Is my file a bad source?

[DeuS_CaNoN]

Disclaimer: I'm not a full blown audiophile yet (I only have a pair of Ath-m50x and running edifier s330d for my speakers) but i do care about how my music sounds to an extent.

 

Recently I downloaded a flac file and I can hear VERY noticeable popping at 1 point in the song, I both played it with my speakers and with plugging in my headphones into my pc. Both gave me popping at the same part so then I ran a spectrogram of it with Spek and got this

 

 

from what I can tell, there doesn't seem to be much problems with it and now I'm suspecting either the source itself is bad or I need a better DAC. Do you guys have any ideas? Is it even allowed for me to link to the flac file so that you guys can see if I'm crazy?

[creatip123]

Try playing another song. FLAC, if you want (maybe you'd feel it's more apple-to-apple). If everything is smooth, and no popping, then your hardware should be fine, and it's the song's recording that's crappy.

[DeuS_CaNoN]

Try playing another song. FLAC, if you want (maybe you'd feel it's more apple-to-apple). If everything is smooth, and no popping, then your hardware should be fine, and it's the song's recording that's crappy.

 

Ya I tried that, my other 320kbps sound fine, sigh I really liked that album too but from what I can tell from other rips of the CD, the CD itself just has bad recording and its not any ripper's fault. ok thanks for the help

[Guest]

Ya I tried that, my other 320kbps sound fine, sigh I really liked that album too but from what I can tell from other rips of the CD, the CD itself just has bad recording and its not any ripper's fault. ok thanks for the help

If the 320 sounds good, but that flac doesn't that might be an error in the file or something. Did you use EAC to rip it?

[Lays]

Occasionally I have issues like this, I always try to find multiple different places to listen to the track, and if they all share the same problem, I assume it's just the recording.  If I find one that doesn't have the issue, I try to find where to download it.