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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WkKz1LJbQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7LqMMSdz8 i can't even fathom how much money this mentally ill guy wasted on all of that e: just that paper he puts on everything is $25 a sheet e2: this guy was banned from headfi.org for being too crazy The_Franz fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 30, 2017 |
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The_Franz posted:e2: this guy was banned from headfi.org for being too crazy This is really saying something
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is headfi.org the forum that banned double-blind testing or is that a different one?
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pram posted:yeah but it gave your lovely onboard audio warmth literally
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wdarkk posted:is headfi.org the forum that banned double-blind testing or is that a different one? I looked up the rules on their forum and they restrict all objectivity to one subforum: "If what you want to post includes words/phrases like "placebo," "expectation bias," "ABX," "blind testing," etc., please post it in the Sound Science forum." https://www.head-fi.org/articles/terms-of-service.6725/
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I'm reading their science subforum and the first two threads I clicked were: 1) a guy skeptically asking for scientific studies that prove loud sounds can cause hearing damage and 2) A guy arguing angrily that 2 files with the same binary data can have different sound quality.
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Jul 30, 2017 07:50
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something awfuls tagline literally predicted the future
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Salt Fish posted:I'm reading their science subforum and the first two threads I clicked were: 1) a guy skeptically asking for scientific studies that prove loud sounds can cause hearing damage and 2) A guy arguing angrily that 2 files with the same binary data can have different sound quality. THE WARMTH OF THE BITS
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found that a function called memcpy was the culprit, most memory players use memcpy and this is one of the reasons why memory play sounds worse ie digital sounding. Fortunately there is an optimised version of memcpy from http://www.agner.org/optimize/, using this version removes the hard edge produced by memcpy. the other thing I did was to close the file after reading into the buffer. also most players use malloc to get memory while new is the c++ method and sounds better.
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Don't forget to connect them with high quality cables, the best are directional, so the bits have priority and get to your DAC unmolested. http://www.audioquest.com/ethernet/vodka Edit: haha- cables only marginally pass 6e standards https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/340-audiophile-ethernet-cable-gets-a-marginal-pass-on-the-test-bench/ Forward Toward fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Jul 30, 2017 |
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Forward Toward posted:Don't forget to connect them with high quality cables, the best are directional, so the bits have priority and get to your DAC unmolested. http://www.audioquest.com/ethernet/vodka this was a delightful sunday morning read, ty 
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pram posted:i remember this motherboard lol holy poo poo i didn't realize that was a motherboard until you posted this. i thought it was some random lovely amp loving lol
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Jul 30, 2017 18:08
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ahaha i forgot about the ac97 audio nonsense there, literally the only difference between that board and mine was i didnt have a vacuum tube on it so it was half the price
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otoh the vacuum tube likely actually *does* something. something that can be heard by human ears at that. so sort of a far lower rung of madness than the "different copies of the same bits having different sound" that starts the thread off
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Jul 30, 2017 21:18
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someone should make a quality laptop, that next to the keyboard has a socket where one can insert a tube which, if present, is used for the amp. i could respect that. just the right level of insanity.
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Jul 30, 2017 21:19
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make it a phone instead, and sell an external battery pack so you can have a battery life longer than 30 minutes. the external pack is just a car battery in a gigantic fanny pack
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Jul 30, 2017 21:30
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tubes use a comparatively large amount of power but not that much
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i wonder if anyone has put tubes on a soundblaster
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:someone should make a quality laptop, that next to the keyboard has a socket where one can insert a tube which, if present, is used for the amp. i could respect that. just the right level of insanity.
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while i'm sure that's true does it need to be said here
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Jul 31, 2017 08:59
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DJ Commie posted:tubes use a comparatively large amount of power but not that much
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Millstone posted:Your POSTS ARE WORTHLESS GARBAGE AND you ACT LIKE A PEDANTIC FUCKWIT feel free to buy me an avatar elucidating the matter further
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:someone should make a quality laptop, that next to the keyboard has a socket where one can insert a tube go on
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an audiophile what listens to spotify
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SRQ posted:this is such an obscure and amazing joke <3 i'd thought it was that they'd been bought out by creative but it turns out they were bought out by the gouvernement du quebec to keep them from getting bought out by creative, which would've been way better than watching them splash around gulping water and making 16-bit gurgling noises for a few years and then getting hauled in by a taiwanese fishing boat i think creative are a shameful company but putting a game port on a game card was a no brainer, and the sb16 was almost as amazing as its competitors' painful inability to make a competing version
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ran into some guy online a few weeks back on a discord talking about his $1000s of audio equipment for the most pure sounds...then when I asked him about his opinion on flacs he didn't know what those were, and then I found out he just listens to music on youtube
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Jul 31, 2017 16:10
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high end audio equipment is marketed towards idiots
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I’m trying to get a sansui automatic turntable
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Whatever, if you only spend "a few thousand dollars" you're not really even scratching the surface of audiophilia.
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any computer nowadays is plenty able to compute high quality audio, but it really comes down to analog to digital or digital to analog conversion after playing something that's 16-24 bit and 44.1 is probably good enough depending on what was recorded, how it was recorded and the way it was mixed
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All I want for Christmas is for this to please please be real and part of their actual marketing strategy
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LP0 ON FIRE posted:any computer nowadays is plenty able to compute high quality audio, but it really comes down to analog to digital or digital to analog conversion after playing something that's 16-24 bit and 44.1 is probably good enough depending on what was recorded, how it was recorded and the way it was mixed dacs that were "reference quality" 20 years ago are like pennies in bulk now but that doesn't stop audio companies from finding esoteric and ugly ways to charge 5 figgies for them
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The ultimate military grade USB Audio output for desktop PCs
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qirex posted:high resolution music is loving hilarious, especially since in some cases it actually raises the noise floor [from totally imperceptible to another, slightly higher but still totally imperceptible value] even mp3s can sound a lot better than they used to because of the improvements made to the encoding. it's absurd what people can convince themselves what formats sound better than others too, when they can virtually sound the same (flac vs wav or apple lossless)
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Once you're beyond £500-600 of amp and speakers the single biggest thing impacting the sound is the room you play it in. It's amazing how many people buy multi thousand pound speakers systems then stick the speakers behind the couch or in a corner
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love the dudes on avs who have like 2 JBL M2s [5 feet tall x 2 feet wide] in a normal suburban living room flanking a 48" tv
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spankmeister posted:Mostly the heaters. isn't it more the grid/plate voltages rather than the 2watt heater? not that it matters because lol netburst tdp is 20x that heater power
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qirex posted:love the dudes on avs who have like 2 JBL M2s [5 feet tall x 2 feet wide] in a normal suburban living room flanking a 48" tv i know it's totally pointless, and all you need a solid system with tiny surround speakers with a decent sub, and it will sound fine also lol at all the at-home-producers making their audio mix sound good only on their expensive monitors without near-field monitors
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DJ Commie posted:isn't it more the grid/plate voltages rather than the 2watt heater? Nah mate high voltage low current.
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