Sorry if this has been asked before, but... as I mentioned in the Topping EX5 thread, I've got my first DAC/amp and am listening with my HD650s and everything sounds fine... about just as fine as it did before! As I said there:
Presumably you all can tell differences between the three different formats?
So, my real question is, can I train my ears to hear better? And if so, how?
At the moment my it feels like my ability to taste differences in wine - only the extremely obvious things. Which is fine, and means I don't require specific and/or expensive wines to be happy! Learning more about wine might make life more difficult! But, given I listen to music a lot more than I drink wine, I'd like to get better at hearing it.
But having just tried listening to these six test audio files at NPR I couldn't tell the difference between any versions and ended up guessing randomly, scoring 1 out of 6. Even knowing which is which, 128Kbps MP3 sounds the same as the uncompressed WAV to me (through the EX5 and my HD650s).
Presumably you all can tell differences between the three different formats?
So, my real question is, can I train my ears to hear better? And if so, how?
At the moment my it feels like my ability to taste differences in wine - only the extremely obvious things. Which is fine, and means I don't require specific and/or expensive wines to be happy! Learning more about wine might make life more difficult! But, given I listen to music a lot more than I drink wine, I'd like to get better at hearing it.