I have with a more resolving system started to hear more issues with recordings but it is a surprise to me since many of these recordings are to be high level ones. It is mostly trumpets. I hear the same on headphones as in my system. Qobuz mainly but I hear it on Tidal too.
Can you hear the same for example on this track and listen specifically to the trumpet. Is that digital issues somewhere in the signal chain or is that how a trumpet sounds in a very resolving system? Almost sounds like a blown speaker.
Are they HD masters from studios owned by Sony Music?
I only ask because, there is a digital watermark on those and, although it is supposed to be inaudible, once your ear picks it up, it is very hard to unhear again.
There are some pages online that explain more about this and how to train your ear to pick it up, and therefore, avoid those recordings.
Of course, those recordings you have just might be iffy.
I have no clue. This example is a 24/96 Blue note recording. It just sounds like when you have done a digital conversion that went wrong and it starts to crackle on loud places. Like out of headroom distorsion (LUFS issues).
Ahh this often happened during the âloudness warsâ of CD mastering in the late 90s.
Without access to the file to analyze, itâs hard to tell but your description fits. HD streaming wouldnât be immune.
Though one other possibility is a good digital transfer of a saturated master tape. You used to see warnings on the back of ADD and AAD discs reading, âDue to the high definition of the digital audio CD format, shortcomings in the original analogue master might be revealed.â
Oh I have noticed this here and there. Initially I thought there was a problem with my hardware but when she same things do the same thing on two different Atom HE devices with two different headphones it starts to narrow the source down as culprit.
Just listening to this and thanks, what a great find. I hadnât come across this guy before.
Re the â distortionâ. On my kit it sounds as though its on the edge of being distorted but not to a speaker blown kind of level at the 24/96 stream. If I upsample to the dsd 256 on my Auralic, that slight distortion is softened to the point I wouldnât have noticed it if I wasnât listening for it.
I am now listening to whole album and lining up the back catalogue
This happened to me with some ĂĄlbuns 3 or 4 that I have, in specific tracks of the album, appears the Twitter is distorting, I almost thought my Sopra n1 was defective, but is something that some recordings have.
If it was the tweeter the issue should be present in most recordings, now when I go back to that ĂĄlbuns, I skip those tracks or listen to them very low.
Just listening to this. It sounds like a Saxaphone being played rather than a trumpet. It just sounds like the rasp of the instrument rather than distortion ?
Lovely album by the way. Something I wouldnât have listened to normally
Yea that track and quite many others with saxophone/trumpet. It sounds logical that it is sound coming from the mouth/reed. However I have listened a lot to Coltrane and jazz from the past and this is more or less only existent in new recording. Maybe a new way recording? I cannot say it sounds great though since it reminds a lot about distortion, cracked speaker But then at least I have no issues I have to solve in my system.
I have just listened to a CD rip of this album and I donât get a sound like a blown speaker. I do get a sound that sounds like the âraspâ of the saxophone (maybe the reed and microphone as noted by jmtennapel).
I get the raspy sound, but itâs more like a loose reed clamp than the reed itself. Definitely a swallowed mic recording.
I like the Charles Lloyd with Bill Frisell, but (and I know others will see how much of a Philistine I am!) I have a strong preference for Bill on his own. Sine the album youâre listening to and enjoying has the fantastic âShenandoahâ, I encourage you to hop back in time to East-West and give that one a go⌠then make your way back to Gone⌠Just Like a Train and then play everything Bill ever recorded⌠including his stellar turns with Bonnie Raitt on two sublime Bob Dylan covers (Feel My Love and Stsnding In The Shadows? canât recall⌠too lazy to google!)
No trumpets on any of Charles Lloyd & the Marvels album that I can recall. Here are the musicians and instruments played on âI Long To See You.â
Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone, alto flute); Bill Frisell (guitar), Greg Leisz (steel guitar), Reuben Rogers (bass), Eric Harland (drums), Willie Nelson (voice) and Norah Jones (voice).
Perhaps there is a lot of distortion on your particular system if Charlesâs saxophone or flute is sounding like a trumpet.
Almost sounds like a blown speaker.
But then at least I have no issues I have to solve in my system.