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quote:There are several high-resolution audio file formats to choose from, all of which support the above sampling rates and bit-depths. They include FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) and ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), both of which are compressed but in a way that (in theory) no information is lost. 
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Nintendo Kid posted:It could at least be a slightly higher end black-on-white LCD. You're not doing amber on black and that's wrong. 
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Jun 11, 2015 07:20
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"I don't actually understand how any of this works, so I'm going to phrase it in a way that implies I'm skeptical of the claims." People have this really weird thing where they feel they have to be skeptical about things they don't understand. Which is stupid, because it just makes you look like an idiot to people who do.
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Jun 11, 2015 13:58
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Being skeptical of things you don't understand is fine. What is stupid is when you remain skeptical despite large amounts of evidence in front of you.
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Jun 11, 2015 15:09
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taqueso posted:They take up space. Next to taking up space the jewel cases are poo poo and break if you look at them too hard. And CDs have a finite life time. I already have some I bought when I was 12-13 that are dead or at least have problems (luckily I transferred them to 320 kbit/s VBR mp3 a decade ago). They scratch easily. They were the lesser choice, convinience-wise when MD was still a thing, more so now when streaming, downloads etc is factored in.
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Jun 11, 2015 17:29
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BANME.sh posted:Being skeptical of things you don't understand is fine. What is stupid is when you remain skeptical despite large amounts of evidence in front of you. There's research findings that suggest that being shown evidence to the contrary tends to galvanize strongly held beliefs.
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Jun 11, 2015 21:21
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BigFactory posted:http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)  .
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Jun 12, 2015 11:45
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Josh Lyman posted:I can totally hear more background static with my HD 650s on this 24/96 vinyl rip of Rhapsody in Blue compared to the CD rip therefore it must be better I used to believe a bunch of that stuff from that website until i picked up a 3 LP 180 gram remaster of Californication and now I'm hearing those infectious grooves in a whole new light.
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Jun 12, 2015 13:08
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BigFactory posted:I used to believe a bunch of that stuff from that website until i picked up a 3 LP 180 gram remaster of Californication and now I'm hearing those infectious grooves in a whole new light. You should probably get those grooves looked at by a physician, then.
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Jun 12, 2015 13:13
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Waldo P Barnstormer posted:On Friday I'm going down to the Men's Shed to convert a bunch of dude's records onto CD, DVD and MP3. Will report back any audiophile nonsense. Well, the audiophile nonsense was me again. I set the old guys up to play a bunch of records while my laptop recorded them. Came back two and a half hours later to find I'd been recording with the laptop mic instead of the line in.
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Jun 12, 2015 15:05
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qirex posted:There's research findings that suggest that being shown evidence to the contrary tends to galvanize strongly held beliefs. This means the more people try to tell you magical audiophile gear is bullshit, the more amazing it sounds. An industry that exists to be called out, and to feed on it. The more ridiculous you go, the greater the potential rewards!
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Jun 13, 2015 07:07
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Technology derived from the Large Hadron Collider will be used to preserve old sound recordings. Audiophiles have a new goal - build their own.
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Jun 14, 2015 04:01
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I hope they never have to use Winrar/Winzip or installing apps on anything again because IMPEFEXTC COMPREZION? baka kaba posted:This means the more people try to tell you magical audiophile gear is bullshit, the more amazing it sounds. An industry that exists to be called out, and to feed on it. The more ridiculous you go, the greater the potential rewards! *Quotes study about how absolutely NO ONE was able to hear to detect a hidden 44/16 DAC/ADC pair degrading the audio chain for SACD playback in a 1-year period* "Of course, they don't have the *~*golden ears*~* like I do!"
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Jun 14, 2015 06:00
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Palladium posted:I hope they never have to use Winrar/Winzip or installing apps on anything again because IMPEFEXTC COMPREZION? One of my friends took part in that study that everyone talks about. In his group, at least, what they really found was that in a million dollar listening room with $100k per channel amps and all that, a little less than half the people could reliably detect "some difference" between 16 and 24 bit recordings of "some extremely dynamic classical music recordings" but on nothing else, as he put it. The difference was really minor, and of course nobody could reliably detect any difference between 44.1 and any higher sample rate at all. Oh yeah, and all the participants in his group were highly trained listeners, most of them working in the pro audio or recording industries. fart simpson fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Jun 14, 2015 |
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Jun 14, 2015 08:40
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Wasabi the J posted:You're not doing 
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Jun 14, 2015 10:42
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You know, for a $3000 slab of junk, they might want to put in a screen that is at least as good as a 720p IPS LCD of a infinitely more useful device that happens to make phone calls which one can buy for like ~$120 shipped in China.
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Jun 14, 2015 11:39
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One might argue that the driver of the display may cause interferences with the audio circuit, given the high frequencies it'll run at. Then again, not a problem a piece of metal foil wouldn't fix.
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Jun 14, 2015 11:54
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Combat Pretzel posted:One might argue that the driver of the display may cause interferences with the audio circuit, given the high frequencies it'll run at. Then again, not a problem a piece of metal foil wouldn't fix. Well, smartphones like iPhones and Galaxy Notes also happen to have some of the cleanest analog outputs to date, despite the magnitudes higher in engineering complexity. Like our venerable NwAvGuy once said, the notion that some guy in his basement can make a better audio device than companies having billions in resources, skill and testing equipment just because the latter uses utterly cheap parts is thoroughly absurd.
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Jun 14, 2015 12:30
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Palladium posted:You know, for a $3000 slab of junk, they might want to put in a screen that is at least as good as a 720p IPS LCD of a infinitely more useful device that happens to make phone calls which one can buy for like ~$120 shipped in China. NO. NO MORE loving TOUCHSCREENS ON poo poo THAT DOESN'T NEED IT. (I loving hate superfluous touch interfaces.)
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Jun 14, 2015 18:21
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Wasabi the J posted:NO. NO MORE loving TOUCHSCREENS ON poo poo THAT DOESN'T NEED IT. He didn't say anything about touchscreens. Just that they could have put in an decent LCD for not much money considering even the cheapest phones have them.
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Jun 14, 2015 20:07
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Wasabi the J posted:NO. NO MORE loving TOUCHSCREENS ON poo poo THAT DOESN'T NEED IT. No touchscreens, I agree (although web interfaces for your poo poo would be nice), but putting some higher res displays on your poo poo-expensive audio stuff wouldn't really hurt. Maybe even colour. Or at least changeable colour monochrome. 240x60 pixel seem slightly outdated when my phone has 2560x1440.
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Jun 15, 2015 16:37
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Sorry I got super triggered; drove a couple of friends "new" cars and they all had touchscreen radio poo poo so you couldn't do simple poo poo like change the radio station without looking at the screen, which I find annoying and dangerous in a car. I also have a couple of doodads around the house that would be a helluva lot more usable if they were button interfaces instead of touch interfaces, including the keypad to get into work. They got the worlds shittiest touchscreen lock.
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Jun 15, 2015 17:28
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It seems more than slightly outdated when a GBA had a 240x160 display capable of displaying 32k colors. In 2001. For like $150. EDIT: Wasabi the J posted:Sorry I got super triggered; drove a couple of friends "new" cars and they all had touchscreen radio poo poo so you couldn't do simple poo poo like change the radio station without looking at the screen, which I find annoying and dangerous in a car. Endless Mike fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jun 15, 2015 |
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Jun 15, 2015 17:28
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Touchscreens have exactly one place: A device that has an undefined, dynamic and constantly expanding number of functions and a limited space for an interface. Smartphones, tablets etc. that allow others to put functions and stuff on it that can't be planned for by the hardware maker. If you on the other hand have a completely defined number of use cases, functions and interactions like controlling your AC or volume or radio station it loving sucks and is a "that's the hip poo poo and we put it into our electonics too!"-thing. As said, expose the APIs, add a web interface etc. that allows you to additionally control it with a phone or tablet or PC, but the primary interface? Buttons, knobs, dials should always be the first option and only if they for some reason don't work think about adding some function via touchscreens.
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Jun 15, 2015 18:19
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Making a tiny screen on rack equipment high res isn't going to be all that much help in the first place, unless you're really dying for high res album art display 3 inches across that you look at from across the room.
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Jun 15, 2015 18:35
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There are lots of procurement issues with fancy screens if you aren't a huge buyer, usually you can only get the left overs with no guarantee of being able to buy more later (then you get to do a redesign!). Moving to a high-res display also adds bunch of new graphics/UI work and you need a beefy uC to be able to move those pixels around. Might as well put Android on it... and then you are flying down the rabbit hole.. I do think they should have at least used a white on black LCD like someone else mentioned, what they have now just looks dated.
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Jun 15, 2015 18:47
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taqueso posted:There are lots of procurement issues with fancy screens if you aren't a huge buyer, usually you can only get the left overs with no guarantee of being able to buy more later (then you get to do a redesign!). Moving to a high-res display also adds bunch of new graphics/UI work and you need a beefy uC to be able to move those pixels around. Might as well put Android on it... and then you are flying down the rabbit hole.. Yeah, that's what i brought up in the first place. This supposedly premium device has a screen that looks like the kind you'd call a ripoff back in the early 90s.
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Jun 15, 2015 18:58
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Nintendo Kid posted:Yeah, that's what i brought up in the first place. This supposedly premium device has a screen that looks like the kind you'd call a ripoff back in the early 90s. How much do you want to bet that type of screen was used on some "legendary" amp back in the day and they're just cargo-culting that?
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Jun 16, 2015 07:36
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goddamnedtwisto posted:How much do you want to bet that type of screen was used on some "legendary" amp back in the day and they're just cargo-culting that? Either that or they're intentionally using cheap poo poo so you know you're paying all that money for tonez tech. Mmm utilitarian and great value! No need to resort to marketing gimmicks when your core product works so well - just honest engineers charging what it costs to build a quality system, no more no less
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Jun 16, 2015 15:31
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baka kaba posted:Either that or they're intentionally using cheap poo poo so you know you're paying all that money for tonez tech. Mmm utilitarian and great value! No need to resort to marketing gimmicks when your core product works so well - just honest engineers charging what it costs to build a quality system, no more no less "An entire cargo ship full of blow" is the most important part of the R+D process.
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Jun 16, 2015 17:59
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Zen and the art of audiophile reviews: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/1202/konusessence.htm "At the end of the day, all any enhanced-quality specialty hi-fi can do is provide the maximum je ne sais quoi that the composer musician, singer-songwriter has to offer. And, you know what else? This is why hi-end hi-fi is typically so expensive: je ne sais quoi never comes cheep!"
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Jun 17, 2015 06:08
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SeventhSeven posted:Zen and the art of audiophile reviews: Considering "je ne sais quoi" literally means "I don't know what," I'd say that's extremely accurate.
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Jun 17, 2015 13:59
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Some chuckle-gently caress posted:... I was listening to Sam Cooke at this electrician's house in New Jersey. He had the loudspeakers set up on top of a chest of drawers in his bedroom. There was a mirror behind them and cosmetics scattered around them. Sam is singing "Twisting the Night Away". "One time in the 80's I was really high on coke and listened to Sam Cooke. I've been blowing tens of thousands of dollars chasing that high ever since!"
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Jun 18, 2015 04:45
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bigman.50grand posted:"One time in the 80's I was really high on coke and listened to Sam Cooke. I've been blowing tens of thousands of dollars chasing that high ever since!" With the kind of sick cash thrown at useless gizmos by audiophiles, they make drugs look stellar from a value of money standpoint.
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Jun 19, 2015 14:35
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Palladium posted:With the kind of sick cash thrown at useless gizmos by audiophiles, they make drugs look stellar from a value of money standpoint. Drugs usually at least partially deliver on the intangible becoming noticeable.
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Jun 19, 2015 20:38
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taqueso posted:There are lots of procurement issues with fancy screens if you aren't a huge buyer, usually you can only get the left overs with no guarantee of being able to buy more later (then you get to do a redesign!). Moving to a high-res display also adds bunch of new graphics/UI work and you need a beefy uC to be able to move those pixels around. Might as well put Android on it... and then you are flying down the rabbit hole.. Solution is simple and obvious. Re-release it with the new screen as a new improved edition, charge more, talk about how much better the electronics are. When your screen supply runs out, repeat. Then talk about exclusivity.
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Jun 20, 2015 04:38
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Jun 20, 2015 15:20
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Did all this audiotomfoolery blow your gasket, or what?
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Cat typing while driving confirmed
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