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redeyes posted:MQA = DRM. Nothing more. Also probably measures worse than FLAC. It absolutely measures worse than FLAC, to the point that MQA tries really hard to prevent anyone from measuring. Their excuse is "test tones don't count, it's optimized for music" because I'd imagine the 70 year olds running this poo poo have never heard of Warp Records.
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Not just worse than FLAC, worse than normal-res. And this has been going on for how many years now? Anyone thinking "I'd better switch to Qobuz" took the wrong lesson from this episode.
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FLAC can be CD quality, in fact most of it is. My new favorite audiophile thing is SACD/DSD weirdos being all butthurt that their precious insane format doesn't have good support because nobody ever bothered using it.
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qirex posted:FLAC can be CD quality, in fact most of it is. FLAC is simply source quality - whatever the quality of the source, that's the quality you get with FLAC, exactly, or else it's no longer lossless. But yes most of them are just made from CDs, I'd assume. I have an SACD for Dark Side of the Moon and I like it a lot for the 5.1 mix, but I can't see wanting SACD more generally.
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shortspecialbus posted:FLAC is simply source quality - whatever the quality of the source, that's the quality you get with FLAC, exactly, or else it's no longer lossless. But yes most of them are just made from CDs, I'd assume. SACD works just fine as a multi-channel FLAC in my experience, I’ve got quite a few 5.1 mixes that I was using for spatial audio research in that format. Hell, even a 6 track WAV is more convenient than a drat DVD.
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The problem with SACD is that it might as well be vinyl as far as listening to it in the car or on your PC.
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TOOT BOOT posted:The problem with SACD is that it might as well be vinyl as far as listening to it in the car or on your PC. SACD for the car? You want the Sony MEX-DV2000 from 2007
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TOOT BOOT posted:The problem with SACD is that it might as well be vinyl as far as listening to it in the car or on your PC. Buying audiophile grade tyres which produce as little road noise as possible...
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I know a dude who writes insane hifi gear reviews for an obscure online outlet. He owns one of those van type Renault thingies on a regular car platform. Maybe the kangoo, if that still exists? Anyway, he bought it because he was convinced it had better acoustics than a normal car. e:found it 
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:I know a dude who writes insane hifi gear reviews for an obscure online outlet. He owns one of those van type Renault thingies on a regular car platform. Maybe the kangoo, if that still exists? Anyway, he bought it because he was convinced it had better acoustics than a normal car. absolute king
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:I know a dude who writes insane hifi gear reviews for an obscure online outlet. He owns one of those van type Renault thingies on a regular car platform. Maybe the kangoo, if that still exists? Anyway, he bought it because he was convinced it had better acoustics than a normal car. He's nowhere near the top. Real autoaudiophiles fill the floor and all cavities in their car with concrete, and line the rest of the body with asphalt mats for sound insulation before they start building their sound system.
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Apr 28, 2021 15:03
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Those sound deadening mats actually work though and most cars come from the factory with them to silence road noise.
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Apr 28, 2021 16:46
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I don't think this belongs here but I didn't really know where else to put it. It's actually rather anti-audiophile when you think about it. Hiding your speakers behind lampshades... https://hackaday.com/2021/04/28/lamps-double-as-secret-surround-sound-speakers/
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Apr 28, 2021 22:36
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Just build your house inside a giant subwoofer and be done with it. I guess you'll need to be next door to your own private substation for that magical clean power though so might want to build one of those too.
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qirex posted:So this is interesting: a Youtube guy published his own music [that just happened to include a bunch of test tones, sweeps and full test suite in the songs] to Tidal in MQA and measured the output, the results are incredibly not flattering. From the comments on that video: 
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I can never remember where I saw it, maybe the old Squeezebox forums, but there was this guy who swore up and down FLAC and WAV sounded different and he was using checksums for uncompressed files to prove his point but it turned out it was just that the file names were different.
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DancingShade posted:Just build your house inside a giant subwoofer and be done with it. I guess you'll need to be next door to your own private substation for that magical clean power though so might want to build one of those too. That makes me wonder if audiophiles are going for solar power. Imagine, your electricity doesn't have to flow through all that filthy commoner wiring before it mates with your precious gear. Now you can control the purity of the power all the way into your system. And the music would have to sound warmer if the gear is powered by the sun.
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Apr 29, 2021 20:00
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solar flares are a bitch though, better to do some kind of geothermal stirling engine
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this got recommended to me https://youtu.be/xP8M2gjl2nw
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that actually seems like an appropriate use of them though. god I'll bet that sounds atrocious in that room though but whatever.
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I also enjoy listening to tweeters through my knees. You need to be wearing the special audiophile pants of course. Maybe some extra bookshelf speakers could go on top to alleviate the situation. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 08:43 on May 5, 2021 |
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May 5, 2021 08:41
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They're not pants, it's an accoustikilt
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DancingShade posted:I also enjoy listening to tweeters through my knees. You need to be wearing the special audiophile pants of course. Fake edit: though not on a treadmill.
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I think that's fine for its intended purpose. It's a tiny gym space so you'll never be in one place. Not only will the owner be moving from station to station but also the equipment itself will be loud. I assume they were an extra pair of speakers they had lying around otherwise you'd think that they would use smaller higher mounted speakers.
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Yuns posted:I think that's fine for its intended purpose. It's a tiny gym space so you'll never be in one place. Not only will the owner be moving from station to station but also the equipment itself will be loud. I assume they were an extra pair of speakers they had lying around otherwise you'd think that they would use smaller higher mounted speakers. I’m pretty sure Gen IV is the current generation of Cornwall released within the past year, and they aren’t exactly inexpensive speakers (though I guess anything coming in at <$10k/pair could be considered inexpensive in the world of audiophilia)
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Yuns posted:I think that's fine for its intended purpose. It's a tiny gym space so you'll never be in one place. Not only will the owner be moving from station to station but also the equipment itself will be loud. I assume they were an extra pair of speakers they had lying around otherwise you'd think that they would use smaller higher mounted speakers. There appears to be a calf raise machine and a cable machine in that tiny room and the dumbbells are rubberised, it ain't gonna be that noisy in there  Bit of a waste of nice kit but whatever, as long as he's happy with it.
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Ok Comboomer posted:I’m pretty sure Gen IV is the current generation of Cornwall released within the past year, and they aren’t exactly inexpensive speakers (though I guess anything coming in at <$10k/pair could be considered inexpensive in the world of audiophilia) Also I know this thread is about dumb audiophiles but the weight equipment selection is inexplicable. Why a calf raise and hyperextension machine and power tower/dip-leg raise station if you have limited space? Yuns fucked around with this message at 14:25 on May 5, 2021 |
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Yuns posted:Ouch. Deliberately purchasing those speakers for that space seems aggressively wrong. yeah, I think it’s a really bizarre attempt at a flex one that only a very specific niche of predominantly older, heterosexual men is gonna pick up on trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 14:28 on May 5, 2021 |
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Love 2 yeet dumbells through exposed woofers.
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Yuns posted:Also I know this thread is about dumb audiophiles but the weight equipment selection is inexplicable. Why a calf raise and hyperextension machine and power tower/dip-leg raise station if you have limited space? That's what puzzled me. I'd have at least got a cage in there with a bench and then you're covered for the important stuff with less equipment. But then you have to realise it's an audiophile's house and what's logical is completely alien to them.
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Ok Comboomer posted:this got recommended to me Ugh, the EQ settings on that Pioneer 1250 are pretty extreme. Either he doesn't actually like the sound of those speakers or all of that equipment in that small room is doing bizarre things to the sound.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:That makes me wonder if audiophiles are going for solar power. Imagine, your electricity doesn't have to flow through all that filthy commoner wiring before it mates with your precious gear. Now you can control the purity of the power all the way into your system. And the music would have to sound warmer if the gear is powered by the sun. brb, making a 10x normal cost "audiophile" power inverter
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strtj posted:Ugh, the EQ settings on that Pioneer 1250 are pretty extreme. Either he doesn't actually like the sound of those speakers or all of that equipment in that small room is doing bizarre things to the sound. I mean, the music’s hella wack, so maybe the guy’s just trolling?
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I certainly wouldn't play anything I didn't want ruined for me. https://twitter.com/ReaperHipHop/status/1390830469445455872?s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I certainly wouldn't play anything I didn't want ruined for me. It will probably be the last thing you ever hear so
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I certainly wouldn't play anything I didn't want ruined for me. Flashbacks to the first time I got to DJ on a real soundsystem 
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all the soundsystem chat over the last month has made me low-key want to build a soundsystem but then also I would need to get friends to go to events or do gigs with
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Ok Comboomer posted:all the soundsystem chat over the last month has made me low-key want to build a soundsystem You should, if nothing else it's good fun and a learning experience.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:You should, if nothing else it's good fun and a learning experience. no dude, if I’m gonna drop $10 grand on fun learning experiences in audio I have a laundry list of things I want to try first Edit: and they take up exponentially less space Plus you need a crew, and places to gig and poo poo, and a subculture to participate in. I am a goon. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 12:42 on May 10, 2021 |
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