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Combat Pretzel posted:Why are audio related Kickstarters always wild successes? It's not that bad at the $60 going rate, assuming they actually build and sell the thing and it's not crap.
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# ? Aug 30, 2015 21:08 |
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I don't know, the standard Qualcomm DAC is rather well regarded over at HeadFi (go figure), and the last time I heard interference on my headphones was back in the day of 2G GSM. It's more like 60$ of placebo.
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# ? Aug 30, 2015 21:35 |
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quote:Do you know that normally, however great the sound quality is, when it's played from a phone, it becomes 16bit/48kHz music. Hey that's lousy, right? No? That sounds perfectly fine?
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# ? Aug 30, 2015 23:48 |
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I saw some guy on these forums say he had his soundcard set to 32 bit / 192 kHz while assuring everybody he really did have rips in that quality. I didn't want to derail the (totally unrelated) thread at that time but jesus, what a waste of disk space.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 00:05 |
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Flipperwaldt posted:I saw some guy on these forums say he had his soundcard set to 32 bit / 192 kHz while assuring everybody he really did have rips in that quality. I didn't want to derail the (totally unrelated) thread at that time but jesus, what a waste of disk space. Isn't that DVD-Audio? (though it can only be stereo in that mode, as the greater than 2 channels options all top at 96 khz sampling)
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 00:08 |
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Wikipedia informs me dvd audio "only" goes up to 24 bit. I'm assuming homemade vinyl rips, if only because that makes it more retarded.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 00:21 |
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HDTracks sells stuff at 192/24 I think
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 00:40 |
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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. Necroposting, but the only objectionable thing about this graph is how close they put vinyl LPs to reel-to-reel tape in quality
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 01:45 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:Why are audio related Kickstarters always wild successes? As always, it's likely to make things worse unless you're well down the 24/96 rabbit delusion. http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-6-plus.htm#measurements For better or worse, Steve was an audiophile and the iPhone DACs have always been very excellent.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 02:04 |
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BANME.sh posted:HDTracks sells stuff at 192/24 I think I'm nearly 100% certain that there is no music store that sells 32 bit music files.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 02:12 |
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fart simpson posted:I'm nearly 100% certain that there is no music store that sells 32 bit music files. Increasing bit depth from 24 to 32 isn't destructive in any way and can be done perfectly. It's just tacking 8 zeroes onto the end of the binary number. It's the same idea as changing a 0-10 rating scale into a 0-100 rating scale by multiplying everything by 10.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 03:31 |
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taqueso posted:Increasing bit depth from 24 to 32 isn't destructive in any way and can be done perfectly. It's just tacking 8 zeroes onto the end of the binary number. It's the same idea as changing a 0-10 rating scale into a 0-100 rating scale by multiplying everything by 10. You would not get correct sounds by merely adding 8 blank bits on the front or back of each sample. Everything would be too loud or too soft, and with inappropriate gradations in volume from sample to sample. You have to transform the relevant values from 24 bit range to 32 bit range. You seem to be thinking instead of how a blank 8 bit alpha channel can be slapped onto 24 bit color images for a nondestructive transformation into 32 bit images.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 03:39 |
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taqueso posted:Increasing bit depth from 24 to 32 isn't destructive in any way and can be done perfectly. It's just tacking 8 zeroes onto the end of the binary number. It's the same idea as changing a 0-10 rating scale into a 0-100 rating scale by multiplying everything by 10. Yeah but that's pointless even in crazy audiophile theory.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 03:54 |
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fart simpson posted:Yeah but that's pointless even in crazy audiophile theory. You don't get that 32 is obviously better than 24. It's quantifiably 8 better. Those added zeros add a richness and depth not present in 24.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 04:59 |
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I can imagine audiophiles justify it as something like added headroom even if there is no data in the extra bits.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:06 |
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Bits=speed at which the music gets to you. More bits means faster travel and better odds of escaping the distortion that pursues all good-hearted flacs.
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# ? Aug 31, 2015 05:07 |
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fart simpson posted:Yeah but that's pointless even in crazy audiophile theory. And cosmic ray absorbing rocks and audiophile ethernet cables are somehow more sensible than that?
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# ? Sep 1, 2015 18:56 |
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But that way, you get a whole 8 bits of digital volume control without affecting the integrity of the signal!
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# ? Sep 1, 2015 19:42 |
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KillHour posted:But that way, you get a whole 8 bits of digital volume control without affecting the integrity of the signal! Just make sure you don't install the knob backwards
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# ? Sep 1, 2015 22:16 |
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good news, there's a review of the usb error correcting device conclusion? it's literally magic quote:You can see from the "Measurements" sidebar that I could find no significant effect that the JitterBug had on the analog signals output by three of the DACs I had to hand. Yet with those DACs and others, I heard an improvement in sound quality that I can attribute only to the JitterBug. I hate when that happens!
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 22:33 |
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I hate when that happens too, as it is a pretty conclusive test that shows I am a crazy person.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 22:53 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:I hate when that happens too, as it is a pretty conclusive test that shows I am a crazy person.
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 01:35 |
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Khablam posted:You have it all wrong; when it's so good you can't even measure the difference, that's when you know you have golden ears. Having golden ears isn't all it's cracked up to be. They're very heavy and junkies keep trying to rip them off my head.
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 01:55 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9tCRh41OM That's an $80,000 turntable with a $10,000 cartridge. /r/vinylgore is amazing.
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 14:35 |
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KozmoNaut posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9tCRh41OM
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 14:50 |
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KozmoNaut posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9tCRh41OM I'm the idiot trying to scratch on a belt driven turntable
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 15:12 |
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KozmoNaut posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9tCRh41OM lmao
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 15:35 |
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Panty Saluter posted:I'm the idiot trying to scratch on a belt driven turntable
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# ? Sep 6, 2015 21:49 |
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ACTUALLY, the joke is your posting
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# ? Sep 6, 2015 22:10 |
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qirex posted:good news, there's a review of the usb error correcting device You see, bits of audio are fundamentally different from bits of other data. I wonder how will audiophiles react when all their precious music and software player are stealth processed out-of-order in the CPU?
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Palladium posted:I wonder how will audiophiles react when all their precious music and software player are stealth processed out-of-order in the CPU? I always wondered why old netbooks and first gen smartphones have such wider soundstages and tighter PRaT than current devices. It makes so much sense now!
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 08:37 |
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So audiophiles right, a lot of them are old men. How do golden ears get around the fact that as you age your hearing degrades? Add to that, daily abuse from working in loud environments, concerts at absurd SPL levels and this and that and the other. ...how has Neil Young who's 69 and has been touring for some 45 years managed to fool people into thinking he's not probably half deaf from age and concerts and as such can hear music better than everyone else?
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 10:23 |
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88h88 posted:So audiophiles right, a lot of them are old men. How do golden ears get around the fact that as you age your hearing degrades? Add to that, daily abuse from working in loud environments, concerts at absurd SPL levels and this and that and the other.
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 10:29 |
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Audiophiles are not bothered by minor trifling details like facts or reality.
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 11:02 |
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KozmoNaut posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9tCRh41OM All that money and he plays loving Gangnam Style Well, at least that confirms that audiophiles don't listen to music, they listen to equipment.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 01:49 |
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:All that money and he plays loving Gangnam Style I'd rather listen to "Gangnam Style" than 99% of "audiophile" recordings. Seriously, they are the most bland unlistenable bullshit ever.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 02:12 |
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True audiophile would only play a record from http://www.whitenoiseboutique.comquote:We use the very best in hardware and algorithmic generators to produce your white noise. Select from a variety of vintage and cutting-edge technologies and be ensured you will receive the best quality white noise possible. Dicty Bojangles fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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slomomofo posted:True audiophile would only play a record from http://www.whitenoiseboutique.com quote:Crypographically-secure algorithmic generators Didn't that cause the Enterprise to explode once?
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 03:45 |
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slomomofo posted:True audiophile would only play a record from http://www.whitenoiseboutique.com To be fair, this is kind of cool if you're a math/physics/cryptography geek. Their section on "what can I use this for" is pretty non-bullshitty (except for the one about actually listening to it as music, but I guess there's no accounting for taste). They're pretty open about it just being a thing they're doing for the sake of doing it. Also, it costs 4 quid, so they're not exactly fleecing people. KillHour fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:All that money and he plays loving Gangnam Style Considering how he's absolutely mangling that very expensive cartridge, the actual owner is probably unaware of the abuse that is happening.
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