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i love audiophile woo, it always gets a good laugh outta me
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relative_q posted:i love audiophile woo, it always gets a good laugh outta me https://thefpl.us/episode/138
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Jul 19, 2020 17:47
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blows me away I can get a 5km SFP for like $10 from fs.com thank you capitalism
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Jul 21, 2020 11:52
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SO DEMANDING posted:no matter how evil and rotten you think you are, NONE of us here are poo poo enough to sell any of our audiophile snakeoil ideas. if we were, we'd already be doing it by now. what if i'm just really lazy
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Jul 21, 2020 18:34
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SO DEMANDING posted:no matter how evil and rotten you think you are, NONE of us here are poo poo enough to sell any of our audiophile snakeoil ideas. if we were, we'd already be doing it by now. the hard part is that you can't just put rocks from the yard in a bag and make a web page, you need to spend lots of time in the belly of the beast building a rapport with the crazy people and making up your own brand of audiophile alchemy before they will pay $1000 for a bag of gravel from your driveway
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Jul 21, 2020 18:38
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I used to work in a place that sold secondhand hifi gear and cameras. At that time I was more credulous and spergier about audio in general as I was djing and had no kids or responsibilities so could let my autism flag fly I got friendly with lots of the regulars and we used to dork out in a low key way about the gear that would come in. Nakamichi tape decks, Rega rekkid players, electrostatic speakers, that sort of poo poo. I was chatting away to a genial middle aged hifi dork one day, and somehow it came up that I used some $50 cables or something to connect my cd player to my amp. He got really mad/sad and his face filled with emotion while he basically bitched me out in the store while he went on and about his $3k cables or some poo poo That’s my story of audiophile interaction in the early 2000s
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Sep 19, 2020 08:35
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thanks
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Sep 19, 2020 08:58
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i wish i had no scruples, because selling coat hanger wire as $4k speaker cable or white paint as $8k "listening room perimeter treatment for total sonic neutrality" seems like such a sweet gig
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Sep 19, 2020 12:33
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picturing total sonic neutrality as sonic the hedgehog holding a Swiss flag
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Sep 19, 2020 17:32
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what do audiophiles listen to on their sick sound systems
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Sep 19, 2020 22:23
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lovely vinyl LPs they bought 40 years ago
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Sep 19, 2020 23:27
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pointsofdata posted:what do audiophiles listen to on their sick sound systems 1927 racist horny jazz songs recorded on wax cylinder and transferred to vinyl, then tape, then CD, then flac it's pure and unmolested audio, you see
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Sep 19, 2020 23:35
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pointsofdata posted:what do audiophiles listen to on their sick sound systems marco arment listens to phish lol
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Sep 20, 2020 06:43
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pointsofdata posted:what do audiophiles listen to on their sick sound systems aja by steely dan brothers in arms by dire straights diana krall rubber soul by the beatles jazz that was recorded mono in a basement on a homemade mixing board pipe organ if they want to test bass
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Sep 20, 2020 19:55
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pointsofdata posted:what do audiophiles listen to on their sick sound systems dark side of the moon, I have never seen an album that was played more by these idiots than that one
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Sep 20, 2020 22:55
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RustyKnight posted:dark side of the moon, I have never seen an album that was played more by these idiots than that one I really want to know why dark side of the moon became the go-to for audiophile bros
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Sep 20, 2020 23:48
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dork side of the moon
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Sep 21, 2020 03:27
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every time the audiophile grift thread comes up I pitch the idea of selling interconnect lube for the rca jacks. You just do a song and dance about how the microscopic peaks and valleys in even a nice machined surface act as tiny capacitors, robbing you of your bright highs, profound lows and creamy middles, and tell them your special audiophile conductive goo with cryogenicly treated colloidial silver will get rid of all those problems. the advantage to this is they will 100% get loving nasty silver grease all over everything and it'll stain
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Sep 21, 2020 03:43
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rotor posted:the advantage to this is they will 100% get loving nasty silver grease all over everything and it'll stain the stains becomes a warning
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Sep 21, 2020 03:52
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rotor posted:creamy middles
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Sep 21, 2020 06:05
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pointsofdata posted:what do audiophiles listen to on their sick sound systems insanely rich people buy the original Beatles master tapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLWHPy9zdGs (warning: intense boomer energy in this video)
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Sep 21, 2020 07:13
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Feisty-Cadaver posted:insanely rich people buy the original Beatles master tapes Imagine getting decent sound system and playing loving Beatles, like 8k tv just to watch some lovely direct to video 80s movie
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Sep 21, 2020 09:02
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RustyKnight posted:Imagine getting decent sound system and playing loving Beatles, like 8k tv just to watch some lovely direct to video 80s movie its not about the music, it's straining to listen for Ringo saying "I hate these guys so much" under his breath
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Sep 21, 2020 18:47
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out of all the things i know in music, my near thirty years of playing and being an active listener, reading endless books, magazine articles and website articles about it, there is nothing, NOTHING i hate more than people that treat rare beatles mixes and outtakes as some grail of rock and roll. god i hate that band and everything that people have made them into SO MUCH
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Sep 21, 2020 18:49
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a lot of the most insufferable audiophiles like to harp on the ideal of your home system should be to reproduce the exact experience of a live performance [pretty sure these dudes only listen to jazz and classical] so even stuff like late beatles with all the studio tricks is anathema to them, let alone the 55 years of music production since thenJonny 290 posted:out of all the things i know in music, my near thirty years of playing and being an active listener, reading endless books, magazine articles and website articles about it, there is nothing, NOTHING i hate more than people that treat rare beatles mixes and outtakes as some grail of rock and roll.
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Sep 21, 2020 18:50
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this is not to say that the beatles were not influential and shaped many things. but 95% of their music was throwaway album filler that they wrote on cocktail napkins fifteen minutes before tape rolled
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Sep 21, 2020 18:50
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Sep 21, 2020 18:54
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actually the beatles are good, calm down jonny
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Sep 21, 2020 20:23
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there are some good beatles songs - enough for maybe two albums worth then there are 10 albums worth of dumb novelty songs and experimental drivel
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Sep 21, 2020 20:44
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Ever since my spouse moved out I don't get angry or yell any more. There's no need to tell me to "calm down." Especially when i'm making correct observations, like the ones I just did about the quality of the Beatles' output
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Sep 21, 2020 20:46
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the beatles really weren't very good at all and neither were the rolling stones
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Sep 21, 2020 20:50
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Bout to drop a ramones take in a second. yall sittin down?
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Sep 21, 2020 20:51
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Jonny 290 posted:Bout to drop a ramones take in a second. yall sittin down? boy you better not
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Sep 21, 2020 20:51
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yeah. carry that take in carefully jonny
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Sep 22, 2020 01:06
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Jonny 290 posted:Ever since my spouse moved out I don't get angry or yell any more. There's no need to tell me to "calm down." Especially when i'm making correct observations, like the ones I just did about the quality of the Beatles' output put down the gun, sir
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Sep 22, 2020 01:26
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rotor posted:the beatles really weren't very good at all and neither were the rolling stones rolling stones are indeed p. bad in general but the beatles made lots of good music. boomers/nerds of course blew them up out of all proportion but cest la vie
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Sep 22, 2020 01:28
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I’m very curious what these guys think recording studios are like. I’ve never been in one but I image they don’t use miles of cord that goes for $4k/meter
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Sep 22, 2020 23:42
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Sorry, forgot to follow up Ramones are terrible
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Sep 22, 2020 23:43
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how much would it cost for Andrew W.K. masters? I want to use every last watt in my amplifier
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henry rollins has 6 figure wilson speakers that he uses to listen to punk 7” most of which were recorded on a cassette 4 track or similar quality equipment
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