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Whenever I record audio from Youtube or Spotify, The recording normally sounds thin and without body. I look at the frequency spectrum in Har-Bal, and there is a pronounced dip in the frequency at around 460hz and nearby frequencies. I record using Audacity at 24/176.4, I have not tried to record at 16/44.1 yet, but I don't think it would make any difference, it happens no matter what website I go to. I have used Sound Forge as well, the same dip. Of course, I can correct for that dip in Har-Bal, but I am not going to know what the original frequency spectrum is, so I have to do the best I can. I normally download classical or jazz music either at DSD or high-res PCM on Youtube. The songs themselves sound fantastic when I finish recording, very little noise, but again, they sound relatively hollow and thin. Do other people experience the same thing? Is there any way to correct for that, stop it from happening? Maybe it is the built-in sound card?! Thanks to all, I am new to downloading from websites, but not to being an audiophile.
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The measurements of actual concert halls presented here https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e4c9/b3222f26472f6ba12e7fea900c2edb10c14c.pdf show a much more drastic drop of the frequencies above 5K than suggested by target curves such as B&K C, Bob Katz's or HK RR1 The bass roll-off is consistent with the FR of the monitors used while the drastic treble roll off appears to be the hall response. I recently frowned at the measurements of an expensive Audio Research amp (see Stereophile) but this, and some solutions blamed for rolloff, would it be filters cables or what have you, might well answer a respectable quest. Respectably ? Personally, I simply created new convolution files to mimic SI R2, preferred by assessors cf https://users.aalto.fi/~ktlokki/Publs/JASA_lokki2012.pdf Although I can't say I suffered from brightness with my previous filters, the first impression is very good and paradoxal : more precision in instruments placement (while I had in mind that more treble favours soundstage)
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