Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I've noticed this happens with both direct lossless transfer from CD from the 2011 deluxe box, MP3s, and YouTube versions of the song from 2011 and earlier masterings. This distortion isn't audible when I test the same track using my TFZ 5S IEMs nor my Grado SR80i headphones. Since the Noble X is the nicest set I have, so I wanted to make sure I didn't just get a defective unit. If someone else could test this track with their Noble Xs and let me know what you find and/or provide some explanation for why I'm experiencing this if it's a common experience with high-end IEMs, I would greatly appreciate the insight.
Here's a YT link with the song from the 2011 mastering that faithfully reproduces the distortion as mentioned above:
https://youtu.be/hdCH7ZewAfY
P.S. If someone knows how to turn off the massive video preview above, I'll be happy to accommodate.
Side Note: "Audiophile" favorite album "Come Away With Me" by Norah Jones. Good songs, but not an example of good mastering to me. The vocals are distorted. On the title track, for example, listen to 1:07-1:09. The "Don't Know Why" vocals are distorted out of the gate and really apparent. I think it's an error on this album.
(With Paul, it sounds like intentional color/texture/processing...) Cheers!
Garbage in garbage out