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Chord's hilarious as they had months of free promotion from one of the biggest audio idiot youtubers, then decided to gently caress him over on support when his Mojo broke and got publicly run the gently caress down by him.
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TIL there are two British companies named Chord which make audio nonsense, and the other one is even dumber https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/chord-groundaray-review-noise-filter.36256/
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Aug 29, 2022 14:32
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TheMadMilkman posted:Chord has always had an 'interesting' design perspective.
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repiv posted:TIL there are two British companies named Chord which make audio nonsense, and the other one is even dumber gently caress yeah this is the good poo poo. quote:You are supposed to plug in the unit into the unused ports on your gear. And the more, the better.
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Aug 29, 2022 14:39
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stealie72 posted:Powerful Genesis/32x/SegaCD stack energy here. Only fancier. The tower of power is back, and you won't believe how much it's gonna cost you.
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Aug 29, 2022 14:40
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gear that looks like medical equipment: hot stands that look like office equipment: not
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Crime on a Dime posted:gear that looks like medical equipment: hot Where does the dental equipment made using the Jaguar molds fit into this? https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1q5252/til_when_atari_went_bankrupt_they_sold_the_jaguar/ Hot.
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Aug 29, 2022 15:09
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stealie72 posted:Powerful Genesis/32x/SegaCD stack energy here. Only fancier. That's the Nintendo CD. It's coming out this Christmas my uncle works there.
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Aug 29, 2022 15:17
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large hands posted:That's the Nintendo CD. It's coming out this Christmas my uncle works there. I'm definitely posting far too much in this thread today, but in case you didn't know - someone actually did find a genuine prototype of the Nintendo CD based console when they were working with Sony prior to the PlayStation coming out. One of those 'oh poo poo the rumors were true' situations for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ThTxiqx30
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Aug 29, 2022 15:53
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njsykora posted:Chord's hilarious as they had months of free promotion from one of the biggest audio idiot youtubers, then decided to gently caress him over on support when his Mojo broke and got publicly run the gently caress down by him. Which one?
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triple sulk posted:Which one? Dankpods, he pushed the Chord Mojo a lot in his videos for a while. Then one day it wouldn't turn on and a few weeks later he straight up said Chord hadn't responded to any of his support emails.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This is actually a fairly clever idea in that if you buy this and want to change your furniture it's going to cost you A LOT. But I like the idea of integrating audio in this manner instead of having to worry about placement and inevitably having to compromise. I was shopping for ridiculously expensive and good PA gear and saw this on their site and remembered it had been posted here. L-acoustics is definitely a little flowery with their language and very French but they're absolutely a company that doesn't gently caress around. I have zero doubt that ridiculous couch sounds amazing.
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idk if this fits, but this comment is one of the top on Steve Guttenberg's most recent video. This just hits so many beats of stdh. 
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phosdex posted:idk if this fits, but this comment is one of the top on Steve Guttenberg's most recent video. He left out the part where everyone stood up and clapped.
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qirex posted:He left out the part where everyone stood up and clapped. “…and then, when the guy was engrossed in a pair of Golden Ear floorstanders, and the daughter was distracted by the DVD copy of Mulan we had looping on one of the store demo setups, the wife wordlessly took me by the hand into the Bowers & Wilkins room and there she pushed me up against the wall and pulled down my khakis…”
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Dear What Hifi?, I never thought this would happen to me
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Ok Comboomer posted:“…and then, when the guy was engrossed in a pair of Golden Ear floorstanders, and the daughter was distracted by the DVD copy of Mulan we had looping on one of the store demo setups, the wife wordlessly took me by the hand into the Bowers & Wilkins room and there she pushed me up against the wall and pulled down my khakis…” "...she showed me her thick midrange and asked me to decouple her from the floor"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-QxLAxwxkM Techmoan going through those reviews made me laugh hard.
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Drastic Actions posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-QxLAxwxkM waiting for the Herb Reichert rebuttal
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Drastic Actions posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-QxLAxwxkM 
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mobby_6kl posted:poo poo's incredible. I had no idea this thing existed but when I saw the thumbnail I thought for sure it would be turning the actual surface of the CD like you can do with brake rotors, to remove the scratches and what not. When he read what the actual "solution" was that was pretty I remember hearing about using a green magic marker on the edge back when I first starting buying CDs in the mid-80s and knew that it was a stupid idea.
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Why does anybody buy 4k UHD disks when they can just shave their Blu-Rays for better picture sharpness? vv 
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I prefer to buy 4K UHD discs and add plastic back to them. It gives the warmer experience of a blu-ray, but preserves the fidelity.
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Incredibly much of audiophilery is willful denial of everything that happens on the digital side of the digital to analog converter. The rest is cables.
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evobatman posted:Incredibly much of audiophilery is willful denial of everything that happens on the digital side of the digital to analog converter.
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njsykora posted:Dankpods, he pushed the Chord Mojo a lot in his videos for a while. Then one day it wouldn't turn on and a few weeks later he straight up said Chord hadn't responded to any of his support emails. I haven't watched a lot of his stuff, but the stuff I have watched seems to mostly revolve around value for the money and build quality. And beating things to death with a large rock. Didn't seem like an audio idiot to me. KillHour fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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mobby_6kl posted:poo poo's incredible. I had no idea this thing existed but when I saw the thumbnail I thought for sure it would be turning the actual surface of the CD like you can do with brake rotors, to remove the scratches and what not. When he read what the actual "solution" was that was pretty evobatman posted:Incredibly much of audiophilery is willful denial of everything that happens on the digital side of the digital to analog converter. Yeah, it blows my mind. Like Techmoan said, it's digital, it's either on or off. The idea that you can magically change the sound is just insane. And _then_ hearing how it "affected" video files, where you _know_ you can literally rip the raw files on the disc to compare... like, come on folks, you're all insane.
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KillHour posted:I haven't watched a lot of his stuff, but the stuff I have watched seems to mostly revolve around value for the money and build quality. And beating things to death with a large rock. Didn't seem like an audio idiot to me. That's been his thing for a while. iPod repairs and modding, how to get good sound on a budget, and being very, very Australian.
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Bargearse posted:That's been his thing for a while. iPod repairs and modding, how to get good sound on a budget, and being very, very Australian. These days he's just another retro tech channel, think most of his recent stuff has been about old phones. His big shill company is Meze, a company making $4k headphones that aren't any better than some $300-500 ones. He's the only Youtuber who kept recommending KZ stuff after they were found to be lying about their drivers, doesn't keep up with changes in the audio space so keeps recommending the same things year after year which are now terrible value with how good the low end space has gotten. Also is a crypto guy which is what got me to leave his Patreon when he talked in his 1m subs video about how his crypto gains were what let him get that big warehouse space he's now leaving.
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Drastic Actions posted:Yeah, it blows my mind. Like Techmoan said, it's digital, it's either on or off. The idea that you can magically change the sound is just insane. And _then_ hearing how it "affected" video files, where you _know_ you can literally rip the raw files on the disc to compare... like, come on folks, you're all insane. There's an encoding of data, where the bits have a specific "purpose". Changing some ominous light scattering won't flip the bits of the audio data and the mathematically complex error correction data in the frame in the right way to represent a wider sound stage or whatever the gently caress. You can explain to these morons on how Red Book Compact Discs work until you get blue in the face, it's loving useless. And don't get me started on compressed video becoming "sharper and more vivid".
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njsykora posted:Also is a crypto guy which is what got me to leave his Patreon when he talked in his 1m subs video about how his crypto gains were what let him get that big warehouse space he's now leaving. This was the point his videos were no longer entertaining and I peaced out. You can yabber all sorts of nonsense, do the same thing over and over and inject a fake laugh and I won't mind so much if the content is generally amusing but crypto poo poo is a noper.
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iem cables continue to be a hilarious scam https://www.head-fi.org/threads/effect-audio-new-release-cleopatra-ii-pristine-sound-of-nature-by-the-nile.964783/  quote:MSRP:
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I also turn up all the knobs on equalisers to make the sound better. It's even better that the I/II thing makes it look like their product is past the distortion threshold.
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triple sulk posted:iem cables continue to be a hilarious scam It’s to fit with all the good Effect Audio IEMs like….uhhh….
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This is the best kind of marketing. Since they didn't define a scale, they can always add more bars for a new release. In 10 years, the bars will become dots and there will be hundreds of them.
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"Detail retrieval" is definitely the X-Fi bar above the line. iZotope just came out with RX 10 and they claimed a major improvement in what might actually be described as that technology - restoring parts of an audio file that compression has removed. And you know what? It was *really* bad in the previous version and it is passably less bad in this new one.
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AI upscaling but for 128kbps mp3 files encoded in the early 2000s.
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njsykora posted:AI upscaling but for 128kbps mp3 files encoded in the early 2000s. but like what if you shave the tops of the bits for better fidelity.
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njsykora posted:AI upscaling but for 128kbps mp3 files encoded in the early 2000s. Yup. Except it doesn't do well with musical content. I think they're mostly intending it for voice applications, cleaning up really highly compressed phone calls for interviews and the like.
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