AUDIOPHILE System LISTENING TEST !!

[@gmp203]

CLC! Concert level classic. Soaring voice, soaring guitar!!! ❤ ear bleed music on most systems.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Totally...

[@hurkamur1]

I could imagine worse tortue, but this is up there 😂

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Death Metal...

[@danielkromer2295]

Klaus Meine's never been given the credit he deserves as a great rock singer. I think he's on the same level as Steve Perry.

[@BillPirrung-cs1ed]

Absolutely Daniel!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

I've always considered him one of the great rock vocalists..

[@willowwale2000]

@@BillPirrung-cs1ed The BLACKOUT album was pure badass

[@hifiGuy-id8rc]

That particular track was re-released and is put together really well. Sonics far better than from album. A-lot easier for your system to get there on a track thats as clean as that one but point taken Mike. It seems when a rig is put together purely to hear flies fart it shits the bed more often than not.

[@jean-martingauthier5551]

and the guy has singing technique, that's one of the reasons why he lasted so long - heard him live when he was no more very young, he sounded amazing. Scorpions sounds hifi even outdoors :-)

[@rrd1975]

This is the way that I listen to and enjoy music! One of my favorite tracks is Elton John's "Funeral For A Friend", played loud and clean. This excellent demo is a legit torture test. Rock On!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Thanks Brother !!

[@BillPirrung-cs1ed]

I couldn’t agree more with everything you said in this video, Mikey. I saw the scorpions in June 1988 a giant stadium and they were phenomenal. This has always been one of my favorite power ballads. His voice is amazing!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

I agree !!

[@BillPirrung-cs1ed]

He’s a tiny little guy too lol You would never think that big voice was coming out of him. The treble in the left channel sounded incredible even though my iPhone!

[@chrischristov3914]

This is Great Mikey, it’s more than audio stuff. Your system is unbelievable, with Scorpions-million bucks .Love it man. Thank you

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Thx Chris !

[@vic95v]

scorpions lets goooooooooo

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Right ?

[@wilbertiii]

My acid test is listening to my whole library randomly, just waiting for the "bad recordings" to play, and as I have moved through this adventure, fine tuning my rig, the bad are not so bad. I now can enjoy the whole library, there are many recordings I don't like but it's not my rig!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

There you go !

[@lonnieelliott504]

I like your channel as I never consider myself an audiophile but an old school rock music lover. Like you I play my music loud. I feel it in my chest. the other day I listened to your spiel about AGD and thought wow they really need to be pushing my old Klipsh La Scalas. I bought these while in the military in 1984. I also met and spoke with Paul Klipsh who built these plywood boxes for his daughters wedding in Escala Spain. For 20 years pushed by a quad amp/preamp. Fine living in a house. But could not handle the sound when cranked outside, the amps would just shut down. But give me scorpians every day anytime over some orchestra. the music of my soul. Thank you for your channel and refreshing way. Lon from Canada.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Rock on Lon 🤘

[@jean-martingauthier5551]

loud but sounds smooth, great. t's only Rock & Roll, but I like it! no, I love it!

[@mesonto]

Shredded my ears... thought this was harsh, at least through KZbin. Going to try the same song on my system this evening for comparison sake.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Then your playback system is harsh. Because it was anything but harsh here. What this video is for is for YOU to play the song at 100dB on your own system (if possible) and see if you can stay in the room. Good luck 👍

[@mesonto]

@@OCDHIFiGuy yes the medium was KZbin... lol ! As I said, it sounded harsh. But to be fair not everything you play sounds as bad

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@mesonto it's not harsh I can guarantee you that. It's clear. Hope you can understand the distinction. I'm saying your playback system is harsh. Not the medium, your equipment. Try turning it up and your ears will bleed. You just let us know. ;-) see my point ??

[@mesonto]

@@OCDHIFiGuy yes it was clear and it sounded harsh. It's what I'm hearing. You obviously have a different definition of harsh than I. Nonetheless, I'm going to play this song either tonight or tomorrow night on my system for comparison sake. I've got a boatload of Scorpions at home.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@mesonto Harsh means pain. It hurts. You can't listen at high levels. We are in my room listening at 100 plus dB... and nobody is wincing. If your ears are bleeding, from this video it's the equipment you are listening on. That's all

[@staceymangham]

Sounded awesome Mikey very clear for that SPL only a well sorted system with the right components will achieve a feat like that especially from a stand mount great choice of music to show off the systems capabilities 🙏👍

[@Revelator2025]

Effortless. Clean, coherent and timbral accuracy. The cymbals even had room to breathe. 👍🏻

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Thanks for having good ears.

[@dieselbrodeur]

Not at all, the recording does not sound good at all, but that's via youtube and a recording device. I will take mikes word for how it sounds at his place and that proves the point.

[@sweetmamma31]

One of my fave songs...

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Isn't it great ??

[@sweetmamma31]

@OCDHIFiGuy You bet. The song is still in my head too...

[@xcvbxcvb2179]

Impressive. Scorpions did actually some good sounding recordings.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Agreed !

[@jonasjansson7970]

I saw Scorpions live august 1986 in Stockholm on Monsters of Rock, totally awesome 🤘

[@gil3green]

Agree, after the softball stuff for reference, need to hear how versatile they are by listening to a range of music.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Absolutely

[@vuch9802]

Dang bro, I wish you would have played that when I was there! Awesome!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. Next time brother !!!

[@raymaksimavicius4902]

Sounds harsh .

[@user-tw4dz9mk7p]

Are the stand mounts crossed over? Are they running full range?

[@j.m.harris4202]

The Gods of Rock are Jealous of this Presentation! Mikey, Don't forget to Shout at the devil! He likes it you know! ✌️🤘

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. Shiiiiiii

[@johnbrentford5513]

I would like to hear Overkill by Men at Work on your system.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

OK.

[@Bigirondoug]

SCORPIONS .......🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

🤘

[@dieselbrodeur]

Flipp to DB A for a while when you film. SPL ( C weighted) is what your amps and speaker need to endure. DB A is the perceived loudness and its much less. This is also something that makes people puzzled when they see what wattage they really need. Peek power is much higher than they think. Good point about distortion actually makes loud music to loud.

[@svenhebinck7191]

Cool stuff Mikey ! Try passione by dimash kudaibergen. Pretty crazy. Or dressed in black by sia. Nice dynamics and emotionally touching both of them.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Great !

[@MsCorbacho]

Exactly that,…any system can play audiophile , this is different , I am 54 , I want to be able to play everything in my system without blood dripping from the ears , Loud, clear , and smooth

[@guillermoq7884]

Scorpions ROCK ! one of my favorites 💪

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Go buddy !

[@dragocelander6671]

It would be interesting to hear Heart’s “barracuda.”

[@willowwale2000]

Then play it on YOUR system.

[@johnbrentford5513]

Mikey, you don't need that decimal meter I have no doubt it cranks. A lot these audiophiles listen to that old man jazz if I had to listen to that I would prefer never to be an audiophile.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

There is an art to "cranking". Most of the time it shreds ears. Try that song at 100dB on your home system is kind of my point.. i hear you though

[@johnbrentford5513]

@@OCDHIFiGuy I got nothing at home like that!

[@elcarlissimo]

Hi, OMG this sounds amazing!!!!!! I would like to post a video like this of my speakers in my new listening room but keep getting the post removed for copyright violation even though I list the artist and full credit including the album cover. Any advice? Thanks in advance, your loyal subscriber.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Dont try to monetize it. Or just use royalty free music

[@elcarlissimo]

Your room is Utopia! I would kill to have a neighbor like you! Not interested in making money, just want to post so my friends and family can experience my humble room. Can't tell you how much I enjoy your channel.@@OCDHIFiGuy

[@shingdaz]

Digital music is not released or even mastered with the original tapes recording. the tape is transferred to digital, then sony uses some proprietary hardware that claims to preserve the original master audio in the transfer, which it does not, Bernie Grundman is a well known mastering engineering, and he had a conflict with Sony stating that their hardware that converts tape to digital is inferior, and he suggested to them what they should do to preserve the original tape sound, to which Sony responded that he was incorrect and ignored his request as necessary, to which years later Sony did improve their tape to Digital technology. Most music also suffers jitter, if its being sent over the internet then the cables that send the audio signal to the end user introduce jitter, thats thousands of miles of cable the audio track has to travel from the server to reach a device. * In technical terms jitter is a concept wherby Point A is the source signal Point B is the destination of the signal> jitter occurs like a skipping rope, the signal bounces off the desitination point B and A thousands of times, the AUdio Line voltage encounters resistance etc and creates jitter effect> that is why MQA was introduced since jitter is more perceived in the high freq's and somehow MQA removes the High Freq's to prevent Jitter and re-creates them From point B instead of point A etc. Another note on digital music is that its only mastered to sound good on small systems, that means a track has a limiter placed on the low end or high end to push the track harder to play Louder on these under 100watt devices, books shelf, desktop speakers headphones… ...so immediately by utilizing a limiter to increase sound output, it takes away the high dynamic range and headroom of the track, this means that high freq’s that used to sit between -130db and 0 db now only occupy a space -3db etc, the high freq dynamic range is cut short which actually distorts the sound because now those high freq's are smashing against a 0db ceiling level cutting short their wavelength producing distortion . An analogy is a rubber ball, take a rubber ball in a 10ft high ceiling room and smash it against the floor, it will hit the floor and ceiling multiple times completing its intended path. now shrink the floor and the ceiling to 3 feet and notice that ball hits the ceiling much faster, this increase causes distortion in the high freq's because it lost room space (thus increasing perceived output), the same thing happens when music mastering attempts to synthetically increase the output of the high freqs with a limiter, which tends to increase the speed and shorten the lengths of the high freq's etc.

[@jmalen123]

Rock is the hardest genre to do good. My room treatment got me where I wanted, and I was wondering if you had tried any ceiling panels.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

I've tried them but pulled them out due to overdamping. I like height in the image as well... true about Rock

[@idudley72]

Very impressive but please watch your ears!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Yes, of course..

[@Roudaki677]

I keep telling my rookie audiophile friends to audition equipment with rock instead of those abstract sounds we all hear at AXPONA and they cannot comprehend why.....

[@Jack96993]

If I played Odesza at 105 db on my rig the neighbors would be on my porch with torches 😅

[@RLM-TV]

Big question Mikey! When are you getting the TAD Towers?

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Stay tuned to find out !

[@willowwale2000]

Why not send him the money for it.

[@Skebetine]

Love it. Be careful with the ears :)

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Yes, thanks ! Lol

[@mrpeterfromgodknowswhere]

Absolutely true! It's easy to do loud chill jazz or audiophile girl & guitar music. Because it's not full range music you need only a fraction of the power. Any system can do that.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

For sure

[@stevedeharde2712]

Still loving you Mikey!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Thanks Baby... ;-)

[@andrewboettcher9853]

At that Db level, it’s hurting your ears regardless brother. You know what I mean. Protect those puppies.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Mmmmkay

[@pizzaearthpancakesandother2549]

Sounds awesome but not at the NEXT LEVEL like Jay's new Rockports which are hot Flaming-Cheetos smoking fire! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@dieselbrodeur]

how would you know that from listening to a crappy youtube video ????

[@pizzaearthpancakesandother2549]

@@dieselbrodeur I was kidding. Don't have a cow man

[@Jack96993]

Hey Mikey what's the brand name of your sound meter I still have my Radio Shack sound meter Time for an upgrade

[@igniaulfsborg8946]

Mikey don’t kill your ears for us lol

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. It's all good...

[@warrenmullett]

What song is this really like it ???

[@CarlVanDoren61]

Spread is very wide. Wider the spread lose imagining 20.7s@7ft ctr. 2-Rel CS ctr

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

I want a bigger image that plays louder than Magnepan is capable..

[@CarlVanDoren61]

@@OCDHIFiGuy Vocals must be terrible

[@dragocelander6671]

And here I thought you were playing the TAD monitors…

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

They could not scale to this level...

[@AudioheavenDenmark]

Music... F... Audiophile stuff 😂

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

For sure

[@barneyrubble9309]

So what exactly are we listening to in terms of gear?

[@backrack01]

What speakers are we trying to torture?

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

It's a whole system... speakers can't do crap without low distortion amps and killer amps cant do anything without a world class front end. They are heavily modified Analysis Audio of Greece

[@stevedeharde2712]

Is that the TADs or the big rig?

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Big

[@audiohertz2341]

Was this before or after rolling one Mikey ..? 😂

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Both...

[@MD-cy6pe]

you need rels.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. Dork.

[@willowwale2000]

Audiophile music is crap. The real way to test a loudspeaker is by playing real music, Funk, metal, pop, reggae, and rock.Who wants to listen to Diana 'make my skin' Krall

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

For real...

[@DavidBorda-oz9mu]

I’m gonna stop commenting…this is just too embarrassing 🙈

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

What are you trying to say, big boy ?

[@DavidBorda-oz9mu]

@@OCDHIFiGuy I have experienced considerable talk, most of it not really useful for a serious audiophile trying to navigate the waters. As for the listening test/demo music used…like you said, get some Sony’s from a garage sale! Might actually make that crsp sound palatable 😣