KozmoNaut posted:

The "fancy power cable brigade" has gone into a self-sustaining cycle of bullshit posts, describing the changes power cables made to their systems as "monumental", "earth-shattering" and "blew me off my chair". One of them even said that the changes were similarly massive as changing interconnect cables, I guess I can only agree with him on that

I've asked them to compare these effects and rate them compared to something like moving a speaker 1cm sideways or moving their heads while listening to music. If the above-mentioned changes are that massive to them, the phase and time delay changes from moving about slightly while listening must be absolutely galactic in magnitude.

88h88 posted:

True but that thing is so loving tiny there's no way it's capable of outputting frequencies that low. It's a little box with an LED on it, pure audiophile grade toss that doesn't do anything. None of the poo poo on that market does.

88h88 posted:

I know dude, I just wanted to talk about the box of nothing and yours seemed like a good bit to quote. To create pulses or waves under 20hz requires a bit more firepower than will ever be in that box is all I'm saying.

KozmoNaut posted:

It actually has a handful of components, at least $10 worth including the PCB.

Flipperwaldt posted:

I've found that too much not enough whisky increases jitter.

KillHour posted:

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's good for "Breaking FCC regulations." Was I close?

Edit: That antenna isn't nearly long enough to generate a 7.83Hz wave. Some back-of-the-napkin math is giving me a wavelength of ~38,000 KM.

Double Edit: I reported them to the FCC.

strtj posted:

Stereophile reviews a setup at a high-end audio show where the cost of the power cables alone is more than double that of the main speakers:

http://www.stereophile.com/content/rmaf-2014-another-class-entirely

quote:

Cables: Transparent, Nordost
Transparent Reference XL Digital Cables ($10,885/3 pieces)
Transparent Opus MM2 Audio Cables ($108,630/4 pairs)
Transparent Reference XL Audio cables ($38,365/3 pairs)
Nordost Odin and Valhalla I Power Cables & Distribution ($69,400/10 pieces)

BANME.sh posted:

The funny thing about this is that since tapes are analog, they automatically get higher respect than MP3s among a large swath of audiophiles. Never mind the fact that cassette tapes have no more than 6 or 7 bits worth of "resolution" in them on a good day, utilizing the best playback equipment. If you actually tried to carry out this troll, there's a good chance the dealer wouldn't even bat an eye.

Audiot posted:

Behold! For those of us stuck in the past using physical media Furutech has come to our rescue. You can throw out your old and lovely SK-II and order the new and improved SK-III. Now with 10% more Corona discharge fibers! This piece you will remove 300-500v of Frictional Static Discharge on CD's! I have no idea what any of this means, but if it's good enough for the Japanese police force, then it's got to be amazing and not bull poo poo at all.

http://www.furutech.com/2014/08/06/9773/

hellfaucet posted:

I WANT SICK SOUNDING poo poo TRANSMITTING VIA WI-FI IN MY loving HOUSE, BRO.

Give me solutions instead of being a dick. I'm here because you know more than me.

The Devil Tesla posted:

Anyone post this yet?

KozmoNaut posted:

jhcain posted:

Hmm. I guess this will be amusing:

jhcain posted:

Nope, not. What is it, that makes me a fool? My setup is not anywhere near the cost of the gear you folks seem to mock. You're not convincing me, is all - just as I can't convince you otherwise, apparently. An impasse!

breaks posted:

So he could hang some heavy curtains, or pay an artist to hussy up some acoustic foam somehow. Get some custom built corner traps that match his room and are unobtrusive. If he finds the pono comparable to the dac2/squeezebox/special power supply thing then sell the latter to fund the custom treatments and end up with better sound. It is easy to make things look nice by spending money.

Palladium posted:

If you looking for useful info or reviews other than on cheapo gear on Head-Fi, you are at the wrong place.

Gimperial posted:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/pono-player-review-a-tall-refreshing-drink-of-snake-oil/


Ars' review of the Pono.

Zorak of Michigan posted:

That ensures that the cables haven't burned in to match the components! You can't possibly get the best aspect out of a system without matching and burning in the cables.

flosofl posted:

I got 4 of 5. I'm curious as to whether someone can actually "miss" all 5 or if they're cynically giving out 5s and 4s. And if they *do* actually accurately report if someone misses all 5 does it say something like, "Begone pleb! Stick to your lovely MP3s and cheap box wine."

BigFactory posted:

I mean the idea that a student especially can't gain insight into their field by studying a complementary skill or technique is really strange to me. If nothing else, doesn't having some deeper understanding of what the great photographers of the past had to do for their craft have some value?. Is it as valuable as learning photoshop in 2015, I'm not sure. Probably not, but education is a hard thing to define in absolute terms like that. I think they both have value, but as I've said before, feel free to disagree, and if you have to be angry in your disagreement I guess I can't stop you guys!

Woolie Wool posted:

I was going to post an argument, but you know what, I'm not even going to bother engaging with someone who insists that an absolute bargain basement integrated unit similar to the very cheapest thing Schiit makes (the Fulla, which is just like the E10k and priced at $79) with a cheap 3.5mm jack is somehow better than a dedicated DAC three rungs up the food chain with RCA outputs. I shouldn't have even mentioned what sound hardware I was using because goons get all crazy about anything above the absolute cheapest poo poo available with anything that's not reducible to pure numbers of gigabytes, gigahertz, and gigaflops.

$3 interconnects are good enough I read something about James Randi and cables third hand once checkmate audiophools

why would you want a tube amp solid state is better here look at this line graph

RoadCrewWorker posted:

This reads so much like a clumsy parody written by a teen, down to the yahoo.com email address, my first impulse is to tell the guy to tone the joke down more than a bit.

Kinda hard to sympathize with the marks ignoring all the red flags.

Don Lapre posted:

Why isn't he using a first gen PS1 for his cd audio playback

Palladium posted:

In PC hardware analogy, a Behringer UCA202 DAC would be akin to Nvidia selling a GTX Titan X SLI for the price of a 8GB USB flashdrive which will be shunned by our game-o-philes who would rather be discussing to death about whether their $10,000 VGA cables makes any difference to the FPS on their lovely 1024x768 TN LCD screens when playing Doom 1.

baka kaba posted:

Either that or they're intentionally using cheap poo poo so you know you're paying all that money for tonez tech. Mmm utilitarian and great value! No need to resort to marketing gimmicks when your core product works so well - just honest engineers charging what it costs to build a quality system, no more no less

Khablam posted:

That line between parody and genuine advertising seems to have completely slipped away

Khablam posted:

You have it all wrong; when it's so good you can't even measure the difference, that's when you know you have golden ears.

Woolie Wool posted:

Well some people actually buy 20-year-old V8 Ferraris. A lightly used Corvette will be much cheaper, faster, safer, probably handle better, has some actual cargo room, and the gas mileage is much better, but many people, given the choice between the keys to a C6 Corvette and a Ferrari F355, are going to take the Ferrari. Sometimes the sensible choice is just boring, and tubes are cool. I personally don't give much of a gently caress about my amp's measurements, I know they're worse than the solid-state models from the same manufacturer and I don't care. I didn't get it because I wanted to have objectively the best amp, it's a real live tube amp that actually amps with tubes for less than $400, and it's really cool seeing the heaters come on and in replacing the worn out input tubes with ECC88s that were made before most of the people on SA were even born. Do they sound better than the 6N1Ps sounded when they were new? Who the gently caress cares, how many things do you have that were made in 1965?

HFX posted:

As compared to AM radios in general? Did you replace the caps? How are the speakers in the cabinet?

Panty Saluter posted:

crosspostin'