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Ok Comboomer posted:I used to think that having a website that looks like it was made by a single amateur in 2001 was simply a quirk, an artifact of the kinds of dudes running these scams and making audiophool snake oil products, but now I’m starting to think that it serves a deliberate screening purpose much like how “Nigerian Prince” scams are worded in a manner that would alienate 99.99% of readers in order to select for the teeny tiny percentage of most receptive marks. A lot of this is so that places that are still running machines from 20 years ago can order unencumbered. Places like US military contractors.
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So you’re right about it specializing in serving the most gullible, but it’s not a direct relationship
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It looks like a unity store dystopian building
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Ok Comboomer posted:imagine paying $10 grand for a DAC with goddamn Papyrus embossed on the front imagine spending $10 grand and not even getting Papyrus embossed on the front
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Dec 10, 2022 04:54
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You don’t have to imagine, that’s a relief
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evobatman posted:and if these systems did anything different you would notice it. Big if there
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Dec 12, 2022 14:53
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strtj posted:There is something to be said for hearing the same track over and over on these reference systems, and obviously for different reviewers it's different tracks, but of course it's settled down on tracks for dudes to listen to while they imagine themselves in a "fancy" place being personally entertained by the sultriest vocalist they can find performing for them "personally" I’m not one to kinkshame but this is the weirdest kink convention I’ve ever heard of
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Dec 12, 2022 19:19
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Palladium posted:i also remembered seeing a $20K soundbar that claims to go down to 20Hz without a sub 9 yard wide 1 yard deep soundbar?
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Jan 23, 2023 02:54
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 Figured out what it reminds me of
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Jan 27, 2023 14:03
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Mederlock posted:The forbidden power of the QR Code Quality Refreshment code
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Jan 27, 2023 18:35
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AlexDeGruven posted:Username/post combination checks out. What does John Cena have to do with coasters? Also don’t buy this knockoff, I sell one for $80081.35 which is obviously better than anything at that sub five-diggie price
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Jan 28, 2023 00:47
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literally some site selling the perfect sommelier posted:The Perfect Sommelier “improves” virtually any wine in less than 30 minutes
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Jan 28, 2023 01:42
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Jan 28, 2023 01:42
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Feels Villeneuve posted:an update on this is that apparently some audiophiles think 100mbps switches sound better because gigabit switches need more powerful processors, which introduce more noise into the signal chain or something, which is just to say that the "sell old network hubs to audiophiles" thing would totally work Token ring gives a warmer sound
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Jan 29, 2023 22:46
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Look at a headphone splitter Now look at a hub and spoke network They’re the same thing, and they do the same thing to your sound
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Palladium posted:im more amazed its still possible to get a purely 10mbps one Same
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Jan 30, 2023 19:26
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Finally I can hate the Eagles at the appropriate fidelity
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movax posted:Did we talk about this yet? I love Tom's quote:Without a review sample, we can’t completely dismiss all of the product listing claims regarding this cable’s Hi-Fi qualities. However, the maker has missed some obvious optimizations, as the design omits any reference to using precious metals or oxygen-free conductors.
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Humphreys posted:I love this channel but some of this stuff is creeping into audiophile territory. He’s been dangling a whole foot in that territory since either the DAC or the Meze video, both of which were over a year ago
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Humphreys posted:The extra LOL is that it has NEC TOKIN capacitors on it. Ie quite well known by PS3 modders to be a somewhat frequent cause of failure in original PS3s Lol what were they tokin
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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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bigman.50grand posted:Is charging pre-owned JO crystals gay? Asking for a friend. It is unless you put it in my no-gay crystal pouch when charging. $500.
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an AOL chatroom posted:Hi, I don't know what peat means in the context of audio, can someone explain? oaky but grassier
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wolrah posted:Sorry you aren't able to experience pure audible joy. Having just the right amount of poopy butt helps you perceive the quantum fluctuations you only get to experience on the most expensive of systems. The true essence of the sound captured by a 768kHz sampling rate interact with the smell particles wafting up from your crack give the music an amazing texture that fondles your earballs in ways you've never imagined. Sounds muddy
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stealie72 posted:Also, where in your soundstage is the NAS located. This is important. It’s next to the roadies on soundstage left
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Fozzy The Bear posted:Its no $60,000 apple engineer designed record player Lol what did he even do its just a Sondek LP12
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Jul 10, 2023 22:34
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njsykora posted:As we said when mocking this in the Apple YOSPOS thread, it can't be Ive approved it has 2 LEDs on. That's way too much information to put on a single button. It could be like a home pod where they’re both for show and provide no information
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Packet noise Only audio packets on audio network Beautiful. A+. Anyone who knows anything is immediately turned off and you’ve found a group who will believe whatever you say and distrust…big Cisco?
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tater_salad posted:You don't want laser straight 1s and as close to perfect 0s to ensure a reduction in jitter and increased pleasure sense? The good zeroes have a slanted slash in them The good ones have a flared base
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Aug 3, 2023 00:54
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Endless Mike posted:No, good 0s are perfectly round and good 1s are perfectly straight sans serifs. Any other types of 1s and 0s and they can get stuck together messing up your digital data If you cant make them stick together they just wibble wobble all over the place, they need to mate
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Aug 3, 2023 01:47
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This is why you buy from me and not those other guys, folks
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:This is why I print my music out as raw binary and manually enter it into my player. Can you trust the signal to your printer
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Aug 3, 2023 12:36
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Not without my audiophile grade gold plated printer cables and ink you can’t
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:This is suspiciously cheap, I don't believe it will improve the spaciousness of my printouts. They’re $5000 if you want the nuts and bolts version but to really make them pop you want them with diamond in the jacket. That is charged by the inch
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i always like that nobody ever explains why the cabling in your home is going to matter compared to the massive amounts of backbone transport between your house and the ISP, much of which is old as poo poo Do you know how old the dirt that surrounds the fiber lines is? I want to sell you new dirt. It’s more conductive. Warning: do not use new dirt as ground.
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