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Not completely about ridiculing audiophiles, but here's Dave Jones interviewing Rod Elliot from Elliot Sound Products. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjfOTRBqpJw
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How McIntosh tube amps are made. Gold-plated brass speaker connectors to prevent distortion from being introduced into the signal. Transformers encased in tar to limit vibrations caused by low frequencies. http://youtu.be/2HgS6gvokEI
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Turkey Farts posted:How McIntosh tube amps are made. Gold-plated brass speaker connectors to prevent distortion from being introduced into the signal. Transformers encased in tar to limit vibrations caused by low frequencies. I assume they discovered audiophoolery sold much more.
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Nov 29, 2014 16:34
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Gold plated speaker inputs and vibration dampening are way low on the totem pole of audiophilerey. I wish my ht amp had some vibration dampening. It rattles like a chain link fence.
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Nov 29, 2014 16:37
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BigFactory posted:Gold plated speaker inputs and vibration dampening are way low on the totem pole of audiophilerey. I wish my ht amp had some vibration dampening. It rattles like a chain link fence. Yeah, gold plated connectors are standard on most industrial electronic equipment. Not really audiophile shenanigans.
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Nov 29, 2014 19:08
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taqueso posted:Yeah, gold plated connectors are standard on most industrial electronic equipment. Not really audiophile shenanigans. The video stated that the combination of gold and brass were specifically chosen as they are non-magnetic metals and presumably won't taint the signal sent to the speakers.
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taqueso posted:Yeah, gold plated connectors are standard on most industrial electronic equipment. Not really audiophile shenanigans. Even the cheapest TOSLINK cables you get from the dollar store are gold-plated these days, it's really nothing special.
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Nov 29, 2014 22:07
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Gold plating is used because it doesn't corrode.
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Nov 29, 2014 22:07
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KillHour posted:Gold plating is used because it doesn't corrode. I think you'll find it's used because there's a linear relationship between the cost of your materials and the soundstage.
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Nov 29, 2014 23:33
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Wrong thread.
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BurritoJustice posted:Pretty massive discount on the Mionix 7000 series mice on Massdrop right now. Very well regarded mice, with the best optical sensor on the market (ADNS-3310) and good ergonomic or ambidextrous options. I'm considering grabbing a Naos for my ridiculous bear hands that make small mice hard to use. Looks pretty cool. Is there currently a good wireless gaming mouse out there.... -? what thread is THIS?! Let me guess, it widens the sound stage with isolated gold plated USB and its felt feet are much quieter than teflon?
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Jago posted:Looks pretty cool. Is there currently a good wireless gaming mouse out there.... -? what thread is THIS?! Let me guess, it widens the sound stage with isolated gold plated USB and its felt feet are much quieter than teflon? Oh bollocks, this was meant to be the mouse thread.
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You can hear when usb devices have been used in the editing equipment. Only PS2 mice give the pure soundstage you want.
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Khablam posted:I think you'll find it's used because there's a linear relationship between the cost of your materials and the soundstage. I don't know if I trust a low brow b-roll cable show to be the final word on McIntosh's audio claims. I think their gear costs a lot because it's put together in America and they use some high end or small production run components, and they can charge a premium for the badging and legacy, just like Harley Davidson or whatever.
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Boiled Water posted:You can hear when usb devices have been used in the editing equipment. Only PS2 mice give the pure soundstage you want. Be sure to follow the old adage of using optical mice for optical media, and ball mice for analog.
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Meridian is introducing a new audio format called MQA, which promises to deliver high-resolution sound at a CD quality-like filesize. It also supposedly retains CD quality backwards compatibility with devices that don't support this new format. They also have this amazingly helpful graph to show us why we should care:  As you can see, reel-to-reel tape is the highest audio quality possible forever, but it is not very convenient. You can also see that streaming is extremely convenient, but has sound quality akin to punching yourself in the face. You can also plainly see that LPs are better than both SACD and DVD-A in both convenience and sound quality! Because it's so inconvenient to plop in a disc and press play, right? It's so much more complicated than playing a CD! They also have the most pretentious URL ever: http://www.musicischanging.com/ From reading their bullshit claims, it actually sounds a lot like HDCD. Which was also a rousing success, as you may remember. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Dec 6, 2014 |
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Well, to be fair it's really inconvenient to play my SACD's because it's almost impossible to find a player that utilizes the format anymore.
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BigFactory posted:Well, to be fair it's really inconvenient to play my SACD's because it's almost impossible to find a player that utilizes the format anymore. I use an Oppo player for that. With added convenience it will also stream from my NAS music or video.
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Decairn posted:I use an Oppo player for that. With added convenience it will also stream from my NAS music or video. Is there a way to get it to play from my nas without putting a gap between songs? Bdp-103
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shortspecialbus posted:Is there a way to get it to play from my nas without putting a gap between songs? Bdp-103 are your network plugs gold-plated? if not- hopeless.
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slomomofo posted:are your network plugs gold-plated? if not- hopeless. Network Jacks? Pfft. I use RFC1149 for airier highs and more dynamic drops.
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shortspecialbus posted:Is there a way to get it to play from my nas without putting a gap between songs? Bdp-103 Conveniently combine all the songs into one really long track with a wave editor.
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KozmoNaut posted:Meridian is introducing a new audio format called MQA, which promises to deliver high-resolution sound at a CD quality-like filesize. It also supposedly retains CD quality backwards compatibility with devices that don't support this new format. No one besides a bunch of audiophile nutjobs will care about MQA. Their MLP format went nowhere, either. --edit: Given their "any format" line, I suppose they're going to inject sideband information by loving with psychoacoustics.
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I've never listened to anything but home recordings on reel to reel, what's the quality of commercial recordings actually like compared to cassette and LP?
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GWBBQ posted:I've never listened to anything but home recordings on reel to reel, what's the quality of commercial recordings actually like compared to cassette and LP? Considering the albums were recorded to reel, it's probably pretty good.
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GWBBQ posted:I've never listened to anything but home recordings on reel to reel, what's the quality of commercial recordings actually like compared to cassette and LP? They're very good, they're simply a pain in the rear end to deal with. I got a player from Goodwill for $10 once and a bunch of commercial releases to go with for like $2 each. They sounded pretty great.
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This was posted on a facebook group i'm in http://www.dual-connect.com/html/precious_metals.html i can't make sense of it!
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It's like 16 years ago I last had chemistry, but as far as I remember, the amount of total electrons doesn't matter, only the unpaired ones on the last layer.
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taqueso posted:Yeah, gold plated connectors are standard on most industrial electronic equipment. Not really audiophile shenanigans. The gently caress they are? I've only ever seen it on consumer poo poo and "look at me I'm a pro" consumer poo poo.
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Jerry Cotton posted:The gently caress they are? I've only ever seen it on consumer poo poo and "look at me I'm a pro" consumer poo poo. I think the point is that you see gold plated connectors on a bunch of relatively inexpensive stuff, because it's not really an extravagant upgrade. It's kinda nonsense and a cheap marketing ploy, but it's not $10,000 power cable territory. You can probably buy gold plated interconnects cheaper on Amazon if you look than regular interconnects cost at Best Buy/Radio Shack.
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I think I've mentioned it before, but all of the cheap Toslink cables I've come across have gold-plated connectors, you actually have to get up to around $25 or so to find one that isn't.
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Nintendo Kid posted:They're very good, they're simply a pain in the rear end to deal with. As far as formats, DVD audio is incredible and anyone who disagrees needs to find a copy of Queen - A Night at the Opera (the Brian May version) and play it on a 5.1 system.
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GWBBQ posted:I have my dad's old reel to reel player and I'm the kind of technology masochist who enjoys threading film into projectors. I should probably eBay a few for nostalgia. Why do audiophiles always like 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why do audiophiles always like Queen is lame now?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why do audiophiles always like
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why do audiophiles always like Tell us what bands meet with your approval, senpai.
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GWBBQ posted:As far as formats, DVD audio is incredible and anyone who disagrees needs to find a copy of Queen - A Night at the Opera (the Brian May version) and play it on a 5.1 system. But how is it on a stereo system??
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Tell us what bands meet with your approval, senpai. Good ones.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why do audiophiles always like Audiophiles do not listen to music, they listen to equipment. Music is just a necessary evil. Now let me play Yello - The Race for you so you can really experience the openness in the soundstage these unobtanium wood coasters I have placed under my CD player create.
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