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After watching the first minute of this video that kept showing up in my YouTube recs, I knew it belonged here https://youtu.be/hqz4SQCKv_o
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Yeah anything having to do with The Absolute Sound is uncut audiophile bullshit, but in a very wordy and professional way.
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Mar 16, 2023 23:43
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Godzilla07 posted:After watching the first minute of this video that kept showing up in my YouTube recs, I knew it belonged here you can make a nice enough living doing this bullshit dog & pony show they all oughta be ashamed of themselves
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Mar 17, 2023 00:25
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I had some brief interactions with Fremer at RMAF, and I can’t tell you how much those experiences have made me despise him.
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TheMadMilkman posted:I had some brief interactions with Fremer at RMAF, and I can’t tell you how much those experiences have made me despise him. its incredible just how small the audiophile circle is
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Mar 17, 2023 08:43
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TheMadMilkman posted:I had some brief interactions with Fremer at RMAF, and I can’t tell you how much those experiences have made me despise him. Share with the class!
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Mar 17, 2023 21:44
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I've tried out 360 audio on Tidal with my Sony wf-1000xm4 headphones and... it's not great is it? Sounds kinda thin and lifeless? The only track that works so far is Space Oddity, they kicked that up a notch. Atmos sounds really good to me (sometimes).
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Mar 17, 2023 22:38
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Multichannel music is amazing when it's mixed perfectly and I'd imagine the same is true for spatial stuff but IMO it will remain niche forever. Also some guy on AVS asked for DAC recommendations and after everyone posted about RME, Topping, Benchmark, Denafrips, etc. and had the usual thing where people claim they can hear the difference between Sabre and AKM dude says he wants to try this:  $6600
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Mar 25, 2023 01:54
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for $6600 I would REALLY want those vacuum tubes to be perfectly perpendicular.
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Mar 25, 2023 02:09
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LRADIKAL posted:for $6600 I would REALLY want those vacuum tubes to be perfectly perpendicular. At least they all tilt at the same angle 
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Mar 25, 2023 02:14
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That doesn't even fit the primary point of tube amps which is to look cool.
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Mar 25, 2023 02:43
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LRADIKAL posted:for $6600 I would REALLY want those vacuum tubes to be perfectly perpendicular. and then very possibly end up sounding worse than a pair of $300 JBL 305p
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Mar 25, 2023 03:46
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Someone make an audiophile tube amp that supports Hue bulbs.
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I’d actually love to see hifi NuTube gear, if we’re being honest. Just as a hobbyist collector scum type of guy AFAIK Nelson Pass made a couple of DIY kits around NuTube that got buried in the internet but nothing else ever materialized and I think they only get used in a handful of guitar amps and like a KORG keyboard or two
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Mar 26, 2023 17:08
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Mozi posted:Someone make an audiophile tube amp that supports Hue bulbs. I assume you mean where you just stick the bulb in where the tube would normally go and have the actual amp be all digital? Because yeah, that could work. You could even do bespoke bulbs that only got signal from the amp and rig it to light up with relative volume.
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Mar 26, 2023 20:54
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I did a search and I don’t think this thread has had as chance to admire the pure strain intensity of Audiophile.Rocks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnrtmP-AsBg From the Bad With Money thread.
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doingitwrong posted:I did a search and I don’t think this thread has had as chance to admire the pure strain intensity of Audiophile.Rocks. Have we really not discussed audiophile rocks? best part of those is the unshielded lengths
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my favorite audiophile rockFeels Villeneuve posted:This is from 2016 but I just found it today.
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doingitwrong posted:I did a search and I don’t think this thread has had as chance to admire the pure strain intensity of Audiophile.Rocks.  lmfao i spend less on my entire audio systems than the first two
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Palladium posted:
Trap fukken sprung, audiophile scum!
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Mar 29, 2023 14:25
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man my X wife was into making organite and other woo poo poo.. she shoulda been making it for audiophiles instead of trying to clear up your chi or whatevershit it was intended to do.
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Someone is buying mqa, hopefully for parts. I hope it's not Tidal since them dropping it would be their last big customer.quote:MQA Ltd, the company behind the MQA digital music technology, is going into administration.
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Apr 6, 2023 21:55
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MQA is provably snake oil BS anyways. A bunch of people have run tests on it.
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Mederlock posted:MQA is provably snake oil BS anyways. A bunch of people have run tests on it.
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steckles posted:Hey now, it would make some LEDs on expensive DACs light up. How will anybody know that they're listening to an Authenticated TRUE and HONEST Studio Master™ any more??? It says Apple Digital Master in the app.
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Apr 7, 2023 01:35
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Mederlock posted:MQA is provably snake oil BS anyways. A bunch of people have run tests on it. I can totally hear that difference on my $7000 dynaudio bookshelf that has the most cheapass crossover cabling
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The goldensound guy found that MQA compression does produce extra distortion in the audible band, and it gets worse the more “unfolds” you do. So the more invested in the format you are the worse it sounds. He also found that the magic blue light flag is in the file header and you can feed it low bitrate stuff and the light will still come on. https://youtu.be/pRjsu9-Vznc
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qirex posted:The goldensound guy found that MQA compression does produce extra distortion in the audible band, and it gets worse the more “unfolds” you do. So the more invested in the format you are the worse it sounds. He also found that the magic blue light flag is in the file header and you can feed it low bitrate stuff and the light will still come on. How could our new audio codec with the groundbreaking feature of introducing intermodulation distortion from ultrasonics to the audible band, be not successful in the huge market of white dying "I can't hear 10KHz anymore" audiophile boomers.
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LOL That company still existed?
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Absolutely nothing in Stereophile or TAS about MQA going bankrupt. Lol
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Absolutely nothing in Stereophile or TAS about MQA going bankrupt. Lol they know they are next
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The audience that reads things like TAS is a segment of the market that is literally dying. Young people are getting into audio and it’s via headphones and powered speakers and little $100 DACs but it’s still much easier to sell one million dollar thing to the right sucker than a million two dollar ones.
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qirex posted:The audience that reads things like TAS is a segment of the market that is literally dying. Young people are getting into audio and it’s via headphones and powered speakers and little $100 DACs but it’s still much easier to sell one million dollar thing to the right sucker than a million two dollar ones. iIMO the only reason they are still standing is because almost all the megabuck poo poo they can access for free exist because they only cost comparative pennies to actually make these guys are still pretending making a 2-way bookshelf and place them on a stand in A.D. 2023 is some unsolved rocket science Palladium fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Apr 8, 2023 |
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It's like Prima Cinema and Red Carpet. Those delux streaming services for the filthy rich and powerful enabling them to get current theatrical releases streamed to their special secrety sauce boxes are gonna die out completely.
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qirex posted:The audience that reads things like TAS is a segment of the market that is literally dying. Young people are getting into audio and it’s via headphones and powered speakers and little $100 DACs but it’s still much easier to sell one million dollar thing to the right sucker than a million two dollar ones. You kind of see this with a ton of the "legacy" audio companies now pushing stuff like soundbars and powered stereo speakers. I imagine it's easier these days to sell people getting into audio on like, a Rega P1 and a JBL soundbar than some setup involving an amp/receiver.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:You kind of see this with a ton of the "legacy" audio companies now pushing stuff like soundbars and powered stereo speakers. I imagine it's easier these days to sell people getting into audio on like, a Rega P1 and a JBL soundbar than some setup involving an amp/receiver. Yeah there's the ones trying to get ahead of it, Harman [owned by Samsung] has enough resources and to be able to make halo gear like Revel, JBL Pro, Arcam, Mark Levinson, etc. and also a $99 soundbar or $40 bluetooth headphones. There's smaller companies like Focal that made a hard and successful pivot into high end headphones or Lenbrook/NAD/Bluesound that bet the farm on streaming. KEF is a very design focused company that makes sure to still always a decent entry level offering. What I like best about a/v now is startups making really high quality niche stuff like HDFury or miniDSP. My Qudelix 5k is maybe the best $100 I've ever spent on audio, it's a high quality DAC and headphone amp with bluetooth and parametric EQ the size of a 9V battery and it both sounds great and measurably outperforms a bunch of 30lb multikilobuck stand alone gear and it's made by a tiny company in S Korea. Most of the true boutique high end companies are just waiting to die while they complain about the kids today not wanting to spend 5 grand on a tonearm. I think part of it is that they also depended on people eventually upgrading their way into big boy systems without keeping an eye on the low/middle end of the market and just assuming that would stay healthy.
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There's also that big group (Voxx) who own Klipsch, Onkyo and Pioneer's non-turntable stuff and Klipsch has gone hard into soundbars and powered speakers too, while still having the more "halo" stuff like the Klipschorn/La Scala line. (apparently those guys also own Acoustic Research but as a zombie brand - all that's on their site is outdoor speakers and some rebranded IEMs)
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Some "actual" MQA news https://www.ecoustics.com/news/mqa-bankruptcy/ quote:There have been a series of events in recent months that likely explain why MQA filed when it did. Speculation mainly being that MQA's Bluetooth codec was seen as possibly being a viable product but MQA itself was not (the funniest thing being them speculating that they renamed it "SCL6" to avoid association with MQA and make it more attractive to buyers) Feels Villeneuve fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Apr 8, 2023 |
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MQA thinking they could become the mainstream wireless audio standard in a market that has Sony and Qualcomm in is hilarious.
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