ITT: We make fun of audophiles
we also make fun of Americans and their retarded plugs
>>106558596how many of these do you think they have to sell to turn a profit?
>>106558737Noooooooo I le love being zapped by an ungrounded extension cord it's the mutt way
>>1065587551
>gold receptacle>still wired to copper in the walls>aluminum lines to the houselol
>>106558755It's a $30 receptacle with a little piece of gold (maybe) added to it, so like >>106558784 said, probably one.
>>106558596The funniest shit to me is audiophile ssds
>>106558762Have you tried not touching the leads?
>>106558917no imagination whatsoever, muttbeasts pretend to run this world mind you
>>106558883>audiophile >realtek chiplmfao
>>106558762>gold plated toslinkLol
>>106558878Damn I should start making these myself and selling them for like $100 each. You're telling me these things are backlogged? That's free money on the table right there.
>>106560290If they're $100 they'll assume they're not as good, you gotta sell them for thousands
>>106558805Gold is good for contacts because it is maleable and doesn't rust. You definitely aren't an audiophile, or you're coping because you have to listen to receptacle hiss and can't afford to fix it with $0.10 of gold leaf and $6,494.90 of marketing to retards.
>>106558883snibbidy snab
>>106562249:D
>>106558596It's their money to waste. Audiochuds are not gonna care about diminishing returns.
>>106558596Honestly I can get with the audiophile aesthetic.Everything is hilariously overbuilt, kinda like how custom PC watercooling will make reservoirs and blocks with thick enough acrylic to stop bullets, or make metal fittings that are 10x stronger than they ever need to be.I don't need a 10 gauge IEC cable, but damn if the gold plated connectors and beefy plugs don't make me feel better.I don't need a braided ethernet cable that is 2GHz/40Gbps rated with field serviceable Rj45 connectors but it makes you feel like your plugging in something proper.It does feel like audiophile stuff can sometimes (emphasis on sometimes) be an antithesis to the bottom barrel constriction of most modern devices.
the funny thing is that if this shit wasn't all digital a lot of this stuff would actually "work" (e.g. it would probably alter the sound signature).
>>106562445It's 1000x the price for a 0% improvement. Chunky connectors are not a good thing, you just have grug brain.
>>106562445I agree with liking chunky substantial feeling cables and shit, but this stuff does nothing really. It's priced high because audiophiles think expensive=it must be good.
>>106559372Man, these moskal hookers are completely unhinged today.
>>106558596>pay $6500+tip for an outlet>company makes $6450 profit but can't be bothered shipping your shit for months
>>106562902>he doesn't cleanse his dac's chakrasyou don't want negative psychic energy in your music do you?>>106562445I love seeing to turn from bourgie cyberpunk to pure schizo
>>106562333This >>106560932Also this You gotta make it so when THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST blasts in their home, they feel deep in their bones that it’s really about them.
>>106558596I REALLY hope you guys have an audiophile-tuned network switch at home. You're basically killing your ears if not. At just under $3400 for the fully tuned setup it's the easiest and best bang for your buck upgrade you can make to your system.
>>106563541>killing your earsProofs?
>>106563449I still don't get the point of the snake cables.
Fake microphones and headphones are being sold on Amazon for the full price and people are buying it without noticing anything
>>106558762>"... Is this loss-">"NO!"
>>106563600Yeah because most retards get as far as>wow this sounds better than my 0.5$ (sold for 199.99$) gaymen headset mic!
>>106563602I hate when UDP just loses the baby packet
>>106563541I should start selling "extremely ultra audio grade" binned LTZ1000s for 20K a pop to these people.
Speaker spikesThose faggots can cost thousands of dollarsThey say it "improves audio fidelity" and "decouples speakers" from the floor and preventing unwanted vibrations Meanwhile just moving your speakers 1cm without buying anything changes the sound
>>106558596
>>106558596>>106563807The human ear cannot ear more than 128kbps MP3
>>106563804>preventing unwanted vibrationsWhere is the much needed audiophile grade™ vibrating buttplug?
>>106558596THATS NOT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AUDIOPHILE AHHHHHHHH
>>106563541Poor fools don't know about caching
>>106558596>copper wires>steel attachment lugs
>>106561091>receptacle hissnigger just use your power conditioner, you have one right? rack-mountable, right?
>>106563804The speaker stands I got came with spikes. I have them on since they dig into the carpet and prevent the stands from moving. My two speakers sit just behind me on either side of my couch and I have a sub sitting on a rackmount firewall since it's better than sitting on carpet. I would anger many audiophiles with my setup. At least it's all balanced XLR.
>>106563842You can after a couple years, MP3 bit rot is real. Just use flac since storage is cheap, everything supports it, and you don't have to deal with bit rot.
Watching some of that "audiophile" stuff is so hilariously unreal, it's unreal
>>106561091I listened to ur mom's receptacle, but it was more of a woosh than hiss
>>106558883>it's real
>>106563842Most people can hear the difference betwern 128kbps and 320kbps with decent headphones. If you have good headphones and really try you can also tell FLAC from 320kbps MP3.
>>106558737>thinks his European-peon wiring is superior >can't afford to use itI laugh at you in NEMA 14-50, poorfag
>>106558596I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ
>>106562445i also don't disagree that it's nice to have something that feels like it wasn't optimised to barely meet the minimum spec, and i do wish there was a market for just... nice things. like, something in between the cheap chinese shit, the fancy-looking cheap chinese shit, and the "jesus dude it's just a fucking power cable" audiophile shit
>>106562933maybe, as long as you're aware that "alter" doesn't mean "improve", and also that "alter" doesn't mean "perceptible"
>>106558596just use 16-bit FLAC, lossless audio checker, and $18 wired headphones. skip the wireless slop. jesus christ.
>>106563842loss is unacceptable even if it is imperceivable. we have lossless audio checker for a reason. it is a matter of priciple.
>>106564423I use a sound blaster z se and atr-mh50x headphones and I am feeling greatminus the gpu interference
>spending tens of thousands of dollars to listen to music made on some guy's laptop
>>106564451>it’s only good music when it’s expensively made Pleb
>>106564483The point is that the producer gives less of a shit about the sound than you do
Sometimes I wish I didn't have a soul so I could become practically an overnight millionaire selling garbage to audiophools at literal 100,000% markup
>>106564555You're forgetting that you need to be a millionaire to begin with to advertise to those retards.
Has anyone tried marketing "gold plated" bluetooth to audiophiles yet?
>>106564555same.i'm currently in between jobs and not looking forward to going back to working. fuck having a conscience
>>106564555I wonder if one day I'm going to fold.
>>106563804>Speaker spikesThey are pretty cute so I got them for like 1.5$ each and use them as a DAC stand. >>106565058Expensive memory cards with high write speeds make sense in certain applications like burst shot .raw file photography
>>106563842The first mp3 file I ever had was the Nirvana cover of "Man who sold the world.". 128kbps. It took my online friend multiple hours to send it to me via dialup. In the same amount of time I can now download entire AI models that occupy hundreds of gigabytes of drive space. There's literally no need for that level of compression anymore.
>>106565087>high write speeds>for premium soundHuh
>>106564555There is nothing unethical about doing this whatsoever, are you just lazy and using this as a cope?
>>106558883Sony actually made an audiophile microSD card
>>106565961nta but i am. i cant afford one switch for myself, how will i order thousands of them, spraypaint them gold and silver, and sell them at 100,000% markup to retards?
>>106564015i honestly cannot tell if this is bait or you genuinely fell for the velocidensity copypasta
>>106565416>>106565058>>106565087>>106566098i imagine PREMIUM SOUND SD CARD is more for recording than playback. sorta like how professional photographers get 999$ meme cards because they dont want to sit around waiting for their camera to chug through writing a 9gb .raw for ten minutes every shot and are just TOOOOO GOOOOOD to shoot a 4k jpeg
>>106564009storing anything directly on carpet is satanic. best case you dented your fuckin carpet, there will be a weird spot there 5ever if you move any of that shit
>>106566148first of all: no, Sony has advertised this card for playback and nothing moresecond: this isn't a particularly fast sd card or anything like that, plus recording very high resolution/bit depth pcm/dsd audio doesn't require much bandwidth at all.
>>106563600honestly microphones are usually so fucking garbage and shitty that its worth it to shell out for a proper one. your average 5$ set of headphones is completely sufficient for listening to stuff but playing back (or experiencing the loopback) what goes through my webcam makes my ears bleed. shit sounds worse than a 1999 cell phone. "better than my 'business class' 'teleconferencing system' " is not a high bar to clear but i'd pay 100$ for something that's built solidly and doesnt sound like i'm murdering a cat with an orbital sander
>>106563595insulation and shock dampening. audiophiles are retarded and think the sound is mechanically in the cables or something and not just electrical signals and they look more like dried peppers imo
>>106563595It's to protect from electronic intefference. Honestly, of all the retarded shit audiophiles do, snake cables at least have some basis in reality.
>>106562445>Braid is nylon>Cable strain relief isn't solid metal>Sacrificing signal integrity and ~resolution~ or whatever audiophile words they sell for blingjej
>>106566323>It's to protect from electronic intefference. you can achieve that with 0.3mm thick brass mesh though, and it's still using fucking spade connectors and alligator clips anyway (to a "rack" that is totally unshielded too)
>>106565961>>106564555"I am a loser because I'm a much better person than the people around me who aren't losers" has to be the most pathetic cope out there, arrogance and ressentiment all in one
>>10655859622 years ago, when I was getting into stereo recording techniques, mastering, and production, I considered myself an "audiophile", simply because I enjoyed spending so much time working with audio. I met other "audiophiles" through forums, and in the "tapers section" at various performances. They used the term in a similar way, to describe their love for producing high quality recordings. Within 4 or 5 years the term became an embarrassment, and we all stopped describing ourselves that way. It used to mean someone who cared about and actually worked with sound. Tapers, producers, audio engineers etc... but it had become coopted by retarded "gearheads" who didn't understand what they were wasting money on, and the products they were purchasing had reached a level of absurdity we never thought possible. It's crazy to see that it's actually gotten so much worse. Jesus Christ.
>>106560290Probably not really "backlogged." I assume they don't keep it in stock and that's how long it takes to ship from alibaba when/if some idiot does fall for it.
>>106566780This happened to pretty much every subculture in the last 10 years
>>106566115Guess you haven't been around long enough to have MP3s old enough to suffer from rot.
>>106566222>Sony has advertised this card for playback and nothing morei'd lol but im too confused at what device it would be being played off of. i know mp3 players often had sd slots but 99% of them wouldnt accept anything over like 8gb
>>106567860possibly something like picrel
I fell for the audiophile meme once. I bought $320 3ft hdmi cables. They were so fucking thick you couldn't bend it for than a few degrees. I instant knew I was a retard and been smarter since then.
>>106566148They advertise it as having some kinda shielding that cuts interference. I think, it's been a while.It's the same kinda marketing behind the WM1Z's solid copper body.
I love audiophile threads but also fine them terrifying
>>106564009kek the fucking watchguard firewall Kino
>>106563449>listens to Imagine Dragons
I don't know if this makes me like an audiophile but I have really poor ac power at my house because it is in a very rural location and that makes my led light blink and worse it makes all my power supply's beep with coil whine . I have considered going completly offgrid to deal with this and I estimate this would cost me at least 80k for battery's , a good signal generator , hydro electric and solar .
>>106568639shaddup jeet
>>106568044God I hate the same uglyass buttons on everything.
>>106566109Yeah so it's what >>106564646 said
>>106568568They are kinda useless once their licensing expires. It can still function as a basic firewall. It's a shame you can't flash an open source firewall OS on them anymore.
>>106565961>There is nothing unethical about doing this whatsoeverwe have different ideas regarding what is ethical. which is his point
Audiophiles are people who molest audio instead of children
>>106567860Plenty of PMP's support microSD cards, most of Sony's ones do, that's the device it was meant for.
>>106558596At one point I was close to giving like $80 to the bongs for a pair of these copper rings to put on Sennheiser drivers for added bass response
>>106563807It's literally impossible to have mp3 / aac / vorbis transcodes without a lossless source dumbass. Apologize now.
anyone of you sick bastards wanna tell me how to make my behringer umc22 that is like 10 years old stop giving me digital crunch noise I forget the word for it but you know what I mean? I've tried like 4 different drivers but can't get it back to the way it was before I fucked with the drivers 2 years ago to get rocksmith to work.
>>106570673Changing the venting on the back of the driver (which those foam bits do) will actually affect the frequency response, sometimes significantly so.
>>106570742Yes I removed the foam like an idiot and it weakened the bass response. These rings however go right around the driver so it's unrelated to the foam.
>>106570791Don't they also hold those little foam cylinders in place on the back of the driver?Either way mass loading can help with resonances, but I doubt those copper rings add enough to have a significant effect.
>>106570919This is what the copper mod looks like when installed
>>106570996Hard to see but I think there's one of those little foam plugs in the center, right? That would affect the tuning.
Always a classic
I've never seen a jewish audiophile. Food for thought.
>>106571019I'm a retard I confused the front for the back. You are correct there is a piece of foam here. I only took off the ear piece foam on the "front".
>>106571138Oh yeah, removing the ear-side foam is gonna give you more highs, which feels like reduced bass.
>>106563449A lower-level demon got stuck in my DAC earlier this year and was causing electrical infetterence issues. My audiopriest said if I unplug it, the demon will escape and it could potentially transfer into my body. Luckily he was able to cast him into an old containment DAC (Topping D10) for safe transport to a 3-tier demon prison (he couldn't tell me where, but I think it was the Vatican). Cost me $19k all up for the audiopriest's work, but I don't mess around when it comes to demon shit.
stop being mean to audiophilesi have this exact setup surrounded by orgone pyramids filled with shungite to purify the air. they sound sublime. objectivist "science trusters" have literally trained their brain to be limited and incapable of hearing/perceiving things beyond direct soulless clinical measurements. they rely on measurements from inorganic equipment that has no capacity to feel or sense, and trust that over their own ears. truly disgusting and a sign of how far we've fallen. dead internet soulless NPC automatons that might aswell be a.i or robots
>>106566413>you're a loser for not scamming people for easy money
cable lifter ceramic pods
>>106571644
>>106564254>$2,749kek
>>106571364Sounds like a close one, I had a buddy lose 50k worth of audio gear to demon contamination, had to throw it all in the trash. Must've been a pretty low level demon to be satisfied with just a D10.
>>106570673>>106570742the same people who buy this shit are the same who poo-poo EQeq is mostly harmless while modding often completely fucks the distortion and resonances
>>106563449sonic garloids
Some "audiophile products actually work>be me>buy fairly high end subwoofer>has a giant toroidal transformer>transformer randomly has an audible hum when just plugged into wall outlet>find out its because my power grid is absolute shit and leaks DC onto the AC lines and this causes some toroidal transformers to buzz loudly>take a chance and buy pic related for $150>it actually fucking worksI know its overpriced as fuck for a plastic dongle with some capacitors n shit, but I ain't taking a chance to make my own when dealing with 120v power and risk blowing up my sub or houseFortunately its very well made and completely unobtrusive like some other options
>>106573394Some audiophile products do work.>have fairly basic but decent studio monitor speakers, bookshelf speakers, closed back headphones and a decent soundcard, monitor switch, power conditioner.Took away the foam isolation pads and cut some carpet, though. I have painted canvases backed with yoga mat foam for bass traps :)Generally speaking a decent amp, speakers, and accompanying soft furnishings are worth it. If you just use your gamer headset never talk about music ever and we good.
>>106567565Unironically China's fault. Producing stuff there is now so cheap that every niche is flooded with sellers and consoomers. Of course there is a lot of cool stuff we'd never dream of being made in previous decades but there is also a much larger storm cloud of useless crap and the new people getting into hobbies can't grasp what makes something desirable. And now every hobby and interest community rotates around consooming. There has always been a deal of bs but when things were made in the west only the very rich could afford needlessly luxurious, over-engineered, eccentric stuff, and the rest of us had to invest a lot of time learning to carefully select what we needed. Now retrogamers have 10000 different portable emulation consoles to choose from starting at $20 that will run millions of games, music lovers have billions of albums avaliable for free and a neverending selection of components to pick from and upgrade their setup, and every other possible interest is like that. And it really is all of our prayers being answered if you think about it, but also this is how people act when the community rotates around endless consumption.
>>106573920how the hell is china the fault of ops overprice?if anything their fault is giving to much cheap stuff
>>106564009>watchguardOnly 50yo german retards use those
>>106563807literal snakeoil
>>106563541>spanning-port audiophileguard enable
>>106564133every single blind test done on this subject on audophile forums disproves your retardation, nigger
>>106571678how much are these?if these audiophile fags simply took their time to prep an existing item and sell it for x5 the cost, sure. i bet they are asking $1100 each on something that costs $50 and maybe has 2 hours of labor in it.
>>106573394that one does actually work. if only it wasnt $100 each, I would need 3 of them.I had an issue with very noisy USB ports coming out of my desktop, even after a new PSU and video card, I still heard noise.I ended up making my own custom USB cable that only took 2 signal wires from the desktop and merged it with 2 power wires from a USB splitter power supply.issue is nearly completely resolved. there is still a very light buzz if i turn it way up that isnt there when I connect my dac to a phone or laptop. but its 98% gone.Yes, I did try running my desktop off a UPS, its not the power grid. so honestly I dont know how much that thing would help me out further, certainly not worth the $300
>>106573394>>106575234genuine products and advice are so utterly drowned out by meme products and misinformation that it's quite difficult to even tell good advice from utter bullshit.
>>106573394>I know its overpriced as fuck for a plastic dongle with some capacitors n shit>ain't taking a chanceI understand buying it if you want to say you're lazy or have a tic but 120 wall socket power barely hurts when you take it up the arm and it's really hard to fuck up bad enough to blow a subwoofer cone. And your house is fine.Don't be afraid, 110 is a weak bitch and you're a strong big dick having man who can do sparky bitch work like the rest of us.
>>106573920>and the new people getting into hobbies can't grasp what makes something desirableMaybe it's different for other people but what makes something desirable is ultimately conforming to sensibilities of a particular hobby. Maybe that is obvious and the desirability your talking about is one made of rarity because of how few companies there are in the space and the high price high-end products command that not everyone can afford.Honestly, I absolutely detest the latter. PC building went from a hobby that was affordable and things where easy to get and devolved to some of the worst aspects of scalper culture and exclusivity.I have another hobby that has gone the opposite, gone are the days of local dealers setting an arbitrary price on hydroponics equipment. The hobby ultimately did lose the teired system of some people being able to afford cool running digital ballasts with purple anodizing and fancy packaging while people with magnetic ballasts wanted them.In exchange there is intense competition with more people being able to afford performant equipment, and the envelope of features, performance and value is being pushed constantly.And yes alot of it do end up as slop and not noteworthy or interesting but it does mean discussion is focused on things that stand out from the sea rather than discussing if something is worth putting in the money.
>>106562405I'm not even upset. Blowing tubes is serious manual labor, and they're such shitty obsolete tech they probably only end up getting something usable 20% of the time.
>>106574299As a speaker stand?
>>106575184The ones here: >>106571100are $1700CAD for 10, regularly $2000
>>106564133Impossible unless you are the first human to hear below 20hz and above 20kHz. Most of the people in this thread can hardly even hear 14kHz. When people compare mp3 to FLAC the issue often is that the files use a different master. While 16 bit FLAC is usually the same as mp3 release, 24 bit FLAC or DSD releases are usually based on the more dynamic vinyl master aimed at the consumers that have expensive enough gear to hear that difference in dynamic range. But you can take the 24 bit FLAC and convert it to mp3 and it would pass all blind tests without an issue because again 320kbps mp3 only cuts out frequencies that humans can't hear.You can't even imagine how many times I've had people with serious aspergers claiming to hear over 20kHz becasue they are so """"sensitive"""" to sound but that sensitivity is just how they process sounds that their otherwise normal ears can hear. While being retarded, their ears are usually just like anyone elses. I used to play tricks on them by letting them test the high end phones with MP3 and FLAC and see if they can hear the differences. I let them use Spotify for 320kbps and let them switch to Tidal for FLAC (equivalent) but in reality I had set Tidal quality to "high" so 320kbps mp3. My coworkers called me sadistic for doing this but after one autist tries to convince you for 20-30 minutes how they are special and how their senses are superhuman, we got many good laughs. I always pretended to have forgotten to send Tidal to "max" but the damage was done, they made a fool of themselves. One autist got really mad and involved the store manager into it, the store manager knew I was doing it intentionally but pretended like it was a honest mistake. He used to sell audio before I did so he knows the type. Thanks for attending my TED talk.
>>106558878I stayed in a hotel recently that only had tamper resistant outlets.The things I had with me, that I wanted to use were all two pin plugs. Thinkpad charger, phone charger, Marpac white noise fan.I had to take apart a hotel pen, and jam the tube into the outlet's ground pin hole, while plugging each thing in. Otherwise the shutters in the bladed holes wouldn't release.Are all of these outlets like that?A m tamper resistant outlet, where the only way to use it is to tamper with it.
>>106571644i always thought these were for heat dissipation and to provide a handy hard surface to attach the cable toelectric poles are usually wood anyway, it's already on a big nonconductive stick
>>106573394>>take a chance and buy pic related for $150not only did you get fucking scammed because power conditioners are used in other fields and are way cheaper, but even audiophile psychopathy models exist as low as 70leafbux and have more than one fucking outlethttps://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/shop/tv-home-theatre/power-conditioners
>>106564133in my experience 256vs320 is where you stop being able to tell the difference, and my money is on 128 just having really shitty codecs and never sounding good regardless of bitrate>>106563804stuff like cable risers are memes but speakers have stands with rubber feet for a reason. speakers actually vibrate a lot, who would have thought that the thing generating powerful pressure waves would shake a lil bitironically, the one you posted would probably make it worse since it looks to be made out of brass AND free floating in a washer so it'll probably rattle like a motherfucker when you play "Speakers So Lowd"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFthhh7r9vY
>>106576033anon are you aware that glassmaking has been automated for well over a century
>>106558762I always felt they could easily improve Toslink with better cables to support uncompressed 5.1 and longer distances for home theater setups.Why is it eternally stuck at plastic garbage?
>>106577057retail grade already too expensive, please understand
>>106576754Trvke but also I will make this pastaHope you understand
>turn the light off>speakers crackle
>>106560290>You're telling me these things are backlogged?Part of the marketing.Makes people think they're popular.Also makes them think they have to buy now or risk missing out.They do the same thing with hotel rooms: claiming they're almost sold out but might just squeeze you in if you're super lucky when in reality the hotel is 70% empty.
I went to an audio store once and no one inside was autistic. in fact i was probably the autistic one since i foolishly thought they might sell radio transceivers
these faggots are literally the most insufferable people you'll meet, so pretentious about "soundstage" and "imaging" yet can't fucking tell a left right audio channel is reversed or have wrong polarity(this one is really hard unless you know how the driver sounds in correct polarity), like i'm the only fucking person in this audio gathering group that can pick up these details when an audio engineering vet is "trolling" us when we use his setup.unironically though, i do enjoy audio meetup because these faggots are the richest people you'll ever know and they have pretty decent connection where you can get a job that pays well.
>>106577077Yeah I figure you might think it's made up. I don't want to give explicit proof but here's one of the perks of working that shit job. It has been a long, long time but I'm still listening to these sub $50 Genelec 8330A SAM's. I got plenty of stories from that job. I do sometimes still have dreams of working there again even though I would never again do that.
>>106562933That's no doubt how it started:With analogue anything can mess up the sound even the wall power.So you have to look at every component and make sure it's good quality.With digital most of it is fixed and you basically just need a good DAC, amplifier and maybe shielded and/or balanced speaker cables to avoid picking up interference.But the hobby remains and people just want to buy expensive stuff and feel special.
>>106577244>I got plenty of stories from that jobShare the wildest oneAlso share one involving a woman, if it ends sexually it would be optimal
>>106577271If the thread is still alive tomorrow I'll do it, but right now I have to sleep. Quetiapine makes it hard to type when it kicks in.
>>106564133nigger will never post these abx testslaff
>>106566148>writing a 9gb .raw for ten minutes every shot and are just TOOOOO GOOOOOD to shoot a 4k jpegShooting raw allows us to change the exposure afterwards.So we do it because we're not good enough to nail the exposure in camera every time.Professionals record audio at 24 or even 32 bit for the same reason.Up to double the storage requirements but they don't have to worry about nailing the recording level.
The problem with these types of posts, where they point out absurdity like the OP, but ignore the fact that there are legitimate reasons for recording in higher resolutions.That being said, the typical normie/NPC is not going to be doing any kind of meaningful post processing on the junk they record so for them 24/96 bit audio and raw image formats are just wastes of space.For myself, yes, shooting images in raw or recording video in higher bitrates does allow a lot more leeway in what can be done in post without noticeable degradation in quality.As for the people who say "just record in 4K and snap screenshots of frames if you want a photo" don't understand that modern video codecs never render complete frames; they use keyframes and interpolate the differences between keyframes. Interpolate = generate the image transitions between the two keyframe points, so the frames are not true captures but renderings of what is predicted to have happened between the two frames.It is possible to record without keyframes, or rather, have every frame be a keyframe and thus non-interpolated, but then you lose the file size benefits of encoding.
>>106577444>the frames are not true captures but renderings of what is predicted to have happened between the two frames.That's how AI interpolation works but not how video compression works.Each frame between keyframes is based on an actual capture, they just don't store the whole frame but just the difference to the nearest keyframe which requires far less data when there isn't much movement.Even lossless compression can be achieved this way.
>>106564214>European-peonDrop the "pean". Just "Europeon", it's cleaner.
>>106563842To an extent I agree. Personally I can't tell the difference in frame rates after 60. My brain is too slow, I'm a 35 year old drunk. 144hz is simply wasting electricity for someone like me.
>>106576754I can certainly hear under 20Hz, and you can too. Just drive a car down the highway, and open one window.
>>106558883the fuck is this for? a power jack?
>>106558596lol
>>106558784are u retardedthe profit margin might be high but you're not going to set up manufacturing of these things for $5000
>>106579239DC in 5V for some reason.
>>106579239>>106579352Look at the card, there is a selector, guessing it's so you can choose between powering the card from the bus or from a separate DC power supply. Again, for some reason.
>>106579239It's for external power.The use case is for a linear power supply which audiophiles believe delivers higher quality audio from the lack of ripple
>>106578585Irrelevant because they don't remove the low frequencies like they do with the high frequencies.Keeping the first 20Hz as-is doesn't really alter the amount of data needed.
>>106579406wouldn't it cause some interference if its connected to both the motherboard and an external power supply at the same time?
>>106579320You're not manufacturing them dummy, you buy them from alibaba
>>106564214You think you can't have nema 14-50 I europe or something?
>>106579532Monster being overpriced aside, nothing wrong with a headphone to rca cable for a reasonable price. It's how I get the audio from my TV to my mixer. It would be nice to use the spdif into a better dac to a balanced output to my mixer but this works just fine for now.
>>106579471Nigga, you blind? It's either or.
>>106564009>I would anger many audiophiles with my setupIsn't this how you're supposed to isolate the subwoofer from shaking the structure of the room in principle? A heavy foundation to absorb the low frequencies and then some sort of rubber isolation?
>>106563449>Tfw mom found out I spend $1800 on two speaker cables and that's why I couldn't afford the rent I owe her this month
>>106579983They would probably complain that the metal chassis of the firewall doesn't resonate correctly or some shit. I would be curious to know just how many of the solder joints in it are now bad thanks to being shook to death.
>gold plated optical cablehmm..
>>106576870the grounds aren't tamper resistant. they have no reason to be. I made all the outlets in my house tamper resistant after having a kid and have no trouble plugging 2-pin cords into any of them. why are you lying?
>>106563845The SubPlug
>>106581110How can you plug a 2 pin plug into a tamper resistant socket? I'm not a burger, but where I live the earth pin opens the shutters for live and neutral, I assume it's the same with these. How are you opening the shutters without putting something in the earth?
>>106581110I think we're both American, but there are different types of outlets (and different safety standards) all over the world, and I'm sure there's some simpler explanation than that he made the entire thing up. I think the shuttered earth/ground pin is near-universally present on British outlets, though I'm curious what other plugs he had that would have fit into them but for the lack of an earth/ground pin.>>106581589>How can you plug a 2 pin plug into a tamper resistant socket?On US tamper-resistant outlets, only the live and neutral openings are shuttered, and the shutters yield to equal pressure on each side. Since 2-prong plugs are common here, the design you describe would be quite limiting.
>>106581831Ah, makes sense. Maybe he encountered some weird 3 pin only plugs with shuttered earth and thought all tamper resistant sockets were like that, or maybe he just didn't press hard enough.
>>106576754I'm not claiming you can tell that you're listening to FLAC. I'm justs saying that if you're comparing MP3 to FLAC blindly then you can tell which is which with higher than chance probability.
>>106579406Nah the grounds will still be tied and the voltage levels will be close enough that it'll work. Digital is tolerant of small differences in voltage, that's why we use digital.That said, the grounds will be tied so all the noise from the digital switching in the PC will radiate straight into the linear supply LMAO
I still have an Asus Essence STX II soundcard despite my TRX40 Aorus Master motherboard audio getting comparatively close in performance.
>>106582818>gold-themed capacitors
>>106566413Welcome to 4chan! I think you are in violation of our second global rule which states the following:>You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.
>>106571100>MAHOGONAY
>>106571100>god i hate being able to read-audiophile
>>106564214>I laugh at you in NEMA 14-50, poorfagBefore or after boiling water in your 120v kettle?
>>106565988This is what I will sell to the audiophiles. Illegally modifiying their utility company's connections, by goldplating their link to the pole.
>>106577244When did you work at Verkkis?t. tietäjä
>>106571644why elevate the cables? just leave them on the ground
>>106577319I'm waiting m8
