27-May-2015, 10:18
Just thought I'd give everyone the heads up on here, and in particular jazz lovers.
I downloaded a 24 bit FLAC of this album from Qobuz last night after reading very positive reviews from a number of sources online:
Kamasi Washington's "The Epic" is actually a wonderful album and its title is somewhat fitting, however it is badly let down by poor sound quality rendering it almost unlistenable. It is that bad! My guess is that it has been very badly compressed which has literally squeezed the life out of it. Very very disappointing, all the more so for a jazz album, and one of this stature and ambition! Very little separation between instruments, poor resolution etc, at times I wondered if I was listening to an MP3.
Will report this to Qobuz.
Guillaume
I downloaded a 24 bit FLAC of this album from Qobuz last night after reading very positive reviews from a number of sources online:
Kamasi Washington's "The Epic" is actually a wonderful album and its title is somewhat fitting, however it is badly let down by poor sound quality rendering it almost unlistenable. It is that bad! My guess is that it has been very badly compressed which has literally squeezed the life out of it. Very very disappointing, all the more so for a jazz album, and one of this stature and ambition! Very little separation between instruments, poor resolution etc, at times I wondered if I was listening to an MP3.
Will report this to Qobuz.
Guillaume
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