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hubris.height posted:are pie charts some kind of flavor of the month? they are a convenient way to represent a splitting of costs, and im p sure there was a recent rule on kickstarter that costs had to be explained (i.e. less "we're going to use your money to do the thing!!")
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the cold is gonna gently caress that violin up, come on dude
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Werthog 95 posted:oh if you actually read the kickstarter page they even called it a toblerone lol "our first idea turned out to be stupid and unworkable, so we went with a worse one"
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what large audio components are they really using tubes
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:what large audio components small heating coil to make the sound warmer
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:what large audio components read the FREAKING kickstarter GOSH no seriously please do so that somebody smarter than me can debunk it
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here • The digital filter used in the PonoPlayer has minimal phase, and no unnatural (digital sounding) pre-ringing. All sounds made (including music) always have reflections and/or echoes after the initial sound. There is no sound in nature that has any echo or reflection before the sound, which is what conventional linear-phase digital filters do. This is one reason that digital sound has a reputation for sounding "unnatural" and harsh. • All circuitry is zero-feedback. Feedback can only correct an error after it has occurred, which means that it can never correct for all errors. By using proprietary ultra-linear circuitry with wide bandwidth and low output impedance, there is no need for unnatural sounding feedback. • The DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) chip being used is widely recognized in the audio and engineering community as one of the best sounding DAC chips available today. • The output buffer used to drive the headphones is fully discrete so that all individual parameters and circuit values and parts quality can be fully optimized for the absolute finest sound quality. The output impedance is very low so that the PonoPlayer delivers perfectly flat frequency response and wide volume range using virtually any set of headphones.
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lol, they apparently demoed something on letterman a year and a half ago, and they still haven't finalized the design? huge commitment to quality over hype there
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Werthog 95 posted:here god i can't even parse this, audiophiles are the worst
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i guess what they mean when they describe cylindrical batteries as more efficient is 'cheaper'
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Werthog 95 posted:here 
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i'm the 20kHz low pass filter that will probably be on the output of that DAC
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its a good job that all the music on it has been nowhere near anything digital at any point in the recording, mixing or mastering process. studio engineers dont give a gently caress about 'pre ringing' or the warmth of the sound, theres no reason why people playing it back should.
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Caged posted:its a good job that all the music on it has been nowhere near anything digital at any point in the recording, mixing or mastering process. studio engineers dont give a gently caress about 'pre ringing' or the warmth of the sound, theres no reason why people playing it back should. you don't get audiophiles ddo you
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its ok neither do i, and i majored in signal processing
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im torn between whether writing a load of bullshit to take money off people is ok because the people that it takes money from are monumentally stupid and very vocal about defending their wrong opinions on how things sound. i think im ok with it because the laughs are good, and its not like anyone is making themselves poor by giving all their money away to a guy who makes little wooden plinths to stop speaker cables touching the floor.
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lmao are y'all really saying there's no difference in mp3 and flac?
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if the mp3 encoder isnt broken and youre playing them through a set of earphones in a normal environment where youd use a portable player then you wont be hearing a difference even if there is one
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Caged posted:if the mp3 encoder isnt broken and youre playing them through a set of earphones in a normal environment where youd use a portable player then you wont be hearing a difference even if there is one 
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Caged posted:if the mp3 encoder isnt broken and youre playing them through a set of earphones in a normal environment where youd use a portable player then you wont be hearing a difference even if there is one yeah you would for certain kinds of music. mp3 is intentionally designed to allow those things to sound worse in order to allow decoders to operate sufficiently fast on really quite minimal processing power, a deliberate tradeoff music formats newer than 1995 generally have better psychoacoustical models for that kind of stuff
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um they already covered this Will I really hear the PonoMusic difference in sound quality? Yes. We are confident that you will hear the difference. We're even more confident you will feel it. Everyone who’s ever heard PonoMusic will tell you that the difference is surprising and dramatic. Especially when they listen to music that they know well – their favorite music. They're amazed by how much better the music sounds – and astonished at how much detail they didn’t realize was missing compared to the original. They tell us that not only do they hear the difference; they feel it in their body, in their soul. Unfortunately, the way music is often listened to now, it allows us to recognize it as a song we might know, or a new song we might like, but not to hear or feel the music the way the artist created it. When we see a low quality photograph, we can almost always figure out what we are looking at - but when we study a truly stunning photograph, with the glorious detail and color and light and focus that a talented photographer can create with a great camera, we feel that picture differently – we are almost taken to the place it was shot, and to the same degree as listening to wonderfully recorded music, we can feel like we were “there”. The difference between “OK”, “good” and “great” is a personal assessment. We all know in our heart and soul what music is supposed to sound like – we have all heard it, in its perfect form – live. At Pono, we work every day to bring you more music to listen to, as you know it’s supposed to sound. pledge today
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Werthog 95 posted:um they already covered this
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Sham bam bamina! posted:guys this might sound like hyperbole but you have to remember that porno music also uses a proprietary audio format which is like high-resolution flac except warmer and with more depth actually they said they just use high resolution flac, thats it
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Werthog 95 posted:We're even more confident you will feel it. when you feel the pono in your ears you will dance all night
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Install Windows posted:actually they said they just use high resolution flac, thats it fishmeched again
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also lol it's not 24/96k but 24/192k this is the audiophile-est poo poo even with 128 gigs of space that's like 80 albums max with absolutely zero benefit except spergy ego-stroking Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Mar 14, 2014 |
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yeah a lot of the music they're gonna sell won't have high enough quality originals to get any benefit whatsoever from 24 bit 192 khz sampling vs 24 bit 96 khz sampling, or even 16 bit 48 khz sampling
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ayn rand hand job posted:its ok neither do i, and i majored in signal processing my favorite bits are the "all feedback bad!" and "fully discrete output stage!" lines. yes because you can certainly hear the horrible distortion introduced by the 100 nanosecond period it takes for a modern op-amp to respond to feedback. on the other hand having giant capacitors in the power supply isn't necessarily a bad idea. still makes it look dumb tho.
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Someone post that video of the guy who bought special power cables and was like blown away by how he could hear new sounds within the sound or something. He um... Seemed very Jewish
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Captain Cool posted:i thought there were a few but this is the only one i can find now https://bitcoinstarter.com/ a washing machine using arduino and raspberry pi to allow it to take bitcoins, without relying on dns, tcp/ip, or gsm
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i absolutely swear this wierd wedge mp3 player with a bad name was a thing several years ago. maybe not this one, but there was one just like this
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:i absolutely swear this wierd wedge mp3 player with a bad name was a thing several years ago. maybe not this one, but there was one just like this Dr. Honked posted:big rear end caps Werthog 95 posted:lol, they apparently demoed something on letterman a year and a half ago, and they still haven't finalized the design? huge commitment to quality over hype there
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:https://bitcoinstarter.com/projects/115 quote:Christie Nel • 8 months ago
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Can't wait to give strippers bitcoins
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 http://kickstarter.com/projects/buildbearhq/buildbearhq-our-shipping-container-diner?ref=home_popular Tom, the Burger Bear, posted:HELLO! I'm Tom, the Burger Bear. This has been a year in the making and we are finally here. I love what I do, and I bring all of my passions together to create an amazing experience for all my customers.
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