Luckily it's not what the waves look like that we're interested in. And you can't get a perfect square wave in the analog domain, it's not possible through any method. It would require infinite power in at least one part of the system for an instant.
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Socket Ryanist posted:Luckily it's not what the waves look like that we're interested in.
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It's actually provable that a perfect square wave isn't possible: If two terminals supposedly have a voltage that's a perfect square wave, then if you connect a capacitor across them, it will have infinite current running through it at the point where it flips from + to -
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# ? Oct 28, 2011 09:53 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:Try to tell that the people, that judge audio compression techniques by looking at what remains (Original minus Decompressed) and how the spectrum looks like, instead of just listening to it. I'm sure there's a decently large cross-section with the audiophile bunch. In my opinion a lot of this idiocy (and those profiting from it) stems from the simple mentality of "more expensive must be better" which some people apply when they don't understand (or feel it's beyond their capability to understand) how to make an objective comparison. I know one guy who has a Monster HDMI cable that he payed over $100 for, he's definitely not someone who can afford to be throwing that kind of money down the drain and I'm pretty sure he was just trying to get the best out of his new TV when he decided against buying the $15 alternative. Take someone with more cash and wasting thousands instead of hundreds in a misguided attempt to get the best becomes a possibility. In addition I think a lot of them (especially the forum posting sort) just want to brag about how expensive their system is, and at the ridiculous end of the scale it pretty much requires buying bullshit because there are no cables that actually deliver tens of thousands of dollars worth of improvement.
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Out of boredom, I was googling for my company, who produces cables. I stumbled onto posts of the head-fi forum. There's a lot of poo poo going on, but this one took the cake for now (I guess I should be proud, tho):quote:A little more listening in, in my bedroom system and main system. Definitely a nice cord! Not just for the money, but overall. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Nov 7, 2011 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:I think the one place the Eupen might have a weakness is in overall speed. Does your cable have stripes or stickers on them? If not that's probably it.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 21:51 |
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http://www.ethanwiner.com/believe.html Show this to your nearest audiophile for a wonderfully clumsy attempt at dismissal.
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longview posted:Does your cable have stripes or stickers on them? If not that's probably it.
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# ? Nov 8, 2011 06:48 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:We should start to sell tiny spoilers to put on the plugs. Is there a way to put spinning rims on a cable?
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# ? Nov 8, 2011 17:04 |
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On a cable reel maybe.
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You should paint go faster stripes on your cables. Improves velocity factor, but only if you have aerodynamic plugs too.
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WanderingKid posted:You should paint go faster stripes on your cables. Improves velocity factor, but only if you have aerodynamic plugs too. You just have to make sure to use amagnetic paint, or cosmic rays will be attracted to the cable and end up causing jitter.
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Read the quote below: The Cynosure v2 is a statement on ultimate cable design. The ultimate realization of my cable construction philosophy using a core of my custom manufactured braid of my customer ultra pure CFDCT-UP-OCC-Ag conductors. This new wire is a great step up from my previous efforts, and allow the "sould" of the original Cynosure to stay intact, while allowing the cable to be even more quiet than before, and reveal even more inner details. As in the previous version, I surround the core with multiple layers (how many=proprietary) of damping and shielding. The layers consist of cotton, carbon fiber, Teflon, Mylar, Nylon, silver plated copper braid, and many more materials that I will not reveal. All Cynosure's are hand built, burned in, and evaluated in one of my reference systems, by me personally. It all starts with raw materials, I have a vendor partner who I have have taught (and wasted more money than I want to think about teaching them) to make my wire exactly like I want it made, and exactly to my specs, which I then treat with my CryoFreeze™ process as soon as I receive it. So, the raw materials are without peer. I then braid this masterpiece of a wire into a proprietary braid so that the conductors are evenly spaced, and arranged in the configuration I want them to be. Starting at $3549 for 3FT. Then click this link. Edit: Oh, and here's the return policy: Trial Policy: Any custom Locus Design cable may be returned within 30 days for a refund, if for some odd reason it does not perform as expected in your system. A 20% restocking fee (of the the total price) will be charged and any shipping charges incurred will be the responsibility of the buyer. In order to be eligible for return, the cable must be in 'new' condition (this condition will be evaluated by myself, ie., I will be the judge), returned within 30 days and have a valid RMA attached to the packaging. A Lone Girl Flier fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Dec 2, 2011 |
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The entire thing reads like a Smoove B article. "There will also be corn served." http://www.theonion.com/articles/turn-the-lights-down-low,16374/
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Waldo P Barnstormer posted:Read the quote below:
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# ? Dec 3, 2011 22:43 |
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The creepy Dewey Cox looking dude on the company page's beard would make a larger difference to the sound than these cables.
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# ? Dec 4, 2011 02:38 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:The thing with these cables is, they're too loving expensive to dismantle. Of the very few audiophiles that'll buy a poo poo cable like this, rarely anyone is going to take it apart and see what's under that heat shrink tube and braiding. Probably some cheap rear end Best Buy cable. Occasionally one gets torn apart by someone's cat and there's a shocking(!) autopsy. But mostly you're right.
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Twiin posted:Occasionally one gets torn apart by someone's cat and there's a shocking(!) autopsy. But mostly you're right. These people have cats? Don't they know how they change the acoustics? I mean, sure, staple a dead one in the corner as a baffle in a pinch, but running around randomly absorbing sound? Not in my listening room. And that's before you even get to their inductance.
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# ? Dec 4, 2011 05:46 |
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It takes cats to expose the stupidity of audiophiles.
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# ? Dec 8, 2011 08:34 |
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A local audio "company" has produced this abortion of a product and is supposedly getting rave reviews from the audiophile community: Can we make it a rule that whatever sites posts a positive review of crap like this that they automatically get discredited or something? It's just some rice paper, shoe laces & some iron filings or whatever. They even tell you how to store the things, and to never use tape on it or other non-organic ways of fastening it in the handy dandy installation manual http://www.referencetweaks.com/products.htm
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# ? Dec 27, 2011 15:04 |
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Since their high-tech AC power cables are supposedly shielded like gently caress, how do they explain that rice paper having any effect at all? These people are so gullible.
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Willeh posted:A local audio "company" has produced this abortion of a product and is supposedly getting rave reviews from the audiophile community: Those can't possibly be any good. They're not cryogenically treated, and they're the wrong colour.
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Gram-O-Phone posted:Those can't possibly be any good. They're not cryogenically treated, and they're the wrong colour. White cotton is neutral. Colours wraps add colouration to the sound.
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# ? Dec 28, 2011 02:09 |
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That poo poo is going to start a fire in some poor (rich) saps audio gear.
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Fatal posted:That poo poo is going to start a fire in some poor (rich) saps audio gear. You're right, so this product is irresponsible as well as loving stupid! They even sell a version you can install on the fuses in your house wiring, the mind boggles.
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They need to make edible versions of those rice paper wraps so I can rebalance my tongue on the sub molecular level and take my kobe beef cuisine to the next level. Advantage: its not a firehazard after you've eaten it.
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# ? Dec 28, 2011 14:52 |
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I did the poor mans version with
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# ? Dec 28, 2011 16:16 |
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What I find really depressing is how a poster on an 'audiophile' forum may post something that seems pretty smart, actually, but it only takes one other post to reveal that he's actually completely brainless: (It only gets worse from there...)
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# ? Dec 31, 2011 03:43 |
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I don't know if that forum is real or what but hot drat, post a link. Looks like a riot fun party over there.
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WanderingKid posted:I don't know if that forum is real or what but hot drat, post a link. Looks like a riot fun party over there. It's vinylengine. Please note I added the pictures to illustrate my point. (The top and bottom is an actor and the middle one is a result of GISing 'rapist'.) It does have rather amusing characters, though (I'm assuming this is a troll, of course): 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Dec 31, 2011 |
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Vinyl Engine's forums just like this one have posts that range from ludicrous to genuinely helpful. Don't dismiss all it's advice entirely because of the few psychos on there.
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# ? Dec 31, 2011 09:53 |
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I guess the point is that you can't trust the validity of any of the information because the ratio of right to wrong is such that you are better off fishing for opinions and then guessing at the correct answer your own self using applied logic. Gearslutz is like this. There are real pros on that forum and technology insiders like Paul Frindle and Dan Lavry and they are pretty good at explaining the concepts behind digital audio as far as it is possible to do so without math. But for every Paul Frindle theres a hundred posters that are exhibitions of the Dunning Kruger effect. You have to carefully parse everything that is said for factual errors, formal errors and cognitive biases, which is exhausting.
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# ? Dec 31, 2011 16:21 |
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At some point, you might start getting dragged into their rabbit hole. If you're confronted with so much bullshit, the lesser bullshit may start to seem plausible to you.
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Combat Pretzel posted:At some point, you might start getting dragged into their rabbit hole. It was the moment I found myself looking for a Garrard 301 on eBay that I knew they'd gotten to me.
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# ? Dec 31, 2011 17:27 |
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I want to start a forum where we ONLY allow DBT. I swear, we're like Audiophile Atheists.
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# ? Dec 31, 2011 18:14 |
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Exists already. Hydrogen Audio forums. It's kinda annoying, too. Even if you're just expressing a subjective preference over something non-technical, there's still always someone going "Auauagh! RULE 8!!!" or whatever number it is.
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# ? Jan 1, 2012 04:22 |
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The Technics vs. Everything Else Wars going on at vinylengine (and I assume other forums) are worse than the Commodore vs. Sinclair Spectrum wars I remember. I should just stop reading the forums and stick to what's good (the cartridge database and turntable manual selection).
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# ? Jan 1, 2012 04:37 |
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The vast majority of the anti-Technics posts are from serial threadshitter and professional troll bastlnut.
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Ron Burgundy posted:The vast majority of the anti-Technics posts are from serial threadshitter and professional troll bastlnut. There is a lot of Technics hate even outside the Internet. Also, it's basically impossible to tell who is a troll and who is being completely serious on an audiophile forum. Bastlnut sure does seem to like to start wars on purpose though. (Or maybe you meant you know him? )
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Jerry Cotton posted:There is a lot of Technics hate even outside the Internet. Also, it's basically impossible to tell who is a troll and who is being completely serious on an audiophile forum. Bastlnut sure does seem to like to start wars on purpose though. (Or maybe you meant you know him? ) I'm no audiophile by any means and I do have a Technics turntable, but I am curious: why do the Technics haters hate?
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