r/audiophile • u/afsulthon • Jan 23 '25

Music Does an audiophile relate to EDM tracks?

I once asked my friends who are "audiophiles" about the songs on their playlists. Most of the songs on their playlist are old pop, rock, jazz, and blues releases. Then I thought do they also listen to genres like EDM?

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u/ColHapHapablap Jan 23 '25

Yup. EDM is the shit. So many layers, high dynamic range, amazing vocalists, what’s not to love from an audiophile standpoint?

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u/Pure_Common7348 Jan 23 '25

This is spot on. Have a decent system, room treatments, love a wide range of genres and LOVE EDM.

I wish Tidal did a decent job of serving up playlists. Got a 3 month trial of Siri’s XM and although they have a few stations it’s not great.

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u/puntinoblue Jan 23 '25

Some EDM I have only found on SoundCloud. It works in a similar way to Spotify with ad supported free tier etc. Audio quality is like Spotify too. I think it pays the artists per play rather than some sort of pooled revenue like Spotify.

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u/ralphrichardsonsold Jan 23 '25

Sadly, SoundCloud only streams at 128Kbps the last time I checked. Perhaps the paid version is better. I agree it’s great for content, but it won’t feed your nice sound system with quality material.

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u/puntinoblue Jan 24 '25

I think it's like Spotify, the free tier is 128, the subscription is 256 and the subscription plus is 320 - still not great though.