My experience trying high-resolution music

I grew up dancing, and my specific dance niche was bullish about revealing hidden details in music with the body by dancing to them

Maybe this is the reason why I’ve always been curious about listening to music at a deeper and deeper level

So this summer I finally got myself a DAC

I told myself I just wanted to try it and I intended to return it afterwards

Turns out it’s so good I decided to keep it

It felt like I had always been looking at the world in b&w and all of a sudden I got glasses that made me discover the existence of colors

Now every weekend I spend hours just listening to well-mastered music

Some weeks ago I travelled to Turin for some days to attend Italian Tech Week and various side events. It was a short trip, so I only brought my backpack with me, no suitcase.

After packing my clothes, I didn’t have enough space left in the backpack for the big headphones and the DAC, so I left home with just my AirPods.

And oh boy I missed them so much! Whenever I pulled up a song to listen to on my AirPods, it felt so bad I preferred to close the Music app and not listen to anything at all.

how cool are they, though?

If you like music and have never experienced high resolution listening, I recommend trying.

You don’t need anything fancy or expensive: just

• stream lossless: e.g. on Tidal or Apple Music, just avoid Spotify;

• get decent headphones: e.g. entry level audio-technica or beyerdynamic, nothing too fancy;

• and a decent DAC: I like my ifi hip dac and I think it’s generally a good choice because of USB C: you can even plug it to your iphone and use lossless apple music.

Your favourite LLM can help with finding good equipment and learning more.

Let me know how it goes at hello at danielfalbo dot com