Tidal using the Topping D90SE/A90 stack, using Drop 6xx, Drop HfM 5xx, and HD Poseidon. I've enjoyed my iTunes collection for many years without feeling like I am losing a lot of detail on my IEMs, but on the HomePod, lossless just feels like my old CD players with speakers, but better. Midrange I can't tell a difference (since AAC is optimized for good midrange) but overall I am lot more satisfied listening to the HomePod with lossless than with AAC. I felt that cymbals on AAC track felt muddy, and overall presentation can sound like a wall of sound as a mono speaker, but with Lossless it now reminds me of CD playback where each instrument sounds clear (for what the HomePod can resolve), bass is a little bit clearer. And I have to say it does sound better in the treble and bass. When Lossless came out for the HomePod a few months back, I tried a few songs to test it. As for Siri, it's terrible, but it works for my needs. As a stereo pair it does sound a lot better since it's stereo, but I haven't had a stereo pair in years so I can't say much more about it. But otherwise it's a decent speaker for a mono speaker. HomePod as a single speaker isn't bad, it plays music loudly with good bass, no distortion (as in bass bleed/bloom) and you can hear instrument separation. I've been a subscriber to Apple Music since I got the original HomePod, a subscriber to Tidal Premium (HiFi+ now) since last year.įirst a brief review of HomePod with Apple Music. My review of Apple Lossless compared to Tidal and Apple Music AAC. ![]() ![]() If someone thinks Apple Lossless sounds better than lossy, then it does for them, much in the same way some people see a gold/white dress, and some people see a blue/black one. I also know I work in 48khz more often than not just to keep file size down and because no one can tell the difference in the room, even if I can certainly tell the difference on my studio monitors. I've also had audience members go out of their way thanking me for the "adjustments" I made when they stopped by the desk at intermission when all I did was move a dummy fader. I know personally I have on more than one occasion spent 20+ minutes adjusting EQ until I felt I got it jusssstttt right and everyone else in the room thought it sounded perfect, only to later realize I had been adjusting the EQ of a separate channel and hadn't actually adjusted anything. This argument is ignoring the two biggest factors in the entire debate: what/when/how to original recording was made and the fact that psychoacoustics are very much a very real and very important factor.
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