Almost not bearable.


Skimming through today's releases on qobuz and Tidal, saw that foo Fighters had a new record out and tapped play on qobuz.  After a 45 seconds into the first track I skipped to second thinking it was something wrong with the first but it's just as bad 😒 .

Started Tidal and it sounds better but just..

Anybody else had a listen and had a similar experience of this insane compressor abuse? 

Personally I would never have let something like this leave my studio . 

Tragic as it is I really like the songs and the record is after all really good 👍 

iseland
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Am about to pick up the new Foo's record today, has anyone given that a listen? Is the quality good? Tired of getting crap sounding records. 

FWIW, haven't listened to it yet on Tidal, usually try to go the record route first.

@mswale unless it was mastered differently the record will be similar to streaming version as far as compression goes. let us know how it sounds.

@knittersspouse nice post!   
 

Welcome to the fold, madhouse, club, whatever one might call it. 🙏

*** Acceptance regarding poor recordings is fine(necessary) but validating them "for the content" is ridiculous. Content and SQ are two different entities and need to be critiqued on an individual basis. ***

Couldn’t disagree more.  Sound quality specifics of a recording can be valid artistic choices as part of the overall artistic message of the artist.  Sometimes getting outside our audiophile expectations can be a good thing.  Of course, sometimes the sound simply sucks.