What audio format sounds the best (SACD, vinyl record albums, CD, cassette, Reel-to-Reel, MP3) ?
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- What music audio format provides the best audiophile listing experience (vinyl record albums, CD, cassette, Reel-to-Reel, SACD, MP3, DAT, minidisc) ?
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Turntables: Rega P8 turntable with Apheta 3 cartridge
Technics SP-15 with a Hana ML cartridge and a Audio-Technica AT33MONO cartridge
Phono Stage: Whest .20
Preamp: Pass Labs X2, Mcintosh C28
Amplifiers: Balanced Audio Technology VK-60 tube amplifier, Marantz model 8B tube amplifier, Phase Linear Dual 500 series two amplifier
Speakers: Kindel PLS-A
SACD player: Sony SCD-XA9000ES
HI-RES Player: Sony HAP-Z1ES
DACS: Denafrips Pontus 15, Luxman DA-06
Reel-to-Reel decks: Revox A700, Tandberg 10XD
Cassette Deck: Nakamichi Dragon
FM Tuners: Mcintosh MR78, Revox B261
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best is such a subjective term. the medium i listen to is usually dependent on my mood or circumstances. this is a great video that opens up a lot of discussion.
Nice topic Kenny!
1. FM tuner - Luxman T-110 designed my Tim de Paravicini playing classical music on KUSC.
2. Vinyl - VPI Scout 1.1 with a Hana Umami Blue MC cartridge, Bob’s Devices Sky 40 SUT with a Sunvalley tube phono preamp playing 45 RPM records.
3. SACDs - Oppo BDP-105 Blue Ray player
4. Hi Rez digital 24 bit 192 khz on up to DSD 1024x - Holo Audio Cyan 2 DAC with a Holo Audio RED streamer + Mac Mini M1 ROON Core
5. CDs - Audiolab 6000 CD transport with optical out to Holo Cyan 2 DAC and also using Oppo BDP-105 Blue Ray player.
6. Cassette tape - Pioneer CT-950 cassette player + 3 more decks
Your have some awesome equipment 👏 👍 🎶...thanks for posting your list ✌️
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews - some day I hope to buy a Reel to Reel like you. My brother-in-law has four and he’s right in saying they sound as good or better than vinyl.
You still live in So Cal? I went to the Record Safari today by Griffith Park and found a nice used Joe Pass/Django LP.
Yesterday I received my Katy Lied UHQR. So good!
Always the CDs for me. That's what I grew up with.
Kenny your right on the money. In my setup vinyl is in first place followed by SACD’s with a good player like my modded Oppo player. My Turntable is a modded Goldring Lenco GL75 with Syrinx PU-3 Arm and modified Nakamichi MC1000 reference pickup cartridge. I do also like my older Nakamichi 600 tape deck with mixes made during my youth from a high end system.
I have an MR78 tuner. Kenny is right, it is a wonderful FM machine. Most folks don't know how good FM can be. Tune in a clean Jazz or Classical station on the MR78 and be amazed.
Vinyl hands down the best for me.
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CD is #1 for me. I enjoy the sound dynamics !!! The ability to replay a vocal run or a jazz solo. I like the size of the disc, which suits my living space. My current system is a Denon 5 disc changer, Denon receiver and two Insignia bookshelf speakers. Prior to this, I had an Onkyo 6 disc changer and receiver. I do recognize the outstanding sound quality of records. However the number of components and the size of the media would have long ago maxed out my living space.
Agreed - bass dynamics of CD give it the edge over vinyl to my ears. I enjoy funk music and the bass "must" be as dynamic as possible. Through my Audiolab 9000CDT transport, AKM chip dac, Marantz PM11S2 amp, and Dynaudio loudspeaker/sub combo, dynamics is very possible!
Most CD' for some time have been highly compressed, hardly any dynamics. Jazz not as bad as POP, but still worse than may LPs.
DSD and vinyl all the way, CDs in worst case
This guy gets it...👆
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For me the best music listening format is vinyl records, then SACD and HDCD Cd’s then regular cds. My main stereo audio set-up is a McIntosh 6700 receiver, B&W CM-9 speakers, a Projekt Classic turntable with a Sumiko Amethyst cartridge(moving magnet). Also a OPPO-103 multidisc cd player and a Rotel 1572 cd player. My living room where my stereo is needs some changes to improve the sound because we know that the listening room influences the sound. Thanks for another fun video…✌🏼
I do not have to many HDCDs at all but they do sound nice. You have a great stereo setup 👌 👍. Thank you for watching ✌️
I agree with your list. A 30 or even 15 ips reel to reel is mind blowing. The best I can affordably do now is DSD files on an inexpensive Phinistec portable player
Those DSD files can sound GREAT 👍 👌
Some of the best lisening experiences I've had have been vinyl played on my friend's Clearaudio Performance turntable through a Rogers EHF-200 integrated tube amp driving Revel PerformaBe speakers. Vinyl is the best format by far when you can play it on equipment that is really made to support it. I say that without having access to r2r to compare it to.
My system is far more pedestrian - a Sony Blu-ray player and an Oppo DV-983H into an Onkyo TX-NR6100 receiver driving home theater speakers from Klipsch and Definitive Technology. I enjoy Blu-ray audio, DVD audio, and SACD the most on it.
Kenny I have something interesting, two LPs of the same jazz music but the interesting part is, one of them is a direct to disc recording pressed in Japan. They also taped the session and released that in the US with the same cover. So you can compare the D to D sound to the tape mastered LPs. Album called "The Three" features Joe Sample, Ray Brown, Shelly Manne. D to D is Nippon Phonograph EW-1001. Gatefold. US version from tape is Inner City Records IC 6007. Not a gatefold. Japan version dated 76, US 78.
Interesting topic. I don’t consider myself a serious audiophile. My take on what sounds best is what I listen to most.
7. 8 track cartridges - BSR McDonald 8 track player.
6. Cassettes - Kenwood KX-530
5. MP3 - iPod
4. Streaming - Amazon Music and Spotify using WiiM Pro Plus
3. CD - Marantz CD6005
2. Reel to Real - Teac X-3
1. Vinyl - Technics Sl-1200 Mk 2 (Audio Technica VM95SH cartridge and Waxwing phono preamp)
Analog sources played through Kenwood KA-3500 amp. Digital sources played through Marantz PM6004 amp.
Good morning and many thanks Kenny ✌️ Edit: I was impressed with dvd audio also
Good morning!....thank you very much ✌️
#3 Streamer Lumin U2,
#2 McIntosh MCT500 SACD transport feeding into a Mac DA2 dac,
#1 Vinyl Dr Feickert Volare with Hana Umami Blue cartridge, Kuzma Stogie Reference CE tonearm, Primaluna Tube Phonostage.
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OUTSTANDING equipment 👏 👍 🎶
To my ears and on my system, vinyl sounds warmer, airier, more alive than digital. (My system includes a Rega P8 turntable, KEF R3 Meta speakers, Moon 340 integrated amp, Cambridge Audio CXN v2 DAC & network streamer, etc).
Besides sound quality, there are other reasons I prefer vinyl that may resonate with some of your wonderful subscribers.
I really enjoy the full experience of vinyl, from pulling an LP from the shelf, admiring the full-sized cover art (and interior cover art in the case of gatefolds), pulling the record out of the sleeve, putting it on the turntable, putting the needle on the record.
The LP almost forces you to listen to the songs in the order the artist intended. Dark Side of the Moon and thousands of other great records are meant to be heard, in their totality, in a particular order--almost as if sides 1 and 2 are two parts of a symphony and the songs on each side are the different movements.
With digital, it's easy to jump around to different tunes without getting out of your seat, for example, to play just your favorite tracks. It's also easy to get distracted, especially if I'm controlling my DAC/network streamer/CD player with my phone.
But wth LPs, the format demands your full attention--and richly rewards it. With an LP, I can turn off my phone and turn down the lights and be fully immersed in the music, listening to all songs in the order the artist intended, experiencing the full album as it was meant to be experienced.
I know others who prefer digital formats will talk about the inconveniences of vinyl (you can't take it to different rooms or listen to it in your car), and the expense of LPs compared to digital music. They are not wrong. And of course, digital formats can sound amazing on good systems, especially systems that are optimized for digital.
So I'm not saying anyone is wrong who has a different opinion than me, and I certainly respect those opinions. I'm just sharing my own views.
Many thanks for another great video, and as always for your positive energy and infectious love of music.
Great system 👏 👌 👍 🎶...Thank you for mentioning some of the benefits of LPs that extend outside of the great sonic benefits. Well said 👏 💯 ✌️
The original recording, and the format in which it has been encoded/pressed/mastered, is the primary thing, and is the most important and noticeable. That's the raw material. After that, every amp and every player (streamer, cassette deck, reel-to-reel deck, CD/SACD/DVD/Blu-ray player, turntable...) has its own set of basic electronic components (capacitors, transistors, etc.) and its own sound characteristics. Throw in the other necessary technologies for the appropriate formats (DACs, cartridges, stylii, file types) -- not to mention speakers, placed in various positions in rooms with their own distinctive acoustic properties -- and, depending on where you've placed yourself in that space, the exact same recording can come out sounding all kinds of different ways! I've used audio switches to A/B test amps/preamps/players/DACs/speakers and so on. You can immediately hear the differences. But what you like is what you like -- and what seems noticeably better or worse for the first few seconds or minutes can change appreciably as your ears and your brain adjust to what you're hearing.
#1 and #2 for me too! Mid level equipment: Kenwood KR5400, Akai gx365d(glass head) reel, Audio Tech lp3 table(AT91R green cart), B&O 4702 speakers(front) ADS L420(rear). Damn good sounding setup! 7 1/2 tapes sound great, but the problem is they are way to expensive! Top groups/singers $200+ easy
For me it's about the diversity and the mood. I'm using r2r, compact cassette, digital compact cassette, minidisc, cd, hi-res files and records. Like you, I find minidisc least pleasant soundwise, I'm impressed with r2r but somehow love compact cassettes, cd, hi-res files and records to the same extent. The digital compact cassette sounds better than minidisc (to my ears), but minidisc is nicer to use.
I have one single dvd audio and I used to enjoy the sound ten years ago when I had a proper 5.1 sound system, but multi-channel sound is not something I'm interested anymore.
Great video! I wouldn't try to make a ranking myself, but I find yours pretty balanced and based.
Thank you very much for your comments 😊...I use to love 5.1 sound a few years ago but recently I've been listening to stereo only although 5.1 is fantastic.
I have a Tascam DAT. The thing had rechargeable option till the scarce batteries croaked. The gray rubbery covering on the deck started getting gooey in some areas so that it may turn into a gooey piece of junk instead of a pro portable deck. I had a Dragon but i got it cheap and it had some serious problems so I sold it as is because at the time I did not care to invest alot into what I thought cassette was limited to.
I've always personally enjoyed vinyl. While I firmly believe it dosen't sound better than any other medium, I find myself enjoying the process of dedicating time to sit down, bust out an album and just appreciate the music. I spin my records on an audio technica LP60, my amplifier is a pioneer SA 9500 MKII and my speakers are pioneers though I don't know the model.
Thank you very much for sharing your equipment and your love for vinyl albums and the process 😊 ✌️
Tape, vinyl/DSD, TrueHD atmos, CD/casette, streaming. In that order
BTW, I agree about tape. The master tape copies (usually copy of a copy) that some folks are selling are quite good. Be careful from whom you buy.
For me it is the turntable, tonearm, cartridge combination sending the signal to a high quality tube phono stage, then to a tube preamp, and then to a power amp then to the speakers
I have not used all of the mediums featured here. My list is as follows:
1. Vinyl
2. Hi Quality Digital file
3. CD
As a vinyl DJ, I can feel the difference of vinyl vs. an mp3 with my hand when I scratch a kick drum. Vinyl is real life friction being created. It's of a different quality.
Thank you very much for your list...its cool to have the perspective of a DJ ✌️
After downsizing still finalizing recent changes to my main system - PS Audio- Power Plant 12, BHK Signature preamp (and headphone amp) and S300 stereo amp, Denon DCD 1700NE, SACD, NAD AM / FM tuner (that McIntosh tuner on your caption has been on my want list for 25 years),Primare CD transport and Holo Audio Cayin 2 DAC, Music Hall Stealth turntable + Ortofon 2M Black cartridge, Lounge Audio phono preamp, Tyler Acoustics Time Keeper speakers. Morrow Audio cables / interconnects, In some cases (not all) I prefer SACD over CD (playing my way through boxes of 35 years of CDs with the modern transport plus DAC) but it varies from disc to disc. Lucky to have a good quality classical music FM station with a strong clean signal (just a bit older than you - grew up with FM and headphones for music and AM radio for sports) so enjoy that format but the most enjoyment and largest money investment has been good vinyl records - several purchased after watching your channel.
Outstanding system 👏 👌 👍 🎶. I remember those FM stereo for music and AM radio for sports days very well 😊✌️
FM? Spend a bunch on a higher quality tuner or receiver and if you are lucky, you might have one two or no stations in your range that don't sound like garbage. The technical standards of FM are ignored to add compression and distortion on most stations. A very good tech standards FM station can sound superb on your system. Good luck seeking one out. Listening to bad stations is like recording bad cassettes onto a CD and then hoping to get CD quality performance out of it.
I liked the video and your rankings. I guess the only guy in the world who knows what is better between vinyl and digital, is the guy with the absolute best turntable/cartridge and the best digital playback equipment. Anything short of that, and whether we realize it or not, we are only talking about the equipment and its limitations; not the potential sonic ceiling of any given format. Speaking of ceilings, that's where your sound ends up when you reach a truly lofty point in sound quality. The speakers are on the floor and everything but the low notes sound like they are coming from the ceiling; and sometimes even bass and bass guitar makes it up to there. When the signal integrity becomes SO good, the sound physically goes upward to the ceiling. Lead vocals are always up there; even on less than the best recordings; and the recordings end up sounding a lot better than you ever thought they could; as you probably know, with the fine equipment you mentioned.
Many years ago Marantz and a few others made cassette decks that recorded and played back cassettes at double the usual 1 and 7/8 inch speed. I think I actually like those at 3 and 3/4 ips than some reel to reel decks and tapes at that speed. I think cassette squeezed a lot of mileage out of the limitations it had, compared to reel decks. Reel to reel at 7 and 1/1 ips and higher is the ultimate. No edge accentuation at all, like much digital,, oh so natural sounding.
People believing lps are the best sounding format are probably wrong, but it is one of the few best sounding formats where a lot of factory prerecorded music is available. Some of the old direct to disc lps are hard to beat for sound quality. There's a Japanese phono cartridge company called DS Audio which has found a way to eliminate magnets which MM cartridges use and tiny coils, which moving coil cartridges use. Instead they use a light sensor inside their cartridges. They make several models and are expensive, but are supposed to be extremely great, and might be THE cartridges which can reveal just how good vinyl lps can sound & perform.
Thank you very much for taking the time to post your thoughts comments. I've heard a couple of higher speed cassettes Deck many years ago and they were very good. Sony had a cassettes format called ELCASET that I had and that was very good as well.
Absolutte best😂 good luck finding that🎉
I have already! Don't ask!
Hey Kenny, that Stan Getz album Captain Marvel is available on a remastered CD. It's part of the Sony/Legacy box set of Stan Getz- the Complete Columbia Albums Collection. It's disc one of the set.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention 😊....I'll definitely add that to my list ✌️
It' even has a couple of alternate bonus tracks from the Captain Marvel album. Sound quality is very good.
Kenny, for me it has been dependent on what sounded best at the moment, the synergy of all the equipment used at that time as well as the quality of the mastering no matter what medium was used for that. Also some genres of music sound their best in different formats. I've experienced all of those formats mentioned here. Unlike you Kenny, I have not held on to my old equipment or old records, tapes, except for a few to make a real-time comparison. I'm a musician so there's also that perspective of what sounds most accurate to me for a variety of reasons. I currently prefer CD, FLAC or DSD. If I had to choose an old format it would be a high quality reel to reel. My current equipment is a Cambridge Audio Azure 851N, Outlaw RR2160 MkII, and Magnepan LRS+. They sound great together but there is definitely much better out there but then affordability comes into question.
I appreciate your comments and opinions...its always great to hear the opinions of a musician 😊 ✌️
DSD is the future of recording, so I have seen heard and read. That is why MOFI used it in their Vinyl. I’ve heard and bought some of PSaudio octave recordings and sound amazing even in dsd 64. The key is to go master tapes directly to DSD without any PCM , or record strictly live onto DSD.
I'm going to have to check out some of those PSaudio albums at some point. The owner of the company insists that DSD is the best method.
For me it’s vinyl for analog sourced jazz, and CDs for classical which sounds better in DDD. For rock the key is finding the right pressing because they tend to be badly recorded or mastered.
for classical music... I prefer old vinyl records of the format as it does not appear to me as being so bright. I have classical DDD cds as well, but prefer the vinyl.. esp. the old UK releases from the late 50's early 60's. I am playing them on an old dual 1015f fitted with ortofon om20. Denon PMA-720 integrated amp thru Definitive Technology Studiomonitor 450 speakers. As always, sound is subjective... but this setup is great to wind down the day.
The reason that I'm commenting is to inform you that I did just give my recommendation for what I think is the most underrated jazz album if you go back about 5 months. As far as what format sounds, the best for listening to music, I would say, for me, it doesn't matter. The reason is being is because if I have enough of the right equipment, I can get the sound where I need it to be. I live in Florida, and throughout the 80's and 90's the, car stereo systems reached a new level with people booming their music so loud you could feel the music 3 miles away before you even seen who was driving the car. Laws were briefly put in place to with police handing out tickets to anyone who was caught blasting their music too loud. Within that culture, you learned how to play around with bass and treble settings until you got that crystal clear, well-balanced sound that you wanted. So my answer is that I would prefer the format to already have a well-balanced outfit from the start. If not, I can adjust to get it to that point. I hope you enjoy my recommendation, and I'm sure I'll eventually see you probably reviewing it in the future.
i cant fathom the idea of someone actually going and saying that what they happen to hear, is so universal, that its *objectively* the best , for everyone. Best ive seen anyone come close to this analysis holding true would probably be the spinorama metric of speakers, but its really a listeners ballgame when it comes to determining what is best for them :)
for instance, i have triangle 40th anniversary comete speakers, that have gotten mostly rave reviews, but the main concern of the reviewers that disliked it was value/price ratio, so that is a big concern for most if not all buyers of hifi equipment.
Sidenote, i have a minidisc collection with the same sony ES model youve showed :) so i think collecting cool things that i find interesting is a main driving force for my love of all these different mediums of music, like how far can you push a cassette tape in the 80s to sounding good for example, and mofi/CBS canada chrome tapes did a really good job with their releases
ALSO i noticed you had a pionner M-90 in your 1990 system, mad respect, i have the c-90 and finding an intact M-90 to go with it is a real chore
I do not have the M-90 anymore although it was great to have in 1990. I replaced it with a Marantz model 8B tube amp many years ago.
If you're all about analog, nothing beats the reel to reel Master tape. Miles ahead of vinyl and an analog recording on CD.
If it's a digital recording, nothing beats a digital playback system (ie: CDs). Playing a digital file on a piece of plastic is a head scratcher for me.
I love vinyl, but vinyl is always going to be a lossy replication of any original source, unless it's direct-to-disc, and there ain't much of that available.
Hey Kenny, I have a Denon DVD 2900 that plays SACD and DVD audio, purchased in 2003 which I use as a transport now to my NAD C399 DAC, use a small Sony blu ray for my surround discs now
Thank you for mentioning your equipment...I love those Denon units....My DVD-3910 has been great for many years.
While reel-to-reel was state of the art many decades ago, modern sound engineers work primarily with high res digital masters. So I'm betting that high res files get you closest to the artists' original intent. That said, every other piece of equipment in the chain affects what you hear, and each has its limits.
Kenny great episode. What do you and your audience think about music recorded on VCR HiFi tape?
Thank you very much for watching...I was aware of VCR hifi recording years ago but I have never tried recording via that method.
When i began to replace my Lps with cds for ease of use none measured up to the vinyl, in fact some were downright nasty.
15ips reel will always win
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Thank you for watching ✌️
@ thank you for being here, Kenny!
For me it has to be reel to reel tape. 2 track on my Otari MTR-10 & MX 5050 30 & 15ips. 4 track on my Pioneer 909 & 707, Teac X700R, X3R, 4300SX, 3300SX, X1000R, A3440 & Akai GX747
Nice reel to reel collection 👌 👍 🎶
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews Thank you Kenny! Nothing like the sound of tape!
CD or SACD, ALL DAY, EVERY DAY! Dynamic range is king, and vinyl doesn't even come close...FACTS...
I have never heard a reel to real tape machine, but everyone I talked to about it says the same as you. My question to you is, if at all possible... what is the most noticeable difference between listening to Chambers Brothers Time Has Come Today on your Rega8 setup and the same album that you have on r to r tape ? Enjoyable video as always.
The voices, Instrumentals and overall sound on the tape, played on a Revox A700 reel to reel are more fine with more detail and Deminsion.
For me vinyl keeps my attention I always play the entire album. When I listen to CD I find myself skipping songs and then getting bored rather quickly.
Let the battery run flat on your remote control and don't replace it. Problem solved!
I got a really good Teac RTR. IF you can find prerecorded tapes that were duplicated from a high quality source at the plant, you can experience sound quality as good or better than a top quality LP pressing without the LP issues. The trouble is that they quit making them in the early 70s I think and they were probably by then churning them out on a cheaper quality. These days you can buy modified RTR decks and prerecorded tapes that cost hundreds which is probably the best sound you will ever hear if you are a millionaire. Making your own tapes don't count as it cannot exceed the sound from the source quality and now blank or even barely used tape is expensive. And less convenient to use than the sources.
I have some prerecorded tapes that sound awaome...others can sound only average. I do not have any modern or recent releases (at least not yet) because they can be very expensive. Acoustic Sounds has some nice reissues but they can cost $500 and up.
Hey Kenny thanks for the video, I'm trying to figure out if it's worth it for me to get into vinyl. Right now I stream tidal and I have a pioneer elite SACD DVD player from the 90s that I run through my DAC. My speakers are all custom diy that I designed and built myself. I have a few pairs that I built for myself.
Nakamichi dragon is amazing
i think its the most overrated deck ever not worth the effort in upkeep IMO its all hype lots of other decks that actually have better specs and a lot cheaper
Interesting what do you recommend?
It is a lot of upkeep
@@timessquarerecordscom1469 Tanberg 3014!!
Prezado e querido Kenny, boa tarde. Acabo de assistir teu vídeo, sempre interessantes, e acho que vou te dar um certo trabalho pra saber o que estou tentando dizer-te, pois não domino o teu idioma, infelizmente.
Pra não me tornar muito extenso, quero reafirmar que sou teu fã, fã de teus videos, sugestões e da forma criteriosa e didática que passas as informações técnicas sobre tuas predileções.
Quero deixar um grande abraço e obrigado por tudo.
Kenny, you forgot 8------------ssss-----click track. Just kidding !
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Great video, Kenny. You forgot shellac, of course. Nothing beats a 78 rpm shellac record for presence. The late Joe Bussard had a collection of rare 78s to amaze any record collector and equipment to match ua-cam.com/video/P_C83XGc0Ng/v-deo.html and for those with wider tastes ua-cam.com/video/znV6IXfKLLw/v-deo.html . Joe passed away a few years ago aged 86.
I agree 78 RPM records are great 👍 👌
My rankings are:
1. Flac files played through the USB input on a Yamaha RX-V1065 Receiver
2. CD's played on Sony BPX-370. I use the HDMI output to the Yamaha HDMI input
3. Sony PCM-R300 DAT recorder played through the Yamaha
4. Pioneer RT-701 Reel to Reel
5. I-Pod Classic played a input port on my Yamaha
I don't play cassettes and I don't own or want a turntable again.
Thank you very much for your list...those Pioneer reel to reels decks are cool...I used to have a RT-909 and RT-707, they were both nice units.
Yo-peep my setup. Ortonfon elliptical stylus on a technics table into a rane pre amp. Then into a RME converter played back by FOCAL monitors. Word 🎹😎🥷.