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Jerry Cotton posted:Is anyone selling audiophile batteries yet? I mean those aren't even Duracell Procell just the regular scrub ones what the gently caress is that guy thinking? Take off Procell batteries and wrap them in
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Neurophonic posted:Today I was thanked by no less than six people after being forced to speak up at a seminar to point out that a well respected audio industry figure fundamentally misunderstood digital audio. He was trying to A-B test a cheap USB cable against a ridiculously expensive one to show how much warmer and more detailed the expensive one was. Purple PA would be Funktion 1 which means your dude would be Tony Andrews? Never trust a dude with a loving rat tail...
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May 2, 2014 19:08
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post the audio sperg reactions to apple buying beats itt
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cremnob posted:post the audio sperg reactions to apple buying beats itt I don't see why there would be, both brands are considered mass market junk by audiophiles.
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qirex posted:I don't see why there would be, both brands are considered mass market junk by audiophiles. Apple should buy McIntosh.
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May 9, 2014 21:49
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Fun fact: Apple originally had to license "macintosh" from McIntosh but they bought the trademark in the '90s. I don't think that's too far out of the realm of possibility, but B&W seems like a better fit for Apple. A lot of high-end brands are owned by random holding companies right now, Naim/Focal just got sold:quote:F&N's management team, led by CEO Christophe Sicaud, invested alongside the GP consortium. Naxicap has acquired a majority stake in the company.
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May 9, 2014 22:06
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cremnob posted:post the audio sperg reactions to apple buying beats itt Has this actually been verified?
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May 9, 2014 23:25
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Part irony here, considering that iTunes brought AAC, ReplayGain and lately supposedly properly mastered versions, that aren't compressed to poo poo (i.e. dynamic range), to the masses, just to ruin these small efforts with lovely Beats headphones. If the buyout is true, that is.
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I think they want Beats for the music subscription service, but the headphones seem popular and money is money.
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May 10, 2014 00:47
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Yeah but the Beats subscription service is doing really horribly, and doesn't have that much in the way of selection and label contracts compared to other more popular subscription services.
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eggsovereasy posted:I think they want Beats for the music subscription service, but the headphones seem popular and money is money. Install Windows posted:Yeah but the Beats subscription service is doing really horribly, and doesn't have that much in the way of selection and label contracts compared to other more popular subscription services. I think it's mostly that Beats have all done all the legwork with music sub service, Apple has the library, and Beats is small enough to get bought out instead of having to develop it in house. Apple is desperately lacking an on-demand streaming service; right now their music dept. probably wants to close the gap between them and services like Google Music and Spotify.
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May 10, 2014 01:28
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Is it a weird thing that I quite like having actual copies of music I like as opposed to just streaming it all? I just have this mild loathing of streaming ever since someone tried to entertain a houseparty by using a non-premium version of Spotify complete with adverts. It just boils my piss for some reason. If you like the music why wouldn't you have a copy, even if it was just a 320? Seems stupid to me, like a slacker's version of entertaining people. When people come over to my place for a party I have hand selected playlists ready to go because it's great fun. Spotify just seems like a non participating way to listen to music, passive listening.
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May 10, 2014 12:08
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Apple has a huge foothold in the online music business, and resources to boot. I don't see why they'd need to buy Beats for the streaming stuff. They can easily realize that on their own. If at all, they'd be buying Spotify instead. I don't think they're valued that high.
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88h88 posted:Is it a weird thing that I quite like having actual copies of music I like as opposed to just streaming it all? I just have this mild loathing of streaming ever since someone tried to entertain a houseparty by using a non-premium version of Spotify complete with adverts. It just boils my piss for some reason. If you like the music why wouldn't you have a copy, even if it was just a 320? Seems stupid to me, like a slacker's version of entertaining people. You can create playlists on streaming services, too.
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Spotify is a giant hole that their investors keep throwing money into [over $200 million to date], my understanding is that Pandora is the only streaming service that's even close to profitable and they're one more license fee bump away from insolvency.
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88h88 posted:
I feel the opposite. It's great when you've got friends round, listening to music, someone says 'oh have you heard...' and you can just put it straight on. I literally haven't bought or download any music since getting into Spotify.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Apple has a huge foothold in the online music business, and resources to boot. I don't see why they'd need to buy Beats for the streaming stuff. They can easily realize that on their own. Maybe because a when Beats negotiated a record deal they got a cheaper price since they don't have Apple's deep pockets? Apple can benefit from that.
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88h88 posted:Is it a weird thing that I quite like having actual copies of music I like as opposed to just streaming it all? I just have this mild loathing of streaming ever since someone tried to entertain a houseparty by using a non-premium version of Spotify complete with adverts. It just boils my piss for some reason. If you like the music why wouldn't you have a copy, even if it was just a 320? Seems stupid to me, like a slacker's version of entertaining people. I pay my sub for Google play and it synced my current music with their library. I and other customers look at the annual cost ($120) as how much would be spent on albums in the first place. My mothers both just last month switched over and now have already saved $40 over their previous habits with the iTunes store; they're big pop music fans and used to buy top album releases on iTunes, at $10 a pop, at two or three times a month on average so when they saved 4 albums to their phones and computers for no charge extra, I'm counting that as a savings.
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I borrow interesting records from my city's library and rip them as FLAC. I'm pretty sure that the audio quality is same as spotify premium's, but they FEEL better oh god im the audiophile
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Wasabi the J posted:I pay my sub for Google play and it synced my current music with their library. I and other customers look at the annual cost ($120) as how much would be spent on albums in the first place.
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Sorbus posted:I borrow interesting records from my city's library and rip them as FLAC. I'm pretty sure that the audio quality is same as spotify premium's, but they FEEL better oh god im the audiophile I thought everybody did this, although I use Apple Lossless.
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It's best to rip CD's as 16bit 44.1kHz PCM wave files. as this is the bit depth and sample rate of audio compact disc's Anything more is extra file size for no gains, anything less is a degradation to the format. Check it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc#Audio_CD
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Brinner posted:It's best to rip CD's as 16bit 44.1kHz PCM wave files. And then you immediately compress it to a lossless format, such as FLAC, APE, SHN, ALAC or whatever. Because gently caress wasting space on uncompressed PCM files.
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May 13, 2014 08:35
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 Saw this in a hifi magazine. What the gently caress.
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I was under the impression that twisted pair cabling was used to get rid of the kinda poo poo that audiophiles are always banging on about that wrecks their soundstages and such...quote:...is a type of wiring in which two conductors of a single circuit are twisted together for the purposes ofcanceling out electromagnetic interference (EMI) from external sources; for instance, electromagnetic radiation from unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cables, and crosstalk between neighboring pairs.
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Sorbus posted:
What's the audiophile logic for directional cables?
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Terminal Entropy posted:What's the audiophile logic for directional cables? Pretty much every answer is "it sounds better, can't you hear the difference?"
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How many paths are there in a cable that aren't critical signal paths? Micropolishing as opposed to... macropolishing?
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88h88 posted:I was under the impression that twisted pair cabling was used to get rid of the kinda poo poo that audiophiles are always banging on about that wrecks their soundstages and such... The ad says it's twisted pair and then talks about how they're not twisted pair in the next breath. Bravo to them if they manage to sell some.
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They say it's soldered instead of crimped -- do they even make solderable RJ-45s? I kind of get where the audiophiles come from with soldered connectors, they seem like a good idea compared to that flimsy crimp, until the cable snaps right above the solder joint.
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AlexDeGruven posted:The ad says it's twisted pair and then talks about how they're not twisted pair in the next breath. News, not an ad. I guess in hifi mags the two are basically the same thing.
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longview posted:They say it's soldered instead of crimped -- do they even make solderable RJ-45s? Pretty sure some of the Neutrik pro grade ones are solderable
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From their site re: XLR cables: "The performance this cable will let your system produce will almost certainly border on profound and you’ll hear just how musical your system really is. In our experience we have had to totally rethink the performance of components we have used Tuned ARAY with, but it’s the music that really astounds" Being a copywriter for one of these sites must be amazing.
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Qwijib0 posted:Being a copywriter for one of these sites must be amazing. They just load them up on LSD and give a list of words that have to go in the write ups.
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From GZ rather than an audiophile forum, but is there really any difference when it comes to audio stupidity? Thread was someone comparing two different modules that did the same thing, without marking which was which. One the multi $thousand Lynx Aurora, the other is the Behringer ADA8000 (which I'd googled as I just picked one up). Most people ascertained any difference between the two was barely noticeable and not worth mentioning. Except quote:A had much greater apparent volume, punch, clarity etc. and that typically hyped aurora high. but, fwiw, listened to mp3s on laptop speakers. (WAVs were included in the first post. Also he was wrong, but so were many others). EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 14:26 on May 21, 2014 |
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  It's internet radio but with blue VU meters!!!
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Gotta admit, a rack full of McIntosh gear would look pretty good in my theater room. Whoa! There's an idea. A fake rack front, with chrome and dials and functioning meters that work off a simple circuit from your power bar measuring amperage draw, and another measuring volume per channel etc. Behind it is all your cheap pro audio gear and a huge tangle of power cords, hdmi and cat6.
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jonathan posted:Gotta admit, a rack full of McIntosh gear would look pretty good in my theater room. even better, just wrap a home-theater-in-a-box receiver in a whole buncha shielding.
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