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Just nabbed a (general admission) ticket to the NY show -- feeling pretty hyped for my first j-rock show...and visit to NY, for that matter! 

Got VIP for NY 🤟🏻

🎁As an early gift to the community, MH will once again be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2018!🎁
 
Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or else Yuyo will ... idk yet but just read it anyways.
 
 
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Voting will last until Sunday, January 13th of the New Year (2019)
This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month.
 
Note: 
"Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting.  
If you missed/skipped 2017 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year!
If you have any questions about the 2018 MH Jrock Awards, feel free to contact myself or any of the MH Staff!
 
Happy Voting!

 

🎁As an early gift to the community, MH will once again be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2018!🎁
 
Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or else Yuyo will ... idk yet but just read it anyways.
 
 
Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote:
 
1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply
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Voting will last until Sunday, January 13th of the New Year (2019)
This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month.
 
Note: 
"Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting.  
If you missed/skipped 2017 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year!
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Happy Voting!

 

Known about this forum for some time but never really bothered making an account. Today just felt like the right time  ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ
 
I’m a fan of most music and most visual lei by extension, but mainly I stick to 90s-00s bands.
 
I hope to get along with everyone here. Until next time—.

Well the good thing is that they don't need much power to drive them (only 150ohms) so anything from Fii0 (E10K, A3/5) is fine.
If you want like a nice intro to something for the desk then Schiit is usually a nice option with their Fulla model (Amp and a DAC).

Ohhhh you will. Definitely worth their price. You using any amplification for them or?

Got some 58x that are finally gonna arrive tmrw, sadly because of my vk purchases and holiday shopping these were the best I could afford but I'm still super excited to try them out 

Honestly, I think cons aren't particularly interested in bringing over VK bands. A big part of that is because I just don't think that there is an overwhelming interesting in VK in the con scene...not to say that the interest was every huge, but is absolutely has died off. I used to see more people doing VK cosplay, VK stuff being sold and booths at the dealers hall, and more people used to come to my Jrock panel at Acen. In terms of the con scene, I think Kpop has taken up the mindshare space that VK/Jrock used to have. Because of that, VK bands being booked for cons are fairly few and far between these days. The best thing you can do is reach out to the cons you are either planning or are interested in going to and let them know you are interested in seeing VK at their con. It mostly likely won't do much (I can speak from experience here), but the fact is that very few people actually reach out to cons and let them know what they would like to see, which in turn might make the con think the interest is there. 

🎁As an early gift to the community, MH will once again be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2018!🎁
 
Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or else Yuyo will ... idk yet but just read it anyways.
 
 
Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote:
 
1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply
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Voting will last until Sunday, January 13th of the New Year (2019)
This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month.
 
Note: 
"Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting.  
If you missed/skipped 2017 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year!
If you have any questions about the 2018 MH Jrock Awards, feel free to contact myself or any of the MH Staff!
 
Happy Voting!

 

🎁As an early gift to the community, MH will once again be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2018!🎁
 
Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or else Yuyo will ... idk yet but just read it anyways.
 
 
Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote:
 
1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply
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Voting will last until Sunday, January 13th of the New Year (2019)
This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month.
 
Note: 
"Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting.  
If you missed/skipped 2017 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year!
If you have any questions about the 2018 MH Jrock Awards, feel free to contact myself or any of the MH Staff!
 
Happy Voting!

 

🎁As an early gift to the community, MH will once again be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2018!🎁
 
Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or else Yuyo will ... idk yet but just read it anyways.
 
 
Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote:
 
1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply
2. Fill in your votes (you can skip as many categories as you'd like)
3. Submit.
(Try to keep your votes organized under spoiler tags in order to save space for other voters)
 
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Here are your categories to choose from:
 
 
Voting will last until Sunday, January 13th of the New Year (2019)
This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month.
 
Note: 
"Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting.  
If you missed/skipped 2017 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year!
If you have any questions about the 2018 MH Jrock Awards, feel free to contact myself or any of the MH Staff!
 
Happy Voting!

 

🎁As an early gift to the community, MH will once again be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2018!🎁
 
Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or else Yuyo will ... idk yet but just read it anyways.
 
 
Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote:
 
1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply
2. Fill in your votes (you can skip as many categories as you'd like)
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Voting will last until Sunday, January 13th of the New Year (2019)
This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month.
 
Note: 
"Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting.  
If you missed/skipped 2017 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year!
If you have any questions about the 2018 MH Jrock Awards, feel free to contact myself or any of the MH Staff!
 
Happy Voting!

 

🎁As an early gift to the community, MH will once again be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2018!🎁
 
Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or else Yuyo will ... idk yet but just read it anyways.
 
 
Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote:
 
1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply
2. Fill in your votes (you can skip as many categories as you'd like)
3. Submit.
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Voting will last until Sunday, January 13th of the New Year (2019)
This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month.
 
Note: 
"Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting.  
If you missed/skipped 2017 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year!
If you have any questions about the 2018 MH Jrock Awards, feel free to contact myself or any of the MH Staff!
 
Happy Voting!

 

🎁As an early gift to the community, MH will once again be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2018!🎁
 
Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or else Yuyo will ... idk yet but just read it anyways.
 
 
Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote:
 
1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply
2. Fill in your votes (you can skip as many categories as you'd like)
3. Submit.
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Here are your categories to choose from:
 
 
Voting will last until Sunday, January 13th of the New Year (2019)
This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month.
 
Note: 
"Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting.  
If you missed/skipped 2017 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year!
If you have any questions about the 2018 MH Jrock Awards, feel free to contact myself or any of the MH Staff!
 
Happy Voting!

 

The answer is a little complicated.
 
Does this Hi-Res copy sound better than say, a 320kbps copy? Yes, by a mile.
Does it sound better than a FLAC copy? That's to be debated.
 
People would be correct to conclude that the human ear is not capable of distinguishing anything higher than 20KHz, and so it would be a waste.
What they don't know is that that is 1/2 the truth.
 
In reality, we actually can hear the difference.
The only problem is, the volume would have to be turned up so high, that it would cause hearing impairment at those frequencies. So not the most pleasant listening experience.
Plus, most listeners aren't even aware as to what to look for in differences between the two.
Finally, you'd have to be in a dead silent room (the average environment is about 30db of noise) in order to even get the chance to do any of this.
 
Another issue is that NO DAC/Amp, or device on the market in 2017 is even remotely capable of, or ever will, be able to reproduce anything higher than 20Bits.
Trust me, I've looked (and even done a research paper on this lol). Modern Tech is just not at that point yet to reproduce frequencies that high.
What this means is that no HD/Hi-Res copy will be capable of being 24bit due to tech being shit still. So we are stuck with 20bit max.
 
Why is it called 24bit then? Well techies will tell you that we count bits by 8.
So:
 
8bit (Think Video Game Music), 16bit (FLAC Quality), and 24bit (HD, Hi-Res, SACD)
 
24bit Hi-Res is not intended to be used by the average consumer, but it is made available to us because well, why not?
It is intended for Audio Engineers, who use low-pass filtering for master recording and/or editing (kinda like a graphic designer/photo editor using RAW formatted images).
So this quality of music is really only able to be used in software, otherwise the raw frequencies of sound can kill your audio devices.
Plus, the recording companies are greedy SOBs that would never share master records with the average consumer. Those golden days are over.
Our entertainment systems have been made possible  to listen to at least 60db of sound affordably (on purpose, some might say), because any more would require more power (current) and amplification, to the point that we'd all be broke as shit if we wanted to hear this to it's real sound.
 
This can go way deeper in explanation, but I will stop here.
 
TL;DR
 
Take advantage of @Aeolus' kind gesture, and add this copy to your Music Collection.
You'll NEVER be able to play this in 24bit, because not even master recording equipment can. So don't BS anyone about your 5K sound equipment lol.
Record companies have purposely made audio sound like shit nowadays for their own profit.
Unless you listen to this in a sound booth at ear exploding volumes, then it'll probably sound the same as FLAC.
 
So enjoy this Hi-Res album, using a simple DAC/Amp and a really nice set of Noise-Cancelling Headphones for now.
Your crappy HP laptop headphone port isn't gonna cut it folks.
 
 

someone on Tumblr translated Keiya's message 
 
 

I was just listening to them here at work and Jeezus the nostalgia hit me hard asf. Their self titled & MUSIC albums really hit it home for me.
2007-2009 were some good times I'll never forget.

I was just listening to them here at work and Jeezus the nostalgia hit me hard asf. Their self titled & MUSIC albums really hit it home for me.
2007-2009 were some good times I'll never forget.

Ban me from this forum and from listening to any VK period. I didn’t like Mejibray, but the results of them disbanding and splintering off into cringe-kei nonsense makes me wish they just stayed together and continued phoning it in. 
 
Fuck this shit. 

AWW FUCK MAN ME TOO!
If I had known that they were going to end activities after that tour, then I would have gone even if it was by myself. Literally the one chance that I had to see one of VK's greatest bands gone.
 
Also, I didn't know Defspiral were actually The Underneath or Transtic Nerve. I would have found that out had I gone lol.
 

Mia needs to respect himself. 

The Official Review team is back with the perfect accompaniment to the avalanche of Halloween candy and pumpkin spice lattes you're about to destroy your body with: the best j-tunes of the summer! This quarter includes a great variety of visual kei, J-Rock, and whatever the heck genre you'd call that second track that @CAT5 wants us to listen to. Come discover some new music that we've curated for you, or re-listen to your favorites now enhanced by the critiques of your favorite Monochromians. Let us temporarily transport you away from your boring job (at least in spirit if not in reality). Agree with our picks? Think we're idiots and shouldn't even be allowed to listen to music much less act as taste makers for the community? Good! Tell us why below.
 
 
@The Reverend's picks
 
"くしゃみ" (Kushami) by まみれた (Mamireta)

 
 
 
"Lemoned" by NITRO DAY

 
"New Order" by Mass of the Fermenting Dregs

 
 
 
@YuyoDrift's picks
 
"Obliterator" by JILUKA

 
"Knight of Sword" by Unlucky Morpheus

 
 
"MAD [K]" by DIMLIM

 
"絶縁体 (Zetsuentai)" by Dir en grey

 
 
@Zeus's picks
"Raununculus" by Dir en grey

 
 
"今宵は飄逸なエゴイスト ～ Ego,Schizoid,Beat." by Demetori

 
 
 
"make my story" by lenny code fiction

 
"RED SWAN" by YOSHIKI feat. HYDE

 
 
"GROTESQUE" by DIMLIM

 
 
"Renatus" by lynch.

 
@CAT5's picks
"Etude of solitude" by toe

 
"からかひ" (Karakai) by Sweet William と 青葉市子 (Ichiko Aoba)

 
Thanks for reading!

The answer is a little complicated.
 
Does this Hi-Res copy sound better than say, a 320kbps copy? Yes, by a mile.
Does it sound better than a FLAC copy? That's to be debated.
 
People would be correct to conclude that the human ear is not capable of distinguishing anything higher than 20KHz, and so it would be a waste.
What they don't know is that that is 1/2 the truth.
 
In reality, we actually can hear the difference.
The only problem is, the volume would have to be turned up so high, that it would cause hearing impairment at those frequencies. So not the most pleasant listening experience.
Plus, most listeners aren't even aware as to what to look for in differences between the two.
Finally, you'd have to be in a dead silent room (the average environment is about 30db of noise) in order to even get the chance to do any of this.
 
Another issue is that NO DAC/Amp, or device on the market in 2017 is even remotely capable of, or ever will, be able to reproduce anything higher than 20Bits.
Trust me, I've looked (and even done a research paper on this lol). Modern Tech is just not at that point yet to reproduce frequencies that high.
What this means is that no HD/Hi-Res copy will be capable of being 24bit due to tech being shit still. So we are stuck with 20bit max.
 
Why is it called 24bit then? Well techies will tell you that we count bits by 8.
So:
 
8bit (Think Video Game Music), 16bit (FLAC Quality), and 24bit (HD, Hi-Res, SACD)
 
24bit Hi-Res is not intended to be used by the average consumer, but it is made available to us because well, why not?
It is intended for Audio Engineers, who use low-pass filtering for master recording and/or editing (kinda like a graphic designer/photo editor using RAW formatted images).
So this quality of music is really only able to be used in software, otherwise the raw frequencies of sound can kill your audio devices.
Plus, the recording companies are greedy SOBs that would never share master records with the average consumer. Those golden days are over.
Our entertainment systems have been made possible  to listen to at least 60db of sound affordably (on purpose, some might say), because any more would require more power (current) and amplification, to the point that we'd all be broke as shit if we wanted to hear this to it's real sound.
 
This can go way deeper in explanation, but I will stop here.
 
TL;DR
 
Take advantage of @Aeolus' kind gesture, and add this copy to your Music Collection.
You'll NEVER be able to play this in 24bit, because not even master recording equipment can. So don't BS anyone about your 5K sound equipment lol.
Record companies have purposely made audio sound like shit nowadays for their own profit.
Unless you listen to this in a sound booth at ear exploding volumes, then it'll probably sound the same as FLAC.
 
So enjoy this Hi-Res album, using a simple DAC/Amp and a really nice set of Noise-Cancelling Headphones for now.
Your crappy HP laptop headphone port isn't gonna cut it folks.
 
 

Don't get me wrong, I think downplaying these events are obviously wrong, and feigning ignorance is very telling of character. Music v. Artist is not what I was getting at in particular (which has already been mentioned), but more of the person v. persona aspect (which is certainly a more complicated topic.) I find the opportunism a bit more of a cynical response rather than a malicious one. I would hope that no one would try to sell stuff solely b/c of this situation, because that would be in bad taste. (I don't intend to sell my rando KISAKI CD from a ClosetChild box until this dies down b/c I've been putting together stuff to get rid of for months now.) I think not caring or not wanting to watch KISAKI in anything is a perfectly reasonable response. What he did is disgusting and horrible, but I could still watch a Lin MV. Then again, I don't really idolize celebrities & musicians the same way as some people do either. Anyway, I'm just trying to approach this from a more neutral state (not with the crimes but w/ KISAKI), since I was never a huge KISAKI fan (moreso Lin.) 
 
Personally, I'm not going to meander though non-KISAKI stuff with how omnipresent he was, but I will continue to have a distaste for his image whenever I see him. He can rot in hell for all I care.