Simon Posford, of Shpongle, Younger Brother, and Hallucinogen fame, is a production God. The Shpongle and Younger Brother projects include at least 7 albums filled to the brim with some of the most incredible music you'll ever hear. It's busy, lush, weird, and insanely trippy. From thick juicy basslines and wild swirling synths to vocal recordings of a rickshaw driver in a hotel, this music has it all. Younger brother is a more chill downtempo vibe, with the last album being full of vocals and more like a traditional band. Shpongle is, as Simon put it back in 1999 or something, "like nothing you've ever heard before" (and it turns out, since). I recommend starting with The Last Days of Gravity or Tales of the Inexpressible.

https://tidal.com/track/8439077?u

Dooooom. Sounds absolutely incredible. Mastered by Heba Kadry

https://tidal.com/track/333025458

I’d like to share a nice cover of Pink Floyd’s 'Money', by Indra Rios-Moore.

Clever use of some instrumentals... There’s this subtle use of a drum in the background.. a kettle drum perhaps? ... wonderful recording...

https://open.spotify.com/track/1deRy8hxkpI3mdODgxPOWB?si=65965d0b07584380

https://tidal.com/browse/track/43725187

Cheers, Ed.

Hey there, I am new to the audiophile world and I am looking at getting my first surround sound system for our basement. It will be used for movies and music. I found a used PSB speaker system for $3200 CAD. They are discontinued so I can't find much on them plus I don't know what I am reading when I do find something. The speakers are:

• PSB Speakers

7.1 surround speaker system

- 2 pair Image B5 (bookshelf)

- 1 pair Image T5 (towers)

- Image SW200 (subwoofer)

- Image C5 (centre speaker)

- 2 pair bookshelf stands

Thoughts? Advice? Recommendations? Please help!

https://youtu.be/cU4PZzSI40M

What an unbelievable song to test the limits of your stereo. Turn down the lights, turn up the volume, and smoke 'em if you got 'em

https://preview.redd.it/n957ql4cp4wc1.jpg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9be8e227784fbf37e8dd9a57d948c0d1aa0d5ec5

Decided to stream music today. What are you guys listening to today. Thought to start a conversation to discover good new music!

https://youtu.be/F0T2F8dwiHo

https://imgur.com/eJ7oYqo

Psycroptic - Divine Council 2022

Razor sharp groove riffs. Incredible production right there with Meshuggah in terms of organic sound.

Sound incredible on my Kali IN-8 studio monitors and on ATC SCM-19 with Rel sub.

Years ago i ripped .flac from a CD of this amazing album. I don't know which recording it was but I've recently noticed a substantial 'hiss' in the background. It's mostly noticeable with high-end gear, so its not something most people would complain about. Is anyone aware of this album's noise and lack of black/silence?

I wanted Neutron Player to play in bit-perfect mode, so I configured the following settings in the app based on my online research:

1. Generic Driver = ON
2. Generic Driver -> Hi-Res Codec = ON
3. Generic Driver -> Hi-Res Speaker = ON
4. DSP Effect (Device) = OFF
5. Low Latency = OFF
6. 32-bit Output (IEEE 754) = OFF
7. Enabled 64-bit processing
8. Resampling = Audiophile
9. Profile = Bit perfect

The audio sounded excellent, with clear nuances, even better than in UAPP's bit-perfect mode. However, later, I noticed in the Audio Hardware section of Neutron Player that the output was set to 32-bit, despite the settings for 64-bit processing. It was shown as below,

Bit 64( Out : 32 int)

Frequency 48000

The file I played was 24-bit at 48000Hz.

So my question is whether, even with the settings for bit-perfect mode, Neutron Player still resamples the audio, which I believe may have caused the sound quality to be good but potentially led to ear fatigue over time.

Comparatively, UAPP provides a wider soundstage and a more pleasing, natural audio experience, albeit less punchy than Neutron. Neutron sound felt like amplified, but with no distortion and a narrow sound stage.

UAPP is very easy to configure bit perfect mode unlike Neutron which is complicated.

I'd like to know if my settings were incorrect for achieving bit-perfect mode in Neutron Player,

or if Neutron really upsamples at some level,

or if Neutron's bit-perfect mode is more powerful and has good sound output than UAPP.

From the name itself, '64-bit audio processing,' I believe there is some audio processing and rendering in the audio signal, unlike the unaltered signal in bit-perfect mode. Please clarify this as well.

Thanks in advance. Sorry if the question is not meant for this sub.

Just wondering what fellow audiophiles think of King Gizzard. Fair warning that they're my favorite band so I will be gushing a little.

Their mixing is always very unique, both in terms of being different than most other music and in terms of each album being different from one another. They typically go absolutely nuts on background instruments, layering, and texturing. I've never heard music with such subtle sounds and dense layers as some of King Gizzard's albums. It's rare for any sound to be a single instrument, even a simple-sounding guitar or synth is often actually several sounds all working together so subtly you don't notice unless you're paying attention. In particular their vocals often seem to be comprised of dozens of different takes all mixed together, on many songs you can hear the slight timing differences on the start/stop of each take. The way they record instruments is also interesting and a little bit lo-fi, every instrument has a sort of body and scale to it that I haven't heard anywhere else.

If I have one complaint it's definitely the lack of dynamic range in some of their albums. It never ruins the music, I've definitely heard worse, but it is frustrating when they put so much work into all the delicate layering and then ruin the clarity by compressing the shit out of it at the last second (see their albums Laminated Denim and Murder of the Universe for examples). I've heard their vinyl mixes are better but I don't have a record player.

Here's a few particularly nice-sounding songs:

Butterfly 3000 - Lots of building synth layers awash with effects. Very lush.

Theia (Extended Mix) - It's a 20 minute song so in particular check out the first 3 and a half minutes and ~7:30-~12:30. Probably their densest layering ever. Tons of unique synth sounds at once, many with different effects and all playing a different riff.

Crumbling Castle - Great example of how they mix guitars. Shows off that "body and scale" I mentioned earlier, the guitars just sound so much more substantive than most bands. There's a heavy, sludgey ending with lots of guitar layers and absolutely massive sound to it. Never heard distorted guitars with layering done like this (and if anyone knows of more I would love to hear it).

The Spider and Me - This album was recorded fully analog, there's a really lovely warmth to it. It also has some ambient recordings in the background that are mixed very well and give a cool openness to the soundstage. Other bands have definitely done this, I just think it's done well here, and it shows off their dense layering in a different (jazzy) context.

The River - This one is pretty lo-fi, but I find that it bothers me much less than most lo-fi music. Each individual instrument is recorded like shit and absolutely covered in effects and analog distortion (for some effects on this album they messed with the analog tape, crinkling it etc, and recorded that), but at the same time you can hear every instrument fairly clearly. It gives everything a nice lo-fi texture without sacrificing clarity.