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Someone other than him will buy that. I'd be willing to bet they'll move... at least 1000 units of that.
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I signed up to win one.
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polyester concept posted:His admission that it's insane and he just wanted to make the most absurd and expensive piece of equipment possible makes it somehow forgivable.
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polyester concept posted:It's doing so much insane post processing to the sound, isn't that basically kryptonite for audiophiles? Next up: Convince idiots who buy this thing that adjusting the screws changes the output.
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Oct 6, 2017 19:27
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buy my DIY kit to replace all the screws with my specially chosen screws, giving a more open organic sound.
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qirex posted:If I was going to design my "dream gear" I sure as hell could do better than 3" drivers, even when they make halo gear it's still whatever bits they have a bunch of in the warehouse. but you can hook up 4 subwoofers to it
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Inspect Your Gadgets > Ridicule Audiophiles: Now With Over 400 Screws!
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How many of those sound bars do I need for a complete system, at least 6 right?
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qirex posted:If I was going to design my "dream gear" I sure as hell could do better than 3" drivers, even when they make halo gear it's still whatever bits they have a bunch of in the warehouse. Gotta make sure the cost to produce it is at least 1000x less than what we'll sell it for otherwise what's the point?
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I can picture the target buyers as computer users who loved Soundblaster cards in the 90s, and now has Silicon Valley disposable income. If I were one of those, I would easily buy one.
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evobatman posted:I can picture the target buyers as computer users who loved Soundblaster cards in the 90s, and now has Silicon Valley disposable income. If I were one of those, I would easily buy one. I liked Soundblaster cards in the 90s. While I don't make silicon Valley money, my home theatre stereo cost considerably more than that creative thing. It also sounds a bazillion times better and has a lot more utility. Maybe if you added "only watches Netflix streaming" and "lives in a small apartment with no room for actual speakers (or noise complaint something something)" you'd be right. I really can't see anyone wanting this, even if they are limited to a soundbar.
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shortspecialbus posted:Maybe if you added "only watches Netflix streaming" and "lives in a small apartment with no room for actual speakers (or noise complaint something something)" you'd be right. So, everyone that lives in and around Silicon Valley.
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It's obviously for the rich person whose SO has strong aesthetic demands. I mean, if I was that rich, I would just go with in-wall speakers but that doesn't work if you have brick walls or something.
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grack posted:Next up: Convince idiots who buy this thing that adjusting the screws changes the output. Obviously the correct number of screws in a device should be a prime number, to prevent any amplification of resonant frequencies.
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Clarence posted:Obviously the correct number of screws in a device should be a prime number, to prevent any amplification of resonant frequencies. No no, they all need to be at slightly different depths.
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Oct 8, 2017 20:21
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WTF just use dampening gems on your screws.
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Oct 9, 2017 01:30
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Dump a bag of rocks on it.
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Sorry, crystals.
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If you aren't taking $5 drivers with $10 worth of other parts to part golden ears of their 5800 audiobucks you are a poor businessman.
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Does anyone have experience or opinions about raspberry pi dacs like hifiberry? They're supposed to be high quality and pretty cheap.
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Brilliant Pebbles, eat your goddamned heart out. The new hotness is MAGIC TUBES  http://www.madscientist-audio.com/magictubes.html quote:Magic Tubes
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Whuuut
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He has woefully underpriced these. I encourage everyone to buy as many 36 packs as you can afford (maybe a home equity loan?) before he realizes the gold mine he's sitting on.
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grack posted:Brilliant Pebbles, eat your goddamned heart out. The new hotness is MAGIC TUBES A fool and his money are easily departed. Good gods.
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I was working on a flea market Pioneer PD-S707 CD player that needed a new spindle motor, and found this delightful little thing: A previous owner replaced the stock oscillator crystal with a fancier one.
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I know from watches that there are different "grades" of quartz oscillators but I'm curious how much 'drift' there could be over the course of an individual song? I think most stuff nowadays is so good that studio stuff like hyper accurate "world clocks" are falling out of favor.
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I can't find it now, but there's an interview with Wayne Coyne about The Flaming Lips' album Zaireeka. It was released on four CDs, each of which were supposed to be played simultaneously on four separate CD players with varying adjustments made to the volume and panning (at the listener's whim). He said something about discovering that CD players were not all that precise as they thought, because while the band was demoing the album they would press play simultaneously, but by the end the players were all noticeably out of sync with each other by a few seconds. I am guessing the time span was across the entire album, not just one song though.
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polyester concept posted:I can't find it now, but there's an interview with Wayne Coyne about The Flaming Lips' album Zaireeka. It was released on four CDs, each of which were supposed to be played simultaneously on four separate CD players with varying adjustments made to the volume and panning (at the listener's whim). He said something about discovering that CD players were not all that precise as they thought, because while the band was demoing the album they would press play simultaneously, but by the end the players were all noticeably out of sync with each other by a few seconds. I am guessing the time span was across the entire album, not just one song though. Okay, but if you're a normal person listening to a single CD, 5 seconds off of a 90 minute run is .09%. Hardly something to get your pantaloons so ruffled that you're going to replace parts in your player. But then again if everyone was normal we wouldn't have this thread full of $500 USB cables.
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metallicaeg posted:Okay, but if you're a normal person listening to a single CD, 5 seconds off of a 90 minute run is .09%. Hardly something to get your pantaloons so ruffled that you're going to replace parts in your player. Oh, I agree, its negligible and most people would never notice or care, including me. But it's measurable.
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polyester concept posted:I can't find it now, but there's an interview with Wayne Coyne about The Flaming Lips' album Zaireeka. It was released on four CDs, each of which were supposed to be played simultaneously on four separate CD players with varying adjustments made to the volume and panning (at the listener's whim). He said something about discovering that CD players were not all that precise as they thought, because while the band was demoing the album they would press play simultaneously, but by the end the players were all noticeably out of sync with each other by a few seconds. I am guessing the time span was across the entire album, not just one song though. I remember this experiment being mentioned in the liner notes for the surround sound mix of Yoshimi. But not the specifics of why it failed.
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metallicaeg posted:Okay, but if you're a normal person listening to a single CD, 5 seconds off of a 90 minute run is .09%. I'm the 90 minute CD
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polyester concept posted:I can't find it now, but there's an interview with Wayne Coyne about The Flaming Lips' album Zaireeka. That reminds me, if this ever comes to your area it's definitely worth checking out. I auditioned B&Ws after hearing it.
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qirex posted:I know from watches that there are different "grades" of quartz oscillators but I'm curious how much 'drift' there could be over the course of an individual song? I think most stuff nowadays is so good that studio stuff like hyper accurate "world clocks" are falling out of favor. Drift in a quartz oscillator is usually mostly temperature drift, the issue here is that in consumer gear nobody's going to spring for a TCXO or OCXO to avoid temperature fluctuations causing very small long term variations in playback rate. Well audiophiles might, but you can't sell them real engineering that produces no change (because the problem being fixed is imperceptible). It has to be bullshit that makes a noticeable change (which can be a change for the worse, and often is) or they won't buy it. Idk what audio studios are up to today, but a global master clock for a nearly-all-digital mixing system that has to deal with data streams from several converters seems like it still ought to make sense. No matter how accurate the oscillators in each individual box are, you aren't going to get them to all agree, and providing a path to accept an external clock is cheaper than making internal clock sources be extremely accurate.
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If you've ever tried doing a diy sonos multiroom digital audio type thing you'll know how important a single clock source is.
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Waldo P Barnstormer posted:If you've ever tried doing a diy sonos multiroom digital audio type thing you'll know how important a single clock source is. nowadays you can do that timing math and negotiation over usb or a network so you don't need a separate outboard master clock like they used to, there's still super weird audiophile stuff that does though qirex fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Oct 11, 2017 |
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Serious post: Does anyone know how the Monoprice Monolith AMT speakers stack up against Emotiv's Airmotiv? I'm looking to throw some cheap but decent speakers together for a 5.1 in my living room. I don't know if this should be more geared towards the HT thread, but I really just wanted to know about the ~ｓｏｎｉｃ ｑｕａｌｉｔｉｅｓ~ of the two speakers and how they stack up so I figured this was a good place to start.
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If they're anything like their planar magnetic headphones they should be fun
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If you're curious about those tweeters maybe check out Chane speakers, they're cheaper than those Monoprices and have an actual waveguide and stuff. AVS people go insane for them. I think the center channel is sold out for the moment, though [plus their logo looks like comic sans]. e: HTD Level Threes have a folded tweeter as well.
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