Hi-Fi Audio As Fast As Possible 

I think it's quite similar with video. Once we experience full HD (or even more), it's sucks to go back at 360p or 480p. **unless it's a good porn.

Hi-fi stuff isn't for everyone, but it can be damn addicting and expensive for those who do enjoy it.

Children. Don't buy beats.

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Bought Hi-Fi headphones to listen to Lo-Fi chill music at RU-vid

The biggest disappointment of my life was going to my first rock concert as a teen and it sounded so much shittier than the record.

Low Quality Audio is Like: Dead Pixels 3/2 Pulldown LCD Light Bleed Coil Whine Screen Tearing Vsync Lag Mechanical Hard Drives Non-Native Resolution (looking at you XBone, 900p) Once you realize how bad it is, You'll pay anything to get rid of it.

I just bought a pair of Audio-Technica ATH-M50x on sale for a little over a hundred bucks. Coming from a three hundred dollar pair of Beats Studio... I will never make that mistake again.

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Room acoustics will get anyone off to a good start regardless of equipment. So many people with stereo systems don't take the time to properly place their speakers or tame reflections when needed.

Now do audio codecs.

Hi-fi sound equipment doesn't necessarily have to reproduce the sound from the source accurately, some can still be considered hi-fi even if it "colors" the sound. "Reference quality" is the term used for gear that's goal is to be as accurate as possible.

Spotify/RU-vid music 128kbs = 30fps HQ MP3 320kbs = 60fps Lossless Flac 1411kbs = 144fps

I argue with my friend who owns expensive beats headphones while I use cheap but good IEMs, about sound quality all the time. Most people think price always equals quality, but with most tech these days that isn't true.

And people think that Wi-Fi stands for "Wireless Fidelity".

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Gotta say, as an audio professional.... This was spot on, lol! I'd love to see you guys cover the modern music experience with streaming platforms (spotify, RU-vid, etc.. which are all normalizing the listening experience through weighted measurements of the audio tracks and creating a playback gain adjustment) and the fidelity wars in Streaming (Soundcloud is notorious for it's lower quality compression schemes compared to Spotify or Tidal)

Best practice is to crank that bass to 11 so you can hear over 9000 kHz.

I feel like there gets to a point where the law of diminishing returns sets in

Regarding source-quality and MP3/Lossless/FLAC you could have meantioned the significance of the "loudness war" trend.

I'm in the market for new headphones, what color of Beats Studio wireless come with the most Hi-Fi?

You can get a hi fi system or get stoned as fuck and turn your consumer grade system into a hifi system.

Li-Fi Asap episode please

It will be good that people understand what actually quality sound is. Great video!!!

0:00 Do you have that one friend who sits in corner of the room and... No, but wait... That's me

Got it so adding more resistors to a headset makes them more hifi

The Sennheiser HE-1 is not $50K, it's $55K. Unless Linus got a discount 😛

@2:28 "...more premium cables and wires can, in some cases, make a slight difference" Linus, you are correct, for most stereos. But for a truly well built, high end stereo, the difference that cables make is anything but slight. @3:05 "...very difficult to hear the difference between a high quality mp3 and a lossless flac" Linus, ditto my first comment, as it pertains to a true high end stereo. If you have not heard, for example, a pair of Wilson Alexx, or Vandersteen Seven loudspeakers, with like-quality components, professionally set-up, then you have not heard a system where the differences in cables, or mp3 vs. flac, will be very apparent. Otherwise, a very good video.

4:57 where the hell did you manage to find a picture of someone trying to feed a speaker

how many channels this guy have?

good mp3 is good enough for most people. Lossless can make a difference. But only if you do not listen to it with a potato wired to a watering can. Note: Potato doesn´t mean bad quality, it is just different.

Linus you're the last person who should be talking about hi-fi.

Its not only the sound, its also admiring the technology that produces it. There is even a saying that audiophiles listen to their equipment and music lovers listen to the music.

I came to the conclusion about 30 years ago that most people's ears are not good enough to recognise high quality audio. I hear every change I make in any part of my system. Every part of your system is critical - stands, equipment, cables, room. Cables make a notable difference and are vital. Uncompressed FLAC is very clearly much better than compressed 320kB MP3. I worship hifi and have an immense music library. I have spent substantial amounts of money over the last 3 decades but I enjoy every moment of it. I listen to music for many hours every day. When you get to a level that you are discovering new basslines/extra drums/additional backing singers then you are doing it right. When you just have to listen to that one more track then you are doing it right. When it makes you cry you are doing it right. Music is life.

Finally, under 300 view Plus , as an audiophile, i loved the topic!

3:09, you can absolutely hear the difference between any MP3 track (don't know what Linus means by "high quality MP3") and a hi-res uncompressed track (192KHz/24-bit and 5Mbps+ bitrate) if played back on a good hi-fi system with a proper preamp, a good amplifier and a great pair of speakers. It doesn't make sense to play a track like that on a PC and using its built-in speakers.

Informative as always. Thanks, Linus!

HiFi is the WiFi stoned

4:00 haha, "dandylinus" sounds like a type of flower!

I spend almost an hour heard over 20 headphones in the store, try 50$ to 500$ in different brands. and eventually my ears chose the JBL E55BT Quincy Edition (130$) I recommend everyone to try many headphones and choose what best for you (and for your type of music)

I`m Hi deaf so i don`t give a shit...

As an audiophile, I prefer AAC over mp3 as you get more quality and is newer than mp3. Nothing beats a FLAC file though

I'd like to see more videos like this. One on each component (vinyl, amp, DAC etc) would be nice.

That crisp audio and deep bass is just something I really need for listening to music, if there’s not enough quality... I just switch it off😂lol

Buy second hand, you'll get great build quality &"better value

I just got some AKG371 cans and a Shanling UP4 portable DAC/Amp and I'm absolutely hooked. I can't wait to put together a proper system for at home listening.

Linus, but, but I like Wi-Fi more than Hi-Fi

Audiophile here, i have listened to many headphones over the years, and sofar the Orpheus is the best sounding headphone to i have heard (and i have heard the entire STAX, HiFiMan, Audeze, Beyerdynamic and most of the Sennheiser lineup, just to name a few). The Orpheus did have one slight flaw, that the SR009 and HD800 did not have, and that is, audio coloration, they slightly colored the sound to a warmer tone then the other 2 mentioned. But that coloration helped the sound. Also, Linus, you forgot the DAC! Also, i wonder how the new senneheiser orpheus is, i will be testing it in a few months..

Ooh nice! As a vintage hi-fi enthusiast, I like this topic. Thank you :o))

Fun Fact: This reel to reel tape player at 1:11 is 1985 Астра 110 стерео (Astra 110 stereo). This player is made in USSR. Edit: I'm not from Russia :)

320kbs is good enough,they've done tests before and its almost impossible to distinguish between lossless and 320, if you were tested between the 2 you would end up just guessing.

I'm rocking a Marantz PM6003 amp with 2 Jamo J-73 studio monitors right here! Those speakers where from my grandad and he bought them back in the 80's, They still sound AMAZING!!!

My friend is getting a pair of "Beyerdynamic DT-990-Pro-250" for Christmas. Which from what I heard sound amazing.

"speaking of things coming in the future" oh Linus, it's friday night....

In the last stream I said I don't like your lectures. I was joking, I genuinely love your lectures on your experiences because it gives great insight on the things you've done.

Kinda weird, since from a professional audio perspective, hifi actually refers to colored sound, usually somewhat V-shaped EQ's, easier to be listened to and studio grade refers to reference and studio monitors and headphones that might not be "beautiful" but they are accurate and flat. Both are great, but serve a different purpose. Hi-Fi is like making your image better with photoshop, studio grade is just the raw image to see what's wrong with it.

I've been exploring a bit the audiophile recently but I'm also a gamer and I really think you can compare both to have a better idea of how it is: *Entry-Level* In the audiophile hobby, this means: entry-level sound equipment (usually good pair of headphones and maybe a DAC) + FLAC/ALAC or mp3 320 or aac 320 is equivalent to clean 60fps on mid-high-ultra settings (on preference) in gaming + decent gear The experience is better than lower specs, some may settle for less, but in general, people enjoying the hobby consider this as a minimum. *Mid-range* Flac/wav/alac + CD + some vinyls and mid-range equipment is equivalent to 144hz on high settings with competitive gear The experience is substantially better for the trained ear/eye, in fact is not even a fair comparison if you really are capable of noting the difference, however, not all can do this especially those who are more casual. *High end* WAV only + Vinyls + cd and very high-end equipment definitely 240hz on whatever setting and gear best suited for performance (for example some pro gamers may turn on shadows since they are blurry as shit and could be confused to an enemy), Here every bit adds up, in gaming you may only have 4 ms of input lag per peripheral, but then if you have 4 ms in all your gear and turns out your gear is desynced then you may end up with 40ms delay total, so reducing this to 1ms of input lag per peripheral is already huge! Same for an audiophile, every electronic piece and every digital piece adds up to the entire sound experience, but while gaming is usually very objective, here in the audiophile hobby, it is super subjective to a point where some may enjoy building huge racks of equipment and end up with concert-like sound experience while others may enjoy something completely different!

Good quality audio systems are timeless. People still comment how good sound is from my 20 years old speakers. Compare that to 2 years old phone or PC. Nobody cares for them any more.

Very very few people can tell a difference between FLAC and 128 ACC , with an ABX test. The test have been done on many many different set ups and cans.

I love the little images in these videos!

I think you were just describing me at the start of the video.

I like to think the amp is more important than the speakers. I delivers the signal which the speakers translate into the forwards and backwards movements which make sounds.

Impedance is not resistance. Well, it involves resistance, but it's in combination with reactance. Sorry, being in a third year electrical technologist program, can't go on without making a comment.

Cables make more than a slight difference because in many cases you are matching the impedance of the cables and components. It has little to do with the materials however some audiophiles prefer some materials over others. Some shielding will actually degrade the sound because of something called skin effect! The difference in my system between high quality MP3's and full resolution is dramatic. If you haven't heard a high end music system you haven't heard music.

electrostatic headphones?

Linus, seriously the lighting was ON POINT for this video. Keep it that way.

Im thinking about the hifi quad dac of LG smartphones😬

Switched from a pc Sound system to 2 canton “budget and compact” hifi speakers today and while watching movies with them you REALLY notice a difference.

I'm still waiting for "How To Download More RAM As Fast As Possible"

No hi-fi is when someone has had a stroke and wants a high five

I'm sitting here watching this video with my $30 Logitech speakers. :P

At the heart of it all by nine inch nails, i spent 4 years listening to that song semi regularly on shitty speakers and computers and then i got half decent headphones instead of 5 dollar ones, and i noticed a keyboard track in the background that i had never heard before.

The proof isn't in the pudding. That's not a thing. The proof of the pudding is in the eating is a thing.

The reel-to-reel shown on the image at 1:10 is an Astra (Астра) 110 stereo which was produced in USSR. And there's supposed to be a model printed on the head cover :)

Why do things have fi at the end? Wi-Fi Li-Fi Hi-Fi Sci-Fi

I'm an audiophile, and there honestly isn't much of a massive difference in sound quality. Yea, the music industry is saturated with compression, but the miniscule difference in sound isn't worth the 10x the storage capacity :b

"So the point of Hi-Fi then is to get as close to to the original recording as possible". How ironic. Hi-Fi equipment is built to sound good, usually meaning generous high frequency and low frequency boosts (commonly known as a smile-curve on a graphic EQ), and some saturation/distortion on higher-end equipment. Hi-Fi equipment doesn't make the original recordings sound original, but makes them more pleasing to the ear. If you want to listen to the original sound, buy the master tapes, buy the recording/mixing console the track was recorded and/or mixed on (including the original outboard used), buy the monitors (speakers) the engineers listened on when they were mixing and recreate the room they did this in to immaculate detail. This is how you can listen to the original tracks as they were intended, and digital emulation will not do the trick. However if you want to listen to the tracks as flat as reasonably possible, buy a good pair of studio monitors; they are designed to reproduce sound with as little additional processing as possible, which is required in order to find technical mistakes during the mixing process. Hi-Fi equipment is designed to be flashy and sound good, studio monitors will give you the cold hard truth you expect from Hi-Fi equipment.

Higher impedance doesn't necessarily mean more "power hungry" at all, it simply means a different voltage / current ratio but effectively handling the same amount of Milliwatts, also multiple phones in parallel doesn't lower the impedance of a individual set of phones but lowers the "collective impedance" (Z-eq) seen by the amplifier.

Just got my AKG K553 pro's from the recent drop on massdrop! Perfect timing.

And, as always, not a single mention to room acoustics. Get the best equipment you can buy (even if it's cheap) and then calibrate your setup for your listening room. All of the the electronics combined can't affect your listening experience in more than 10% (and I would say 5%), leaving those other 90% to your listening room acoustics. Make sure that whatever electrical signal that enters your equipment, gets to your ears as close to the original source as it can in dynamic range, spectrum balance (the energy levels at different frequency points in our hearing spectrum), phase and polarity. It's about spending time to get there, not about spending money.

"High quality MP3" always sound thin to me.

Senhizer headphones FTW

"A high quality mp3?"

Low Quality audio: $ Standard Quality audio: $$ "High Res" audio: $$$ "Beats" Audio: $$$$ "HIFI/Audiophile" : $$$$$$

this is incorrect. HiFi is still consumer grade equipment aimed at listening. They do color the sound. Reference monitors are the flat stable platforms professionals use

When I was younger I didn't bother and didn't know about hi fi. Now that I tried it, I cannot get back, and indeed hi fi does exists and is very easy to understand a low quality recording or a bafd recording from a fine one. The mistake many people think is that a mp3 sounds bad and a flac file sounds better or a vinyl record etc..... Wrong, all is about recording copy quality even it is a CD.... And of course having a good setup of reproduction machines (amp speakers and so on)

The comment section is gonna be good *grabs popcorn*

Built myself a nice system for only 10k after getting into this hobby alittle over a year ago. Once i graduate and get a job i'll be excited to get some more high end sources

I Like that even in the new Office You're keeping the old look of tech quickie vids! Keep the style! :D

I think there was a challenge to see if anyone can actually tell the difference between 320 mp3 and flac and no one wasn't able to do it. Honestly, it's bullshit.

I clicked on the video because I remember seeing Hi-Fi when I put in my VCR and wondered what it meant. Now I know. Thanks!

my hd650's and o2 amp/dac sound amazing, its easy to tell flac and 320kbps mp3's apart

My dad is an audiophile fanatic haha, he got his 80 grand speakers for 5 grand on eBay. eBay is love, eBay is life.

mp3 is not hi fi, it nice, but it leaves stuff out.

"...who spends hundreds of dollars on a pair of headphones..." Um..crap. I've spent *thousands*.

Honestly don't bother with Hi-Fi speakers. Just get studio monitors

using Hi-Fi headphone and listen to lofi music

You're not a true audiophile unless you listen to music in an anechoic chamber (or with headphones).

Me, who likes the look of acoustic paneling…

its worth mentioning the application of low fi..used for live stage shows..it puts hifi in more context