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Confounding Factor posted:I have a question for you guys. If a headphone say has a frequency range from x to y, does that really matter versus what the human ear can actually hear at certain frequencies? It sounds highly suspicious when headphones boast about stuff like that. Not really, no. All that says is that it can produce sounds at that frequency, but not whether someone can actually hear it or not. For that, it really depends on factors like age, hearing loss, etc. If you're over 25, you're probably not going to hear anything above 17kHz, so take that as you will. Additionally, the power it takes for you to hear certain frequencies is wildly different. GonadTheBallbarian fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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RoadCrewWorker posted:I don't know, that sounds pretty in line with the rest of the thread. Vinyl sucks, argument over.
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slothzilla posted:I think the audiophile phenomena has very little to do with logic and most everything to do with emotion. I'd be willing to bet an amp with a solar battery and low power opamp chips could be marketed as the "best of both worlds" with high, sustainable performance driven by the cleanest possible power source, the sun! Think your music was warm before? Try driving your cans with power from a thing with a surface temp of 5778 degrees Kelvin! Ugh.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Then again, how much start-up money will a company selling electrical cord inside garden hose need? As much as you possibly could wring from crowdfunding.
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rear end Catchcum posted:Ah ok this was the wrong thread... It was the exact right thread.
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Flipperwaldt posted:"I need some in ear monitors. But where to ask? Headphone thread? Couldn't be. Small questions? Nah. Ridicule audiophiles, yeah, that sounds about right." To be fair, there's a bit of audiophoolery in there, which is more than enough to drive skeptics away from that thread.
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88h88 posted:Welcome to the world of audiophiles. Sounds like something Pinhead would say
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The coat hanger ABX is also a really good way to get them when you're pretty deep in.
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Dec 15, 2015 20:43
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It looks like something my father in law would make and release as shareware.
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EL BROMANCE posted:My minidisk deck as a DAC is still going strong. $20. Minidiscs own
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Woolie Wool posted:
This is great, thank you 
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There is nothing sane about audiophilia
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USB-C proliferation can't come soon enough
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KozmoNaut posted:You know that bullshit audiophile woo-woo "Fidelizer" program that promises to improve sound quality in Windows, but actually does nothing at all to the sound?
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Whatever, MD are fun. I use mine all the time when I'm snowboarding because if I end up breaking it I won't be heartbroken. Cheers!
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qirex posted:Stereophile's I needed this today, thank you
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Combat Pretzel posted:Courtesy of the Better Call Saul thread... 
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Jerry Cotton posted:So who's going to join my startup which is basically Lootcrate for audiophiles? I need people to turn driftwood into knobs, gather pretty pebbles, glue tin foil on some board, et cetera. Bonus if you know a cheap source of staples. You know, for cartridge horns. man that'd be funny to see happen for real
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Nothing about that decision isn't completely hilarious
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Here, read this and laugh
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They saw Sony touch the poop, why not do it too?
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I had the opportunity to, but I couldn't do it
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There are a few; do you need the DAC too? If not, you could grab an o2 amp off Amazon, or any one of a number of FiiO products on the cheap. They're not the greatest, but there's no need to spend a fortune
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Rest in piss
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Theris posted:Given his age and career, how likely is it that Niel Young could even hear the difference between a CD and a 64kbps MP3 recorded from a third generation analog cassette? 0%
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poo poo you just know someone is going to make an audiophile  strain
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EL BROMANCE posted:3 year old review, but this went up on Wat Hifi? yesterday, and has some lovely nonsense inside. Thank you for sharing this, I needed an example of this crap to show my younger writers in what NOT to do when you're searching for words to fill content.
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lol You could argue bt has a bigger carbon footprint, you could argue that having to charge yet another thing is inconvenient, you could argue that the no-battery/no-antenna cans are more durable, or a million other objectively true downsides to Bluetooth... But get the gently caress out of here with that noise about artifacting. What are you the villain from Star trek generations, ripped out of the Nexus every time there's a minor change in what you listen to?
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I mean yeah, BT is inherently not as good as wired's performance ceiling, but if you're listening on the subway, a bus, or any other noisy environment auditory masking is going to be a much bigger concern. 
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That makes sense—that's exactly where you'd hear the differences, anyway. It's a bit of a pain if you have a phone that doesn't support the latest codecs, but modern BT really comes close to the point where most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference. There's also a million and one reasons why a set of headphones would sound shittier than another one, so the problem might also not be completely just "bluetooth."
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No arguments there—I'm 100% on team wired. But all else being equal, BT isn't poo poo right now, even if it's not preferable for some people—I guess is the main point here. Still makes no goddamn sense as to why Apple ditched the headphone jack oh wait
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Owe you a beer. All there is to it.
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Yeah it's... a thing Kudos for trying to reduce filesize I guess? idk
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Sep 19, 2017 19:55
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I know it's a joke but you should legit do that
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Sep 20, 2017 16:43
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Holy gently caress
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Oct 10, 2017 06:58
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If they're anything like their planar magnetic headphones they should be fun
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Hahaha ahhhh 
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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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There is no such thing as legitimate audio enthusiast hype.
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Proteus Jones posted:I’ll always wonder why they handicapped themselves that way. At the time, beats was making 50 cents off every dollar spent on Bluetooth headphones. They basically bought their way into dominating the headphone industry- the AirPods too account for some absurd proportion of truly wireless earbud sales as well
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