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If I lived far away from neighbours to avoid noise complaints my livingroom would be a temple to the cone.
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I use $1 earbuds. The cord wears out in about a month, maybe two, but it was $1.
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# ? Aug 4, 2017 19:35 |
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Last time, It's clearly unfair that $350 DAC lost, because it's pitted against the evil, soulless Behringer $80 Chinesium-made crap when far more worthy and painstakingly handcrafted products exist. Which is why the $2000 DAC is here, to bring you far worse distortion artifacts than the $350 "entry-level" model to unleash the fullness of your Diana Krall/test tones and your hard-earned money to the sucker economy. And something tells me that particular reviewer will find it pretty hard to source gear for testing soon. Palladium fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Aug 5, 2017 |
# ? Aug 5, 2017 04:01 |
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People often ask me what's the cheapest way to improve their stereo's sound. I tell them to clean it and listen. The psychology of sound is pretty powerful. And if that doesn't work just turn it up.
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# ? Aug 5, 2017 09:29 |
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Zemyla posted:I use $1 earbuds. The cord wears out in about a month, maybe two, but it was $1.
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# ? Aug 5, 2017 09:53 |
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Waldo P Barnstormer posted:People often ask me what's the cheapest way to improve their stereo's sound. I tell them to clean it and listen. The psychology of sound is pretty powerful. That's the best advice. Turn up the volume until you hear static, then back it off slightly
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# ? Aug 5, 2017 13:39 |
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Obviously the best way to improve your stereo sound is to use this special cable massage oil I'll sell you to gently massage into the RCA cables that smooths out the harshness and lets the pureness of the music come forth. *pours bottle of diluted hand wash into expensive looking glass bottle with fancy label, adds a couple drops of cheap perfume from the two dollar store* That'll be five hundred dollars.
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# ? Aug 5, 2017 15:57 |
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According to one caller on the legendary Meriradio () you can improve the sound of your radio by sticking the aerial up your bum. It might be true
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# ? Aug 5, 2017 16:23 |
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Goon project: convince an audiophile to try that and post a review.
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# ? Aug 5, 2017 16:28 |
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Palladium posted:Last time, It's clearly unfair that $350 DAC lost, because it's pitted against the evil, soulless Behringer $80 Chinesium-made crap when far more worthy and painstakingly handcrafted products exist. Which is why the $2000 DAC is here, to bring you far worse distortion artifacts than the $350 "entry-level" model to unleash the fullness of your Diana Krall/test tones and your hard-earned money to the sucker economy. These people, while good intententioned, have a poor grasp of math and it's bothering me.
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# ? Aug 5, 2017 17:38 |
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ColdPie posted:Goon project: convince an audiophile to try that and post a review. I like this idea. You could talk about core body temperature being anally measured for absolute accuracy, therefore the lower intestine is the perfect place to park your blue tooth antenna for your wireless headphones using your skin as a natural filter to remove harmonic disturbances.
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# ? Aug 6, 2017 03:00 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm pulling this number out of my bum but I will be very surprised if someone can prove I'm wrong: about 100% of people are very happy with sub-30€ speakers/headphones for their computer (there's a lot of people with computers and speakers, and the models that seem to run out the quickest are the 29,90€ sets on sale). 30-60 freedom dollars is probably the top selling price point for new 2.0 & 2.1 speakers by several orders of magnitude. But people seem to be willing to drop more on headphones so I left that a little more open.
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# ? Aug 6, 2017 15:07 |
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The Absolute Sound remains a primo source of audiophile entertainment "The control consoles are 45-pound enclosures housing the network along with unique adjustments that allow you to tune the cable to your system. This tuning has nothing to do with tonal balance, but rather with a dynamic verve in different parts of the frequency range. Beyond esoteric and justifiable in only the highest of high-end systems, the ACC268 delivers a sound quality that is unmatched" It's an $80,000 cable
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# ? Aug 16, 2017 18:34 |
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Ridicule audiophiles: Our Verve is Dynamic
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 01:33 |
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quote:Rather, the articulation control seemed to increase the textural density through the particular frequency band affected by the control (one control each for bass, midrange, and treble). That is, increasing the articulation rendered tone color with a greater timbral richness and solidity. Concomitantly, the sound had a greater dynamic verve and alacrity that made whatever speaker I was listening through sound faster and more “horn-like.”
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 13:49 |
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It's a super expensive tone control.
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 14:16 |
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That is the silliest word salad I've seen in quite some time.
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 16:39 |
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you know it's the good poo poo when they lead their promo blurb with weight.
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 22:20 |
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MIT is up there at the pinnacle of bullshit, from their name so people associate it with the school to the guy's carefully selected word salad I challenge anyone to attempt to extract any meaning from this quote:As with any passive network, cables contain both resistive and reactive components. This creates resonances and anti-resonances in the cable. A series resonance is when the reactive components cancel each other. At the resonant frequency the complex impedance will be quite low. This series resonance doesn’t impede the signal flow in a cable. An anti-resonance, however, is formed when the reactive components add together to form a highly complex impedance. This “parallel resonance” does impede signal flow in the cable.
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 22:24 |
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parasitic series resonance ruined music for me
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 22:37 |
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It wasn't until these $80k cables that I realized what I was missing out on. All this time my low level frequencies were just noise until now. Thanks, MIT
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 22:43 |
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Stick a fork in that power outlet. Feel that? That's the analog jitter.
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 23:00 |
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bigman.50grand posted:Stick a fork in that power outlet. Feel that? That's the analog jitter. You can smooth out that jitter you feel with some vanadium plated ultra fork tines. I sell them on my website. $20k each.
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 23:14 |
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Someone should sell LSD as an "audio enhancement supplement" for like $200 a pop.
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# ? Aug 17, 2017 23:39 |
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qirex posted:MIT is up there at the pinnacle of bullshit, from their name so people associate it with the school to the guy's carefully selected word salad Good loving christ that's.... interesting.
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# ? Aug 18, 2017 00:06 |
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qirex posted:MIT is up there at the pinnacle of bullshit, from their name so people associate it with the school to the guy's carefully selected word salad Well in the old days of analog phone service you would get echoes on long distance. So if your analog interconnects are several miles long I guess you might call that jitter of a sort
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# ? Aug 18, 2017 02:04 |
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:you know it's the good poo poo when they lead their promo blurb with weight. Good amplifiers used to be very heavy, due to heatsinks and such. Audiophiles are cargo culting that onto everything else.
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# ? Aug 18, 2017 09:03 |
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qirex posted:Someone should sell LSD as an "audio enhancement supplement" for like $200 a pop. Hey now, that might actually work. And if it the product actually works, then the user might gently caress up and make his set sound worse instead of feeling that sweet sweet placebo. quote:1 out of 5 stars Speleothing fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Aug 18, 2017 |
# ? Aug 18, 2017 13:09 |
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poo poo you just know someone is going to make an audiophile strain
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# ? Aug 18, 2017 13:17 |
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GonadTheBallbarian posted:poo poo you just know someone is going to make an audiophile strain Bong feel.
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# ? Aug 18, 2017 13:31 |
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GonadTheBallbarian posted:poo poo you just know someone is going to make an audiophile strain I'd be amazed if it's not already a thing seeing as there's a whole lot of people who feel the need to use drugs to listen to music at festivals and such. Also if someone bought your product and gave it a middling review you could just tell them it's because they weren't baked enough and they'd buy more of it...
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# ? Aug 18, 2017 13:54 |
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KozmoNaut posted:Good amplifiers used to be very heavy, due to heatsinks and such. The same cargo cult are still fellating over bulky linear power supplies for their DACs even after Benchmark themselves outright said and proved switch-mode PSUs is flat-out superior because the huge expensive transformer in LPSes leak large amounts of magnetic flux that affects the surrounding circuits. All of which is a moot point anyway because who the gently caress is able to hear power supply noise at =< -120dB levels, of course except that Golden Ear aka aging baby boomer guy with HF hearing loss.
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# ? Aug 21, 2017 14:41 |
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3 year old review, but this went up on Wat Hifi? yesterday, and has some lovely nonsense inside. http://www.soundstagexperience.com/index.php/equipment-menu/435-atomic-audio-labs-mac-platform
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# ? Aug 21, 2017 15:02 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:3 year old review, but this went up on Wat Hifi? yesterday, and has some lovely nonsense inside. Thank you for sharing this, I needed an example of this crap to show my younger writers in what NOT to do when you're searching for words to fill content.
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# ? Aug 21, 2017 15:41 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:3 year old review, but this went up on Wat Hifi? yesterday, and has some lovely nonsense inside. This in particular is a gem: I tried heavy mass-loading top weights made of lead shot mixed with RTV (silicone rubber, similar to silicone caulk), solid brass, and lignum vitae (a type of wood so dense it sinks in water). Each changed the sound to some extent. I can’t say that any of them made the sound worse, but they didn’t improve it. e: I’ve upgraded the Mini’s RAM to 8GB, which should make zero difference, but somehow music sounds just a bit better with the RAM maxed out.
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# ? Aug 21, 2017 15:42 |
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Yeah, that RAM line was my favorite too. Incredible. The music just has more room to breathe!
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# ? Aug 21, 2017 17:19 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah, that RAM line was my favorite too. Incredible. The music just has more room to breathe! Have you tried the silver SATA cable yet
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 03:53 |
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Does this thread have an open on the Zuper DAC, or anything similar? USB sized DAC a that are reasonably priced that work with phones too?
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 19:06 |
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Alan_Shore posted:Does this thread have an open on the Zuper DAC, or anything similar? USB sized DAC a that are reasonably priced that work with phones too? For what it's worth, I believe I have the same ESS Sabre chips of the DAC and amp in my laptop, and I quite like the results with 300Ohm Sennheiser headphones. For $50 or so I don't see why not
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Thanks, that's really helpful! I also just saw on MassDrop that for $15 more they have the Topping TP30 Mark2 https://www.amazon.com/Topping-TP30-MARK2-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B00J2P9I2A Any thoughts on which is better? Or something better for the price?
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