u/Niko0795

I'm, relatively new to being an audiophile, but I have tried quite a bit of headphones. I have tried IEMS like the HIDIZ MP145 and the Fiio FH5s, as well as the beyerdynamic DT990 pros and the HIFIMAN Ananda Stealth. My dac has been the Fiio JM21. One thing that I have noticed and that has become sort of nitpick is when I hear random noises. What I mean by noises is like popping on vinyl, but a lot quieter and quicker. Its nothing that bad but with all the money ive spent I expect everything to sound perfect. I play all my music through either cd quality flacs or 194 khz 24 bit flacs but even then I still hear things. I do listen to a lot of older music that was recorded to tape so i wonder if my equipment is just so good that it lets me hear imperfections but sometimes I wonder if something in my gear is defective. Has anyone else experienced this?

I'm, relatively new to being an audiophile, but I have tried quite a bit of headphones. I have tried IEMS like the HIDIZ MP145 and the Fiio FH5s, as well as the beyerdynamic DT990 pros and the HIFIMAN Ananda Stealth. My dac has been the Fiio JM21. One thing that I have noticed and that has become sort of nitpick is when I hear random noises. What I mean by noises is like popping on vinyl, but a lot quieter and quicker. Its nothing that bad but with all the money ive spent I expect everything to sound perfect. I play all my music through either cd quality flacs or 194 khz 24 bit flacs but even then I still hear things. I do listen to a lot of older music that was recorded to tape so i wonder if my equipment is just so good that it lets me hear imperfections but sometimes I wonder if something in my gear is defective. Has anyone else experienced this?

So I got a pair of FiiO FH5s which have tuning switches and I wanted to hear the difference so I switched while music was playing but then I searched it up and found out that doing that could damage them, does anyone know if this is true or if it only damages when done repeatedly?

Does anyone know the story of how this song came to be and how it was essentially a beach boys and Stevie wonder collaboration where Stevie wrote, produced and played most of the instruments on this one?

What is yalls opinions on artists that change their sound over time vs those who never really try anything different? I personally prefer music artists with many different sounds and eras, for example the Grateful Dead which started out as a blues cover band, then psychedelic band, then country rock band, then into however you describe wake of the flood and from the mars hotel, to disco and progressive rock. I just enjoy these artists a lot more because I find there’s always something different to discover and enjoy about them. Another example is bob dylan, frank Zappa, the Beatles, and many others. Contrast this with bands like journey, ac dc, and a lot of hair metal bands that all just sound like they made the same album over and over again.

But tell me what you think

I don’t care what anyone says but the soft parade is genuinely so over hated. It’s genuinely one of my favorite doors albums and even prefer it over strange days when it comes to the Morrison albums. I don’t know why people don’t like the horns and string sounds, I mean everybody used that sound in the 60s, even the Rolling Stones but the doors are the only ones people don’t like. I guess it’s because the doors have always been seen as a stripped back blues group and which is how they sound on their most popular albums but still

I don’t know what type of people are in this subreddit so I hope we have a civil discussion but,

Why are Michael Jackson fans some of the most insufferable and toxic fans I have ever seen? Like holy shit they’re always so hard to talk to or have any sort of discussion with. Like everyone talks about swifties but MJ fans are genuinely just as bad. You can’t say anything negative about mj without being attacked. Like I know mj had it hard and was treated horribly by almost everyone but holy shit mj fans act like he’s the only one. They all claim that everything bad that ever happened to him was cause by “the people at the top” like holy shit if mj ever stubbed his foot they would blame the industry, jews, etc. Every time someone says something bad about thriller or says that there is an album that is better they immediately hit you with “best selling album of all time” argument like it means shit.

I can keep going on how toxic they are but I’ll just leave it here, I hope I don’t get mauled here. I’m gonna end this by giving some of my personal experience with mj fans:

1. I remember seeing a post on Instagram that quoted something Elton John said about meeting mj in the 90s and what he said wasn’t even bad and was something that was known at the time about mj. John talked about how when he met him Michael seemed to be out of due to drugs and how seemed to be lost and Elton said it was an unpleasant encounter. Then I checked the comments and it was crazy. MJ fans were losing it, they were making fun of Elton’s sexuality, saying shit like “It would be unpleasant to be next to you Elton” and some of them were saying Elton was just jealous that the new Michael movie was beating rocket man even though this quote was from 6 years ago.

2. I saw another post that listed the top selling artists of all time and MJ fans can’t seem to comprehend that the Beatles are the best selling music act of all time. They all kept saying the list was wrong, that Jews made the list, that Michael owned the Beatles, etc.

3. I saw another post that listed the top 10 greatest albums of all time and thriller wasn’t on it which is something that I tend to agree with. Mj fans in the comments were talking about how thriller was the best album of all time, and I commented saying that I didn’t agree and they all called me racist and told me thriller was the best selling album.

I just realized that Led Zeppelin never had their own big live album, their Live at Leeds or live in Japan or At the Fillmore East? If they had released it what live year or show would you have liked to be used? Also what songs would you have liked.

PS I know the song remains the same exists but it was released 1976 so I don’t really see it as one of the greats of early 70s live albums