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Pingiivi posted:Here's actually a stylus for the Tonar Banana that you posted a picture of https://www.turntableneedles.com/Tonar-Banana-DJ-Stylus_p_3927.html . I have an Ortofon Pro S that's pretty much identical and you can get styli for that too. Just pull the end off and smack a new one on. As far as I know, Tonar has never manufactured anything so all their systems are identical to and/or compatible with something. For instance, the Tonar Birdie looks a lot like the Goldring Elan/Elektra and Sanyo Whatever because they all just order them straight from Generic Chinese Phono Cartridge Factory #88. Printing "Goldring" on the stylus assembly raises the price rather nicely.
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Kelp Me! posted:Oh man just imagine audiophile message boards that are probably nothing but slapfights like this Are you trying to use facts? You know those are against the rules! I'm not even kidding, a lot of the audiophile forums will ban you for referring to blind testing or actual analysis.
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Keiya posted:Are you trying to use facts? You know those are against the rules! I never forget the audiophile reviews of different NAS's - all hooked up to the same DAC.
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Oct 2, 2017 20:37
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remember that you need a slightly higher concentration of nitrogen in the room to really get that tone right
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Oct 2, 2017 21:29
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Put a sticker on the wall to remove the bad vibes from your tunes. I find a Grumpy Bear pairs nicely with Pantera.
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Oct 2, 2017 21:39
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Brb, just taping some pebbles to my audio cables.
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Oct 2, 2017 22:48
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:I never forget the audiophile reviews of different NAS's - all hooked up to the same DAC. The one where they were testing a DAC plugged in to a router, with different TP cables from the NAS to the router? Yeah, that was a good one. Also different HDMI cables where you can totally see the difference in quality in the picture (yeah I know about those new anti-aliasing cables with a microprocessor in the contacts, you know that's not what I mean). Audiophiles don't know how digital stuff works, apparently.
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JazzmasterCurious posted:Audiophiles don't know how digital stuff works, apparently. You'd think understanding bias would actually be an interesting thing for them. GRINDCORE MEGGIDO has a new favorite as of 23:13 on Oct 2, 2017 |
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To counter analog/digital/cosmic jitter I vibrate all the time they cancel each other out.
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Oct 2, 2017 23:12
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Jerry Cotton posted:To counter analog/digital/cosmic jitter I vibrate all the time they cancel each other out. It's funny, your eyes actually do this already. Scientists aren't 100% sure why your eyes make tiny movements, called microsaccades but they're responsible for some optical illusions.
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Oct 2, 2017 23:45
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Kwyndig posted:It's funny, your eyes actually do this already. Scientists aren't 100% sure why your eyes make tiny movements, called microsaccades but they're responsible for some optical illusions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktHn97hl0Cs
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My favorite audiophile story is a group of them listening to a new, high-tech speaker wire and commenting how good it sounds, then finding out it was just a straightened wire hanger.
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As an audio tech it always confuses the hell out of me how people think this. As long as your copper cables don't have any breaks and are shielded properly then you'll get good signal. The properly-shielded part is vital. One company I worked for lost a valuable contract because their lovely cables started picking up spanish-language christian AM radio.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:As an audio tech it always confuses the hell out of me how people think this. As long as your copper cables don't have any breaks and are shielded properly then you'll get good signal. The properly-shielded part is vital. One company I worked for lost a valuable contract because their lovely cables started picking up spanish-language christian AM radio. It's a way they can feel superior to others. It happens in every fandom. See: slapfights on /r/anime about which sub group is the best, Retro gaming enthusists complaining about lack of pixel fuzzing, any time a Smash Bros. Melee player hears about someone playing on an LCD tv....
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Are audiophiles still buying old Playstations to use as CD players for some reason?
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Neito posted:Retro gaming enthusists complaining about lack of pixel fuzzing, any time a Smash Bros. Melee player hears about someone playing on an LCD tv.... But... these make a verifiable and quantifiable difference? (Assuming by pixel fuzzing you mean exploiting old display hardware's lack of definition.) No sense in complaining about it though since you can literally get CRTs for free 
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Jerry Cotton posted:But... these make a verifiable and quantifiable difference? (Assuming by pixel fuzzing you mean exploiting old display hardware's lack of definition.) yes, but it doesn't substantially and completely change the entire experience of playing the game, the way some claim. I'm not having an inferior experience playing Zelda 2 with sharp LCD pixels.
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Oct 4, 2017 19:38
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Neito posted:yes, but it doesn't substantially and completely change the entire experience of playing the game, the way some claim. I'm not having an inferior experience playing Zelda 2 with sharp LCD pixels. I haven't played that but from what I remember seeing it doesn't really have very ambitious graphics anyway?
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Jerry Cotton posted:I haven't played that but from what I remember seeing it doesn't really have very ambitious graphics anyway? Exactly. But much like an audiophile defending his wooden volume knobs that "kill the microvibrations that metal ones make", they'll fight you to the death over it. SPECIFICALLY using Z2 as an example. 
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What the gently caress is the emulator one? I've been emulating since the mid 90s, and they've never looked like that.
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Johnny Aztec posted:What the gently caress is the emulator one? I've been emulating since the mid 90s, and they've never looked like that. It’s from zStrawman.
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Johnny Aztec posted:What the gently caress is the emulator one? I've been emulating since the mid 90s, and they've never looked like that. It's froma filter that adds scanlines.
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Neito posted:It's a way they can feel superior to others. It happens in every fandom. See: slapfights on /r/anime about which sub group is the best, Retro gaming enthusists complaining about lack of pixel fuzzing, any time a Smash Bros. Melee player hears about someone playing on an LCD tv.... Obvious bait but in terms of good old quake, if you are happy playing at lower resolutions, CRTs rocking 200hz really are better. It's just modern FPS games need something higher than 640x480. And don't cost the earth flying to attend a tournament/break your back. edit: fixed quote. Interestingly, when the BenQs started hitting 140hz, the convenience/performance ratio really started to make that shift impulse 7 effect has a new favorite as of 21:45 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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Grand Prize Winner posted:As an audio tech it always confuses the hell out of me how people think this. As long as your copper cables don't have any breaks and are shielded properly then you'll get good signal. The properly-shielded part is vital. One company I worked for lost a valuable contract because their lovely cables started picking up spanish-language christian AM radio. Never enter the home of an audiophile with money. I was doing some freelance IT work for a client working out of his home office and he couldn't wait to show me his setup. All of his equipment was perched on Sterrett precision surfaces, which were in turn surrounded by quartz crystals and had pyramids made from carbon fiber rods over them (can't recall his reasoning for the crystals or pyramids.) Power was supplied by a gang of AC-DC-AC converters (as in, he was feeding one out of the other to remove all "noise" from the pole) and his speaker cables were some crazy 1" thick shielded lines that ran across the floor suspended from ceramic supports that were (like the Sterrett surfaces) surrounded by quartz crystals. Apparently all of that wasn't enough, because he was talking about building an underground 
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Geoj posted:Never enter the home of an audiophile with money. I was doing some freelance IT work for a client working out of his home office and he couldn't wait to show me his setup. All of his equipment was perched on Sterrett precision surfaces, which were in turn surrounded by quartz crystals and had pyramids made from carbon fiber rods over them (can't recall his reasoning for the crystals or pyramids.) I'd love to see the society that arises when only crazy audiophiles survive a nuclear war.
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I was trying to imagine why this needs to be underground when all he really needs is sound baffling and the faraday cage if he's that concerned about EM interference, but then I realized I was starting to think like an audiophile.
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Geoj posted:Power was supplied by a gang of AC-DC-AC converters (as in, he was feeding one out of the other to remove all "noise" from the pole) He is like a little baby. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJy6VJvSCk
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Geoj posted:surrounded by quartz crystals and had pyramids made from carbon fiber rods over them (can't recall his reasoning for the crystals or pyramids.) Dude, he wanted to JO with you. He had the pyramids out and all!
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Where are these audiophiles getting all this kool-aid that they keep drinking? Those Japanese guys were insane.
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Neito posted:Exactly. But much like an audiophile defending his wooden volume knobs that "kill the microvibrations that metal ones make", they'll fight you to the death over it. SPECIFICALLY using Z2 as an example. Emulator one should be some horrible upscaling filter that makes it look like poo poo
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Weren't there a series of really long effort posts in this thread about how far emulator programers are going to get the CRT look on modern LCDs?
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Kwyndig posted:Where are these audiophiles getting all this kool-aid that they keep drinking? Those Japanese guys were insane. At least one highend site started as a parody and then started getting people asking how to order
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Trabant posted:He is like a little baby. Watch this: Just lol'ing at this scrub that thinks he's got everything tuned out whereas I can see he still clearly has fluorescent lights in his home (due to the flicker of some shots). How can you be isolated if you have 50/60Hz (IDK where he lives, didn't pay attention) ballasts just buzzing away? And what about the opto-audio effects of cracks in the casings of any of his microcontroller-having devices? We all know you need a pure HVDC connection to an isolated
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that's all scrub-tier. just get a hand-cranked victrola. that way your music is never contaminated by electricity
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Just lol'ing at this scrub that thinks he's got everything tuned out whereas I can see he still clearly has fluorescent lights in his home (due to the flicker of some shots). How can you be isolated if you have 50/60Hz (IDK where he lives, didn't pay attention) ballasts just buzzing away? And what about the opto-audio effects of cracks in the casings of any of his microcontroller-having devices? Solid state step‐down? As in switch mode power supplies!? Power must be supplied at 5 V logic level. Only diodes and resistors may be used to regulate the voltage.
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Geoj posted:Never enter the home of an audiophile with money. I was doing some freelance IT work for a client working out of his home office and he couldn't wait to show me his setup. All of his equipment was perched on Sterrett precision surfaces, which were in turn surrounded by quartz crystals and had pyramids made from carbon fiber rods over them (can't recall his reasoning for the crystals or pyramids.) Wow someone in the wild that actually bought the crystals?
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Grand Prize Winner posted:As an audio tech random question: could you do me a favor and explain what a di box does in extremely simple terms? I'm a pro musician and i'm not a dunce technically but for some reason explanations about that particular piece of kit never stick in my brain. I play cello so I'm pretty sure I need to use them but I still have no idea why.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Just lol'ing at this scrub that thinks he's got everything tuned out whereas I can see he still clearly has fluorescent lights in his home (due to the flicker of some shots). How can you be isolated if you have 50/60Hz (IDK where he lives, didn't pay attention) ballasts just buzzing away? And what about the opto-audio effects of cracks in the casings of any of his microcontroller-having devices? Yeah, so that idiot has his own utility pole. WHICH IS CONNECTED UP TO THE PUBLIC GRID UPSTREAM. So the blood is tainted from being circulated closer to the heart.
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