences in the bass though I am unable to hear audible differences in the vocal. I wonder anyone am able to hear any audible differences in the vocal?

u said u got an av receiver right? which mean that u are not a portable guy. Alpen is definitely not suitable at all. Alpen is built with portability as 1 of the main point. Try something like hrt music streamer 2 or odac. if u are interested to know more, u can pm me.

I think u wont be seeing DVD-A as mainstream cause it seem to lose to SACD in the hi-res format war. With sony backing SACD and the capacity of SACD is almost the same as DVD-A with single layer 4.7gb and double layer 8.5gb, I don't see DVD-A gonna be mainstream

I actually still prefer a stereo amp for listening to musics. I actually don't think B&W low end speaker is worth to buy. I will only consider B&W for their CM9 and PM1. I think low end speaker, Mission MX5, Kef Ls50 and such is better What DAC are u using? Have u tried jplay before? It's working like a charm for me ^^

I'm thinking they tried to minimize the size to an acceptable level in order to make room for under girls, extra tracks and instrumentals, but they fucked up the process, minimizing the overall audio quality despite the CD being able to carry more. Which would explain why some single CDs haven't even had their full capacity filled.

 

Which leads me to the question: since CDs are close to obsolete anyway, why not use DVDs and lossless audio now? After all, most cars nowadays have DVD players, and you can hook up a miniature one if your car's audio system is too old anyway.

 

And have the DVD extras be in full 1080p on Blurays instead.

 

Sure they'd have to up the costs a bit if they do it right now, but in a few years it should be quite possible.

 

Time passes by and changes should happen to take advantage of this. Otherwise we'll be forever stuck in primitive technology.

I think I never seen a single that fully utilize the space given yet

CD are no way close to obsolete when delivering audio only and CD is loseless 16bit/44.1khz audio. SACD and DVD-A which able to store higher quality audio are not making a hit because there is argue that most human ear cant hear the differences after 16bit/44.1khz quality. And normal DVD player that don't specially have DVD-A feature will only play DVD-A as normal DVD and unable to fully utilize it capability. For normal user, maybe u wont really mind. But for hifi user that owned a thousand dollar CD player that only use was to play stereo CD, to upgrade his current CD player to a SACD or DVD-A capable player that most claim unable to hear audible differences, do u really think he will upgrade? That is why CD is still the mainstream for audio only format.

However, for video format, I really do wish that they could change to BD ASAP .