Listening to music samples of audio gear reviewers

[ecwl]

So I usually listen mostly to classical music, frequently based on the recommended albums from Gramophone magazine. Occasionally, I listen to pop to keep up with the zeitgeist.

 

But whenever I read an audiophile gear review, I would sometimes pull up the music that the reviewer listened to on Tidal and see how it sounds with my system or my headphones.

 

I do find it’s a little annoying that sometimes, the music is not on Tidal or sometimes it takes a bit of work to find the track on Tidal. I wish reviewers would just have an online Tidal playlist that I can click on.

 

I have always wondered if other people do this too?

[RedDogCo]

Darko.audio provides playlists (Tidal, Qobus, Spotify) to his Patreon supporters.

[DuckToller]

From my view as a contributor the playlist idea does work only with limitations:

- some tracks are not available for the streaming services

- some tracks are not available in the correct version / mastering

- some tracks are not available in the readers region

- some tracks are not available in the format used for the review

- over time rights are changing, I e. tracks are disappearing from the playlist

- if tracks change their streaming ID they may disappear from the playlist

- Tidal i.E. changed former lossless versions into lossy masters with different IDs if I have understand correctly

 

Usually I provide Qobuz links when available

Cheers, Tom
(edit - spelling)