bhaagensen wrote: > I'm pretty sure some of the WiMP flacs are different from my/the > CD-version. As to how this could be, I think you gave a fairly good > summary. Would be nice to have the opinions of others who could for > example have another "pressing" of The Man in Black, if such exists. So > I think you kind of gave the answer to you own question.
OK. That makes sense. And there are a number of "different" mastering CDs floating around that can sound quite different. Not sure about "The Man in Black" (although I'm a fan of Johnny Cash!). But for example, you could own one of the early (80s, or was it early 90s) Beatles CDs but then hear a FLAC song on WIMP that comes from one of the Box releases from a couple of years ago (and to be even more confusing, it could be the MONO version or the Stereo version). I have all these Beatles CDs and, yes, the same song from the early CDs, or the newer Stereo box, or newer Mono box, can all 3 sound completely different (even though they are all FLAC files ripped from the CDs). Or you could be listening to the recently released (and remastered) Fleetwood Mac "Then Play On" locally but WIMP could be playing the older (and "badly" mastered) CD release of the same song. But I suspect we're lucky enough when streamers tell us the album, track name, artist, and album artwork for a song they are streaming. Doubtful they would ever also add info on which mastering the track comes from, etc. (although that would be great of course). (for a major, major difference in mastering, check out the original release CDs of ZZ TOP, particularly first 3 albums which had been remastered to give them god-awful 80s synth drum sounds. And then compare any song on these first 3 zz top CDs from the CDs rereleased this year (2013) that contain the ORIGINAL vinyl mixes of those albums. Night and Day difference. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > SqueezePlay *Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100461 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
