Article: Unlimited Love, The Best RHCP Album Ever?

[The Computer Audiophile]

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[all300b]

Nice album. Thanks for the review. As a far less accomplished drummer who also looks like an average dad at a little league game I am honored to be in such company. 

 

| "After listening a few times to the album via Qobuz streaming, I purchased the 24 bit / 96 kHz download."

 

Uh-oh. So with a notch hi-fi system circa 2022, the local file STILL sounds better than the equivalent file streamed from Quboz / Tidal? This remains my experience as well - a small but perceivable difference - though I am open to the possibility of expectation bias. Wish there was some way to measure this difference- more difficult to cure a problem that cannot be objectively characterized.

 

 

[firedog]

1 hour ago, all300b said:

Nice album. Thanks for the review. As a far less accomplished drummer who also looks like an average dad at a little league game I am honored to be in such company. 

 

| "After listening a few times to the album via Qobuz streaming, I purchased the 24 bit / 96 kHz download."

 

Uh-oh. So with a notch hi-fi system circa 2022, the local file STILL sounds better than the equivalent file streamed from Quboz / Tidal? This remains my experience as well - a small but perceivable difference - though I am open to the possibility of expectation bias. Wish there was some way to measure this difference- more difficult to cure a problem that cannot be objectively characterized.

 

 

Some of us buy music because it's a better way to financially support the artist. And because buying means we will always have access to the music (unlike with streaming).  Not necessarily b/c we think it sounds better. 

[kenreau]

Thanks for the review! I am so exited the sound quality lives up to Flea's proclamation and they are promoting this.  Hopefully starting a new market or industry trend. Wouldn't it be cool if sound quality was hip in the major markets. I watched Flea's video promotion (on Insta) and you could see in his room a wall of vinyl in the background, tt and a couple of small tube mono blocks.  I love it.  

 

Ranking the new album up there with BSSM and Californication is high praise indeed, also my favorites.  I've got it on my shopping list.

 

Thanks

Kenreau

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

24 minutes ago, kenreau said:

Thanks for the review! I am so exited the sound quality lives up to Flea's proclamation and they are promoting this.  Hopefully starting a new market or industry trend. Wouldn't it be cool if sound quality was hip in the major markets. I watched Flea's video promotion (on Insta) and you could see in his room a wall of vinyl in the background, tt and a couple of small tube mono blocks.  I love it.  

 

Ranking the new album up there with BSSM and Californication is high praise indeed, also my favorites.  I've got it on my shopping list.

 

Thanks

Kenreau

 

 

It would be amazing for sound quality to be considered cool! 

[SlimPickins]

Rick Rubin Interviews RHCP About the Group's New Album Recorded and Mixed to Analog Tape

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/rick-rubin-interviews-rhcp-about-groups-new-album-recorded-and-mixed-analog-tape

 

I Could Have Lied is probably my favorite RHCP song.

[firedog]

So what's the DR rating of the hi-res download?

[The Computer Audiophile]

5 hours ago, firedog said:

So what's the DR rating of the hi-res download?

Click on the image in the article to see the DR info per track. 

[bbosler]

On 4/6/2022 at 6:24 PM, SlimPickins said:

Rick Rubin Interviews RHCP About the Group's New Album Recorded and Mixed to Analog Tape

 

one comment in the link to  the interview states that the digital version is heavily compressed while the vinyl was cut direct from tape without compression 

 

anybody have any idea if that is true? 

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 hours ago, bbosler said:

one comment in the link to  the interview states that the digital version is heavily compressed while the vinyl was cut direct from tape without compression 

 

anybody have any idea if that is true? 

You can see the dynamic range numbers in the graphic I posted. 

[Confused]

Ah, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I must admit that I was very excited to see that a new album has been released.

 

Reading the article got me thinking about when I first went to see them live. A quick think about who I went with and why, and I worked out that it would have been 1990. A quick check on line and I find that there is a record of the exact gig I attended, complete with photographs, amazing!

 

http://www.rhcplivearchive.com/show/feb-11-1990-london-england-1084

 

This was as near as dammit 32 years ago, but I can still remember being slightly mesmerised by Flea in his nice white underpants. Although I am pleased to note that Flea has made enough money in the subsequent years to at least buy some proper clothes.

 

 

 

I've had a listen to the new album this morning and vey much enjoyed it. I don't think it will make my top three Red Hot chili Pepper albums though. I am more of a Mother's Milk kind of guy. The new album is very good, but is kind of Red Peppers, with the Hot Chili bit having mellowed over the years. Maybe Flea is mellowing faster than I am?

 

It looks like the UK currency has also mellowed a bit over the years also, £6 seems like rather good value. (actually, checking for inflation, this would be about £15 in today's money, which does actually seem like a bargain)

 

 

[botrytis]

When I saw them, they came out with Sox and smiles on.

[mevdinc]

Chris, thanks for sharing your impressions.

I am listening to it as I write and it sounds really great on my ATC actives. :)

[feelingears]

Rick Rubin..."artistic" choice... Okay, we all have our opinions and I will throw in two words that everyone will roll their eyes over, especially since you can now (years later) buy the remastered and "un-ruined un-Rubined" artistic expression of...Death Magnetic. (However, I won't be buying the MQA version. 😉)