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Slash posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAu_mCxoII Well of course these philistines can't appreciate the vast improvements the products in the video provide. For one, they don't have the years of critical listening experience required to detect the differences these products make, which are honestly massive according to the tests I conducted with them in my own laboratory. These are powerful tools that operate at the highest echelons of human sensory perception, so of course a bunch of video gamers who play Fortnite listening on Beats headphones, or worse, a Bose system, won't be able to detect the improvements made by these top quality instruments of audio integrity preservation. “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces." - Matthew 7:6 GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Dec 21, 2023 |
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$6000 headphones that is decidedly inferior in every metric versus a pair of $2000 studio monitors, and somehow even less efficient than passive speakers which is of course because ASR didn't test it with the accompanying $26000 amp
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Comparing headphones to speakers is an incredibly stupid thing to do in all honesty.
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The whole of ASR is incredibly stupid and beyond shining a light on some of the more obvious trash out there, is obviously agenda driven and full of the most unpleasant assholes around who routinely mistake snark for wit.
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ASR exists solely for posts from Amir and like 4 other people who test their gear to a similar standard, the rest of the forum is a complete waste of time.
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Mederlock posted:ASR exists solely for posts from Amir Don’t forget that he started it after getting booted from his admin role at What’s Best Forum because he started arbitrarily deleting posts and banning people he didn’t like.
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It's always something with these guys
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Think about all the veils that will be lifted when you clean all your SACDs with this audiophile microfiber cloth: 
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All things considered, that could have been much worse Still though, lol
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Godzilla07 posted:Think about all the veils that will be lifted when you clean all your SACDs with this audiophile microfiber cloth: 14 5-star reviews lol
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Audiophile Snake Oil and Foolishness Thread 2: ahp Klangtuch IV
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Godzilla07 posted:Think about all the veils that will be lifted when you clean all your SACDs with this audiophile microfiber cloth: Did anybody catch the end of the description where it mentions that the guy who made this thing also makes an audiophile fuse (called The Critical Link), too? I’m such a fool. I had no idea you could get fuses that improved headroom and increased clarity in the transients! GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Dec 31, 2023 |
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GreatGreen posted:Did anybody catch the end of the description where it mentions that the guy who made this thing also makea audiophile fuse (called The Critical Link), too? Hey, donchya know that a Hifi system is only as strong as it's weakest link. Imagine not knowing all of the experiences you can take in from your Hifi system when every part of the signal chain, even including the lowliest components such as fuses, is fine tuned to perfection 
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Godzilla07 posted:Think about all the veils that will be lifted when you clean all your SACDs with this audiophile microfiber cloth: gently polishing my American Psycho BD with the anti-static cloth so that nothing interferes with the audiovisual display of Christian Bale's greatest performance before placing it into a bespoke bluray player hand-assembled by technoshamans in Utah, actuating the play button through a long coil of wire leading to the ten thousand dollar control console by my couch (IR signals could distort the display and the leftover radiation can cause all kinds of problems), and smirking silently in the dark at Bateman's bitch-tier AV system I'd kill a coworker and a bunch of prostitutes if I had to use a Walkman, too
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Changing my username to “German Sound Tinker”
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German Sound Tinkler
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I still think we should start our goon project snake oil company Goonemaede Audio: Purveyors of the World's Finest Digital Noise Reducers and Soundstage Defoggers
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trilobite terror posted:I still think we should start our goon project snake oil company Meh, after a brand literally called poo poo nothing's funy anymore.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Meh, after a brand literally called poo poo nothing's funy anymore. schiit products are mostly fine tho
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trilobite terror posted:schiit products are mostly fine tho Well sure, Alibaba can't just ship all bad stuff.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Well sure, Alibaba can't just ship all bad stuff. what what does this post even mean?
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trilobite terror posted:schiit products are mostly fine tho they used to be pretty bad but amir successfully bullied them into getting it together early on their amps didn't even have power on relays so they could easily blow up your headphones
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I love it when ppl post nonsense accusatory word salad and then peace tf out when asked to substantiate like, there’s a fuckton of criticisms that you could make about schiit and about their fans, community, design choices, philosophy, etc, but “alibaba product” definitely isn’t one of them
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I'm ordering them from Alibaba right now. What are you going to do about it?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm ordering them from Alibaba right now. What are you going to do about it? lol no you aren’t
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trilobite terror posted:I love it when ppl post nonsense accusatory word salad and then peace tf out when asked to substantiate personally my problem is that i keep watching this drat show about their creek and there's no audio talk in it at all. why sponsor a show if you're not even gonna promote your products? why is it all this gay poo poo instead?
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Arivia posted:personally my problem is that i keep watching this drat show about their creek and there's no audio talk in it at all. why sponsor a show if you're not even gonna promote your products? why is it all this gay poo poo instead? TOYM
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Arivia posted:personally my problem is that i keep watching this drat show about their creek and there's no audio talk in it at all. why sponsor a show if you're not even gonna promote your products? why is it all this gay poo poo instead? what's gay about the show? I haven't watched a whole lot of it but I'm pretty sure there isn't any homosexual relationships going on.
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tater_salad posted:what's gay about the show? I haven't watched a whole lot of it but I'm pretty sure there isn't any homosexual relationships going on. oh god i was trying to make a joke but the question mark is a link to an article discussing dan levy's character's gay relationship on the show and there's some other stuff with bi/pansexuality as well. it's very gay.
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Is it audiophile snake oil or foolishness talk if I say I bought an aliexpress DBX PA2 clone and it's honestly fine? I built a nice Bill Fitzmaurice PA kit over a decade ago now and being broke the kit that did the EQ and limiting was Behringer stuff, a DEQ2496 and a DCX2496. This worked faultlessly and sounded real nice until the power supply on the DCX started playing up and eventually died. If I were still using the kit for the occasional gig I'd absolutely buy a legit PA2 but it has been relegated to a workshop soundsystem so I decided to try a clone safe in the knowledge that my credit card company would refund my £165 in the case of the vendor trying anything. And I don't know what I can say really, it turned up after a month and the packaging is DBX packaging but without the DBX logo. The unit itself has a sticker where the DBX logo should be and it powers up with a DBX front end and does everything a DBX PA2 does. And audio wise it sounds pretty great, I've not tweaked it, just ran the wizards and set the crossover/delays. I did see a dissection of one of these clones on another site and they mentioned that the capacitors are 'out of spec' and show some testing of the unit which suggests it isn't good but my ears say it's absolutely fine. I know there are various factories making cloned and maybe I got a unit from a good one 
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My general impression is that the "audiophile" crowd despises equalizers, so owning and using one already sets you apart.
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yeah dont' adjust the sound with silly tools.. enhance it with $300 devices that keep your cables from touching the floor.
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Digital Signal Processing? Hokum! Balderdash! Brilliant pebbles and expensive cables? Yes please!
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tater_salad posted:yeah dont' adjust the sound with silly tools.. enhance it with $300 devices that keep your cables from touching the floor. If you're making changes a normie can hear then clearly your system must have been poo poo. A proper audiophile only needs to tweak the subtle things that only other golden ears can detect.
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Friendly reminder to spend more on your family and less on stereo equipment
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Mr. Mercury posted:Friendly reminder to spend more on your family and less on stereo equipment free link of the story.
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drat, wish my ALS having dad would have had the foresight to build the world's greatest stereo for me to inherit.
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The estate sale for that guy happened a little while back: http://auction.ebidlocal.com/Public...GtTQItkaw%3d%3d
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my name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! And if you sit right…here it’s like Diana Krall is in the room with you, the whole soundstage just opens up.
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He wasn’t even a true audiophile, he had the audacity to build his own equipment. How can they possibly be the best sounding speakers in the world if they don’t even have a brand logo on them so you can know for sure you paid for the best? Also, check out the photos of that stereo system in the article. Imagine losing your entire family over a stereo system that doesn’t even have cable lifters. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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