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KozmoNaut posted:And of course you should always put on the music you're actually going to be listening to I'm not normally into screamy-metal, but holy poo poo this rules. Going to have to pick up something by them.
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Their latest album "Terminal Redux" is probably my favorite album of the year. The world needs more progressive thrash metal sci-fi concept albums. E: They were on tour in November with another band called Black Fast, who also play modern thrash. A bit more straight forward, less prog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBNc7kU_cmw KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Dec 16, 2016 |
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qirex posted:Let's be audiophiles instead of ridiculing them for a minute; share some of your speaker shopping/calibration tracks. [warning: much '90s music ahead] Some of my standards: Transformers OST - Arrival to Earth AC/DC - Big Gun, Shoot to Thrill Madrugada - The Kids are on High Street Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Pt2. Chris Cornell - You know my name Jan Hammer - Crocketts Theme Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing Sia - Chandelier Daft Punk - End of Line, Get Lucky Most are very demanding overproduced tracks, or tracks with lots of dynamic range. Compression or bad equipment will make them sound muddled and make the instruments mesh with each other into just noise, while good recordings and equipment will separate instruments from each other and from the vocals, and let you hear much more detail. That's probably the most audiophile thing I've ever written.
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KozmoNaut posted:This little thing (off of something better than Youtube, obviously). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOT2-OTebx0 Also echoing Vektor.
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The Vektor love is throwing me a bit to be honest. Sounds like one of a thousand bands between 2005 and 2008, but with pitchier DM shrieks rather than the normal growls. Not that it's bad, just it doesn't really stand out to me personally.
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EL BROMANCE posted:You're probably one of about 3 people interested in a single php site thing I built a few years. All it does is randomizes slice orders of the Amen break and plays it in the browser. Kinda useless, but every so often it comes up with a gem. http://crucialweb.net/amen
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EL BROMANCE posted:The Vektor love is throwing me a bit to be honest. Sounds like one of a thousand bands between 2005 and 2008, but with pitchier DM shrieks rather than the normal growls. Not that it's bad, just it doesn't really stand out to me personally. It's wonderfully technical while still staying true to old-school thrashy speed and aggression, plus the production is just spot on. I love the bass in particular, it goes through so clearly in the mix. It's everything good about modern thrash metal, in one band. Other bands have similar elements, but they don't have all of them at the same time. And it's sci-fi progressive thrash metal, perfect nerd-fodder.
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EL BROMANCE posted:You're probably one of about 3 people interested in a single php site thing I built a few years. All it does is randomizes slice orders of the Amen break and plays it in the browser. Kinda useless, but every so often it comes up with a gem. http://crucialweb.net/amen Well cool!  Something similar, yet different: http://techno-is-the-word.appspot.com/
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Ha, that's pretty neat too! I built a variant at the same time for the Amen thing where rather than just randomly rearrange the slice order, it'll try and progress from 1-30 but with some randomisations so you might get 1,2,2,3,2,4,5,3,5,3,6 etc which builds quite a different sounding break again. http://crucialweb.net/amen2 I had a few more ideas for variants and always meant to put it in a prettier package (it's literally a single, 50 line php file as it stands) with a waveform and everything but I never got around to it. KozmoNaut posted:It's wonderfully technical while still staying true to old-school thrashy speed and aggression, plus the production is just spot on. I love the bass in particular, it goes through so clearly in the mix. I'll give a full album a shot, maybe it'll stand out more for me than an individual track did.
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KozmoNaut posted:It's wonderfully technical while still staying true to old-school thrashy speed and aggression, plus the production is just spot on. I love the bass in particular, it goes through so clearly in the mix. "Sci-fi" and "nerd-fodder" refer to the lyrics, I assume, which means someone can actually understand the words that dude is tearing out of his shattered larynx? Huh.
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ColdPie posted:"Sci-fi" and "nerd-fodder" refer to the lyrics, I assume, which means someone can actually understand the words that dude is tearing out of his shattered larynx? Huh. "Life is liquid when we're young We paint with the colors of the sun Time solidifies in our brains And we paint with shades of grey" Yeah, but I'm used to listening to metal lyrics (and it's perfectly OK to read along as you listen).
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'New' audio format?  http://wogew.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/mqs-sd-newest-physical-music-format.html?m=1
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Olympic Mathlete posted:'New' audio format? Glad I am not the only one who was spurgy-annoyed about that. Also, micro-Sd is barely a physical format: breath in too hard and you could accidentally inhale it. I thought there was a lot of potential for gimmicky physical digital media, shame it never really took off 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:'New' audio format? Those idiots are just re-hashing content from Techmoan's latest video which was about MQS SD and posted 2 days prior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbGDPFVjvVU Of course Mr. Techmoan treats it as exactly what it is, a curious novelty and nothing else. Edit: he even mentioned the Beatles limited edition USB drive release as shown in the above post! Edit2: just noticed that the original video was linked in that garbage blog post but whoever made the post obviously didn't watch it! Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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I really like the packaging design they chose for it. And let's face it, that's all anyone really cares about when it comes to buying physical media these days. It's nice that the actual music content is plain unprotected FLAC though, so it's also pretty versatile.
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Uhhh... https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/28/samsung-32-bit-speakers/
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The article mentions upscaling from 8 bit audio inputs - where would you even find that in anything recent?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:35hz? Yeah at -25db...
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fishmech posted:The article mentions upscaling from 8 bit audio inputs - where would you even find that in anything recent? I think it means just taking the left channel of a cd player.
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8-24 bit, the 32bit upscale has still the same lovely resolution as the input. What is Samsung thinking?
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Combat Pretzel posted:8-24 bit, the 32bit upscale has still the same lovely resolution as the input. What is Samsung thinking? Samsung is thinking that they can sell this to people that buy expensive USB cables, power cables thicker than my dick, and judge DACs based on how airy they sound.
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Combat Pretzel posted:8-24 bit, the 32bit upscale has still the same lovely resolution as the input. What is Samsung thinking?
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metallicaeg posted:Samsung is thinking that they can sell this to people that buy expensive USB cables, power cables thicker than my dick, and judge DACs based on how airy they sound. So, like, regular power cables?
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grack posted:So, like, regular power cables? 
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I'm about to upgrade my B&W 683 to 804D S2. Someone convince me this is stupid and the money is better used elsewhere.
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Hob_Gadling posted:I'm about to upgrade my B&W 683 to 804D S2. Someone convince me this is stupid and the money is better used elsewhere. It's too late. You have already thought the thought.
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More audiophile claptrap. https://mutemandeafcat.wordpress.com/2016/12/31/a-snippet-of-what-t-bone-meant-about-mp3s/ Apparently MP3 are naught but "postcards" of the true analog experience.
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So I'm looking for new speakers. Can't decide between Ascend Sierra 2 or "New Philharmonitors" Please send help. Will probably buy used to save some dough. Any other bookshelf suggestions in the price range of $1k to $1.5k? Trying to avoid towers as they're a pain to sell and I'm constantly changing my poo poo.
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Used KEF LS50s usually clock in around a grand.
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http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/01/lg-sj9-4k-speaker/ A 4k soundbar, you say?
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4k khz.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/01/lg-sj9-4k-speaker/ Hahahahahahaha quote:Curiously, as part of its 4K Sound package, the SJ9 can also upsample "standard audio files" to high-def 24-bit/192kHz audio, "sharpening the subtle details and nuances of each track." The press release doesn't clarify how the SJ9 extracts (creates?) more detail from a digital audio file.
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Probably has licensed X-Fi technology! Wow!
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They're using the same technology you see used on CSI to enhance license plates. Something-something Fourier domain analysis.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Probably has licensed X-Fi technology! Wow! quote:AfterMaster is pleased to introduce its first proprietary (patents pending) consumer hardware product, the AfterMaster Pro™. AfterMaster exclusively developed the one-of-a-kind personal audio re-mastering device and created a completely new product category in the consumer electronics industry.
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qirex posted:LG are like little babies, watch this
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