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Adjusting the gain in my kenwood head unit
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<blockquote data-quote="Nick Miles" data-source="post: 8675903" data-attributes="member: 677109"><p>1 hour ago, Jeffdachef said:</p><p></p><p> are you talking about this youtube link? This song sounds like absolute garbage on youtube compared to spotify premium. I just tested its not even a miniscule difference its a day and night, fire and ice difference. You might want to get a much better source for your music, youtube is completely compressed down to literally nothing left. the best youtube has to offer is 128 mps bitrate even if the uploader uses a Flac file. Not to mention the uploaders do weird stuff to the song to avoid copyright claims. Get tidal or spotify premium (i'm using family premium and its 15 bucks a month for 6 people) Even normal free spotify is 192kbps which will be quite a bit better than youtube off the bat. </p><p></p><p>differences heard youtube vs spotify. Youtube had zero sound stage, sounded like an empty tin can, no body to the music, no detail, with screechy treble, no stereo seperation, etc... sounds like an absolute mess of sound. Spotify you heard every instrument seperately, drums had real thuds and impacts and sounded real in front of you. Treble is lively and smooth highly detailed. Vocal tonality is full bodied, doesnt sound like a tin can at all. I'd definitely upgrade your actual music source and stay off youtube forever when it comes to serious listening. If you think it wasnt the problem for other setups that just meant the other setups had a lot more sound quality left in them and you never ever tapped into it. </p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]8KMLLZF2qI0[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>This is the one I was listening to I tend to listen to the ones provided by the artists channel seem to be a bit crisper than the one you were listening to but I'll go ahead and try spotify Now since that has bette quality and I'm actually now that you said that considering buying premium since the sound quality gets even better? But yeah it's definitely worth the extra 15 bucks a month even tho I'm low income cause I take my music seriously.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for coming up with this suggestion my dude I'll try to make some comparisons to the pitchyness that I've talked about between the spotify and this youtube link I shared. Thanks again.</p><p></p><p>PS. How low would you go for those EQ bands you told me to go into the negatives I have them on -5</p><p></p><p>Also yeah even with spotify free i notice stuff in those songs I didn't even hear before holy smokes the pitchy ness is still a littl ebit there but I would imagine once I get my new speakers as well as the amp I've been looking at should be zero problems at that point. Althought I would like to reset my whole head unit just to make sure I didn't jack any settings up too bad I went through them and it don't seem like I messed anything up too bad but you never know</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nick Miles, post: 8675903, member: 677109"] 1 hour ago, Jeffdachef said: are you talking about this youtube link? This song sounds like absolute garbage on youtube compared to spotify premium. I just tested its not even a miniscule difference its a day and night, fire and ice difference. You might want to get a much better source for your music, youtube is completely compressed down to literally nothing left. the best youtube has to offer is 128 mps bitrate even if the uploader uses a Flac file. Not to mention the uploaders do weird stuff to the song to avoid copyright claims. Get tidal or spotify premium (i'm using family premium and its 15 bucks a month for 6 people) Even normal free spotify is 192kbps which will be quite a bit better than youtube off the bat. differences heard youtube vs spotify. Youtube had zero sound stage, sounded like an empty tin can, no body to the music, no detail, with screechy treble, no stereo seperation, etc... sounds like an absolute mess of sound. Spotify you heard every instrument seperately, drums had real thuds and impacts and sounded real in front of you. Treble is lively and smooth highly detailed. Vocal tonality is full bodied, doesnt sound like a tin can at all. I'd definitely upgrade your actual music source and stay off youtube forever when it comes to serious listening. If you think it wasnt the problem for other setups that just meant the other setups had a lot more sound quality left in them and you never ever tapped into it. [MEDIA=youtube]8KMLLZF2qI0[/MEDIA] This is the one I was listening to I tend to listen to the ones provided by the artists channel seem to be a bit crisper than the one you were listening to but I'll go ahead and try spotify Now since that has bette quality and I'm actually now that you said that considering buying premium since the sound quality gets even better? But yeah it's definitely worth the extra 15 bucks a month even tho I'm low income cause I take my music seriously. Thanks for coming up with this suggestion my dude I'll try to make some comparisons to the pitchyness that I've talked about between the spotify and this youtube link I shared. Thanks again. PS. How low would you go for those EQ bands you told me to go into the negatives I have them on -5 Also yeah even with spotify free i notice stuff in those songs I didn't even hear before holy smokes the pitchy ness is still a littl ebit there but I would imagine once I get my new speakers as well as the amp I've been looking at should be zero problems at that point. Althought I would like to reset my whole head unit just to make sure I didn't jack any settings up too bad I went through them and it don't seem like I messed anything up too bad but you never know [/QUOTE]
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