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Panty Saluter posted:Also, I think you'd have to feed it from a reel-to-reel deck for Maximum Realness™ Reel-to-Reel Makes It Sound Real™ I'm about to move into a new apartment and my current plan is to just make a 2x4 frame that fills up my biggest shared wall and wrap it in moving blankets, then stack all my bookshelves in front of it. That should give me reasonable sound isolation and echo cancelling right? I know I can't blast Inception at 1am or anything, I'm just looking for a good combination of cheap/easy/effective.
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How would you even know which $75k speakers actually sound the best? Have you tried them all?
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BigFactory posted:Oh to be rich. And gullible.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 06:52 |
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fart simpson posted:How would you even know which $75k speakers actually sound the best? Have you tried them all? 'Best' is subjective.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 11:07 |
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Obviously the best expensive speakers are either the ones you already have or the ones you're considering buying, which might be even better than the ones you already have.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 15:21 |
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Welcome to the world of audiophiles.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 15:46 |
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88h88 posted:Welcome to the world of audiophiles. Sounds like something Pinhead would say
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 15:47 |
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88h88 posted:If I had silly money I'd without doubt load up on some B&O mainly because they're the one company out there combining tech with beautiful looking designs. Yeah for about half the price I could get comparable sound but I'd have a room full of speaker boxes of various sizes, huge monoblock amplifiers, 'transport' and miles of cabling. I'd much rather have something that looks like a piece of art which has the capability to sound wonderful too... http://www.magnepan.com/model_MMG Their site is from the nineties, but the speakers sound great and are pretty unobtrusive looking, especially if they're wall mounted. I have the MMG W's and they're really good for a smaller room with no treatment, they would sound great in a proper room.
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qirex posted:I think B&O is still the only company to release a WiSA [non-sucky wireless surround] home theater system and those ICEPower amps are in a lot of high-end monoblocks and stereo amps. The Sonos wireless 5.1 setup pretty good, you just drop a couple of the 1's wherever you need them, and it works with your existing receiver.
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synthetik posted:The Sonos wireless 5.1 setup pretty good, you just drop a couple of the 1's wherever you need them, and it works with your existing receiver. Yeah, for all the flak Sonos deserves for their pricing and middling sound quality, they've really nailed the slickness factor. The way their system works is exactly how wireless surround should work.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 18:48 |
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Exactly. My biggest complaint about Sonos is the pricing, everything else works as advertised. I have a bunch of HR824s in the studio, but the rest of the house has Sonos speakers throughout. Quality is fine, volume is good, and the zoning and control options are perfect.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 19:26 |
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I love the idea of multiroom audio with configurable segmentation and that sort of thing, but all of the systems on the market are just way too expensive. For that reason alone, I have high hopes for the upcoming party mode or multi-room mode of the Chromecast Audio.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 19:39 |
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I use a pair of headphones I bought for 500 DKK ($100). They sound perfect to me except for a weird high pitch on the left side. I also play in a big band.
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KozmoNaut posted:I love the idea of multiroom audio with configurable segmentation and that sort of thing, but all of the systems on the market are just way too expensive. As it stands right now, it's absolutely an all or nothing - I realize that I'm basically committed at this point to a specific brand, and that's bothersome to an extant. With Win10 though, I can play directly to the speakers without using the app, so maybe in the future I'll be able to mix and match, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Boiled Water posted:I use a pair of headphones I bought for 500 DKK ($100). They sound perfect to me except for a weird high pitch on the left side.
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synthetik posted:The Sonos wireless 5.1 setup pretty good, you just drop a couple of the 1's wherever you need them, and it works with your existing receiver. I have Play:1s in my bedroom but the soundbar only takes optical in which is stupid and the pricing of the soundbar and sub are kind of hilarious. Plus tons of lag. WiSA is a promising-looking but still nascent system that supports any speakers and uses auto-calibration to time-lock everything and only adds 6 miliseconds of delay.
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 00:19 |
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This is goddamn awesome and I will tolerate no ill treatment of that man
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 02:36 |
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I agree. What I didn't say was that if I had $75k to spend, I'd spend $70k on the room and acoustic consultants and $5k on gear to build something from the (under)ground up.
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 04:49 |
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What am I even looking at?
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 05:33 |
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Josh Lyman posted:What am I even looking at? I believe that's an underfloor subwoofer.
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 05:35 |
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Yep, this is the room its under http://www.royaldevice.com/useless.htm
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 05:55 |
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TIMG dude. And thanks for the link, that site is 100% pro-click. From the "end of days" banner-ad at the top, the geo-cities like layout, and the Google Translate level english, this site pegged my bullshit meter almost immediately. This is my favorite: http://www.royaldevice.com/asse%20trascendente%20SPDIF-eng.htm quote:The ACCELERATORE ADIMENSIONALE cannot be opened. It is completely sealed and to open it it needs an OXIGEN flame or blaze. In that case you destroy it.
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 06:49 |
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He has what looks like a shitload of custom, made to order stereo equipment, all matching with fancy stainless steel and acrylic enclosures. Then what looks like an off-the-shelf 1980s Pioneer EQ. lol
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 07:03 |
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3x ACCELERATORE ADIMENSIONALE one of the A-DIMENSIONAL SUBATOMIC PARTICLE complete passive ACCELERATOR (ACCELERATORE ADIMENSIONALE) for SPDIF data transmission used into the audio room the operation of the new accelerator SINGLE decoded and inspired by a crop circle. They're the levitating metal cylinders on the right. Edit: Dude has something you never usually see in an audiophile's listening room - musical instruments. And it's full of them! A Lone Girl Flier fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Oct 8, 2015 |
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The best bit about that ACCELERATORE is that the blurb basically suggests it's a time machine...
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Waldo P Barnstormer posted:Edit: Dude has something you never usually see in an audiophile's listening room - musical instruments. And it's full of them! That's the first thing I noticed too. Why the gently caress does he have his drums in the same room as his hifi system? Wouldn't the sharp edges of the drums/cymbals undo all the careful postioning of the speakers? Not to mention, isn't the aspect of music that audiophiles are least interested in is the, well, music?
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 16:55 |
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This thread at the Computer Audiophile forums went off the rails quickly. Apparently, the output from specific files changes depending how it was stored, and two completely identical files with identical checksums will sound different from each other, because the checksum programs only look at the data, not the actual recorded waveform/magnetic information (because it's all analog once you dig deep enough) on the physical media My brain hurts now.
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# ? Oct 9, 2015 11:11 |
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KozmoNaut posted:My brain hurts now. It's probably due to all the frozen jitter in your brain.
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# ? Oct 9, 2015 11:56 |
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welp, "I seem to remember sandyk/Alex telling us that the esteemed Martin Colloms has found that bit-identical still image files look different when compared to each other, if different power supplies were in use when the files were written to storage." this has to be a joke?
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# ? Oct 9, 2015 15:36 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law I think they actually believe all of that nonsense, though
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# ? Oct 9, 2015 15:48 |
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KozmoNaut posted:This thread at the Computer Audiophile forums went off the rails quickly. There was someone who was 100% serious about this a while back until people figured out the checksums were off because the file names were different.
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# ? Oct 9, 2015 16:51 |
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The idea that the audio file effects how strong a charge is written to the hard drive ignores the fact that your computer is doing so much work at any time at a rate so much faster than audio any noise generated will be totally random. I had a problem once where I could hear in my headphones when I moved the mouse, it came through as noise I could hear when there was silence in the music. This whole idea is just nuts that you could hear a difference from one audio file to another of the same song if they are bit for bit the same. If you could measure the noise coming out of a computer at the level where the charge of the bit in storage is effecting you congrats, you've just created the most noise free computer ever.
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qirex posted:There was someone who was 100% serious about this a while back until people figured out the checksums were off because the file names were different. ... what? Checksum is not affected by file name.
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GokieKS posted:... what? Checksum is not affected by file name. This is truth. If the checksum is off, then the contents are not bit by bit identical. Filenames are irrelevant.
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GokieKS posted:... what? Checksum is not affected by file name. Maybe he was zipping them then comparing? It was on the squeezebox forums IIRC.
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qirex posted:Maybe he was zipping them then comparing? It was on the squeezebox forums IIRC. This is the most likely answer. I know that gzip stores metadata in the header of the compressed file so identical files with different file-names will have different checksums when gzipped.
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# ? Oct 10, 2015 08:14 |
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I may not know how to checksum a file, but I can sure tell you the ins and outs of hard drive storage technology and its effects on file integrity and DAC.
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qirex posted:It's official, vinyl is too mainstream http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9409563/reel-to-reel-tape-retro-audio-trend
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GWBBQ posted:
80 kilobit per second Xing MP3 encodes from Napster around 1999?
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