Youtube as a Music Source

[Lance A.]

Guess I’m lucky, I can still hear way out from 12kHz, lack of treble is no problem here. I set my tone controls flat to 12 o’clock 15 years ago when I hooked up the amp, it hasn’t changed since.

The question becomes, is what you hear as flat today the same as it was when you were younger. Since it can't be (missing frequencies about 10-12k), your perception of flat must have changed.

I think this explains why I like one set of my speakers more than others. They are the ESS Eclipse with the Hail amt tweeter. Is the tweeter more accurate (I doubt it) versus more "bright" (which my reduced hearing remembers as "good")?

 

[raycarr00]

my go to for new audio...if liked, get a cd or lp.

 

[RunOutGroove]

Not scientific at all, but I feel like anything that I get through my Roku TV, YouTube, Spotify or Amazon Music, even though it's running through my Schiit Modius DAC, sounds compressed to me and not having the same kind of depth and transparency as CDs that are run through that same DAC. All of the aforementioned platforms are free so I don't really feel like I have a right to complain and they are convenient for sampling music that I don't own, but aren't quite 100% satisfying to listen to...

 

[titanstats]

The question becomes, is what you hear as flat today the same as it was when you were younger. Since it can't be (missing frequencies about 10-12k), your perception of flat must have changed.

I think this explains why I like one set of my speakers more than others. They are the ESS Eclipse with the Hail amt tweeter. Is the tweeter more accurate (I doubt it) versus more "bright" (which my reduced hearing remembers as "good")?

Dunno, still all sounds good to me; still using the same amp, preamp, and speakers for the last decade, tone controls still in the same place.

 

[titanstats]

Just be clear, Youtube Music is a separate music streaming platform similar to Spotify. It streams at 256Kbps.
I know this thread is about the quality on the Youtube video platform, but some seem to be confusing the two.

Understood, I just won’t pay money for a service that isn’t lossless, not in 2022. I do have a YouTube music account that I do not use; it was merely to transfer my online archive when Google closed their music streaming service.

 

[NH-MAN]

When I listen to You tube, I am using aux out from phone into one of my receivers. My I phone 5 sounded just as good as the same CD played in my room. (NAD CD player) (if there was a difference you would have to try way too hard to find it which at that point could just be your imagination or expectation bias)

The newer I phones do not even come close to the old 5. My GF had an older Galaxy laying around that I use that is extremely close to what the 5 sounded like so I use that now.

I would use this as I have the same CD

 

[uofmtiger]

I pay for premium YouTube to skip the commercials ( with the exception of those guys that have their own sponsors). I had their music app, but never used it. I do put on an occasional music performance on the TV, though. I don’t think it sounds as good as Apple Music or Qobuz, but that may very well be the source of the audio.

 

[Mr Boochie]

That's what I hear too in my own recordings; pretty close to original but missing some imaging. But I think this is a function of introducing another mechanical element in the mix (the microphone) rather than a compression thing.

Yes. Recording is an art. Ask any studio engineer. A lot of experimenting with mic placement and mixing, to get the sound you are after. Maybe, one day I'll trying more mics, to get the recording closer to what I'm hearing, live.

Though the source (the LP) makes a difference in the 3D effect (prolly how it was recorded in the studio). Some engineers went for more a live sound. Danny's Song was recorded with same setup, on my part. But, a tad of reverb in the studio mix gives more 3D feel .

Danny's Song. Off Loggins and Messina - "Sittin' In." Columbia Records. C 31044. Terre Haute pressing. 1971.
Run-out: o P BL 31044-1C

 

[Dswankey]

I was wondering if one can download the song sources from a Youtube video without signing in or subscribing to YT

For example if I wanted to download this song selection how would I go about it

 

[Mr Boochie]

I was wondering if one can download the song sources from a Youtube video without signing in or subscribing to YT

For example if I wanted to download this song selection how would I go about it

I don't think so. Unless you are the owner of that video.

 

[Dswankey]

^ That's kind what I thought

 

[twiiii]

I am listening Wagner via You Tube played by the President's Own Marine band and the sound is about a 8.5 out of ten with the top octave being compromised a bit. This may be a MP3 rendition. Some are some are not. Dynamics can be squeezed a bit it seems to me. But on the whole the quality is better than any any of the LP's I own or have dubbed and thats quite a few. The recordings are not CD quality however. I have a few of the bands CD's that band directors get when the band comes to visit town and give high school clinics on their nation wide tours. I also listen to the Navy band and other brass groups across the world. The quality can be quite good to pretty poor depending on who recorded the performance during concerts. But I will say recordings are improving quickly since Covid has plagued the world and people demand better entertainment at home.

 

[RunOutGroove]

I was wondering if one can download the song sources from a Youtube video without signing in or subscribing to YT

For example if I wanted to download this song selection how would I go about it

I don't know about anymore, but at one time I kind of remember that there was a plugin for Firefox (and there may be one for other browsers), which allowed you to download videos and then I suppose if you wanted to, with some very simple editing software (iMovie for Mac would work, for example) you could strip the soundtrack part from the video...