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Y'all are the ridiculous audiophile poo poo. Some obscure-rear end soundtrack, and y'all have the copies for it.
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KillHour posted:It's 8, "Necropolis". Lots between 20 and 40hz. But mostly, I'm just a big fan of slap bass. Any other good artists I should look into? Anything with Les Claypool (Of Primus). Most could argue that he may be the best bass player in the world. Most of his music fits a common theme, wacky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsJlJdWof8
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Jul 4, 2014 06:55
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Primus sucks! But seriously, I'd like to second the Primus/Les Claypool recommendation. Dude is crazy good. "Tommy The Cat" will always be one of my favorite songs. "My Name Is Mud" has some pretty snazzy bass-playing as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCf40wrpdlc
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Jul 4, 2014 07:58
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Wasabi the J posted:Y'all are the ridiculous audiophile poo poo. People have the tracks? You mean an old CD of the game? I just looked it up on youtube.
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Jul 4, 2014 09:40
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It's only one of the best game soundtracks ever made, so of course people know it. Also, I knew it had sub-bass content, but all the way down to 3hz is pretty crazy. Absolutely nobody back in the day played Quake on anything capable of even 30hz sustained. And maybe one or two people have ever played it on anything capable of sub-10hz. That said, now I want to try it. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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Jul 4, 2014 09:44
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I definitely didn't have a speaker setup worthy of doing that soundtrack any justice back in 1996/1997...
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Jul 4, 2014 11:36
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I skipped a bunch of pages again. Was there any ridiculing of audiophiles or was it the usual "Hhhehe those audiophiles sure are ridiculous. On a side note I have this 40000 dollar knob and it's actually great let me explain why..." posting?
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Jul 4, 2014 14:03
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Jerry Cotton posted:I skipped a bunch of pages again. Was there any ridiculing of audiophiles or was it the usual "Hhhehe those audiophiles sure are ridiculous. On a side note I have this 40000 dollar knob and it's actually great let me explain why..." posting? TheMadMilkman posted:The linked software is their most expensive option. Their basic software plus EQ package (which fits my needs, the symphony edition includes features I don't care about) is $438, and they offer sizable discounts beyond that. Still a lot, but not too substantial over the driverack px mentioned earlier when purchased new. I prefer to buy new. The latter.
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Jul 4, 2014 16:10
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Wasabi the J posted:Y'all are the ridiculous audiophile poo poo. Are you calling Quake obscure?  KozmoNaut posted:It's only one of the best game soundtracks ever made, so of course people know it. So what you're telling me is that Trent Reznor is a crazy person.
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Jul 4, 2014 17:46
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The Quake soundtrack is on the game CD-ROM and it's a pretty drat popular game.
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Jul 4, 2014 18:10
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I like the image of Trent mixing all this poo poo in his fancy studio, shaking the building with his sonic interpretation of the whole quake concept... and then the game comes out and everyone's listening to it on their Creative satellite speakers
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Jul 4, 2014 18:48
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I don't remember what PC speakers I had in 1996 but I can guarantee they sounded like poo poo, and I probably didn't even know what a subwoofer was. *digs out my quake demo disc*
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Jul 4, 2014 21:18
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I don't know why I hear people say "digging it up," and imagine that they are physically rummaging through piles of poo poo to find a 20 year old game CD. So yeah, I'm sorry. BANME.sh posted:I don't remember what PC speakers I had in 1996 but I can guarantee they sounded like poo poo, and I probably didn't even know what a subwoofer was. My setup in 1999 was more ghetto. My PC audio out went to a tape deck adapter to my JVC 3-DISC CHANGER WITH LOTS OF LIGHTS bookshelf system that looked like this 
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Jul 4, 2014 21:26
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Wasabi the J posted:Y'all are the ridiculous audiophile poo poo. Haha except quake isn't really all that obscure. I mean, Rolling Stone magazine used to have interviews with players who were good at it.
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Jul 4, 2014 21:55
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Yeah in 96when quake released I had my soundcard line-out running to a decent bookshelf setup. I remember the soundtrack having a lot of bass. But you know what else had crazy rattling the walls bass ? Mario Paint for SNES.
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Jul 4, 2014 22:00
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 You weren't kidding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09X9pNSY30
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Jul 4, 2014 23:23
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TheLastManStanding posted:
LoL that's the one! My friends and I would use the cartoon animation feature to make comics about each other. This was around 1993 so we were 13. I don't remember in great detail because we were provably stoned, but the stuff we would draw would probably land us in jail if it was published today.
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Jul 5, 2014 07:48
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Jerry Cotton posted:The Quake soundtrack is on the game CD-ROM and it's a pretty drat popular game. Still the best "pure" twitch FPS ever (3 is arguably up there), especially glquakeworld. Unfortunately serious play pretty much required turning down the awesome music to hear the audio cues made by other players. The soundtrack still got plenty of mileage for me as running/workout music. Neat about the range on some of those tracks. Reznor doesn't half-rear end anything, does he?
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Jul 6, 2014 09:36
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He also did all of the sound effects, and they are as awesome and iconic today as they were back in 1996.
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Jul 6, 2014 12:34
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I was poking around this morning and found a box that does nothing: http://www.lessloss.com/firewall-p-196.html Looks pretty nice though.
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Jul 6, 2014 15:07
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TomR posted:I was poking around this morning and found a box that does nothing: http://www.lessloss.com/firewall-p-196.html That's not true. If you look at the pictures you'll see you can lean your pan flute CDs against it!
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Jul 6, 2014 15:40
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No caps, no inductors, no resistors, no fuses, no diodes. In other words, an extremely overpriced extension cord.
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Jul 6, 2014 16:32
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quote:(1) Proper Connection W.. what? You have to personally check all their poo poo is wired the right way round? 
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Jul 6, 2014 17:28
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KozmoNaut posted:No caps, no inductors, no resistors, no fuses, no diodes. Also antivibration and damping technologies! I sure am tired of my vibrating power cable loving up my audio events.
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Jul 6, 2014 17:32
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In a heated discussion about the audible effects of choosing a different power supply for your network switch (yes, really!), I trotted out the well-known facts about how short-term and long-term auditory memory and how the human brain interprets sensory inputs. The reply? "Thanks for your post about how your ears and auditory memory works. For some of us, it works in a very different way."  On the forum in question, a significant segment of the user base also strongly advocates using only hand-made audiophile fuses in every device and in the main fuse box. They also recommend making sure the fuses are turned the right way ("you'll hear it when it's right") and cleaning all electrical connections in the power supply chain at least every other month. Remember to wear those white cotton gloves! E: And some more wonderful snake oil I stumpled across today: http://www.systemsandmagic.com/index_file/espira_en.htm KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 09:09
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There wasn't even a point in detailing human perception, since all network switches do is transmit digital data, that gets error corrected on the respective layers. But then again, some of these idiots freeze their CDs before listening, so... Also, I'm praying to win the lottery anytime soon, so that I can fulfill my livelong wish to buy up all sort of audiophile snakeoil and tear it apart in pictures.
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Jul 9, 2014 11:48
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Combat Pretzel posted:There wasn't even a point in detailing human perception, since all network switches do is transmit digital data, that gets error corrected on the respective layers. But then again, some of these idiots freeze their CDs before listening, so... Ah no, because you see, it's the analog noise on the network that reaches through and disturbs the DACs and other components  "But wouldn't toslink or fiberoptic networking be better?" No! Because optical connections have massive jitter Even if you do win the lottery, don't buy any of that garbage. There is no reason whatsoever to support shysters and snake oil-selling con men. In another discussion (on toslink vs. coax), a couple of users have started insulting my equipment choices directly, saying they would never own a single piece of the equipment that I'm using. Which is perfectly fine by me, since I picked it according my needs and wants, not the approval of crazy audiophiles. Oddly enough they cannot come up with a single legitimate critique. I wonder why.
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Jul 9, 2014 12:18
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Inspect Your Gadgets > Ridiculed by audiophiles
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Jul 9, 2014 14:41
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KozmoNaut posted:Even if you do win the lottery, don't buy any of that garbage. There is no reason whatsoever to support shysters and snake oil-selling con men.
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Jul 9, 2014 17:17
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I know you are being facetious, but can you really argue with this? 
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Jul 9, 2014 18:58
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I know you are being facetious, but can you really argue with this? No more than I can argue with stuff like this, they are equally absurd: 
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Jul 9, 2014 19:06
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My ears hurt just looking at that last pic
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Jul 9, 2014 19:48
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KozmoNaut posted:No more than I can argue with stuff like this, they are equally absurd:
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Jul 9, 2014 21:36
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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.
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Jul 9, 2014 22:21
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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 You just can't reason with audiophiles, unfortunately. However, you can make fun of them and should find a way to leech money off of them because why not at this point.
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Jul 10, 2014 01:43
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My favorite are the "Power cable roundup" reviews that pit 5+ cables against each other, with the reviewer describing the characteristics
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Jul 10, 2014 07:31
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Wild EEPROM posted:My favorite are the "Power cable roundup" reviews that pit 5+ cables against each other, with the reviewer describing the characteristics Or the USB cable reviews where they deign to include a basic "piece of liquorice" standard USB cable, to show what the plebes are content with using because they have ears of sack cloth and the sophistication of a pig wallowing in mud.
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Jul 10, 2014 07:40
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Links, please!
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Jul 10, 2014 09:46
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Unfortunately, the forum I'm currently As for USB cable reviews, take a pick. These are all from the first page of a "USB cable review" Google search. http://www.audiostream.com/content/usb-cable-shootout http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2013-tas-editors-choice-awards-digital-interconnects/ http://headmania.org/2013/02/19/the-audiophile-cable-surprise-wireworld-starlight-red-vs-chord-usb-silver-plus/ http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/usbcables/3.html Honestly, it's cable porn. Just look at the pictures. It's jewelry for wealthy old white men's fancy-pants stereos.
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Just post the danish, I'm norwegian so written danish is kinda readable.
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