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Combat Pretzel posted:I still have a traditional sound card, that probably gets the same 5V as the USB ports, and there's gently caress all noise. If that works, some USB DAC ought to be able to do it noise free, too. Oh no, what if there is a *makes spooooooky noises* switching power supply on board!?!?!
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movax posted:Also, I think I posted in this thread about it but must be loving blind — what was the brand that would make custom braided / colored cables for you if you didn’t mind spending some extra bucks for something that you know doesn’t sound any better but looks cooler? Saves me the time of buying the braid / connectors from Digi-Key and putting it all together. Blue Jeans Cable does this.
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movax posted:Oh no, what if there is a *makes spooooooky noises* switching power supply on board!?!?!
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You can definitely get lovely $10 USB DACs that aren't going to be any better than the DAC on even the most budget Chromebook, but I would hope that would be obvious. That being said, even older mid-range DACs are fine - I have an Edirol UA-5 that's got to be almost 20 years old at this point and it's still perfectly usable. Plus the DAC in any halfway decent receiver is generally just fine too - I have a Yamaha HTR-5550 connected to one of my TVs and I've never had any issues with the sound quality on the S/PDIF inputs. For more information that you could possibly need about modern equipment, check out the reviews on https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?pages/Audio_Equipment_Reviews/.
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Some of you guys may have seen this before but I'll just post it in case not, as it is bonkers. It's long as gently caress, yes, but worth the time. Even just skim through a bit if your time is more valuable than mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw
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man the vizio v-series 5.1 surround sound system has some major subwoofer, bass, and high volume issues
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lolquote:Subwoofer Size 5" (127.00mm)
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My car's midrange speakers are bigger than that lol
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There should be a consumer protection law that you're not allowed to call something a subwoofer if it could be knocked over by an energetic housecat.
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it's probably completely fine for most normies that don't have our illness
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On the one hand this is hilarious on the other hand I kinda dig the aesthetic as a PS1 fan. https://twitter.com/fearian/status/1455504650183090176?s=21
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It's $200 for a full surround system. It's fine.
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njsykora posted:On the one hand this is hilarious on the other hand I kinda dig the aesthetic as a PS1 fan. My very first post in this thread 12 years ago  was about how I hilarious I thought that phenomenon was, glad to see it's still going strong.
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njsykora posted:On the one hand this is hilarious on the other hand I kinda dig the aesthetic as a PS1 fan. This is awesome
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So people don't rip their CDs and then store them in a box? Huh.
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qirex posted:There should be a consumer protection law that you're not allowed to call something a subwoofer if it could be knocked over by an energetic housecat.  I found these lovely desktop pc speakers among my father's stuff. He had no reason to own these and I'm 100% he only bought them for the dad pun/joke thing of super woofer being printed on the so called subwoofer, like it was truth in advertising. We didn't have a great bond, but sometimes I think of the super woofer and go 'heh'.
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Hoffman's Iron Law should be stickered up on every single audio product out there. Small, Loud, Low. Pick two.
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So I have Dolby Atmos for Headphones installed. Turns out it never really did its job properly, because I'm using MPC-BE and have its WASAPI output mode set to shared (which is default), and therefore doesn't pass the bitstream as-is and instead just decodes it itself. 
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lol on the latest veritasium video about electricity misconceptions:
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There will never be a topic where the handwaving is so much more elaborate than the actual science [which is pretty simple] than AC power.
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Audio cables are AC..
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Mostly AC, there’s always going to be a tiny bit of DC present. But the “large air gap” is relative to voltage, so in signal cables you’re good with pretty much the normal manufacturing tolerances. For speaker cables, same again if the cable cross sectional surface area itself is reasonable for the application. There are far more audible and objectionable distortions in most loudspeakers than any small noise picked up by the speaker cables in the vast majority of installations anyway. It’s still a good idea not to run all of your signal or speaker cables right alongside the mains power ones even if they’re balanced, but a few inches is typically sufficient. All that said, I hope that commenter goes on to launch their own snake oil cable company and becomes very rich and revered.
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Neurophonic posted:All that said, I hope that commenter goes on to launch their own snake oil cable company and becomes very rich and revered. I’m still looking for goons to start my audiophile ‘solar power + storage’ company with
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Ok Comboomer posted:I’m still looking for goons to start my audiophile ‘solar power + storage’ company with I have a friend who works in hydrogen fuel cell manufacturing, and another who deploys large scale solar field arrays. Let’s talk.
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Don't tell this guy who's obsessed with RF noise that we already solved the problem with balanced audio cables. Let life break his heart on its own.
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Flipperwaldt posted:
I sometimes think of your dad and go 'heh', so it makes sense.
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Something glorious, an audiophile SSD.quote:Designed from ground up, co-develop with controller manufacturer using 3D NAND flash with pseudo SLC mode, external clock oscillator, 200% more PCB copper isolation, milspec PCB stiffness, 300% grounding surface, 5u gold plated connectors, plus external power input, additional capacitor filteration. These results to real 3 demensional souding, sense of vinyl and dynamic sound no other SSD currently can offer or even close to.
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"sense of vinyl" lmbo
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Mederlock posted:"sense of vinyl" lmbo Completely clear sound, also distortion from an inaccurate storage medium. Edit: lmao, it's for running your OS on, not for the actual music, which can be stored somewhere else apparently. BonHair fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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There is probably a lot of opportunity in buying up a bunch of obscure computer hardware components, then talking them up on various audiophile forums while making overpriced listings on ebay
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Forums are great because there's a good chance most to all the "wow this is amazing" posters are just the guy who made it.
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Audiophile Style was originally Computer Audiophile. Somehow that makes it funnier to me. Also someone needs to get to work on audiophile RAM to go with this. As an aside, it annoys the hell out of me that the owner of Audiophile Style is an occasional guest on The Next Track podcast, which I genuinely enjoy. But every time he’s on they get into crap about speaker cables and other garbage, and it sucks.
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polyester concept posted:There is probably a lot of opportunity in buying up a bunch of obscure computer hardware components, then talking them up on various audiophile forums while making overpriced listings on ebay Apparently you just have to hot glue some gold capacitors on the board.
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Neurophonic posted:Apparently you just have to hot glue some gold capacitors on the board. Tube SSD 
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Running the NAND cells in SLC mode (or pseudo-SLC, which might or might not be some firmware fuckery tripling bits when writing and decimating them on read) makes things sound differently for reasons.quote:TLC mode: It sounds like background music, no features and powerless, everything is flattened, lacks extension and density.
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Because they're stuck in an analog mindset, where tweaks did often make an audible difference. Either that or they're trying to fleece people with those beliefs.
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You need to buy the most expensive things to show off how wealthy you are, but because you're better than everyone else and not a rube these expensive things also need to be better than what anyone less wealthy has.
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Completely non-sequitur but I remember as a child a brand new tape being loving amazing to listen to, and then CD's sounded like a brand new tape EVERY TIME ... if I held the CD player still in the passengers seat.
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Wasabi the J posted:Completely non-sequitur but I remember as a child a brand new tape being loving amazing to listen to, and then CD's sounded like a brand new tape EVERY TIME I went into my parents' wood shop and built a wood frame about 1" bigger than my portable CD player in every dimension, then strung rubber bands that held the CD player in suspension in the middle. Worked great as a shock absorber if I set the whole contraption in the middle of the passenger seat or footwell. That was a first gen Sony Discman with zero skip buffer, and it worked better than the next unit I got that allegedly had skip protection.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I went into my parents' wood shop and built a wood frame about 1" bigger than my portable CD player in every dimension, then strung rubber bands that held the CD player in suspension in the middle. Worked great as a shock absorber if I set the whole contraption in the middle of the passenger seat or footwell. That was a first gen Sony Discman with zero skip buffer, and it worked better than the next unit I got that allegedly had skip protection. This is technically not 90s poo poo (2001-2003) but I remember those late generation SONY Discmen that were rather ovoid and had crazy skip protection that felt like the future  They came in black, red, white, yellow, and eventually evolved into a bunch of other models and colors too before the iPod/MP3 juggernaut claimed them. Didn’t they have something like 90 seconds of anti-skip? They were unflappable. I got one for Christmas in middle school right before we took a big road trip to FL from CT and proceeded to use that thing into the loving ground, taking it loving everywhere. I eventually had scotch tape holding the battery door in place. I still used it in school for like the first year I had an iPod (2004-2005) because my parents were scared the latter would get stolen or broken Being an elementary schooler, I was p much exclusively a cassette deck child in the 90s until I got my first bedroom stereo in 1999. 
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