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njsykora posted:I fell into audiophile Youtube a few days ago looking at headphone reviews and got to laugh at a guy saying if you didn't think having a heavy metal doorstop on your hifi setup improved the sound you were a science denier. At least he said it was a $10 doorstop and not a $150 'resonance damper'. Darko? He recently did an article on how to be a "music first" audiophile and it meant you had to let other people have their delusions and not challenge them lol
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Darko is hilarious because he’ll do something sensible like recommend a $100 raspberry pi streamer connected to a $100 DAC but also spend like ten minutes talking about how “chocolatey“ some 8 grand speakers sound. Also everything more expensive always sounds better [even if it’s “subtle”] which is the true hallmark of an audiophile reviewer. Also he puts those stupid doorstops on everything.
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# ? Nov 17, 2020 07:32 |
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qirex posted:Darko is hilarious because he’ll do something sensible like recommend a $100 raspberry pi streamer connected to a $100 DAC but also spend like ten minutes talking about how “chocolatey“ some 8 grand speakers sound. Also everything more expensive always sounds better [even if it’s “subtle”] which is the true hallmark of an audiophile reviewer. I thought describing wine was weird when people use 'leather', but chocolatey sound?
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# ? Nov 17, 2020 07:33 |
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Darko frustrates me to no end. He gets incredible guests on his podcast. In September he had the head of Kef’s R&D on to talk about the LS50 Meta, which is some legitimately cool new tech. And the guy had some great info and data. And then you have to listen to this incredibly pompous jackass interject with his incredibly poor opinions. And it’s all about trying to twist what his guests say to match his own preconceived notions. I’d love an actual good hifi podcast, but I definitely haven’t found one. I enjoy AV Rant for home theater and The Next Track for old guys talking about classic rock and somewhat about music playback, but I have yet to find one with a bit of a gear bent that has a nominal basis in actual reality.
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TheMadMilkman posted:Darko frustrates me to no end. He gets incredible guests on his podcast. In September he had the head of Kef’s R&D on to talk about the LS50 Meta, which is some legitimately cool new tech. And the guy had some great info and data. So he's Joe Rogan for audiophiles?
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# ? Nov 17, 2020 08:04 |
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BurritoJustice posted:Darko? He recently did an article on how to be a "music first" audiophile and it meant you had to let other people have their delusions and not challenge them lol Might've been, it was a video about things beginner audiophiles could ignore until later, which should've just been everything except a nice pair of headphones.
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# ? Nov 17, 2020 08:58 |
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Top ten tips for beginner scam victims!
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# ? Nov 17, 2020 13:00 |
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I have a question, my house is prewired with speakers, but wallplate at the receiver was removed and some wires do not even have a connector. The subwoofer wire's connector was cut for example. If I wanted to use this subwoofer wire, do I just strip the plastic and stick it in the end of this thing? https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-10...ps%2C179&sr=8-3 Is there something better? I just want the wire to go directly to the receiver, because the wall plate is not even there anymore, but I was not sure what connector would work?
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 16:09 |
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Femur posted:I have a question, my house is prewired with speakers, but wallplate at the receiver was removed and some wires do not even have a connector. The subwoofer wire's connector was cut for example. If I wanted to use this subwoofer wire, do I just strip the plastic and stick it in the end of this thing? What gauge is the wire? You need something like this and a crimp tool, but it needs to be the correct connector for the wire. https://www.parts-express.com/parts-express-rca-male-crimp-on-connector-for-rg-6-u-quad--091-1060 Might be better to just use the existing wire as a pull cord to run a new wire through.
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KillHour posted:What gauge is the wire? You need something like this and a crimp tool, but it needs to be the correct connector for the wire. Thank you for the tip, the wire doesn't seem to have any readable marks on it. The other end of the subwoofer wall plate is still installed, and it looks like a coxial connection(like cable tv small needle hole connection), so your item would still work?
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 22:14 |
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some purestrain avs quote:
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# ? Nov 19, 2020 22:39 |
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Ive never seen a driver blow a cone before it blew the coil. I think someone slashed your speaker or soemthing.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 00:12 |
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Do you have a link to that catastrophe? I can't even imagine what actually happened to that speaker and I really want to see the replies.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 03:14 |
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Found the post - https://www.avsforum.com/threads/kef-ls50-blew-both-drivers.3173473/
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EL BROMANCE posted:Found the post - https://www.avsforum.com/threads/kef-ls50-blew-both-drivers.3173473/ I.... how?! I kind of want a pair of LS50s for my living room because I don't want to use a soundbar for music listening and I don't have anywhere to actually put up floor standing speakers, and have always wanted a pair. Probably a bit small, though.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 04:09 |
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He didn't have a doorstop.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 04:54 |
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Can anyone justify the idea of blowing up speakers with too little power versus too much? It's parroted a lot but modern amps don't appear to clip really hard unless you're dumb and over-excursion seems more likely to cause instant damage It just feels like in this context it's used by audiophiles to justify their 1200w monoblocks
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 06:19 |
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BurritoJustice posted:in this context it's used by audiophiles to justify their 1200w monoblocks
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 06:26 |
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Almost as bad as the pervasive notion in the headphone/EM community that having an amp that can potentially put out 3W+ of power will make their IEMs running at .5mW sound more "powerful"
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 06:55 |
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BurritoJustice posted:Can anyone justify the idea of blowing up speakers with too little power versus too much? It's parroted a lot but modern amps don't appear to clip really hard unless you're dumb and over-excursion seems more likely to cause instant damage Clipping blows tweeters because they get overloaded with high-frequency overtones from the square waves that are generated. I've only ever seen this happen in live settings where they were trying to use too small amps for concerts. And it will sound like absolute hot garbage, so usually people turn it down way before damage happens. Overloading drivers usually either melt the voice coils or if they can take it, mechanically damage the drivers from overexcursion. But you need quite a lot of power to do it instantly, or time for the coils to overheat. That guy absolutely didn't blow his speakers with clipping, he blew then apart with way too much power.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 08:11 |
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KozmoNaut posted:Clipping blows tweeters because they get overloaded with high-frequency overtones from the square waves that are generated. I've only ever seen this happen in live settings where they were trying to use too small amps for concerts. And it will sound like absolute hot garbage, so usually people turn it down way before damage happens. This. The clipping thing is because a square wave is about 1.4x the power of a sine wave with the same amplitude. Speakers use the movement of the cone to cool the voice coil and a square wave and a sine wave both move the same amount of air. More power without more air to cool the coil can mean shorted coil (insulation melts and the wires touch, basically). It's only really a concern if the cooling is only barely sufficient under normal circumstances and you leave it like that for long enough to overheat. Basically, you need both an overloaded amp AND speakers that can't handle the added current load.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 08:24 |
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"I'm new to audio, and until looking into what happened the next morning, I didn't know what clipping was." Imagining how poo poo these must have sounded to murder the actual cones...
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 13:32 |
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My old Cerwin Vega enormous speakers that I got in the 90's had fuses, and when I used those speakers for house parties in college I had to keep a stack of fuses on hand to replace them mid-party because inevitably someone would turn it up too loud. Thank goodness for those fuses. Those were the perfect speakers for that kind of thing.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 14:15 |
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does anyone have any thoughts on the Sonos Beam plus a pair of ONE SL speakers for surround sound? I'm in the market for a wireless surround solution just not sure what to get.
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SnatchRabbit posted:does anyone have any thoughts on the Sonos Beam plus a pair of ONE SL speakers for surround sound? I'm in the market for a wireless surround solution just not sure what to get. Ask HERE or HERE rather than the thread that's for mocking audiophiles.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 16:37 |
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SnatchRabbit posted:does anyone have any thoughts on the Sonos Beam plus a pair of ONE SL speakers for surround sound? I'm in the market for a wireless surround solution just not sure what to get. Haha you buy audio gear and want to know things about it
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 16:42 |
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KozmoNaut posted:Clipping blows tweeters because they get overloaded with high-frequency overtones from the square waves that are generated. I've only ever seen this happen in live settings where they were trying to use too small amps for concerts. And it will sound like absolute hot garbage, so usually people turn it down way before damage happens. Too much peak power below the cutoff of the cabinet resonance, most likely with some loving stupid BASS MADNESS equalisation on Winamp or something. It takes some effort to shred something that badly, especially if you can see the driver moving. It’s cool though, a replacement is probably only about four times the price it should be from the manufacturer.
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shortspecialbus posted:My old Cerwin Vega enormous speakers that I got in the 90's had fuses, and when I used those speakers for house parties in college I had to keep a stack of fuses on hand to replace them mid-party because inevitably someone would turn it up too loud. Thank goodness for those fuses. The first place I worked doing live sound had Peavey hisys stuff that used lightbulbs internally as fuses for the horns. Only saw them light up once. I was unaware, up until that point, that they were in there. I thought the stacks were burning.
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 09:18 |
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I think I need to make a bespoke artisanal heirloom PC that will boot from vinyl. x-post from SH/SC — please recommend suitable power cable to improve the uh, "bitstage"
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TTerrible posted:The first place I worked doing live sound had Peavey hisys stuff that used lightbulbs internally as fuses for the horns. Only saw them light up once. I was unaware, up until that point, that they were in there. I thought the stacks were burning. This makes things make a lot more sense. When I was 13-14, I was a "DJ" at a local teen club, and I managed to play music on the dancefloor loud enough to make the speakers glow inside. When I looked back at it as an adult, I always thought it was the coils glowing somehow, then I thought about how much power that would take and how much heat it would make and what that would do to the speaker. It didn't even occur to me until now over 25 years later it might have been a fuse that was also a bulb.
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 11:47 |
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The lightbulb isn't the fuse, the lightbulb is parallel with the PTC fuse so that when it trips, it doesn't cut power off completely, it just acts as a big resistor. It's a lightbulb instead of a normal resistor to say "hey moron, turn it down."
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 15:11 |
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KillHour posted:The lightbulb isn't the fuse, the lightbulb is parallel with the PTC fuse so that when it trips, it doesn't cut power off completely, it just acts as a big resistor. It's a lightbulb instead of a normal resistor to say "hey moron, turn it down." Reminds me of an idea I had for LED light strings in series. Put a zener diode in parallel with the led, and if the led dies, the voltage drop changes, making the zener diode go to pass-through.
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 15:36 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:"I'm new to audio" They just got their first hearing aid bless their hear
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 23:02 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI-50CbwNKw
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# ? Nov 28, 2020 18:34 |
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This is my Realizer from a German company called Kochenballz. Best $4k I've ever spent.
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# ? Nov 28, 2020 19:04 |
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Wow, that guy is awful! Little anime figures in a basement, talking about that 4K thing being A UNIT! Isn't this something that computers can just do in software anyway? It's how VR works, right? How could virtual speakers be something you WANT while listening to music?
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# ? Nov 29, 2020 03:18 |
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LRADIKAL posted:Wow, that guy is awful! Little anime figures in a basement, talking about that 4K thing being A UNIT! I honestly don’t ever know how to feel about Zeos
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# ? Nov 29, 2020 06:30 |
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I feel like he is a fatass that looks at anime girls. It's amazing he doesn't get the pedo angle.
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# ? Nov 29, 2020 16:43 |
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That was the most annoying minute and a half of anything I've ever watched, is that really the widely spoken of Zeos of said eponymous reviews? And, if so, why do so many people watch him?
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Also the weird gun stuff.
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