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| AI and the future of music I think for AI to make really meaningful music it'll need to actually comprehend and somehow feel the human experience. If we can make that happen, the we could end up with a real friend who is also amazingly brilliant. I don't think this is going... | |
| AI and the future of music I’ve been watching AI generated videos. They’re freaky and hilarious. The AI obviously does not really understand what a face or a hand is, it just calculates statistically what it thinks these things should look like. As Daniel Dennet says, you c... | |
| Stereophile review of Millercarbon system featuring Tektron speakers After reading his posts from all that time he was on this forum, it was nice to meet him in person. He doesn’t look at all like Einstein! Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to really listen at any length to that setup. That's the downside of work... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I don't know for sure but I think you can connect the phone or iPad directly to the amp via USB. You may also be able to stream the phone through the Mac Mini. I control my Mac Mini with a keyboard and mouse, hooked up through my TV so I can see... | |
| Mac Mini As A Streaming Source I use a Mac Mini as a streamer. Probably USB output would make the most sense since the Mark Levinson accepts USB input, and a new Mac Mini has no other built-in digital audio output capability except HDMI, which I don’t see listed as an input opt... | |
| Can a system sound too Holographic? In the visual world a holograph is typically something that has 3 dimensionality in appearance, but is also somewhat ethereal, lacking solidness. You can partially see through it. It’s obviously has no substance. My idea of something sounding too ... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? @yoyoyaya Do you accept that recovering all of the information contained in the original recording is a legitimate aim of hi fi reproduction? I think that's an admirable aim, especially when in the context of a cable. It should let the signal... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? @ieales Cables make a difference. I’ve said that for over 50 years. What is not guaranteed is that any particular cable in any particular system will effect a change or be an improvement to all. Regardless of all the marketing claims. Advisin... | |
| Ethernet Switch- what's the point? @tonywinga They’re measuring the analog output. I’m not sure it’s all FFT, may be wavelet or whatever. I think it’s very safe to say that no spurious white noise or random tones or phase or timing errors are sneaking by the measuring equipmen... | |
| Ethernet Switch- what's the point? So a good network switch can reduce noise and distortion, some of which comes from jitter. Anything else? How much of a difference should one expect? Like going from -90 dB to -95 dB noise to signal? Is it something very subtle but still worthwhil... | |
| Ethernet Switch- what's the point? All I can say is that I just love the way my Eero wireless mesh network sounds. I do have a switch of some kind, which is also a modem, which feeds ethernet to the Eero unit and a has a few more outlets that are unused, so I guess I'm listening to... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? That’s hilarious! Are they trying to kick over a trash container with a weighted bottom? I’ve got a pair of Klipschorns that are sitting mostly unused in my living room. They are temporarily hooked up to a receiver with two very different cabl... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? I think we should just keep kicking this horse. It’s dead so it don’t mind. Has anybody ever heard a really bad effect from a cable or connector? I have! I tried some passive line attenuators on the output of a pro level dac to lower it’s output f... | |
| My Final System Build in Words & Pictures Awesome! I like the amount of DIY. At first glance over the photos I thought you built your own electrostatic panels! That’s too much DIY for me. Glad to see you left that to the specialists, although I bow in reverence to those who build their ow... | |
| horn or line array? A line array of bass horns is what I'm using - four horns stacked on top each other to the ceiling in each corner. That can get you truly horn loaded down below 30Hz. I'm a horn lover but I can understand why some people aren't. You'll have to do... |