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Maybe the dude just wanted to invent something to destroy vinyl records. I can appreciate that.
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grack posted:Maybe the dude just wanted to invent something to destroy vinyl records. I can appreciate that. he wanted to get rich quick by adding bluetooth to a toy from the 70s to cash in on nostalga and vinyl and it worked.
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Jan 7, 2018 02:23
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are you all honestly saying you weren't waiting to listen to your LPs through a tiny rotary speaker??
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Jan 7, 2018 02:58
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Jago posted:The soldering on that piece of poo poo look worse than what I do, huge bubbles, the wire came off the motor, lots of patch cables. What trash. It looks like there was a through hole for the other ground wire, but it just wasn't used. Is a 3 wire stylus likely to cause some of the performance issues? It seems pretty clear that the thing is way too heavy on the groove, wow what a piece of junk. I don't think you could trick an audiophile into buying one of these. The AT-LP120 and AT-LP60 are the easy default choices, depending on how much you want to spend. Welcome to the hoarding wife club.
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Jan 7, 2018 19:29
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grack posted:Maybe the dude just wanted to invent something to destroy vinyl records. I can appreciate that. Yeah anyone dumb enough to buy that doesn't deserve to have vinyl anyway so doubly good on him.
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Jan 8, 2018 20:56
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yeah, you have to earn the right to flip through this crate of scratched up donna summer singles.
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:yeah, you have to earn the right to flip through this crate of scratched up donna summer singles. More like, shitstains that don't understand how to take good care of the things they own don't deserve to own nice things. Also, as a vinyl enthusiast, flipping through this crate of scratched up Donna Summer singles is my penance.
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:yeah, you have to earn the right to flip through this crate of scratched up donna summer singles. ...but a crate of scratched up Donna Summer is still better than the crap most audiophiles listen to.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:...but a crate of scratched up Donna Summer is still better than the crap most audiophiles listen to. What do they listen to anyway?
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Jan 9, 2018 15:25
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iospace posted:What do they listen to anyway? The wailing of their starving children and Yello
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Jan 9, 2018 16:35
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GutBomb posted:The wailing of their starving children this is v. unlikely
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Jan 9, 2018 19:12
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Jan 9, 2018 19:33
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iospace posted:What do they listen to anyway? https://www.wired.com/2015/03/hot-stampers/amp
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iospace posted:What do they listen to anyway? Sting, Prince, and as has been mentioned, Yello.
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qirex posted:"timing" and "rhythm" are the ones that get me the most, maybe with speakers it's almost acceptable because time alignment for drivers does matter [and is pretty much a solved problem thanks to modern computer modeling] but for sources, players, amps, etc. it's loving mind boggling that people would think parts of the signal would arrive in a different order somehow I got really excited until I saw the price. gently caress that.
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qirex posted:This passive, 3-way bookshelf loudspeaker measures approximately 25.5″ H x 15.5″ W x 13.75″ D Just how big are their bookshelves?
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Clarence posted:Just how big are their bookshelves? I recently bought a pair of JBL S310s that are 3 way speakers including a 10” driver, and saw someone refer to them as bookshelf speakers. My mind boggles sometimes. Also for the people who think SD cards affects their music, what about photos taken with high resolution 36mp DSLR cameras? Do the pixels end up in different orders depending on the brand?
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Clarence posted:Just how big are their bookshelves? they're definitely floorstanders, I don't know why they're referred to as bookshelf speakers. Maybe if you compare them to the rest of JBL's 'floorstanding' options they look small enough by comparison?
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Jan 9, 2018 21:35
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Oh yeah, nothing is more neutral sounding than early transistor amps
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Jan 9, 2018 22:11
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Clarence posted:Just how big are their bookshelves? If you need a stand to bring the tweeter to ear height, then I guess it's a bookshelf. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I got really excited until I saw the price. They were $546/pair in 1970, which works out to about $3500 today. I'm not saying they're a good value or anything, because I've never heard them. But I do like that companies are starting to release speakers with the 1970s styling to them -- large boxes with forward-facing 10"+ woofers. Now we just need Marantz or somebody to start re-releasing their classic receivers. TheMadMilkman fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jan 9, 2018 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:I recently bought a pair of JBL S310s that are 3 way speakers including a 10” driver, and saw someone refer to them as bookshelf speakers. My mind boggles sometimes. My JBL 4410s were also advertised as bookshelf studio monitors, and those are similarly 3-way speakers with 10" woofers (and 20kg each). Those were some kickass speakers, I sort of regret selling them, but they were simply way too loving big for my apartment (plus, I already had a better active monitor+subs setup).
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:
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Jan 9, 2018 22:43
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EL BROMANCE posted:Also for the people who think SD cards affects their music, what about photos taken with high resolution 36mp DSLR cameras? Do the pixels end up in different orders depending on the brand? This is actually a bad comparison because different manufacturers use different microlens (colour filter) arrays to capture chromatic info. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:
I seriously hope this person never breeds.
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Jan 9, 2018 22:55
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I meant more if you put one brand of SD card in Slot 1, and another in Slot 2 and have them both saving the same image from the buffer. Either as raw or jpeg, the results should be exactly the same between the 2 files as the basis that SD cards work this way is nonsense.
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Ah, okay, that makes more sense. Audiophiles dumb, got it.
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Someone please re-release magnetic core memory for these folk to test.
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Too bad for audiophiles that digital storage is well out of the realm of expertise of "revolutionary audio experts" who did the immense work of sending a Texas Instrument reference design PDF to the lowest turnkey solution bidder in China, which is then "proudly made in USA" just because of some Mexican screwed in the finished Chinese PCB into the "aircraft grade aluminium case" which also happens to be made by the dirty commies.
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CES was a fun year for poo poo pr in audio. Although I will say the Creative Labs proof of concept "tuning to your head" thing was interestingly not woo woo bullshit, but rather a feature of dubious market value
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I like those L100, but you can go the alternate route as I did and get some JBL 4319 and get some custom made Quadrax grilles. Will not cost you 4 grand.
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iSimian posted:I like those L100, but you can go the alternate route as I did and get some JBL 4319 and get some custom made Quadrax grilles. Will not cost you 4 grand. ... but JBL 4319 are selling for 4 grand? https://www.musicdirect.com/speakers/JBL-4319-Bookshelf-Speakers
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roffels posted:... but JBL 4319 are selling for 4 grand? I bought mine brand new from a store for slightly under 2K, then later sold and rebought them used for $1500. It seems they didn't do so well, so it's very possible to get heavy heavy discounts on them (if not even cheaper used). In Europe tho.
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I thought we were making fun of people that bought things like that.
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Elephanthead posted:I thought we were making fun of people that bought things like that. People who buy things like that are extremely stupid and easily confused, which is why they think this is the "stupidly expensive audio gear general chat thread".
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Dear God in heaven, what have I done? After literally several years, I've bought uncompressed audio again. I was looking for an extended version of a newly released song that Spotify doesn't offer, so I went to beatport getting the EP. Figured to shell out the small premium for the WAV version, and loving hell, I swear I can hear a difference in the high frequent content like hihats and poo poo between the uncompressed and Spotify version of the normal mix (sharper transients, clearer sounds). I mean, electronic music is generally considered a little more problematic, but gee, now I'm not sure I'm actually hearing something or whether it's placebo (using headphones).  
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Blame Spotify
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Combat Pretzel posted:Dear God in heaven, what have I done? After literally several years, I've bought uncompressed audio again. I was looking for an extended version of a newly released song that Spotify doesn't offer, so I went to beatport getting the EP. Figured to shell out the small premium for the WAV version, and loving hell, I swear I can hear a difference in the high frequent content like hihats and poo poo between the uncompressed and Spotify version of the normal mix (sharper transients, clearer sounds). I mean, electronic music is generally considered a little more problematic, but gee, now I'm not sure I'm actually hearing something or whether it's placebo (using headphones). You probably do hear the difference.
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Maybe. But Spotify Premium is what? 320kbit Vorbis? That sure ought to be transparent.
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