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Ok Comboomer posted:This is technically not 90s poo poo (2001-2003) but I remember those late generation SONY Discmen that were rather ovoid and had crazy skip protection that felt like the future I had the silver version of that that could do MP3 CD as well, it was pretty great.
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The coolest thing was bypassing the open lid switch and removing the CD while it was playing, and showing off to your friends that it was still playing music even though the CD was removed   And then putting in a different CD before the buffer ran out. polyester concept fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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Ok Comboomer posted:This is technically not 90s poo poo (2001-2003) but I remember those late generation SONY Discmen that were rather ovoid and had crazy skip protection that felt like the future I had a Sony Discman that I mostly used at home, and I always thought it SUCKED until I was loving around with it and managed to turn off the skip-protection. Then it sounded fine. I guess memory was expensive so the buffer was hell of compressed?
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90 seconds of uncompressed 16/44 audio is just under 16 MB, idk what that cost in the early 2000s but it couldn't have been much.
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polyester concept posted:90 seconds of uncompressed 16/44 audio is just under 16 MB, idk what that cost in the early 2000s but it couldn't have been much. The buffer on mine was like... I wanna say less than ten seconds. (I tested it at the time but it was so long ago  WHERE'S MY PAP)
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Later Discman models would compress the music with ATRAC into the buffer so it could be longer with less memory capacity, this included transcoding MP3 to ATRAC. These are The Worst Discmen.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The buffer on mine was like... I wanna say less than ten seconds. (I tested it at the time but it was so long ago Mine had ten seconds, but I think the CD speed was 1.5x so it took 20 seconds to build that up. There was a rough part of the road on my way to work, and if I sped up just enough, I could make it to the other end without the buffer running out.
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My SMSL M6 DAC will not remember it's volume setting when powered off and on again. Does this imply that it is designed to be left on 24/7? I prefer not to leave it on for long periods as it becomes hot to the touch which I can't imagine is good for longevity?
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It doesn't SEEM ideal, but it's certainly possible that despite being "on" 24/7 and hot, it could potentially run for 10 years.
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qirex posted:Later Discman models would compress the music with ATRAC into the buffer so it could be longer with less memory capacity, this included transcoding MP3 to ATRAC. These are The Worst Discmen. I've been looking for a discman, what is a model you would recommend?
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Pvt. Parts posted:My SMSL M6 DAC will not remember it's volume setting when powered off and on again. Does this imply that it is designed to be left on 24/7? I prefer not to leave it on for long periods as it becomes hot to the touch which I can't imagine is good for longevity? You want to keep it warm to drive off any humidity that might cause sticky or even soggy bits. Powering it down is akin to shutting down the ghostbusters containment grid.
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TooLShack posted:I've been looking for a discman, what is a model you would recommend? An original PlayStation in a briefcase
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TooLShack posted:I've been looking for a discman, what is a model you would recommend? The newest you can get for a reasonable price. I have gone through of the old "high-end" metal chassis models like the D-555, D-350 and D-9, and using them is like trying to keep an old Lamborghini running. It's not worth the effort. My more modern cheap plastic Sonys are 100% reliable, sound great and can run for much longer on a single AA battery.
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evobatman posted:on a single AA battery. Just use a power adapter like me. It's not like goons jog or something.
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polyester concept posted:90 seconds of uncompressed 16/44 audio is just under 16 MB, idk what that cost in the early 2000s but it couldn't have been much.
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F4rt5 posted:Didn't the first buffered discmen have like 5 seconds memory or something?
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F4rt5 posted:4 MB RAM after the Kobe quake in 199..4? 5? Cost $150 easy. Easily 2000's? About $40? Didn't the first buffered discmen have like 5 seconds memory or something? 1MB SIMMs got up over $100 each during that time. It was a nightmare.
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F4rt5 posted:4 MB RAM after the Kobe quake in 199..4? 5? Cost $150 easy. Easily 2000's? About $40? Didn't the first buffered discmen have like 5 seconds memory or something? I looked up ramp prices yesterday, seems they tanked hard '01/'02, but 16MB was only ~$20 and falling from '97 on, though massively expensive beforehand (retail for SIMMs/DIMMs). Still a substantial cost for a single component. https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Just use a power adapter like me. It's not like goons jog or something. My first Technics portable CD player didn’t have antishock, something I found to be quite a detriment when I tried to listen to it on the bus. My Walkman remained the portable unit of choice.
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Fiio has a new top of the line DAP that's shooting for desktop DAC level power and sound quality. They spent all this effort to make it super low noise and distortion. Of course it runs so hot that they make a stand with a fan to cool it off while running. I'm sure that extra couple of dB in SINAD is worth having to run a loud fan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3ZSSZB8GM
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Thats loving stupid and gently caress DAPs. They spend %80 of your money on the phone/android part and the rest on the amp.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Just use a power adapter like me. It's not like goons jog or something. It me, the kid who celebrated when her parents got a Subaru with a 12v port in the back so I could plug my Discman and Game Gear in for road trips.
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It’s hilarious to me that Amir at audio science review has so much power now that companies are chasing SINAD numbers, which will probably have a bunch of unintended consequences other ways [like a fan on a portable player]. That said check the Topping PA5:  the $3k Benchmark AHB2 is the only amp he's had that measures better by his tests
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qirex posted:It’s hilarious to me that Amir at audio science review has so much power now that companies are chasing SINAD numbers, which will probably have a bunch of unintended consequences other ways [like a fan on a portable player]. That said check the Topping PA5: Oh dang, I've been looking for a good quality desktop amp to drive my bookshelf speakers at my desktop PC. This looks close to the perfect match!
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Those are some great numbers. The only issue is it is not very powerful (48 W at 8 ohms and 83 W at 4 ohms) but it seems perfect for a small system.qirex posted:It’s hilarious to me that Amir at audio science review has so much power now that companies are chasing SINAD numbers, which will probably have a bunch of unintended consequences other ways [like a fan on a portable player]. Yuns fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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If you spent less than $200 on the fuse for each piece of equipment in your signal chain, you’re a Luddite: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/the-new-synergistic-research-purple-fuses The real gold begins a dozen posts in.
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Neurophonic posted:If you spent less than $200 on the fuse for each piece of equipment in your signal chain, you’re a Luddite: Oh my god, you struck the motherlode here
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That synergistic research scam is one of the worst in the entire hobby. I mean that's probably not true, most of the hobby is a scam. Still, they are so far over the top, it's one of the worst.
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This is amazing.quote:Actually just having your system turned on, or even the single component you are re-fusing left on (it is always a good idea change only one component fuse at a time until you determine correct fuse directionality) is sufficient in most cases to burn in a fuse, no music necessary. It is paramount however that you first determine correct fuse orientation on a fuse-by-fuse basis before placing in the next fuse in your system and again listening in both directions where the correct directionality should be readily appertains as more air and detail. If switching from a prior SR fuse model like Orange start Purple in the same direction, if it does not sound immediately better in most ways simply reverse the Purple fuse direction. Due to a new conditioning process, purple fuses may not always perfectly mirror the same orientation as prior SR Fuses. After determining the correct directionality for one or more fuses leave your system turned on to speed realization of best performance.
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Fuse Directionality
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loving $199.95 fuses. Here's the spiel from their website:quote:How fuses alter the sound of your system. For over one hundred years people believed electrons flowed like water through a pipe and that once ‘contaminated’ by miles of wire, there was little or nothing that could be done to ‘clean’ the electricity feeding your components. Consider this: the electricity feeding your system’s components first propagates through a single fuse. This is why significant gains in sound quality are possible when you insert an SR Black or Blue Fuses into each of your components. Are they claiming that alternating current is a new discovery?
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I'm not sure, just going to send money
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smellmycheese posted:An original PlayStation in a briefcase Time for a new thread title?
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Karia posted:loving $199.95 fuses. Here's the spiel from their website: Relevant post from the meme thread 
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Some guy on AVS recently claimed that " Electricity is a weird misunderstood thing, even now..." and it's like motherfucker how did you post that then? He also liked fuses.
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magnets are just solidified electricity
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So I looked up the patents assigned to Mr Denney. The one for fuses was cancelled, with a sick burn from the patent office: However he did manage to patent this: https://patents.google.com/patent/AU2016352913A1/en
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Neurophonic posted:So I looked up the patents assigned to Mr Denney. The one for fuses was cancelled, with a sick burn from the patent office: The mark consists of a person paying $200 for a looped cable inside a rectangular box.
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All of that done passively, too, simply by painting your walls. That is some magic loving paint. Coating your walls in a hardened thin layer of crushed crystals or ceramics would probably make the acoustics even worse. polyester concept fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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You put a dung layer over the crystals
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