Listening to Music - Page 2

On December 05 2011 21:14 Azera wrote:


What's p4k?

V0 eh? Have you tried V2? Is there a distinguishable difference?

On December 05 2011 21:18 thopol wrote:

I could get surgery, but it might not do anything and I'm not in the position to consider it anyway, both in terms of finances and time. Maybe someday. It happened because I got hit by a car last year.

I don't even try to listen to everything that comes out. There are plenty of new albums in genres I like or like experimenting with. I listen to mostly electronic, production, ambient, experimental, type stuff, but I really enjoy hip hop, post-punk, jazz, and folk. I listen to a bit of pop, prog, world music, classical, and metal when I get adventurous. That's pretty much the gamut, ain't it. I'm trying to listen to more Japanese music this year to give my top 100 a bit of an angle. It'll differentiate it from my friends' top 100s and it'll give them a different avenue to look into. Anyway, I haven't listened to Bieber as far as I know.

On December 05 2011 21:19 skyR wrote:


Whatter just sounds dumb.

p4k is pitchfork.

Unless you have superpowers or have some amazingly sick sound system, you won't notice a difference between V0, V2, 320, etcetc.

On December 05 2011 21:23 Azera wrote:


That's pretty sad. I'm sorry for asking.




I still don't understand. Pitchfork? Please explain :D

On December 05 2011 20:33 Azera wrote:
Well then TeamLiquid community? How do you listen to your music and what do you listen to?

On December 05 2011 21:14 Azera wrote:





What's p4k?

V0 eh? Have you tried V2? Is there a distinguishable difference?

On December 05 2011 21:24 thopol wrote:

No worries mate.

http://pitchfork.com/

On December 05 2011 21:27 Mobius_1 wrote:
I'm not too obsessed about quality because I'm only a poor grad who can't afford expensive audiophile stuff. Also somewhat cheap earbuds and integrated soundcards may not capture every detail of every song, they convey the soul of the music well enough for me.

As for genres, trance, house, pop, hip hop, mandopop, recently kpop (thanks, TL!), bit of rock, bit of classical, and speaking of video game music, I've been listening to "The Greatest Video Game Music" performed by the London Philharmonic Opera and it is epic. Especially ME2 Suicide Mission, my favourite.

On December 05 2011 21:44 IskatuMesk wrote:


Foobar's volume slider doesn't work on my sound card because lol asus $300 sound card but horrible drivers :3 so now I use winamp with openAL.

All mannerisms of headphones hurt my ears and I have yet to use a pair that sound as good as these speakers, but I do have Steelseries Siberia headphones, primarily for noise cancellation more than listening. These speakers > http://www.klipsch.com/promedia-2-1-computer-speakers No room for 5.1, but these suit me just fine. Maybe I'll think about getting better 2.1 if I can find some?

As for music, well... I have over a terabyte of material here and it's all rather varied. I'll post a bunch of random bits I can find on the butchered whale that is youtube. I'm very picky, though. Take a look,

+ Show Spoiler +

And then some assorted metal/gothic metal such as Kamelot and the very old Therion albums.

I do a lot of voice acting and SFX work so audio quality is pretty important to me.

On December 05 2011 21:45 Ikonn wrote:


I can't really hear the difference between v0 and v2, but v0 isn't much bigger in size anyway and it's the idea of having the highest quality (with a good quality/size ratio, so the best lossy) that makes me try to get stuff in v0

On December 05 2011 21:50 atmuh wrote:
taylor swift flacs only

On December 05 2011 21:50 phiinix wrote:
Oh baby baby. Music is like... music to my ears....wait..


Only marginally surprised of people who haven't listened to electronica, it's a hugeeeeee genre of a lot of different music. I really feel like if you give it a shot, you'll find something you like. I've heard and listened to juno reactor, amon tobin, massive attack, the inception soundtrack, philip glass, I'd like to consider myself well rounded when it comes to instrumental music, I have a damn tumblr on it.

The inception soundtrack is pretty sick, if you check it out and like it, definitely check out the batman: dark knight soundtrack as well (hans zimmer is amazingggg?!)

As for headphones, I made the investment in sennheiser 280 pros, cost me about 50, though I think I got them pretty cheap, and for over ears they're really good for that price. If you're looking for cheap over ears, I think sennheiser 202's are quite common if you want over ears, and Sennheiser cx400ii's are $25, in ear headphones, that come with an assortment of buds so you can fit it into your small-big ear hole (: Be sure to check out the audiophile section, or head over to headfi.org and you can browse around there, it's for the crazy people

Now that I think about it, i'll plug tumblr here, as well as the grooveshark playlist. the grooveshark isn't very comprehensive, as i haven't updated it in like 2 months, but if you check some of it out and you're interested, hit me up and I'll send you the file of all the tracks; I keep that one up to date and i label them so you can get a good feel on what the tracks are about (piano, trip-hop, dubstep, etc) The groovershark playlist can be random, although if you're patient enough with just skipping tracks you don't like, you're bound to end up with something you do (:

http://365instrumentals.tumblr.com/
http://grooveshark.com/#/playlist/365 Instrumentals/60410227

On December 05 2011 21:54 Fishgle wrote:
Wait, you have .flac, but listen straight from your computer jack? What soundcard do you have? And you're using those headphones? Closed, and with extra bass? Really? no decent amp, dac, or solid pair of cans?

...what... what is the point of .flac then? might as well listen to 192kb mp3s....
/rant lololol

Anyway, i use HD595s and a fio e7 dac+amp, nothing fancy really, but enough to get a nice balanced full sound for a cheap price.

anyway, i listen to tons of stuff (mostly indie rock and prog/alt rock atm) and find stuff through Last.fm (integrated into foobar, for awesome scrobbling awesomeness), and find new music through sputnikmusic and this site: http://newalbumreleases.net/ also, Anthony Fantano (needledrop on youtube), or http://theneedledrop.com/

currently enjoying Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow and Thrice's entire discography, which I just discovered.

On December 05 2011 22:51 Blisse wrote:
I have a NuForce amplifier powering a couple of M-Audio speakers, Sennheisers, and Ultrasones.

Started out only in rock, and slowly expanded to jpop from anime. Moved into trance after Osu! And now expanded into kpop because of my girlfriend. Influence is everywhere..

My love of music prevails regardless sound quality, for the most part. I can listen to 192 kbps at minimum...anything else is unlistenable, and even up to 240 kbps depends on whether I'm lucky with the rip... Most of my music is 320 or lossless, depending on what's the best I can find with the least effort....

As always, Muse is my favourite , by far.


I can't say anyone I know loves music more than me... I can lose myself for hours, but I resist that temptation.

On December 05 2011 23:02 Merkd wrote:
I'm a big electronic music listener, have been for many years now love the old skool and new skool alike.

Listening to trance just takes me to a different place, so uplifting i love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inB9aNpqwwo&feature=related

Amazing Track, gives me goosebumps everytime.

On December 05 2011 23:14 Soleron wrote:
All I listen to these days is pony electronic music. Yes, ponies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjO2pXcqJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PCEp8z7FNg

Favourite track ever is probably

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW2MqDvfaz8

On December 06 2011 00:47 popzags wrote:
Ambient is what I examine the most now:

THIS ONE IS ABSOLUTE MUST, LISTEN TO IT:
+ Show Spoiler [Tim Hecker] +

Some more decency:
+ Show Spoiler [Biosphere] +
+ Show Spoiler [Troum & All Sides] +
+ Show Spoiler [Stars of the Lid] +

On December 06 2011 04:44 Squarewalker wrote:
rateyourmusic and lastfm have put my taste in music on the right track, and since then it's become a core part of my life. I don't think I could cope with becoming deaf if that ever happened.

I generally prefer to listen to entire albums rather than individual songs (unless I happen to get really hooked on a particular song). I listen to music nearly all the time, even when reading/studying.

I don't limit myself by genres, I think every genre has something good to offer if you are willing to waste time to look for it (rym and lastfm helped a lot in that regard as well to speed up that process).

I go through phases a lot when I listen to a couple bands or genres for a longer while, going through their discographies multiple times, then when I get bored I move onto other genres, then repeat. Some of my friends, however, prefer to listen to relatively very few amounts from everything so they can go back to those bands for years.

On the technical side, I use Winamp, and prefer speakers to headphones.

My favourite genres/bands happen to be:
-prog metal + Show Spoiler + and all kinds of metal in general (I don't want to list all other subgenres separately) + Show Spoiler +
-all forms of rock (alt/classic/indie/prog/punk/etc.) + Show Spoiler +
-ambient + Show Spoiler +
-new age + Show Spoiler +
-post-rock + Show Spoiler +
-classical + Show Spoiler +
-various soundtracks + Show Spoiler +
-My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic-related original songs and remixes

The last 6 categories I listed (as well as the atmospheric black metal bands) happen to be exceptionally good background music for reading/studying for me at least.

Also nice to see pony music and Stars Of The Lid being mentioned in the above two posts as well, respectively.

On December 05 2011 20:55 Stratos wrote:
I listen to mainly rock and sometimes kpop. The only classical piece I fell in deep love with so far is:
(the whole album)

I wonder if anyone (maybe OP) could recommend something similar? Preferably with the solo piano concept and a darker mood (not Yiruma).