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[dolari]

It's weird how different speakers give you different "arrangements" of music. I'm listening to Suzanne Vega's first album via my TV speakers, and it sounds like a completely different mix than I'm used to.

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[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Indeed. For a while, I was just using fairly nasty, cheap headphones, and was actually genuinely fine with 96kbps AAC in my music library. (Which isn't as gruesome as it might sound, but it's certainly not ultra-fi) Eventually, I picked up a pair of Sennheiser PX200-IIi, being at quite a decent price, and sporting phone controls as well (having recently bought a shiny new iPhone 3G =:), which were quite a revelation.

Even those pale, in turn, against the Sennheiser HD25-1 II (ye gods, but they could seriously use someone in Marketing who doesn't speak in alphanumeric soup), still quite modestly priced, but.. wow, the sound stage is distinctly superior, and generally greater clarity. They're not noise isolating or cancelling, but they nonetheless do a very nice job of keeping the outside world at bay, letting me enjoy music videos and TV on buses and trains in comfort, no need to wind up the volume.

Reminds me, I had some Tori Amos and Concrete Blonde in my music library at one point.. those must've slipped out during some system transfer. And David Byrne's Rei Momo, offering his twist on a variety of Latin American rhythm themes..

[amw.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's wild. I found adding a sub-woofer was a pretty cool "remix". I don't have a big epic XPLOSIONS, BRO sub-woofer, but a studio one, so you don't really hear that it added anything at first. Then you turn it off and suddenly the song loses a lot of richness and presence that you didn't notice was there because it felt so natural. It's really interesting.