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Combat Pretzel posted:A block of milled plexiglass filled with ball bearings? What's the pseudoscientific rationale behind this poo poo?
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BANME.sh posted:The funny thing about this is that since tapes are analog, they automatically get higher respect than MP3s among a large swath of audiophiles. Never mind the fact that cassette tapes have no more than 6 or 7 bits worth of "resolution" in them on a good day, utilizing the best playback equipment. If you actually tried to carry out this troll, there's a good chance the dealer wouldn't even bat an eye. If they get the impression that you are ready and able to spend $100k, they will happily tell you all about how warm and detailed the sound of your speak'n'spell will be or whatever else they think will help empty your pockets.
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Oct 21, 2014 23:07
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Oh, a wav is a wav, but the problem is repeatedly stressing the bits every time you decompress the RAR. Each decompression includes multiple bit-shifts and addition operations, each taking its toll on the integrity of the bitstream. If you are listening to the track even a few times a week, it will only take 3-4 months before the effects add up and the bits are reduced to shell-shocked, used-up husks of their former selves. The RAR format simply wasn't designed for repeated listening.
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Oct 29, 2014 18:28
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BigFactory posted:Gold plated speaker inputs and vibration dampening are way low on the totem pole of audiophilerey. I wish my ht amp had some vibration dampening. It rattles like a chain link fence. Yeah, gold plated connectors are standard on most industrial electronic equipment. Not really audiophile shenanigans.
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Nov 29, 2014 19:08
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shortspecialbus posted:Is there a way to get it to play from my nas without putting a gap between songs? Bdp-103 Conveniently combine all the songs into one really long track with a wave editor.
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Dec 7, 2014 00:59
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Need to use my income for something before the wife spends it all. And she really hates speakers, so that is a big bonus.
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Jan 26, 2015 18:23
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It looks pretty loving rad, anyway. How loud can it go without appreciable distortion?
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Jan 29, 2015 05:20
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Jmcrofts posted:I'm pretty sure stereo systems on the whole are dad gear these days. Whenever I go to a party that has music playing, it's a laptop running Spotify hooked up to a pair of Logitech speakers. And it sounds pretty good!
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Jan 29, 2015 23:26
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Knifegrab posted:After laughing over the pono and doing more reading, can someone help me understand how you rate an audio format's dynamic range? For instance, according to this image 16-bit 44.1 kHz has a Dynamic Range of 96dB. But I thought dynamic range was just the measurement of someone's ability to detect audio. And since you can amplify sound and music files, how does a dynamic range even exist? I am just really confused by the idea of Dynamic Range, even after sifting through the whole wiki. beaten but, The dynamic range is a ratio of the difference in magnitude between the largest signal and smallest signal. In a detector, that ratio is between the biggest thing it can detect and the smallest. In digital audio, it is the ratio between the biggest signal that can be represented by the format and the smallest. For binary integers, 8-bit can have 255 non-zero values, 16-bit can have 65535 values, a 24-bit signal 16.7 million. So the ratio of the biggest to smallest value in 16-bit is 65535:1. You can find the dynamic range in dB by 20*log10(2^bitdepth-1). More bits means a larger dynamic range. The sampling frequency is what determines the frequency range. Part of making a signal digital is taking a reading every so often. This is called sampling. Because the data is sampled, there is a limit to what we can accurately represent. There is a sampling theorem that says that you need to sample twice as fast as the fastest frequency you are interested in. So, if you sample at 44.1kHz, you could represent, at best, a 22.05kHz signal accurately.
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Feb 5, 2015 01:24
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Knifegrab posted:I just want to make sure I understand this by explaining it in laymans terms. quote:The sampling frequency determines the range of frequencies a sound file can output. So a sampling frequency of 400 Hz will create a sound file that can only output 200 Hz max, or that is to say, very low tones. quote:Also was the dynamic range expressed in dB for the express purpose of being used in conjunction with reference volume? dB is a good way to express a ratio that can be very large, so it gets used for a lot of things. This wikipedia page has a whole bunch taqueso fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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KillHour posted:This is not true. Sounds over 22khz played through many systems can cause audible aliasing or harmonics (which are bad). Yeah, I suppose so and maybe even likely on an average setup. I meant more 'it isn't worse as a technology', and didn't mean to imply that it would always be better in practice. I can see how what I wrote could easily be taken that way.
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Feb 5, 2015 03:45
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flosofl posted:OK that's it. I'm going to buy a bunch of these and mark them up 1,000% Umm, that is an alien space ray generator, you don't want that anywhere near your gear
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Feb 13, 2015 23:48
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flosofl posted:No no no. As you see by the colors, they capture the colored space-rays so as to not affect the color of your sound. Sheesh. Oh, I see! Interesting that they don't manage to capture any red space-rays, the most destructive of all space rays.
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Feb 13, 2015 23:54
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Do audiophiles sperg about ECC memory? Seems perfect for them: it protects against mysterious cosmic rays, the errors protected against are very rare and hard to identify, and it costs a bunch of money versus the typical solution. I guess the only downside is that it actually serves a practical purpose.
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Feb 13, 2015 23:59
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KillHour posted:I doubt most audiophiles really enjoy music very much. I prefer the pure tones of sine waves to the cacophony of music.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:46
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Just to confirm that KillHour isn't being sarcastic, REW is a great program and a calibrated USB mic is a good investment. You will end up listening to a lot of loud tone sweeps, though.
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Mar 25, 2015 21:11
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb2jDNZ5JuQ Unironically would like to hear more stuff like that.
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Mar 27, 2015 15:31
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Combat Pretzel posted:Darker sounding. What the gently caress does that even signify. You get to use your imagination!
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Apr 9, 2015 03:29
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 Cable insulation is crucial to maintaining a warm sound.
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Apr 9, 2015 15:47
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Love that wood panel, makes me feel like I'm in a 2000 Taurus with the fancy interior package.
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Apr 15, 2015 16:18
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Looks to be only passive components, so it won't be replacing any values.
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May 7, 2015 20:54
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I'm just shocked that the circuit board is green and not pure white or darkest black.
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May 8, 2015 15:45
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Don Lapre posted:You wont see it when its inside a garden hose and sleeving But the electrons will know 
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May 8, 2015 16:04
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grack posted:Also, he probably has it covered in three feet of caulking. Never do that. You have to pack around it with jute and lambswool, then smear pitch all over that. Same effect, but no nasty caulking chemicals eating away at your capacitors.
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May 23, 2015 17:20
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KozmoNaut posted:What's wrong with CDs?
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Jun 10, 2015 16:10
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There are lots of procurement issues with fancy screens if you aren't a huge buyer, usually you can only get the left overs with no guarantee of being able to buy more later (then you get to do a redesign!). Moving to a high-res display also adds bunch of new graphics/UI work and you need a beefy uC to be able to move those pixels around. Might as well put Android on it... and then you are flying down the rabbit hole.. I do think they should have at least used a white on black LCD like someone else mentioned, what they have now just looks dated.
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Jun 15, 2015 18:47
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tonberrytoby posted:granite plate is pretty much useless. In industrial manufacturing, they will sometimes place equipment on isolated concrete pads with their own foundation separate from the rest of the building. Maybe that could be a thing for audiophiles.
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Jun 22, 2015 18:41
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fart simpson posted:I'm nearly 100% certain that there is no music store that sells 32 bit music files. Increasing bit depth from 24 to 32 isn't destructive in any way and can be done perfectly. It's just tacking 8 zeroes onto the end of the binary number. It's the same idea as changing a 0-10 rating scale into a 0-100 rating scale by multiplying everything by 10.
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Aug 31, 2015 03:31
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Do you have room for a subwoofer under your desk?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I do, but I won't be using it. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I probably won't ever actually use them at work, I just need to assert my cubicle dominance. Seems to check out
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Apr 13, 2017 16:54
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Josh Lyman posted:Maximum audio quality isn't reached until you Power your entire audio system with DC power from lithium ion batteries charged by solar panels. Lithium Ion?? WTF. Only carbon dry cells.
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Apr 21, 2017 16:58
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No, that is referring to physical speed and precision. The cable has a nickel-PFTE sheath that reduces friction for the fastest uncoiling and routing. Patented feed lips machined into the plug allow for lightning fast cable changes and drop-free release of spent cables. For the absolute fastest USB cable changes, you will also want to add the accompanying portwell to your system's USB ports:
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May 12, 2017 16:08
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Why don't those subwoofers have any power crystals on them? Are you an amateur?
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Dec 17, 2017 17:21
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boner fuel, post your cables
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It lets the pure audio signal through unmolested by negative waves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyh-JpWdGmQ
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Mar 25, 2018 04:20
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The light makes use of the extra electrons before they can get into the system and noise it all up.
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Mar 29, 2018 18:14
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But how can you really be sure unless its a 1996 oppo?
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Dec 19, 2018 00:10
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Olympic Mathlete posted:At what point is a system bad considering it's now adding things to a production that the producer never intended?
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But gold is shiny.
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Every time I look in here I remember I need to start making audiophile equipment.
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