Different audio recording quality for James and Riley. I see what you did there...

@plazasta

5 жыл бұрын

so I'm not the only one who noticed does that mean I can be an audiophile?

@nwallace

5 жыл бұрын

very@@MikeDolar1

@ferni0

5 жыл бұрын

Nick Wallace I thought I was going crazy

@TheGoldenMan99

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't even notice.

@bikkobobitch

5 жыл бұрын

so is it normal to notice those small things? or is it something wrong with me

Somebody on the writing staff has been watching too much adam ruins everything.

@danny_dan4323

5 жыл бұрын

...well that explains why this style felt familiar.

@retroboyadvance2017

5 жыл бұрын

Was definitely just thinking the same thing 😭

@mintgardener

5 жыл бұрын

It's not as good as the normal tech quicky

@chloebaloneyxx

5 жыл бұрын

But these guys aren't abnoxious gay libtards, so its better

@allahbless2278

5 жыл бұрын

@@chloebaloneyxx Lmao wrong they legit are 😂

2:00 The only thing that would make it funnier were if James had Beats on.

@Alice_Fumo

5 жыл бұрын

dude, lmao. Would indeed have been an amazing detail and it's a real damn shame all it is is a missed opportunity now.. I demand this video get rerecorded with beats headphones!

@Potato-adept

5 жыл бұрын

i was waiting for that...

@ShelfordNine9

5 жыл бұрын

Lawsuit?

@Xamarin491

5 жыл бұрын

probably because they're too expensive lol (that or copyrights)

@magmagon5572

5 жыл бұрын

@@Xamarin491 too expensive... Linus acquired two 48 port 10 gigabit switches. You try telling him Beats headphones are too expensive (he uses IE80s too).

Why is nobody talking about that AMAZING transition to the sponsor?! That was great!!

@jeffrydemeyer5433

5 жыл бұрын

because everyone clicked away from this cringe fest before it started.

@FeministCatwoman

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeffrydemeyer5433 Angry self professed "audiophile" has entered the chat. lol

@mtsb6285

5 жыл бұрын

You new here? believe me we've seen better!

@FeministCatwoman

5 жыл бұрын

@@mtsb6285 :P

@jmanig76

5 жыл бұрын

I thought he was going to say “this video is sponsored by Bugatti” lmao

This video is much better and dynamic than white background. ijs

@GabrielPerboni

5 жыл бұрын

༄Rod you got it right!

@AlbertMoff

5 жыл бұрын

Totally

@seeckergaming

5 жыл бұрын

It's a good format but I can't agree it's more dynamic then the good'old white background. It feels slow compared to the usual format.

@deadgenesis5188

5 жыл бұрын

@@seeckergaming I agree, it does feel slower

@abdullah29498

5 жыл бұрын

true but honestly linus.... 2:09

I swear. Emo Linus is the BEST

@fede4819

5 жыл бұрын

OMG i laughed for 3 minutes straight

@MichaelBerthelsen

5 жыл бұрын

#Lemos!

@ivankindle3

5 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelBerthelsen no

@MichaelBerthelsen

5 жыл бұрын

@@ivankindle3 No, what?

@Lumpiluk

5 жыл бұрын

This led me to search for Emu pictures. Looks like that might also be a costume worth trying out…

I've been studying Audio engineering for the past couple of years at college, and I remember being showed a documentary about *the horrors of listening to MP3 files* and how it's an insult to the producer to listen to them through streaming services like Spotify. I always thought maybe I was missing something, because to me the difference between a high quality MP3 at 320kbps and a wav file just doesn't seem as drastic as audiophiles make it seem. Thanks for the informative video!

@mrsushi1192

4 жыл бұрын

Kamex pretty late, but might as well comment. On real good quality headphones, you can hear the difference ALOT. They are “an insult to the producer” but as a drummer, being a able to have those small music queues while blasting away is a huuuge bonus and makes stuff a lot easier.

@plzitzjustmahcheezits909

3 жыл бұрын

Let me correct Sushi’s comment, on real good quality headphones, you can hear the difference A TINY LITTLE BIT. It’s really fucking little on even the best equipment in studio environments. 320kbps mp3 with a good codex is still the best compression to sound quality there possibly is.

@LeonardGMN

3 жыл бұрын

I hate the fact that it seems like even universities push the false believe that "MP3 is unlistenable". It would have been much more educational if your class would have done a listening session in a studio (I bet your university got something like that) to actually hear the difference for yourself.

@mrq1701

3 жыл бұрын

There is a difference. Not all equipment will expose the differences. Not everyone can hear the differences. Those that can not hear the difference act like the people that can hear the difference are claiming to have seen ghosts.

@plzitzjustmahcheezits909

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrq1701 No, it’s more like people claiming that these differences are so big that you’re stupid for not hearing it are idiots who believe in psychoacoustic bullshit. Literally any reputable A/B testing with even experienced listeners shows that the differences between flac and mp3 are really not that discernible. I should know more than most, I have a 600 gig music collection that’s 99% flac, the differences are all in your head buddy.

Oh my God, I love this style. Riley rocks. That blue background and lighting was amazing. Also, short sweet episode. Fantastic.

@CastaneaMa

5 жыл бұрын

I love it too

@kieran9882

3 жыл бұрын

i think he could play the part of joey in friends well

But the human nose can only see 8GB of RAM

@anuvette

5 жыл бұрын

lmao

@Sataka23clips

5 жыл бұрын

excuse me wtf

@HazmatPyro

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sataka23clips Don made a console peasant impression as a joke. Also, before someone comments, there's a difference between console players and console peasants. Console players play on consoles because they like them. Console peasants religiously defend consoles. Summary: All console peasants are console players but not all console players are console peasants.

@franklingoodwin

5 жыл бұрын

@@HazmatPyro aren't the 'PC master race' the only ones who say things like this? I've never really got it myself...but I play console games and don't care as long as the game frame rate isn't choppy and it's in 1080p.

@a.yashwanth

5 жыл бұрын

Then download more ram.

Converting a KZread rip to a lossless format is like upscaling a 240p to 8K.

@deathbydeviceable

5 жыл бұрын

Have you ever done that? The bitrate is amazing, you don't know what you're missing

@sadmansaquib1146

5 жыл бұрын

@@deathbydeviceable you don't know what you're doing.

@notagunfreak8146

5 жыл бұрын

@@sadmansaquib1146 r/wooosh

@smartroadbiker

5 жыл бұрын

Your doing it wrong, everyone knows upscaling 240p to 8K is stupid and you won't get the benefits. You need to upscale 240 to 480, the 480 to 720, then 720 to 1080, then 1080 to 4K and THEN 4K to 8K!! I mean DUH!! ;) hehe

@MichaelGuardiani

5 жыл бұрын

Converting youtube to lossless would not be like upscaling 240p to 8k, it would be like 240p to 240p. You would get whatever bitrate it was on youtube, hence the name lossless (no loss of quality) So if youtube is 160 kbps then a lossless would get you 160 kbps

I didnt even realize this was linus lmao 2:05

@PiousSlayer

5 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite videos by them to date, it was hilarious.

@AhmadFauzi-pd2tb

5 жыл бұрын

Damn.. I thought that was a regular wanker, wtf

@UlyssesM

5 жыл бұрын

@@PiousSlayer What video was it?

@Yoshi-sp

5 жыл бұрын

Is he/she Linus? OMG

@Galacsia

4 жыл бұрын

@@UlyssesM "Cat Ear Headphones - Kickass or KickFart?"

This is accurate information. There's a lot of misunderstanding in the audio world, and you guys have avoided that while also presenting in simple terms -- great work.

@Boardwoards

5 жыл бұрын

No, there's actually a lot of misinformation here. Not to mention the "budget" headphones they showed were all terrible options at their prices.

@fritzkier

5 жыл бұрын

@@Boardwoards can you point out the lot of misinformation here? except the budget headphones recommendation (which actually the best of each category, not the best of sound but ok)

I think emo Linus is running the show in the background 😂

@eve36368

5 жыл бұрын

So HE'S The Friend who gave bed boy his lossless Taylor Swift tracks!

This one was really well made. Good job guys!

@Bradum

5 жыл бұрын

Well made in the regard that they have no idea what they're talking about?

@elikyals

5 жыл бұрын

L同意Y(^_^)Y

@DrHouse-zs9eb

11 ай бұрын

That's bullshit. They even didn't included Bitrate comparisons for modern codecs

He should've been using beats honestly. It would've been a more accurate representation

@StephenFasciani

5 жыл бұрын

I REALLY hope this is a joke.

@SlaaneshiKitty

5 жыл бұрын

@@StephenFasciani no, Beats is literally one of the most expensive pieces of paperweights on the planet. Second only to diamond rings, I daresay. But on the contrary to OP, I wouldn't say doing so would've made the representation more accurate, because Beats artificially distorts the analog sound data it gets with its own drivers, something that most sound equipment just doesn't do intentionally. I mean, yes, beats users think they know a lot about hearing good music when they're literally listening to (assumedly) former art distorted into trash, and these people wouldn't be able to distinguish the sound difference and the deep nuance of the music... But Beats is terrible for an entire different plethora of reasons, not just the inability to properly portray more detailed music from higher bitrates, which would take away from the message of the video, instead of enhancing.

@TheGreatMcPain

5 жыл бұрын

@@SlaaneshiKitty I knew beats were bad, but I had no clue they f'd with the audio before they even reached the driver.

@SlaaneshiKitty

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatMcPain beats, like many headphones, (at least the Bluetooth ones) have their own built in DAC. Analog Sound IS affected by both interference (beats have horrible build quality, so even if the distance from DAC to driver is very small, there is very little shielding against interference) and by the way that the DAC interprets the Digital data itself. I can't say for sure whether it is the drivers only or a combination of the driver and the DAC that does the sound distortion in the case of beats, but the lows are muffled and overly reverberating, the highs are screechy and everything in between is muffled. In any case, the problem with beats is that all of this sound profile changes are 100% intentional, which is the exact opposite of what Hi-fi is supposed to do.

@TheGreatMcPain

5 жыл бұрын

@@SlaaneshiKitty Okay, I understand that wireless versions usually suck, because of crappy builtin DACs/Amps, but I was wondering if they slapped in some filters to screw with their wired versions, such as the Solo 2.

"Hi. I'm Riley Murdock, and this is Riley Ruins Everything."

@GarlicGrinder9

5 жыл бұрын

Riley Conover

@missameliafrancis

5 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking it's like Adam ruins everything lol loved it

@MuhsinFatih

5 жыл бұрын

exactly my thoughts

I really enjoy this video format for techquickie! Better than the eye blinding white background!

@Kurukuu

5 жыл бұрын

It feels more 'personal'

@ProgrammeerMeneer

5 жыл бұрын

I also it is a little sketch and information in one!

@nivekomano1169

5 жыл бұрын

@Hyp3rNova56 The background is literally blue. Haven't u heard of bluelight filters.

@flameshana9

5 жыл бұрын

Do you people not know how to turn your brightness down. Liek srsly. Turn on a light if nothing else.

@parillo12

5 жыл бұрын

@@flameshana9 yes but when dark mode exists. Why would anyone need to do that anymore? 😁

Love this new style of Techquickie! #RileyRules

@Johanneslol11

5 жыл бұрын

YES I love it to, very refreshing.

@feha92

5 жыл бұрын

There is something about the style I didnt like, but cant tell what. Aside from the obvious with how it feels very very scripted with subpar actors actually doing acting (albeit tongue-in-cheek). This might be ironic considering the topic of the video, but I feel like what I disliked is somehow related to the audio changes between the actors + camera pans.

@BONGONDORBASS

5 жыл бұрын

it was terrible linus shouldve been the guy on the bed

@39zack

5 жыл бұрын

Want to know what rules more? Caaaaaarboooon nanooooo tuuubes!!

@bluegleam8168

5 жыл бұрын

Are you from the netherlands?

>claims to be audiophile. >Listens on Bluetooth headphones.

@andrewz925

5 жыл бұрын

Listening to CD-ripped FLACs with Bluetooth headphones is still a very good experience.

@afiqaurora5056

5 жыл бұрын

Bluetooth can support high bitrates now, thanks to ldac

@qallincha

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/jIFm0MqpkpiXY5s.html

@mcwaff8661

3 жыл бұрын

@@afiqaurora5056 but how good is the connectivity?

@Charmed_void_101

3 ай бұрын

How to I get my headphones to support ldac?

There's also another issue that I don't think the video addresses: A lot of people are listening to their music on wireless earbuds now. It's my understanding that Bluetooth degrades the signal even further.

Probably one of the best Techquickie videos so far. Very informative and well made.

Wait a minute is that emo linus with a body pillow My new spirit animal

@jokinglimitreached1503

5 жыл бұрын

2:05 maybe leave a timestamp next time, it's easier to find

@ceherryflare3720

5 жыл бұрын

Can someone tell me what body pillow Linus holds on? I need it for... reasons.

@jeremy3993

5 жыл бұрын

@@ceherryflare3720 its yoko from the anime gurren lagann

@otame4771

5 жыл бұрын

I instantly go down to the comment section after seeing that LOL

@otame4771

5 жыл бұрын

@@ceherryflare3720 For science

I have Tidal and you can definitely hear subtle nuances when you have the highest quality setting (Master). But I also came to the same conclusion, you're not going to notice it if you're at the gym or in a noisy environment. Even with noise cancelling headphones you need basically absolute silence to really hear a difference. You also need good WIRED headphones as mentioned in the video.

@rafaelechavarria-hx6fb

Жыл бұрын

But if you sit down, and enjoy music, you notice even instruments that could not hear before. It is not a drastic difference, but somehow it just sounds a bit clearer.

@tander101

Жыл бұрын

Unless you have OCD and ADHD like me so I hear literally every difference.

@hannibalhector3719

Жыл бұрын

@@tander101 I hear things no one else does lol. Like the electric current from an outlet no one else hears. But if I record a video of it on my phone and play it back, everyone else can hear what I hear.

I just took a 123 x 123 image and resized it up to 1080 x 1080 and it looks awesom! It's like I'm looking at it in person!

"Speaking of contributing to bugatti funds, this video was brought to you by freshbooks" I love you way too much Riley.

@andreasosowski7302

5 жыл бұрын

what is "buggatti funds" *can't find any fun in this

@teriinekoyama1369

5 жыл бұрын

@@andreasosowski7302 It's just an example of money gotten from consumers going towards buying that next expensive vehicle (in this case, a Bugatti). Not too much beyond that.

i love how you just compressed James' voice :D

@hamster9135

5 жыл бұрын

James sounded terrible compared to Riley. And that's using half-reasonable onboard audio and my 5 year old budget headset. I still find it interesting how many people didn't seem to notice.

OMG I love this new uncle Riley, I can almost see him sitting in his favorite chair telling stories 🤣

320 kbps is the sweet spot for quality and size of files.

@kai-jf2vd

5 жыл бұрын

eh it depends on what codec was used to downsample a lossless track into mp3 there are audible but not necessarily obvious difference. I personally use mp3 on my mobile devices (not like the internal decoder can take advantage of the higher bitrate) and flac for my home listening rig. I'm no snob tho, flac is my ceiling going wav to my own personal experience is mostly inaudible and a massive waste of internal storage.

@RealHomeRecording

5 жыл бұрын

For mp3 sure but if you're using the way better opus then 192 is basically indistinguishable from the original audio.

@karigreyd2808

5 жыл бұрын

@@RealHomeRecording Might as well use 320kpbs. With how little space music takes up on modern devices i don't see a reason not too.

tech boy Linus destroys cheap audiophiles with only *facts and logic*

well that was weird, the content was actually great (though maybe a bit too basic) but having Riley not being sassy and James act as a borderline dudebro was just weird. even so, keep it up guys you are awesome

I like this new techquickie Also we need more of emo Linus

Now I have to re-download my 5000+ songs with a high bit rate. Thanks Riley

+1 for production.

@erelpc

5 жыл бұрын

you know it's a parody, right?

@pepepepinazo9694

5 жыл бұрын

@@erelpc a parody with good production quality

"I can hear the difference!" Prove it. "It's 2019, we don't need facts anymore!"

@hachikiina

5 жыл бұрын

can you NOT? thanks

@Ahov

5 жыл бұрын

Can you see 144hz? prove it! Just showing how silly your mockery is. Of course some people notice the difference.

@DerpDerpDerpDerp

5 жыл бұрын

That's how Trump was elected

@ZombieBarioth

5 жыл бұрын

Ahov No you aren't, just because some people can doesn't mean everybody who says they can do. How about all those people running 200FPS on their 60hz monitor? Yes, a surprising number actually think it makes the image smoother. A lot of gamers know higher is better without understanding how or why, just like with bitrate.

@zachjaybseazer94

5 жыл бұрын

You can hear the difference between 320 and flac on good equipment, it's just subtle. That's basically what the video said

Most people can't tell the difference because they don't have good gear. If they had the right gear, they most likely *could* tell the difference. The race to the bottom approach has degraded music. Lossless and high bitrate is a good place to start. From there, they can hear the difference more with better gear, and it will give them a reason to look for it. Give people a reason to learn what this all means. This whole "doesn't matter" approach is a great way to continually degrade music on every part of the chain, all the way to the recording process. You're not a snob if you like things to sound better, just like you're not a snob if you like things to look better, taste better, feel better. Imagine making a video telling people it's okay to eat mcdonalds, because you probably can't taste the difference between a higher quality beef anyway.

YT just recommended me this video and I didn't notice it was from 2019. I did see a difference compared to newer videos (because obviously, they improved a lot), but I only realized it was an old video when I saw Taran's name in the credits at the end! (For anyone who doesn't know the Macro King has quit LMG) Anyway it just goes on to show you how well these videos hold up plus how much better the newer videos are (in terms of production quality)

I like this version of Techquickie !

@RewindOfficialDoesMusic

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah agreed

@AminaFilms

5 жыл бұрын

Aashish Thapa right which is probably why I like this so munch

@AminaFilms

5 жыл бұрын

@@AshKaijin I'm ok with this. Only thing they need to ruin is related to tech and I'm fine with it.

You forgot the middle part of the digital audio equation: the DAC. Digital files have to go to DACs to get converted to analog signals that then go to whatever speaker or headphones you have. In general, the quality is as good as the lowest common denominator -- a bad file, a bad DAC, or a bad speaker can result to bad stuffy audio, not even mentioning the ninja fourth part: human perception.

@ayuchanayuko

5 жыл бұрын

@Abstractism my old 2013 Xperia z1c's built in DAC still sounds better with a wider soundstage than my new xiaomi a1, though the latter is much louder and powers my m50x much louder. Its great though that entry-level DACs now are much better than entry-level ones back then -- but I also have 'vintage' 90s DACs that can perform on par as high-end ones now albeit being bigger. I wish DACs though like the audioquest dragonfly red gets built into motherboards, laptops, and phones lol. But I also understand that most people would pay at most 20USD for earphones, headphones, and speakers which would negate the dac's quality anyway. Thinking back, you're right, a 20usd pair of headphones or earphones today sound way better than similarly-priced earphones back then. I always recommend Sennheisers now at that price point but back then I recommended Creatives because they were bang for the back. Included earphones with phones too now sound similar to those 20usd ones when back then they sounded like cheap 1 dollar ones.

@flagger2020

Жыл бұрын

Human perception is a big one, I don't think most people know just how quickly adults lose the ability to differentiate high frequencies with age which effects overall waveform accuracy (as individual notes are a summation of multiple frequency wavelets). Electrostatic headphones are good for the higher frequencies but not common today

I recently spent too much on headphones, but there is a noticeable difference in the sound stage. Picking out the directions of foot steps or distant gun shots in my favorite games has improved dramatically. I wouldn't recommend going overboard, but there are plenty of mid range options that will blow your mind.

@kon_radar

4 ай бұрын

You should try out the "Quick convert" option inside Foobar. Test out OPUS and Apple's AAC encoder. There's a difference between MP3/OGG (both 320 kbps) and a lossless audio file. But I believe you won't hear any between lossless and OPUS/AAC.

I don't mind this format, but I do find it quite hilarious the video talking about Audio quality has subpar audio quality for the channel! :D

@pasadena805

5 жыл бұрын

GammaLoo yeah, I think that was the point. Riley and James audio stream had different audio quality.

What happens to TQ when Linus take's an actual timeout. More of this type of thing!

This new style is amazing! Love the nice camera work.

As a professional audio engineer... Yup. Frankly, I use Sony MDR-7506 headphones ($119) for my work and home (MDR-V6 is essentially the consumer version that's about $90; main difference is no gold plated plug and lower warranty). They're an industry baseline (near total flat response drivers), and pretty much no pro audio engineer will scoff at you if you hand them a pair. In fact, many albums have literally been mixed using these cans. If you watch enough videos of artist's performing in a studio, I guarantee you've seen them many times. No need to spend an arm and a leg.

You can hear the difference between Tidal master and Spotify on a half decent car audio, even over Bluetooth. The high end and low end from Spotify are completely botched. Funnily enough, this has nothing to do with Bitrate but with terrible dynamic limit Spotify applies to get songs to approximately the same loudness. In an ABX scenario I could definitely tell the difference, even on mediocre equipment. Maybe not on a phone speaker, maybe not on free airplane headphones, but on any half decent Bluetooth speaker or headphone

@pspcow

5 жыл бұрын

T4iga It’s amazing that lossless makes a difference on bluetooth. The extremes just sound a lot better, wider soundstage, it really amazed me how much of a difference it makes. But then again, we’re in the minority that actually enjoys listening for these bits

@plzitzjustmahcheezits909

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have sound normalization turned on on Spotify, because 320kbps Vorbis sounds exactly the same to Tidal’s Master quality. You may be saying this because of the preamp that Tidal has that bumps songs up by a decibel or two to make everything seem clearer than Spotify, when in reality the compression is still there. Then again I’m comparing these two against my actual flac collection, streaming just will never get you the best sound quality and that’s ok. Spotify’s algorithm and selection is just miles better anyway, so whatever difference there is doesn’t make up for Tidal’s shit capabilities as a streaming app. EDIT: I should’ve said that sound normalization should be off on Spotify in the settings, and the highest quality setting on. With this considered, in an ABX setting, there are no audible differences EXCEPT on classical and jazz, even on good equipment.

The audio in this video was pissing me off lol

Lossless is also extremely useful if ever you plan on doing remastering; as it's less likely to have artifacting or similar such errors when resampled.

@thearchitecturalgamer6652

5 жыл бұрын

Dusty Carrier I can back this 👌🏻

@MrRedRye

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah the only reason I can think for using 324kHz files is for remastering or applying complex digital filters, I have no idea why any consumer would believe they're a good idea, or even 192kHz for that matter - especially through some airpods

@MrRedRye

5 жыл бұрын

@@hg-sf7yx there is only so far you can go before it is just diminishing returns. Once you get above 24 bits you can get a perfect recreation of the analogue sound wave and a better signal-to-noise ratio than any human could possibly hear - once you go past this point it is entirely plecebo effect. Even modest DACs can recreate almost perfect waveforms with lower bit depths. As I stated, high bit depths have their uses when processing the signals, but for the end listener it doesn't matter how good your equipment is, you're just increasing file size for zero benefit.

@SirSethery

5 жыл бұрын

h g No, 192kHz is literally out of the range of human hearing. There’s a good reason why 44.1kHz and 48kHz are standard for audio and it has to do with mathematics and signal processing (20kHz being above the range of human hearing, a 40kHz sample rate would prevent aliasing, and then there’s a 10-20% cutoff margin). Now I don’t think it’s possible for someone to distinguish between a square wave and a sine wave at the upper end of their hearing (as upper harmonics would be out of hearing range), so the only reason that someone would need an audio clip with a frequency that high would be for editing or resampling purposes, as something like a 48kHz to 44.1kHz conversion may cause artifacts that a 192kHz to 44.1kHz conversion wouldn’t cause.

@meatsafemurderer7743

5 жыл бұрын

@@hg-sf7yx You'd need to be an audiophile with quite literally superhuman hearing. 48kHz is already slightly better quality than 99.9% are capable of actually hearing...and the few that remain fall off very quickly after that.

2:08 why does he have a yoko littner body pillow

@godnaut

5 жыл бұрын

From Here kzread.info/dash/bejne/moudwbRwp7mzpqg.html

hang on I got a few issues here 1. youtube may well keep the high quality audio data of some if not a lot of songs that get uploaded from partnered music channels specifically for this purpose 2. higher bitrate audio can be distinguished even with lower quality equipment, it just gets harder to tell them apart the lower you go. the reason it's silly is because the resulting quality bump is so minor if you don't have the headphones to match it

@DeSinc

5 жыл бұрын

to debate myself: 1. the file that youtube gets from most studios is probably already compressed because the guy in charge of the youtube channel didn't know or care about the quality difference of converting to mp4 in an editing program and uploaded it that way or something 2. most people can't tell apart standard and high quality audio with regular headphones so this service is pointless for them

@DeSinc

5 жыл бұрын

1. yeah but we don't know that all channels do this, it might be true that some channels actually upload the lossless file and youtube could store it, who knows (unlikely I know but still possible) 2. yeah I agree most people probably can't tell them apart, but it's not impossible which is my point. some people might be able to tell and who are we to deny them that quality bump if they want to try it out for themselves?

was the audio discontinuity on purpose? Was super distracting

@mikes2381

5 жыл бұрын

They compressed James's voice so one could get an example/idea of what compressed audio sounds like compared to "good" audio.

@UrbanaticLemonade

5 жыл бұрын

i didn't catch it

@ALMOOSTASHAR

5 жыл бұрын

I would think so, Riley's voice was suuuuper crisp while every time James talked I wanted it to end

@alexaxy3328

5 ай бұрын

​@@mikes2381 James' voice sounded like 16kbps compared to Riley's 128 kbps.

Guys, well done this new production format. impro9ving quality here.

I was wondering why is the sound quality in a phone call so low? The mic on a phone is capable to record much better quality sound.

@BrosBrothersLP

4 жыл бұрын

Because unless you call through for example whatsapp. Telephones only transmit like 1kHz to 10 Or around that. Thats why line-holding music sounds so abysmal

@drabberfrog

8 ай бұрын

​@@BrosBrothersLPthanks for the answer. :)

.WAV - lossless .AIFF - lossless .AAC - lossy .MP3 - lossy .OGG - lossy Key notes: Source - equal to original recording, each 1 and 0 the mic generated is inside the file. Lossless - encoded source information. an algorithm turns long strings of binary into equivalent mathematical equations, reducing size but retaining original data. EG, "100101010110001010110" might be a sum of how many digits follow the first, with something extra to define what those are, and might look like 0x16. Lossy - downsampled audio that lost original data. Most commonly, this is measured by amplitude - a quiet sound next to a loud one isn't likely to be heard anyway, so it's cut.

Such a good addition or format, fantastic work guys. Really enjoyed this.

Thanks for that... Seeing "Emo Linus" caused the mouthful of coffee I was drinking, depart my face in a direction I certainly wasn't expecting 😆🤣

@akaHyped

5 жыл бұрын

Dude I made a huge audible wtf.... With the yoko pillow and everything.

@WiktorWandachowicz

5 жыл бұрын

So you haven't seen the original video with "emo Linus"? It's not new, though.

I've had this argument with several people. I like high end audio, thus have a full sound system for playing my audio back. But, without a dedicated digital feed, a receiver to decode the digital feed, and good speakers, you are wasting your time using FLAC or ALAC files. If you're going to go that route one day and can afford the storage then there's nothing wrong with creating Lossless audio files. To each there own of course.

@TealJosh

5 жыл бұрын

Importance of audio equipment goes along these lines: headphones, master track the file you are listening was made from, the file itself. Further than that is waste of money for the most part(as person who bought usb DAC that supports 98000Hz 24-bit audio)

@WarriorsPhoto

5 жыл бұрын

GTpcGaming Yup, there’s so much that goes into High Quality audio. Even understanding the bit rate and how that works.

Good video on bitrate. You should do one on bit depth and sampling rate to explain why anything beyond CD quality 16/44 is useless (16 bit depth has more dynamic range than anything we listen to, and no one can hear frequencies above 20khz).

@kon_radar

4 ай бұрын

No one can hear frequencies above 20 kHz, but it's not that 48 kHz has a lot emptiness between 20.5 kHz and 24 kHz. The sound is just stretched out. The slight difference would be only in the bass area, because low frequencies require more space on the frequency axis, which can be seen on a spectogram. When working with audio files you usually work at 96 kHz sampling rate, because you don't want loose much data, when stretching and changing the pitch. The finished sound file for listening is then converted to 48 or 44.1 kHz. Modern PC's run at 48 kHz, KZread saves their audio files at 48 kHz (that's the nature of OPUS files), 48 kHz was called the DVD quality in the past. 48 kHz is just the new standard for over a decade now.

I like this new format. Hope they continue using it. Great video!

im having flashbacks to people asking me to boost the resolution on low-res image files.... ughhhhhhhhhhh

@franklingoodwin

5 жыл бұрын

JPEG's, right? 🤣

@kendokaaa

5 жыл бұрын

Yikes ENHANCE

@bradnoyes7955

5 жыл бұрын

but...but they do it on CSI

@peter.s.3207

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, there's a ton of neural-net image scalers out there that work pretty well. They won't add any extra details but they'll make existing objects look cleaner on hi-rez displays than standard scaling. Reddit's wallpaper subs frequently use these to scale between formats.

@li_tsz_fung

5 жыл бұрын

@@peter.s.3207 Researchers also trained some models to enhance image quality by feeding photos taken by low-end smartphones and DSLRs. Software today is just unbelievable

Gotta say, you guys nailed this one. The reality is that in most circumstances lossless isn’t necessary. I really want to believe that hi-res (24-bit 96 KHz+) provides some sort of audio Nirvana, but in a proper blind test, I’ve never been able to hear a difference between the hi-res and a downsampled version, nor do I know anyone who has. It rarely happens, but I *can* sometimes hear differences between lossy and lossless in a blind test, especially with MP3 (cymbals and pianos sometimes have a swirly/unstable sound). I prefer lossless to be sure what I’m hearing is truly supposed to be there, and isn’t some strange compression artifact. It can also be transcoded to any format needed for day-to-day use without multi-generational loss. I generally rip CDs or buy FLAC for these reasons, but often I’m using AAC versions at any given moment. Works for me, YMMV. Anyway, glad to see you guys aren’t falling for the hype!

@mrn234

5 жыл бұрын

I would go crazy with the size of my ripped music that is already in MP3 320kbit around 1 terrabyte and how big it would be in FLAC i dont wanna know :D

I actually got into a heated debate on Twitter because they were a Tidal evangelist. Fact is, it's only worth paying twice as Much as Spotify if you have the top of the line equipment. Those Beats headphones don't count!

.FLAC Master Race

@INshadow08

5 жыл бұрын

Will Nerone flac is good as fuck 🤣

@NoFrameHell

5 жыл бұрын

TTA and TAK are way better in saving space from PCM conversions. Unfortunately TAK isn't open source and if it was FLAC would be left to rot.

@TaireTV

5 жыл бұрын

Yup. The difference between mp3@320 and flac is just night and day. Perhaps not SO much for hip hop as there's not much to it, but come any form of acoustics or whatever and then it's just not satisfying listening to an mp3

@SpecialEDy

5 жыл бұрын

Can I join too with my barbaric wav? Storage is cheaper than a new head

@fffrrraannkk

5 жыл бұрын

@@SpecialEDy Whatever you want man. ..we got plenty of room for your fatass wavs. 😃

I see what you guys did there with the audio 🔉

I have a Tidal subscription and have been listening to master audio and Dolby atmos (for years). I can't adjust to a lower sound quality such as Spotify. I also cannot just purchase any headphones.

I started listening to lossless music when I received my IEM. Pretty darn good I must say. I can hear more details compared to my old headsets.

I basically have a tin ear. You could probably play me audio through a greeting card speaker, and I wouldn't know the difference.

I have settled with 256kbps AAC rips, as I can only hear a subtle difference between that and CD quality with my big stereo speakers, and I dont use that high end headphones on my phone either way. 256kbps AAC because Im used to that/would rather have my whole library in that out of convenience, and Im guaranteed to do pretty fine wherever I want to listen to that stuff. My music library isnt too big, so Im not really wasting space either.

@fffrrraannkk

5 жыл бұрын

One you get that high it is pretty hard to tell the diff. Plus lossy compression is getting better..especially AAC. I have all my music backed up in FLAC and convert to lossy for phone/pc use.. whatever. It's nice to have lossless backups so as time goes on and better lossy compression comes out you can always take advantage.

Ok, this was probably the best TechLinked I've ever watched. Putting James into low quality audio for his "argument"...fucking brilliant. Did nobody else notice that?!? Go on vacation more often, Linus! Your team has your back!

Riley should do more Techquickie! As someone who studies audio production, there's a lot of people who need to see this video! 😂

I prefer the old format. It was usually straight to the point. I feel like I'm being talked down to with this format.

@trapical

5 жыл бұрын

I feel like they were riding the line between "talking down to the audiance" and "intentionally doing a cheesy parody of those PSA videos that talk down to the audiance". The problem was they were a little too close to the line and it felt less like a parody and more like a bland PSA. Would have been better if they were more self referential about how cheesy this style of PSA format is.

@Climato

5 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t Linus emo enough parody for you?

@KX36

5 жыл бұрын

audiophools need to be talked down to. they do enough talking down themselves

Oooh... I like this change!

I can very easily tell a difference between Spotify and Tidal with my Samson SR80s, but whatever’s the most convenient for a person is what they should use.

Just because you can't consciously hear the difference doesn't mean there isn't an enhanced level of enjoyment that you can't consciously place your finger on. Now it may be marginal and perhaps worth or not worth the cost depending on your means. But that is a different argument than "you can't hear the difference so it doesn't matter".

Seriously amazing video Riley and James! Great new format and very well done

Wow when did Techquickie become techquiche. Someone added production values.

Really cool new format, and great video!

Lossless compression is the way to go something like FLAC is pretty good for audio files. They compress down pretty well and because it's lossless you don't lose anything.

@kon_radar

4 ай бұрын

But still. From 1TB of FLAC files, you can go down to 300 GB AAC at 256 kbps, and you won't loose much quality. And it's sounding better then 320 kbps OGG that is used on Spotify.

In the future Gucci and supreme won’t exist if you want to show of in the future get some premium audio

Better watch it before Tidal tries have it removed

@BijBijTCG

5 жыл бұрын

Keep this comment at 69 likes

I bought a Fulla Schiit 2 for around 100$ and my headphones really came alive with everything I listen to. Good DAC and amp really makes a difference.

Idk if it was just my bad speakers not being able to play the amazing quality LTT audio but James mic didn't sound too good 😂

@MrQuequito

5 жыл бұрын

James? Discount luke :P but yeah, i dont know if it was made on purpose, because he sounds like he has low bitrate lol

@Hitokiri_Ace

5 жыл бұрын

Must be on purpose, they usually do much better than that. :) My sound system isn't AMAZING!1! ..but it's good enough to know that was pretty bad.

Like the new way of techquickue presentation

@LunaBari

5 жыл бұрын

* tech quickie

@erelpc

5 жыл бұрын

dude, it's a joke. omg lol

It depends on the prices. If Linus drops them, no problem.

When I first got Apple Music, I listened to Fear Inoculum in lossless and realized there is sounds and instruments that were not audible on the Spotify and KZread version.

Love the way this segment was shot! You guys are getting better every day.

Linus Tech Tips meets Adam Ruins Everything

@Fluxcabury

5 жыл бұрын

so true

@freakfreak12345

5 жыл бұрын

Linus Ruins Everything Tech

@CoCoNOFox

5 жыл бұрын

@@freakfreak12345 Riley Ruins Everything

@unpaintedcanvas

5 жыл бұрын

Linus Drops Everything

This video has low quality audio

@Roope00

5 жыл бұрын

Noticed that too. Ironic.

@LifeWulf

5 жыл бұрын

It was done on purpose in James' case. Dude's listening to low-end headphones, his voice is low quality. See what they did there?

@KX36

5 жыл бұрын

sounds fine to me on my freebie unbranded headphones

@tunglamduong3000

5 жыл бұрын

Different recording quality between James and Riley.

0:57 This is why I still buy CDs if I like the album: You get uncompressed digital audio (higher bitrates than CD make no difference to me), and a nice album booklet

This is a really low quality production. What happened? You guys are good at this.

damn this new style is nice! however i found by the end that the frequent switches between the bed scenes and explain scenes broke the flow too much.

As long as you aint spending money on Beats by Dre you'll be fine.

@in5aneguy597

5 жыл бұрын

had one of them.. never wasted my money more

@danielsjohnson

5 жыл бұрын

I heard a rumor Apple bought Beats by Dre and lowered the quality so Apple airpods would sound better by comparison.

@on_spikes6867

5 жыл бұрын

@@danielsjohnson they were already shit before apple got their hands on it.

@Lethal.G37

5 жыл бұрын

Beats arent meant for youre country or emo music. Its made for rap or or music with bass... smh🤦🏽

@TaireTV

5 жыл бұрын

@@Lethal.G37 they are still slow and narrow sounding. Even AT-M40 are better.

When you record a Wav file you can record it at any sample rate or buffer size you want. Higher is usually better because like you said it outputs more data to computer which increases dynamic range but it can also cause issues on lower end processors. When you render a Wav file to an mp3 or another format, so a phone or other device can read it, all that information has to be compressed to fit into a smaller file. When you listen to lossless audio(Wav file) and compare it to an mp3 or youtube stream, audibly you lose crispness in the high end and low end and the dynamic range is clearly narrowed. The quality of the sound of what you're gonna hear when listening to music on you computer or smartphone, excluding your headphones, is the quality of your sound card and DAC respectively. But in reality, unless you're a sound engineer like me and work in DAWs and record and mix on the daily, you're not really gonna notice a difference and the biggest factor in how the audio sounds is your headphones. I recommend the Audio-Technica ATH-M50x. Great over-ear monitors for the money

Here's the basic rundown as someone who has by no means a certificate in audiophile-dom or anything crazy like that, but *does* take a significant interest in the aspects of high-end gear that may prove useful to me due to many projects that I won't go into immense detail for that I currently am working on: if you're just listening through your phone, and that phone isn't something like the mid to high-end LG models that actually include a relatively decent DAC IN the phone, or you don't have an external DAC that you plan to drag with you everywhere alongside your phone, then plonking money down for anything more high-end than say, a highly rated $50-$80 pair of headphones from a reputable audio manufacturer is probably a waste of money. If you ARE going to tick one of those boxes I mentioned above, then somewhere in the range of the Sennheiser HD 250s would probably be a solid investment. (I have these specifically; for their price they are phenomenal. As to open or closed back, that's both a personal and environmental choice to be made by you.) This recommendation also comes with the caveat that I assume you have a high bit rate subscription to a streaming service, or better yet are downloading the files locally in a similarly high bit rate. Anything *above* that tier of audio equipment is really only going to give you a benefit if every step in the chain is at a similar grade, including your source files, your converting equipment, AND your speakers; whether headphones, or full size monitors become your jam at that point is entirely up to you, but that sort of experience is more conducive to sitting still because I doubt you want to drag two thousand plus dollars worth of audio gear anywhere for fear of damaging it. I know I wouldn't.

BEST Techquickie yet! LOVED IT!

I have a portable Dac and Amp combo (Fiio E-17) with ATH-M50X BT and have not listen to bad audio since! Planning on getting an open back once I move cause we have construction near my place and open back won't do. I also have my flac audio files separated with the lower quality using different music players. Perfect audio experience for me and would like to go bigger someday! 👌🙂

@strawberrylexta

5 жыл бұрын

I had nearly the exact same setup (just non BT) for few years up til few months ago, my E17 would not connect to anything via usb anymore so I upgraded to schiit magni & modi and recently replaced headphones with beyerdynamic c.o.ps

@Cal94

5 жыл бұрын

Hit up massdrop for the HD6xx or HD58x. I have the he4xx and hd6xx... And i cant honestly say i prefer one over the other, but the 58x are cheaper, and some say, better, than the 6xx and 4xx

I REALLY like the new techquickie format. It's really exciting to see LTT's staff developing their own style while Linus is out on vacation.

I am a Tidal guy. Sitting in front of stereo speakers connected to tube amp and enjoying every little detail in the music piece. For that, regular services or KZread music would not suffice.

I spent thousands on amps, DSPs, drivers, and headphones for nothing!

@ElectronicsForFun

5 жыл бұрын

that does seem like an overkill amount of money to pay just to listen to your favorite songs, but having good equipment is not a waste. all you really need for your music to sound good is a midrange DAC with a midrange pair of headphones/speakers and amp.

@Alanreaks35

5 жыл бұрын

@@ElectronicsForFun How come hardware that has dolby atmos/dts X processors cost so much? Is this related to why PC sound cards supporting those formats dont exist?

@Bradum

5 жыл бұрын

I feel like you were doing something wrong... Also, you spent thousands on drivers? wat?

@garcjr

5 жыл бұрын

@@Alanreaks35 To get a quality AVR reciever to support all of those channels you're going to need to spend $1000+. If you're running a home theater with all of that that's a lot of amplification you're going to need. You'll also wind up buying external amps for at least the front channels. I still run a 5.1 setup because it's perfect for the size of the room. I do plan on moving up to 7.2 when I get to move ot in a larger room. I don't think PCs will support Dolby Atmos or DTS because of the high bandwidth. I've only seen those formats on Blu-ray.

@SpecialEDy

5 жыл бұрын

Well, I have a receiver and 5.1 with tower speakers on my computer. Mobile, I have the Bose QC-35. In my van, I have time aligned 3 way active front stage, subs, 3 amps, and maybe 80 diy hours in sound deadening.

Speaking of spending money on bugatti funds, this video is brought to you by fresh books Well that escalated pretty quickly -_-

Great job guys. I once worked at a high end audio store. And on the $10k setup you can hear the difference but it's not super obvious.

@mrn234

5 жыл бұрын

maybe depends on the music and how trained your ears are. Probably most people even trained ones wont hear a difference in 9 out of 10 songs in a blind test.

"lossless" means it's compressed without losing information. not that it hasn't been compressed >.> "raw" means not compressed google: FLAC or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format