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I would have liked a picture of picking flowers with a pickaxe (if it wasn't for the challenge rules). I found this interesting article on audio Feng Shui. Why spend thousands on audio equipment when you can tape 5 cent pieces to your cables? http://www.1388.com/articles/martinhome-eng/index.html
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I wasn't being pedantic. It was a (admittedly poor) attempt at some fun with the multiple meanings of words. Anyway, someone already completed one of the challenges before I saw it so according to your rules I lost and you may as well ban me now. However I'll still make a video of people tossing guitar picks at me, that might be fun! Oh, mod person, what will ever satiate your wrath?
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I recommend posting a link to your suggested degrading video immediately.
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Even ignoring the engrish this is absolutely mental.Feng-Shui master posted:The top of the rack where the television set is sitting on has a 1cm width grove along the edge. I chose two identical marble balls and placed them at the rear corner sitting firmly in the groove. Immediately the soundstage extended much further back and there were much more layering. Feng-Shui master posted:I told Martin the weak point of his whole system is his power amplifier; just place the [small jade] ring on top of the power amplifier, right at the center. Bingo! This is like icing on the cake; the jade ring brought out the musicality and finer details of the system and made the whole system sounded even more elegant and full of life.
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timb posted:
Originally I intended for this to be all one picture, but since my original wording was unclear, I'll allow it. Awesome job! Would you like a new title or something for kicking rear end?  BONUS MERCY ROUND: Stares At Floor, you still have 12 hours to save yourself! I know that wasn't in the rules, but you doing something sounds like more fun than you not doing something, so if you do a good job I will spare your life!
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Ok, I'll do the video now. I don't have anyone handy to throw picks at me, so I'll throw them at myself and then comment on each one. brb edit - Video uploading now to tiny pic. edit - ok Here 'tis. I hope this has addressed your aforementioned wrath in a satisfactory manner. Stares At Floor fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Dec 1, 2009 |
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Dec 1, 2009 21:05
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Time has expired. timb, if there are any forum upgrades you are lacking, I'll give you a free one in exchange for your hilarious hard work.
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Stares At Floor posted:Ok, I'll do the video now. I don't have anyone handy to throw picks at me, so I'll throw them at myself and then comment on each one. brb This is the second most degrading thing that I've seen someone do to avoid a ban. Your room needs audio Feng Shui.
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King Hotpants posted:Time has expired. timb, if there are any forum upgrades you are lacking, I'll give you a free one in exchange for your hilarious hard work. Thanks! I'm all upgraded, however I would like to get an custom title for someone else. Can I PM you the details?
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Please do.
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Talking about Coaxial/Optical cables for transporting digital audio. http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?t=72096 kama posted:It depends on the make, the difference can be subtle or drastic on coax.
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proudfoot posted:Talking about Coaxial/Optical cables for transporting digital audio. That link is like looking into an alternate reality. quote:3. Longer is better....a 20 ft length always sounds better than a 4 foot length. The internet is better quality where I am because the signal travels further.
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Noise Harvester! Takes the noise out of your power, and blinks. quote:Here’s the dirty little secret none of our competitors want you to know. ALL power line filters - regardless of design – do not actually eliminate noise from the power line. Instead, they only shift the noise around from one place to another! So noise that comes in the hot side of the line may be sent over to the neutral or ground side. But it most certainly is NOT removed or reduced. Even so, there is nearly always SOME benefit. Just not all you paid for. Physics 101 Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Unless we choose to ignore it, we only have two choices: It can be rerouted or it can be converted to another form of energy. It cannot be destroyed as some marketing materials might suggest. So let’s assume we definitely want to eliminate the noise, not just hide it somewhere where it can still cause trouble.
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Every audiophile has never taken a physics/chemistry class outside of high school.
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proudfoot posted:Noise Harvester! I always wanted to pay $100 for a night light. e: Any reference to (verb) soundstage is starting to piss me off. However, I'm not sure what this guy was actually up to :goatse: quote:After Big L running around the house putting Harvester in and out in and out.....we couldn't believe it. The harvesters made a significant positive improvement in opening up the soundstage and smoothening up the mids and highs, and this was on two seperate speaker systems in two different rooms using a Rega Apollo CD player and a newly refurbished Threshold amp. Someone needs to write the audiophile gibberish dictionary. I also read the above as smoothing up my thighs. Devian666 fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Dec 3, 2009 |
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Devian666 posted:I always wanted to pay $100 for a night light. Did you see the comment from the guy that claims it not only helped his audio sound better, but it improved the colors on his plasma tv? What the gently caress is wrong with people?!?
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Thenipwax posted:What the gently caress is wrong with people?!?
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qirex posted:Cognitive dissonance and the "Initation effect" combine into an unstoppable cloud of post-hoc justification. "This thing was really expensive, people on the internet say it's great and I don't want to admit I got suckered" can really be enough to change your perception of things. I'm really confused by all the people who buy these products - what compels them to do so in the first place?
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They want to remove noise that they didn't know they had from their stereo system. For the $399 they are paying for a 5-pack of flashing lights they could have bought a UPS for their stereo that gives them noise free AC power. I'm just about at tipping point of making my own religion. I'd call it Audiology. It would enable me to extort members lest I let the magic smoke out of their stereo and plasma tv.
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Devian666 posted:For the $399 they are paying for a 5-pack of flashing lights they could have bought a UPS for their stereo that gives them noise free AC power. UPS units do not act as "filters" if they were charging/draining the battery constantly they'd only last a couple weeks, they're normal surge protectors unless there's a failure.
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qirex posted:UPS units do not act as "filters" if they were charging/draining the battery constantly they'd only last a couple weeks, they're normal surge protectors unless there's a failure. Look at Double Conversion on Demand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply#Double-conversion_.2F_online quote:In double conversion mode the UPS can adjust for voltage variations without having to use battery power, can filter out line noise and control frequency. This feature is only present in high quality UPS.
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I wonder how many audiophiles have an UPS system, and if anyone makes an audiophile grade UPS system. If not, this could be a pretty good market for making money. It would be especially interesting to build something along the lines of a "audiophile grade flywheel UPS" - a giant flywheel with a motor + generator combo for stabilizing power, you could probably make quite a bit of power off that, proudfoot fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Dec 4, 2009 |
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proudfoot posted:I'm really confused by all the people who buy these products - what compels them to do so in the first place? My hypothesis is that it's just a desire to continue upgrading. Once you've put a few thousand dollars into source/amp/speakers, upgrading any of those components starts to get seriously expensive, and a $100 night light doesn't seem so bad.
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proudfoot posted:I wonder how many audiophiles have an UPS system, and if anyone makes an audiophile grade UPS system. If not, this could be a pretty good market for making money. Jesus Christ you retard. A MOTOR? Do you have any idea the kind of negative resonances are introduced by a motor? poo poo, the directionality of the electrons will be reversed because of the centripital forces induced by the primary bus-side windings in the rotor which will have a massive effect on the emotion and color of your sound.
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insta posted:Jesus Christ you retard. A MOTOR? Do you have any idea the kind of negative resonances are introduced by a motor? poo poo, the directionality of the electrons will be reversed because of the centripital forces induced by the primary bus-side windings in the rotor which will have a massive effect on the emotion and color of your sound. That's why it's imperative that you install electron isolation shields and raise your cables off the ground to avoid unnecessary vibrations from manufacturing impurities in the flywheel brick. In addition, if you don't have a good electrostatic surface lining your flywheel pit, you could wind up with jitter in the power's electron flow.
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poo poo, forget the motor, and just have it powered by an animal (think hamster powered), and sell it as 'organically powered', and it obviously helps your music sound more natural, and in tune with the cosmic rhythms nature.
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blugu64 posted:poo poo, forget the motor, and just have it powered by an animal (think hamster powered), and sell it as 'organically powered', and it obviously helps your music sound more natural, and in tune with the cosmic rhythms nature.
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I think we could work out a package deal. A tesla coil to trap noise and a loaf of bread to place on top of the centre speaker to give it more punch. How does $25,000 for a loaf of bread with a free Tesla coil of unspecified size sound?
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Devian666 posted:e: Any reference to (verb) soundstage is starting to piss me off. However, I'm not sure what this guy was actually up to :goatse: "This product didn't just widen the soundstage, it practically goatse'd it."
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insta posted:It's a fancy brick of lead designed to stop cosmic particles. Interestingly enough, there is a microscopic iota of truth to this -- cosmic particles do frequently cause tiny blips in digital circuitry (source: http://www.ida.liu.se/~abdmo/SNDFT/docs/ram-soft.html). Scientists have to crawl deep underground into abandoned iron mines just to get away from cosmic rays (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soudan_Underground_Mine_State_Park#Underground_Laboratory). If only they had known about the Blackbody product. Boy are they going to feel dumb when I tell them about it!
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Basically it's how well a system is able to project "where" a particular instrument is. Audiophiles spout that you should be able to pick out where each instrument is and have it be exactly like it was recorded. While that idea works for recordings of classical pieces performed by a symphony, it starts to fall apart for modern rock recordings. It's a real effect but a lot of it is introduced in the mastering as opposed to "Capturing the original performance." A good sound stage is important but you don't need thousands of dollars of equipment to get one.
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Yeah there's a difference between a recording of a concert hall or something with a stereo pair of microphones and something that's just been mixed together (although maybe some engineers have equipment to do a transfer function that fakes it better). Simply making a sound louder on the left channel and quiet on the right is not nearly the same thing. BUT, as HKR said, this is a function of the recording and any half decent system should let you hear it, as well as almost any headphones. Beyond that it's just another magical 'thing' to make better using quantum beads or whatever.
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Oh. My. God."" posted:The Platinum Starlight HDMI cable employs Wireworld's new, patent-pending DNA Helix conductor design, which uses 24 solid silver conductors -- double that of conventional HDMI designs -- arranged with an innovative symmetrical geometry designed to neutralize impedance variations at every point along the cable's length. These advancements maximize available speed and bandwidth for the signal path while also reducing noise and jitter effects for substantial overall improvements in signal fidelity and dynamic response. The cable is capable of transfer rates of up to 21 Gbits per second, far exceeding the HDMI group's recently announced v1.4 High Speed with Ethernet specification of 10.2 Gbits per second. Get the full pitch here.
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quote:The company has an unmatched reputation for producing superior cables based on the use of objective perceptual testing, innovative patented designs, premium materials, and exceptional manufacturing quality. Based on the use of objective subjective testing.
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fahrvergnugen posted:substantial overall improvements in signal fidelity and dynamic response. Improving my dynamic response from a digital signal? Does it crank all my 0's and 1's to -3's and 6's?
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Princess posted:Improving my dynamic response from a digital signal? Does it crank all my 0's and 1's to -3's and 6's? Audiophile grade 0's and 1's.
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fahrvergnugen posted:Oh. My. God. I like how there's a bit of carbon fiber in the cable's head.
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Shadowhand00 posted:I like how there's a bit of carbon fiber in the cable's head. they use carbon fiber in jet fighters and formula 1 aircraft it offers unparalleled strength-to-weight of course it belongs on a high end video cable e: I wonder if these companies are pissed about HDMI because they'll be selling fewer cables overall, a DVD player used to require a component cable and optical or coax for audio. They're probably not easy to slap together by hand like coax either.
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qirex posted:they use carbon fiber in jet fighters and formula 1 aircraft it offers unparalleled strength-to-weight of course it belongs on a high end video cable Doubt they're too angry. I'm pretty sure they can still convince audiophiles that HDMI doesn't accurately transport sound and that they need to use toslink instead. Then again, can you goldplate a toslink connector? Goldplating seems to be very important to these people.
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