Audiophiles

Is there a worse technology community?

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ
amazon.com/JVC-Kenwood-compact-component-EX-S5-T
amazon.com/digital-audio-player-WALKMAN-NW-S14
youtube.com/watch?v=AqJmqhu2ga0
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

Gamers.

Linux users

Sup Forums

apple users

freetards

drone hobbyists

...

Microsofties and their tiny shriveled limp dicks.

streamers

>use cheap Chinese shit all my life
>want to see what the audiophile meme is all about
>buy entry level equipment
>sounds the same if not worse

Try a pair of BA headphones and if you won't hear the difference you're confirmed deaf. But it also might be shitty music, modern popular music is optimized for shitty speakers.

>modern popular music is optimized for shitty speakers
no idea where that nonsense is coming from
of course everything is tweaked to sound at least acceptable on a shitty playback device, but that's been that way since the early days of recorded music
today's laptop speakers and iphone earbuds are the same thing that before were tiny kitchen radios, crosley style all in one players and boomboxes

>mfw that setup probably costs north of $10000
>mfw I could probably enjoy a live orchestra every day for a month for that much
>mfw these people don't even like music, just listening to a wave generator every day
>mfw my $50 MDR XB-500 have lasted me for 7 years
>mfw my $140 DT-770 Pro have lasted me less than one
>mfw I prefer the sound of niggerbass on the sony ones
At least Beyer sells spares, but it's gonna be another $80.
Fuck hifi man, I'm sporting bluetooth JVC in ears, and they sound fucking fantastic for $30.
Anons, don't fall for that shit. Grab cans at your local store and be sure to put your jams throught them before buying. If they tell you that they can't be tested beforehand, move on. Sound is subjective, you don't listen to numbers or graphs. You listen to music.

gamers that fight for their favourite hardware company against fans of another hardware company. not only do they regularly give them money for products but they also shill for them for free.
that's probably about as bad as audiopaedophilia

\g\ is the worst.

I'm from \b\

Got memed hard.

>he doesn't know the shitty mixing practices and abuse of compressors in today production.

C++ haters

>everything is tweaked to sound at least acceptable on a shitty playback device
No. If there's no millions of cash dumped into track's creation it won't be mastered with the lowest common denominator in mind. It might even be, god forbid, designed to retain its dynamic range!

Because you still use mp3s retard

>mfw my $140 DT-770 Pro have lasted me less than one
those headphones are really fucking comfy and sound great, but i also had a pair die on me within a year. cord started getting a weak connection to the can, and then one of the drivers died. open it up and see the shittiest solder job inside.

>shitty mixing practices
It's just a ways of mixing that YOU don't like.

t. hardcore techno producer

its probably closer to around $5000

the HD800s you can get used for about $900

he's using an Emotiva device which tends to be less expensive (reasonable) though still good

the most expensive thing on his set up is probably his shitty macbook which you can also get used

ideally he should get actual tower speakers instead of using headphones

Actually the more money dumped into production the more compressed it'll be because lets face it, only record companies can afford those values and they love shitty masters

Of course you'd defend it there's no dynamics in techno but loud

youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ

r'ing pic of him with low bitrate file open

>Actually the more money dumped into production the more compressed it'll be
Reread my post, because that's what I said.

Of course I don't like it, because I usually listen music that requires that dynamic range is left more or less intact.
The problem is extending that to all genres, even those who use natural dynamics.
Techno is okay, is mostly beat.

>love shitty masters
wat

The only mixing techno fags do is brick wall limiting

At least you have good taste in music.

>t. hardcore techno producer
Out of interest, ever dabbled into industrial hardcore?

ever hear Oakenfold?

It was FLAC you deluded retard.

>audiophiles that are also hipsters
>listening to obscure music that was recorded on equipment worth 5x less than their listening equipment

yo, drop me a phat beat to troll these losers with

Most of my music is done in DAWs. Purely digital music is as demanding as it gets, other music is limited by the recording equipment.

This

Anyone have audiophile double blind tests? Either bitrate or hardware comparisons. Test result data, not for me personally to take.

What equipment were you using an what did you buy

And
+/thread.

He said "technology community", not fashion accessory comnunity.

Chinkpad fanatics
Apple fanatics
Obscure Linux distro fanatics
Car audio enthusiasts
Vape mod faggots
"Amateur" coders (unemployed neets who know html5 and Java)

Here's that faggot that doesn't know the difference between Java and JavaScript again.

doom9

Apple users. Although that's arguably fashion and not technology.

Not him but that's why you're part of one of the worst technology community.

Knowing the difference between a car and a carpet makes me inferior to somebody? I don't even know these languages, but I know that they have nothing in common.

Linux gamers.

Also:

>buying expensive headphones
>wasting storage space with lossless audio
Is there a dumber technology community?

>Spending hundreds on special snowflake keycaps for your mech keyboard

waiting for full octaphonic + VR setup

youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ

With what else would I fill my storage, brainlet?

>25 MB extra for a better quality music file you listen to and enjoy multiple times
vs
>10 GB extra for a higher resolution movie that you watch once and never again (but still keep "just in case you want to watch it again")

>linux gamers
This. They are so fucking insecure about their OS choice, they're the worst kind of Linux users.

no

As always, piss poor NEETs with autism enjoy shitting on enthusiasts with hobbies and disposable income. Because when mommy burns the chicken tendies after putting herself in a Xanax/wine induced coma, all that there's left to do is shit on successful people who may enjoy spending some money on stereo equipment/nice headphones because they like to listen to music.

You need lossless for storage though.

>buying expensive headphones
> just Play music on YouTube

Take toxic nerddom, combine it with the bizon-headed stubborness of advanced age and well, no, there's no worse technology community.

Mechanical keyboard nerds are up there though.

Every month or so I go to the Star Citizen subreddit. This is a not even half finished game that people are dropping four figures on thinking it will be the perfect game. This week there was a post about how more spaceships should be in the $50-100 price range rather than above. I couldn't believe it at first but these guys drop $100 regularly on in-game items for a game that doesn't and will never exist.

Gamers are probably the most gullible consumers the world has ever seen.

Dear god this is so fucking true. Nothing more cringy than paying for something that doesn't even exist yet.

At least audiophiles spend money on tangible objects...

Makes me think I should start a game making huge promises, get lots of crowdfunding and totally fail to deliver due to "unforeseen expenses"

It's retarded how they see themselves as a community kek. Like they are cheering the company on and the devs sit day and night working their asses off to provide this perfect game because everyone cares so deeply. They don't see they are just consumers, and the producers figured with standards dropping so low you don't even need a product to sell, only the promise of it. They raised what, north of 100 million? And they'll probably double it before everyone realizes they've been had. Why would they release the game even? They are making 10x as much per consumer by not releasing it.

HD 650 + Schiit Stack is all you need.

>That guy (or three) that always has a LOL AUDIOPHOOLS thread up
>Excuse to repost the same videos, gifs and pictures every fucking thread
>All you need is chink shit / HD600 / MEME OF THE MONTH, anything else is stupid

You guys sure show them every day, how dare someone else enjoy something that you don't! Whining faggots are just as bad as people who throw away money for the sake of throwing away money.

...and yes, I'm just as bad for whining about the whining faggots.

kys

>mfw I could probably enjoy a live orchestra every day for a month for that much

Every night for about 18 months factoring in subscriber discounts, classical music is not that expensive outside meme gala events. Assuming he doesn't like literally everything, he could see out his years attending every live concert featuring a given set of composers.

I blame Sgt Pepper as a formative experience. that persuaded people things could sound better than real. I go to see a local (but internationally known) orchestra fairly often and it sounds excellent allowing for not every seat having equal acoustics. What it doesn't sound like, because nothing can, is the kind of language used in reviews to describe his amplifier.

I do this with all my flac albums so I wouldnt blame those who do the same with movies

I want Star Citizen to be good.
Every time I patch it, though, it's a buggy mess. Menus don't work properly, UI is fucked up, get stick in things, pop through walls, etc
I've been ejected out the roof/sides of my space ship so many times.

I mean, most of us have terabytes of storage lying around, it's not really a huge loss even if it is wasted on a meme.

fpbp

I can't imagine how much SC infuriates the Elite developers. Did they make a mistake by actually releasing something?

I bought a used sennheiser 600 + a sound blaster Omni audio card and I'm happy as fuck

this.

My dream loudspeakers would be a pair of Seas A-26. It is a little bit unusual design for a two-way loudspeaker as it has a 10" woofer and 1½" dome tweeter.
The crossover is a single capacitor and resistor on the tweeter.
The aperiodically-loaded closed speaker enclosure enables the woofer to achieve excellent transient response.

Okay so, first off I don't blame you for having interest in this speaker because both of those drivers have some superb measurements and the original a-25 is famous for being that monstrosity of vintage speaker design that for some reason just worked extremely well in comparison to other speakers of the same era.

That being said, this design still has one flaw and that's the lack of well designed crossover. I will admit that these drivers behave well enough to attempt this sort of crossover, but you'll still run into woofer beaming and phasing issues inherent to designs like this.

If I were you, I'd consider using madisounds LEAP crossover design service to make you a 2 way crossover for those drivers and then make your own cabinet in a more traditional bass reflex configuration OR see if they'll do the measurements for the aperiodic enclosure in the a-26.

You'll lose some sensitivity but the sonic improvements would be major. Yes I design loudspeakers and I'm a book keeper for audiovox so I'm not talking out my ass.

I just found great interest in keeping things simple.

And isn't it possible to "tune" an aperiodic enclosure by measuring the woofer's impedance curve and adjusting the aperiodic damping?

It is, and that's why the a-25 did so well and the a-26 probably sounds good too.

That being said, the "simple" concept behind minimalist crossovers also causes huge sonic issues, especially when we have things like high order crossovers that reduce beaming and help off axis response.

I totally understand that the a-26 is more of a revision to the a-25 so it's using the same type of "crossover," but these speakers could go from great to endgame with some simple computer measurements and aided design.

mechanical keyboards

Like Elite Dangerous is an actual game. I had maybe 20-30 hours of fun before the "WOAH IT'S LIKE AN ACTUAL COCKPIT" shit wore off and I grew tired of endless grinding for a shitty ship I STILL had to spend 10 minutes flying from planet to planet because the space flight mechanics are utter shit.

>t. degenerate noise pollutant proliferating substandard mastering practices

Is it possible to design passive crossover network without expensive software?

I'm aware that there are formulas for calculating the component values. But the formulas only work if the speaker driver is purely resistive load, which it is not.

I know next to nothing about this subject, but I'm thinking of marking "n" amount of discrete points on the speaker's impedance curve, and then using the calculation formulas and/or standard AC network analysis.

hey faggots you can order japanese market stereos off of amazon

This is absolutely possible, but at the end of the day you'll still want to do anechoic measurements and let a computer design because you'll be able to tune the slope and crossover point to exactly where it needs to be without much guesswork while smoothing out driver FQ irregularities. What you described is how most passive crossovers in the 70s were contrived before KEF starting doing computer aided design.

Madisound can do this entire process for about $90 with any two drivers.

amazon.com/JVC-Kenwood-compact-component-EX-S5-T

amazon.com/digital-audio-player-WALKMAN-NW-S14

Something I also failed to mention was the fact that these software programs can also account for first wave reflections and adjust the excitement of the drivers to avoid them (something no person could do on their own).

I'm just saying if you're going to spend a few hundred on a pair of a-26s having LEAP make a crossover for those drivers could bring the performance up by a lot and its only $90.

Not having a gigantic raid array so that it doesn't even matter.

That's really nice to know. Too bad I live in a third world country so I do not have access to that kind of service.

WHAT'S WITH THE DAILY AUDIOPHILE HATE THREAD

>buy $200 headphones
>spend $200 on second hand amps and speakers
Sounds fucking great desu desu, it's not diminishing returns but it sounds much better than entry level

I wasn't aware dude. My bad. I hope you find a pair of a-25s someday :(

OP is 100% right, idiotphiles are the worst

youtube.com/watch?v=AqJmqhu2ga0

>tfw noticing you have tinnitus and cant unhear it

Rooms and speakers are so varied that you might as well feel nice about your audio gear in some way.

>get it for free - no money bliss
>spend too much and feel good about that
>admire the design
>adherance to an ideology
>reverence to a designer or company
>old gear - miracle it still works.
>like the look/esthethic

Beyond that the thing that makes the most difference is the speakers and the room. If the amp is solid state and has a stated distortion %, they will sound identical. If it's tube then who knows...might sound pretty cool on some music and then get irritating or tiring on others.

Just get something and feel good about it.

>tfw thought I had tinnitus but it turned out to be faulty wiring in my ceiling light

I've had tinnitus for years for no particular reason. Sometimes I wish I would die.