Hifi buffs
Are really bonkers. If you did a Venn diagram of all the world's nutty stuff - homeopathy, zero point energy, real ale, fractional reserve banking, chem trails... Hifi buffs would be the dark spot in the middle of the intersection.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 20 Feb 2015, 21:52,
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Allow me to show you that dark spot..
pwbelectronics.co.uk
boneshifi.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/demystification-of-peter-w-belt.html
I confess I am into my hi-fi. The PWB stuff gets very off the wall, and I don't fully understand much of it, but I have a friend who swears by it (his hi-fi does sound superb though) I do know of another story told to me by another good friend (who doesn't make stuff up) who is a sound engineer and does stuff with mixing desks.
Anyway, he worked for Dave Gilmour once wiring up a mixing studio on his recording barge in London or somewhere, when a visitor appeared trying to sell some very special "moon dust" interconnects. They were just stupidly priced and as he knows his stuff (and physics and stuff) he grilled the salesman on exactly what was involved in the manufacture of these. He never received a satisfactory answer and I don't remeber if any were bought. I should ask him next time I see him.
Hi-fi can be proper mental.
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Nuisance Value, Fri 20 Feb 2015, 22:43,
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Just get a Objective2 AMP + Objective DAC
and be done with it... That's what I did.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Fri 20 Feb 2015, 22:45,
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Yt? and a major food and the immigration and the year of a sudden death penalty in a frock and a full size
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A former colleague told me he'd spent £27k on audio gear
Now I know how. What a bunch of cocks.
I thought the USB leads at PC World were overpriced at £19.99 (with a sign above saying "GREAT VALUE"
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Excellent
It will go well with my new HDMI cables
www.futureshop.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=5289#.VOeuGkJBgXs
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There are currently no product reviews
Not fucking surprised really
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spanishfly is so fucking sexy people impersonate him, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 0:25,
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I like the free delivery on orders over £99
Do they do anything that's even close?
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NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 9:18,
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Audiophiles are stupid fuckers
http://wathifi.tumblr.com/ confirms this to be true.
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mugwump In summary then, oh no. Chris., Fri 20 Feb 2015, 22:01,
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Yup!
Bit of an 'Emperor's new earphones' going on there!
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 8:28,
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The SD card they have at the top DOES actually offer real benefits over other SD cards though... but probably not to typical consumers.
This has been doing the rounds on reddit, and if anyone's stupid or gullible in any way it's the hoards of people, including the journalists who are lining up to scoff at it, who have assumed that the product claims to improve sound quality by "improving" the quality of the data being transferred (which WOULD be a ridiculous claim). This isn't the case though.
Sony's claim is that this shielded SD card produces less electrical interference that can cause ground loop noise problems.
Have you ever used a computer that, when every time you move your mouse, you can hear a faint buzzing sound through the speakers? Or a faint buzz every time your hard drive reads or writes something? That's ground loop noise and it's obviously not wanted in professional audio environments because, aside from having an annoying buzzing sound, if you happen to be recording on a system that has this issue the buzzing will be present in the recording too.
Just sayin...
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 12:51,
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I would have to sell literally everything I posses to be able to buy that.
Including my ageing Hi-Fi, TV and PS3.
Still, I could invite people round to come and stare at my expensive piece of wire.
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 8:20,
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hello
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www.badscience.net/2006/01/kettle-lead/#more-201
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 20 Feb 2015, 22:45,
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I feel it's an appropriate place to say that in the last 20 years I've not listened to music on anything larger than a 3" speaker.
I also like stick figure cartoons.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Fri 20 Feb 2015, 22:58,
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Haha. Look at all of these replies. It's almost as serious as the subject of diets.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 14:29,
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you're in for a treat
when you finally get around to listening to your favourite tunes in a decent room on a reasonable system...
no voodoo or fancy connectors (google coat hanger speaker wire) just a nice room with a half decent amp and speakers in it. x
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 0:59,
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Or a decent pair of headphones (and a headphone DAC if your music is on your computer).
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wakeupandsmellthebacon, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 9:41,
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I've been looking forward to pulling my super nice speakers out of storage.
I've been moving so much over the last 20 years, and living in places where speakers would be ruined, that they just sit idle.
My dad was an audiophile. And his taste in music was hideous, not unlike every audiophile I've ever known. I think it's their way of trying to find what they don't have due to a lack of knowledge and musical maturity, and I believe there is such a thing.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 14:38,
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I like the minimalist cut of your jib
but you may have been missing some great bass lines, not to speak of elephantine sounds www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvh45kq_TDg
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 4:21,
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I have a storage van that I put a tiny speaker in.
A friend came over, and we laughed at how good it sounded. The whole van acted as some kind of perfect resonance chamber, and that little speaker was great.
It was funny because when we were just kids, he and I and another neighbor all got together and made huge speakers. Mine were smaller, but they sounded better. My friends were disappointed that these huge things that took up a portion of their room didn't have what mine did.
But it goes beyond that. I can get the context without all of the content.
Also, I have speakers everywhere. I used to have them outside, all over my property. I could walk around and always hear music.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 14:45,
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Oh boy
Head down to Richer Sounds and sit in their demo room for five minutes.
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Somehow I don't miss the high quality sound. I like to think that quality music is unrelated to quality of the sound.
I guess that's what lo-fi was all about. It was like they were thumbing their nose audiophiles.
We had a party in a backyard, and someone had these huge quadraphonic sound system speakers. They were so big that they had to tear down a portion of fencing just to get them in the back yard. It just seemed like a lot of work for very little return. Wild party though.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 14:52,
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That'll make my 96kbps iTunes music sound just grand
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 2:33,
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You should try it on your printer
The colours really pop, everything is so sharp, there's details in the pictures I hadn't noticed before.
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wakeupandsmellthebacon, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 5:05,
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