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Germstore posted:I'm only two in and I will admit I could not tell the Neil Young 320 vs uncompressed if my life depended on it, but I was so sure of the Suzanne Vega I would have bet money on it, and I did get it right. The page is pretty dumb because on refresh it reorders the tracks but not the order of the different quality versions. I'd say it's time to hit the roulette tables! You're on fire
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Germstore posted:I'm only two in and I will admit I could not tell the Neil Young 320 vs uncompressed if my life depended on it, but I was so sure of the Suzanne Vega I would have bet money on it, and I did get it right. The page is pretty dumb because on refresh it reorders the tracks but not the order of the different quality versions. that's awesome dude can I get your contact info so johns hopkins can call you for some studies or would the phone call harm your perfect ears
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Idiot. Yeah. I only got three, but it was the three I was sure of. After hitting the try again button it reorders the tracks so I'll do a few more trials on those three tracks.
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if you're gonna quote AB studies then give the full paper and methodology and sample size etc tia
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You do know it isn't like the nyquist frequency where humans can't physically hear it. It's by definition noise, which humans can hear if the path to their ears is good enough. e: okay, I picked the 320 on the second Tom's Diner. e: yeah, doing pretty darn poorly on repeated tests. Germstore has a new favorite as of 00:02 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Here's the Y2K doomsday kit: The other group that fared well from panic were the survivalists who managed to rope Leonard Nimoy into narrating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhEQEG43RU Nike even played up on the doomsday scenario. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhF7dQl4Ico Jerry Cotton posted:Wasn't there a 360 port of Goldeneye 007 Reloaded though? You know, the newer and better game? Quote-Unquote posted:If it helps it was a bad port and a good reminder that Goldeneye is a bad game outside of nostalgia.
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I remember the hysteria about the Y2K bug, and admit that I felt a little let down when nothing really seemed to happen.
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Mortimer posted:that's awesome dude can I get your contact info so johns hopkins can call you for some studies or would the phone call harm your perfect ears tell us more about your exhaustive studies on what other people can and can't hear 
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just want to reiterate how loving stupid the statement "you think you can hear it, but you can't" is bonus points because it's not just moronic but also somehow makes you sound like a hipster douche e: it's alright everybody, you think you can see a retarded derail, but you're not actually seeing one. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 01:53 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Can we call an armistice on the goddamn audiophile slapfight? If it doesn't involve ISA slots or a parallel port then just shut the gently caress up about it.
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Look man, I can't listen to my MP3s unless it's on a Santa Cruz sound card with an RCA line out to my 1970s Receiver. Its just got so much warmth.Germstore posted:I'm only two in and I will admit I could not tell the Neil Young 320 vs uncompressed if my life depended on it Not bad for lovely MacBook speakers. FilthyImp has a new favorite as of 01:57 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Aug 25, 2016 01:55
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Ok, so does anyone still use PCMCIA or ExpressCard or are those completely obsolete at this point?
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Ok, so does anyone still use PCMCIA or ExpressCard or are those completely obsolete at this point? Or you got like a WiFi in it. That too. Hey someone was Kickblasting an external GPU for older systems and I'm wondering how long until ThunderUSB makes speeds good enough that I can just Frankenstein out better parts from my Desktop/Macbook like I'm on the BattleStar Galactica.
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Up until maybe five years ago when the last of our offices replaced their token ring network.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Ok, so does anyone still use PCMCIA or ExpressCard or are those completely obsolete at this point? I've mostly only used PCMCIA to give ancient laptops wireless access. Another relic I have in storage somewhere is a Toshiba laptop with a blazing-fast 250mhz Pentium II in it and a whopping 800x600 display that I installed Puppy Linux on and successfully got online using a PCMCIA wireless card.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:just want to reiterate how loving stupid the statement "you think you can hear it, but you can't" is What you're ignoring here is that it's not their opinion. Double blind testing has repeatedly shown that people cannot tell these types of sounds apart. Sure, some people get it right, but most of the time it's the kind of accuracy you get in a toin coss. Nobody is saying you're a liar, just that you're mistaken. It's like the people who swear that praying cured their cancer, or that they can tell when it'll rain based on leg pain. They're honest in their beliefs but, just like you, they're wrong. I hope this clarifies it.
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Holy poo poo, why is everyone so assblasted at either the people who claim to be able to tell the difference or the people that don't believe them?
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Batterypowered7 posted:Holy poo poo, why is everyone so assblasted at either the people who claim to be able to tell the difference or the people that don't believe them? Personally? Because it often leads to scams like monster cables.
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Non Serviam posted:What you're ignoring here is that it's not their opinion. Double blind testing has repeatedly shown that people cannot tell these types of sounds apart. Sure, some people get it right, but most of the time it's the kind of accuracy you get in a toin coss. There are double blind tests where some people can tell the difference for some tracks and you are ignoring those.
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Germstore posted:There are double blind tests where some people can tell the difference for some tracks and you are ignoring those. Can you provide a link to them? You can do this by pm if you prefer. Edit. Obviously, distinguishing "some" tracks defies the purpose of your argument.
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http://www.head-fi.org/t/431522/abx-test-of-320kbps-vs-flac-results Guy was able to pick the uncompressed version of one of the tracks a stastistically significant number of times.
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Well then he's Monster Cable's target market, congratulations to him
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Germstore posted:http://www.head-fi.org/t/431522/abx-test-of-320kbps-vs-flac-results Emm.... quote:Only one of the results had enough of a difference to be statistically significant. In doing this test, I discovered just how close 320kbps and flac really are.....
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His conclusion is in favor of mp3. He had a hard time and only did well on one track. All I've said is that the two are perceptively different because the removed information is necessarily in the audible range although biased towards the higher end of that range.
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Non Serviam posted:Emm.... Every post I've made has included the word "some". I posted an example so-
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And this thread has officially hit a low point. Start a golden ears thread please.
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I would have figured that the HDMI scam would be over by now. Still go to a brick and mortar store and they want $30 for a reasonable length one. So AmazonBasics it is. I think they might actually sell those at a slight loss but I'm just haopy not getting screwed.
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Hang on a second, I gotta look up how to make you all shut the gently caress up about audio formats.
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Yeah enough audio crap now who remembers this crap? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg9VOBdk87o
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(MP3 stuff removed - because yeah that's not interesting. ) The Neil Young lossless player looks to be simultaneously "technically better" and "completely pointless", which I guess is on the better end of audiophile snakeoil. (If there is a companion store that sells differently mastered tracks with less dynamic compression it might actually have a genuine niche.) As for tech relics, I had to fire up an XP image to find a browser that could download a generated PDF via some messy javascript on a NIH webpage today. Of course, said XP image is technically speaking still the only supported alternative on the network at work. At least we are allowed to run Win7 if we accept not having support. Oh, and the NIH page in question is the only way to apply for a licence to use some huge data sets, and you have to reapply every year. I already look forward to next year. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 03:53 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Negrostrike posted:Yeah enough audio crap now who remembers this crap? Not me, but it did remind me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQy8QDWjkE
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The argument that got me to rip my old CD collection to FLAC was that even though the difference between lossless and MP3 is imperceptible to humans, down the road someone might come up with a new format that offers similar quality at a much lower bitrate. The extra space taken up on your computer hard drive for your archival copy isn't a big deal, and in the future when you're transcoding for a portable player you aren't converting one lossy format to another. Then standalone portable MP3 players stopped being a thing, followed shortly by no longer needing to actually store music on your portable device at all. Now my music collection is a random mix of flac, mp3, ogg, ape, ac3, and other poo poo and I don't really care as long as I can keep it all tagged consistently. Even back in the age of ratio FTP sites where kind of rear end sounding 128kbps MP3 was the norm, it didn't ever bother me because I care more about listening to the music than listening to nuances of the audio equipment.
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thetzar posted:Not me, but it did remind me of this: Which reminds me of this: 
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sweet christ I'll admit to not being able to tell the difference between 64kbps mp3 and flac with $10k headphones drilled directly into my ear canal if it'll just get everyone to shut the gently caress up about it already, loving hell I even tried to change the subject already, goddamn. I think I can tell the difference when I'm listening to gigantic speakers that cost like 5 grand each with equally high-end hardware behind it, some people think I'm just imagining it, whoop de loving do. End of argument. Can we go back to talking about those applications that took a screenshot of your desktop and then let you infest it with ants or shoot it with a shotgun or whatever
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Audiophile derail is the worst thread derail ever. This is why we can't have good threads.WebDog posted:Wish I took a photo of that CD-Rom drive with a little "Y2K Compliant" sticker on it. There's a great book called Flat Earth News which details just how the Y2K pandemic went from one innocuous line which theorised a potential issue to a full blown panic that cost billions as everyone fell over themselves trying to rectify this. Brock likely made a nice bit of cash during that time as everything digital was considered a risk. People were expecting to find their cars wouldn't start in the morning. I actually worked in IT at the time and we kind of checked if Windows NT Server and whatever would be okay but I don't recall us spending too much effort on checking every single thing. The main things I remember about Y2K are: - wishing I was older so I could be doing some COBOL contracting work and making big $$$ (and playing with old poo poo) - all the jokes, including - a christmas card I received where santa was talking to a reindeer about the "Y2K virus bug" or something computer illiterate like that, and the time I asked our admin why someone was doing work on the men's bathroom and she said they were doing Y2K upgrades  drunk asian neighbor posted:Ok, so does anyone still use PCMCIA or ExpressCard or are those completely obsolete at this point? My work recently threw out a bunch of these so now I have an eSATA ExpressCard which I've actually used when I want to copy between external drives or just on a laptop with no eSATA port of its own. But yeah I guess they're obsolete  I've got an old 486 laptop with a PCMCIA slot but no onboard networking. I have a few 802.11b cards but it was hard to find one that actually had Windows 95 drivers. It also came with a 10BaseT card.. in fact it might support both 10BaseT and 10Base2 (coax), I don't quite remember.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Audiophile derail is the worst thread derail ever. This is why we can't have good threads. For some reason I remember my high school throwing out a bunch of PCMCIA-SCSI cards. No idea what they could have used them for, our school wasn't particularly advanced technology-wise.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Was this another of those situations where doing it on Unix is trivial (cat whatever*.part > full_file.mp4) but doing it on Windows requires downloading some weird Russian dude's lovely GUI program that may or may not log your keystrokes? Simple things, like renaming a bunch of files at once, or creating a loving zip file up until Windows 7. Concatenating files on Windows is easy from a Command Prompt (or literally from DOS), if I recall correctly it was like: COPY FILE.01+FILE.02+FILE.03+FILE.04 FULLFILE.MP4 Okay it sucks that you have to type out all the filenames I suppose. Edit: drunk asian neighbor posted:For some reason I remember my high school throwing out a bunch of PCMCIA-SCSI cards. No idea what they could have used them for, our school wasn't particularly advanced technology-wise. Maybe someone had an external SCSI hard drive or Zip drive?
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Buttcoin purse posted:I actually worked in IT at the time What was worse in the oughts: working in IT or being known by friends and family as the guy who was "good with computers"? I was that second one and it fuckin' sucked. "Hey GPW, can you fix my computer? I'll give you a sixer." And the problem is some weird, esoteric driver issue that I've never seen before but google's just barely good enough in 2006 for me to find a post from '98 to get things sorta functional again, and then I get talked up like I"m a fuckin' wizard and a whole squad of uncles with Win95 computers flood me with their problems at every family gathering.
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