spookygonk posted:

Didn't some people shave the edge off the CD to make it sound better?

Chinese to English auto translate posted:

I went back and forth to listen, and I didn't hear any difference.


If you have always used a degaussing device and a user who affixes a disc, and hear a difference, don't try this product, it may help you.

Ruflux posted:

Looking at the cool speakers posted here, I'll be honest: if I was rich I'd totally buy audio equipment on the basis of sounds good to my ears but also looks good according my tastes at the time. I've always had this kinda dumb dream of owning a full set of Genelecs solely because they look so unusual relative to most other high-end monitors or even speakers in general, but that's definitely in the realm of "if I ever won the lottery" because I don't see the point in spending crazy amounts of money on audio.

repiv posted:

Could you kick up the uh, 2c3d3d3?

XBenedict posted:

Ceramic tile is garbage, and not just for acoustics.

Zereth posted:

I'm pretty sure I threw that thing at enemies n Half-Life 2.

GonadTheBallbarian posted:

Honestly the Mackie cr5bt and the miniDSP 2x4 has been aces for me. A little expensive, but DSP is magic

Jerry Cotton posted:

Can't wait for Techmoaner to reveal that he is basically deaf.

5er posted:

I agonized for a bit over which thread my weird question would be right for, so apologies in advance if this is a miss.

I have a stock car stereo in a 2015 Nissan Sentra that can play music and acknowledge playlists from iPods. It's been working fine for three years now with my really old iPod Nano. The Nano will break eventually, Apple doesn't make them any more, and I will never own an iPhone and I have no interest in the 'touch'.

Are there any mp3 players that anyone knows of, third party to Apple, that would be compatible with or emulate the 'iPod' connectivity that the car stereo would work with?

LRADIKAL posted:

You are ruining this thread! There's another thread for quick audio questions and opinions!

Stuff like this! Portable headphone amp for 700$! Not the best audio quality, but pretty fair for the very low price!
https://www.audioadvice.com/mcintos...ZxoCHlEQAvD_BwE

qirex posted:

DACs are a solved problem, all the manufacturer can do is chase zeros on the spec sheet [Benchmark], make the signal slightly worse [Schiit] or put it in an extremely ugly case [Chord, Cyrus]. The DAC in my receiver which does high res PCM, DSD, crossover, volume control and EQ costs two dollars from AKM. There's a running thread in the AVS 2 channel forum where a guy recorded a song through an $8 Apple USB C DAC, through a cheap cable that's too long then back through a cheap desktop interface and had a Foobar ABX test against the original file. Nobody has been able to tell the difference when testing but there's a whole lot of people who won't take the test and want to yell at him for hundreds of pages.

Spazzle posted:

I'll assume this isn't a troll post you quoted. Why even key out the track? Wouldn’t the secondary tranfer groove be sufficient?

DancingShade posted:

I won't be happy until an audiophile buys their own private satellite to stream ripped Beatles vinyl from their living room to their bedroom.

Qwijib0 posted:

Gotta age those bits in the unfiltered sunlight of space so the right parts mellow for that perfect warm sound

Neurophonic posted:

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

I recently had to buy a sound card to get the right connectors for my receiver, and it came with a lighting kit.

I can only imagine the love/hate from audiophiles over whether that’s good or bad, but it’s the sort of slap fight I’d go behind the tennis courts to watch after school.

Ok Comboomer posted:

not to be one of those people but like
“Magnepans don’t really make bass” is one of those “water is wet” conclusions