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48 is what most studios use for mastering so it's kind of a convenience thing that they don't need to transcode it. There's no harm to high res PCM over 16/44 other than file size. MQA, on the other hand, is stupid garbage and DSD I'm pretty sure only exists as a reason for people to yell at DAC manufacturers on the internet and get misty eyed about SACD.
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DancingShade posted:But I want to warm out those cool highs. "Ever since I switched to these new D'Agostino monoblocks the bass is fuller and treble is less harsh!" qirex fucked around with this message at 22:12 on May 18, 2021 |
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Yeah those PJs are pretty good and merino is a decent material but I think you'll find that for people with the most highly resolving systems our custom rabbit angora blend offers a wider soundstage, with deeper velvety blacks [they also contain velvet].
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May 19, 2021 16:15
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For your speakers and amp I'd strongly suggest narwhal.
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May 19, 2021 22:14
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Guess the price without looking it up
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May 20, 2021 16:46
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The LED is the wrong color blue! McIntosh is smart, they know their market and stick to it and having distinctive design goes miles in that price bracket, once you get one there's a slippery slope to the whole blue VU stack.
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May 20, 2021 18:41
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Oh wow, it's huge At that point I feel like they should have just made it full width. I'd also guess some suspiciously expensive rack ears are coming as well.
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May 20, 2021 21:17
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This thread is Poe’s Law incarnate
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May 21, 2021 04:29
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You have to be at least partially infected to understand enough to make fun of the people who go full Kimber Cable. On the flipside I once told a normal person how much my system cost [and it's not very expensive] and he looked at me like I had three heads.
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KillHour posted:https://mackie.com/products/srm-v-class-series-high-performance-powered-loudspeakers  Can we make this the thread background?
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May 25, 2021 16:41
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:I'm pretty sure honkiness and audiophilia have a linear relationship. KEEP HONKING I'M
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May 27, 2021 00:19
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njsykora posted:Have there been any good audiophile tantrums yet over the push towards lossless streaming? It’s not high res enough! Current complaining trends include lack of support for DSD, a niche format only used by SACD until recently which apparently has hideous license fees despite its [because of?] its obscurity so it has extremely limited support outside of foobar2000
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Jun 1, 2021 05:37
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LessLoss are the ones who make the Blackbody, the spiritual successor to the VPI Magic Brick. Fake edit: it’s now active! Still does nothing.
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Jun 2, 2021 23:41
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smellmycheese posted:I was thinking the other day. Has anyone ever tried a speaker cable company that just sells cables of stranded precious metals? Silver for the pleb tier, moving on up to gold and platinum, and then some ultra rare earth metals for the big spenders. I reckon it could be a money spinner There are definitely silver cables out there but I've never heard of gold, even at the stupid 80 grand MIT Cables level. I'd guess no supplier makes stranded gold wire for them to use.
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Neurophonic posted:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z9hZtKFLRHG-U7Ng2aKerg
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Crime on a Dime posted:https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/apple-musics-lossless-and-hi-res-mess-r1022/
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There's nothing an audiophile loves more than a dead format, the less convenient the better [see the recent interest in reel to reel]. I'm personally looking forward to people complaining about stuff not supporting MQA in the future.
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polyester concept posted:these guys are just so close to truly understanding why $20 worth of components marked up to $500 sounds "as good" as the same components marked up to $5000.
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the idea of "good enough" is anthema to the audiophile mentality where you're always a few thousand dollars away from a wider soundstage, more holographic presence or tighter bass so a literal one dollar cable that can be bit perfect all day forever doesn't make sense I have had digital audio fuckups and yeah they are not subtle, typically so bad that you immediately scramble for the remote to skip to the next track
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At a point it's more about having nice stuff than just stuff that sounds good, e.g. splashing out for a $5k NAD M33 over a cheaper streamer/integrated like the MiniDSP SHD or getting fancy custom veneer on Salk speakers over some piano black other thing. I think in the apartment I'm in now $5k is about the ceiling and most of that would be speakers since I already have a pretty good sub. If I had a dedicated listening room I'd love something like Dynaudio Contour 30s but a lot of that is to look at, the silver oak finish is so nice. I'd probably also spend money on making any room treatment not look like foam blocks covered in airport carpet.
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Jun 17, 2021 23:26
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Big fan of the blind pulls lining up in a way that it looks like your TV is held up by string.
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Oh god that’s tempting. I tried some of their open ones and they were super nice. That said I have no interest in going full headphone grognard, I’m trying to spend less time at my desk.
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My Elegias arrived and they're real good, folks. I never would have paid a grand for them but I can't imagine wanting nicer headphones. Maybe the same thing but lighter? I'm not used to full size sets. If I had to complain about anything the cord kinda sucks but fortunately it uses standard connectors so I can just get a good one for $15.
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BurritoJustice posted:Calling bad cables "lamp cords" is usually a joke but the focal cables genuinely resemble old kitschy appliance cables. They're stiff as gently caress and actually have a goofy striped pattern.
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I bought the Elegias from that deal and after a few weeks of listening [and a new cable, the the included one sucks] I absolutely love them. That said I will probably never spend that much on headphones again in my life but I don’t regret it.
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Don't electric cars not need geared transmissions since motors have the same torque across the power range? That said, adding a manual transmission to an electric car would be an extremely audiophile kind of thing to do.
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It's started happening: I've been listening to stuff mentioned in audiophile equipment reviews and going "wow, this is great," I think it's the slope to listening to the equipment. Anyway, "The MIraculous" by Anna von Hausswolff sounds really good on my headphones. For maximum audiophile grognard compatibility it features both a solo female vocalist and a pipe organ.
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strtj posted:Well, Stereophile reviewed B&W DM302 speakers (https://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/542/index.html) and the Pro-Ject Debut III turntable (https://www.stereophile.com/turntables/pro-ject_debut_iii_record_player/index.html), both of which I've owned and appreciated, but I wouldn't exactly call them high-end. I meant listening to the music that reviewers mention. Like every true audio nerd I already have 5+ bench dream systems in mind from $5k to infinity
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magnepans are almost the platonic ideal of an audiophile speaker, they take up a whole room, need beefy amps, require huge amounts of tweaking and have a sweet spot exactly the size of one person
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I remember reading a Magnepan review way back when I first heard about them and I lost it when the reviewer said “they really opened up when I moved them 10 feet from the back wall.”
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afen posted:Remember to plug your unused inputs: https://ansuz-acoustics.com 
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These dudes will absolutely spend 75 grand on speakers and never go to live shows.
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"Timing" is my favorite too, like they seem to imply that on a cheap amp the sounds come out in the wrong order. What Hifi seems to be the prime offender here, they'll talk about cables or even a surge protector improving timing or "organization"
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Zeos' cat Chewbacca died 
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movax posted:Also, I think I posted in this thread about it but must be loving blind — what was the brand that would make custom braided / colored cables for you if you didn’t mind spending some extra bucks for something that you know doesn’t sound any better but looks cooler? Saves me the time of buying the braid / connectors from Digi-Key and putting it all together. Blue Jeans Cable does this.
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lolquote:Subwoofer Size 5" (127.00mm)
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There should be a consumer protection law that you're not allowed to call something a subwoofer if it could be knocked over by an energetic housecat.
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njsykora posted:On the one hand this is hilarious on the other hand I kinda dig the aesthetic as a PS1 fan. My very first post in this thread 12 years ago  was about how I hilarious I thought that phenomenon was, glad to see it's still going strong.
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There will never be a topic where the handwaving is so much more elaborate than the actual science [which is pretty simple] than AC power.
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