chervokas
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| Does USB cable length make a diference? USB, unlike say single ended audio, is a tightly specified standard with a non-profit corporation -- USB Implementers Forum, Inc. -- that maintains standards. The standard for USB 2.0, which I think is still what most DACs are using, is a 680 page... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? Btw if anyone cares, this is a reasonably simple explanation of how the ear ans brain separate incoming frequencies and map them to separate places in the braind -- https://www.augusta.edu/mcg/discovery/bbdi/neuroscience-of-hearing/6-12.php And t... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? A lotta bullsh here and in the previous post, are you recruiting chat gpt for the word salad as well?....there’s no frequency domain analyses, none, happening in human perception/auditory/cns. Some crappy design/analysis tool never fit in your e... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? @chervokas - to be entirely correct, it is just Fourier Transform (FT). FFT is a Fast Fourier Transform which is an algorithm (one of many) that implements FT in discrete form for a typical computer chip. FFT is only approximation, it is NEVER pr... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? For example, does anyone measure equipment using white or pink noise (better representation of actual music) and compares spectrum? Or, better still, take a piece of music, play back via two DACs, then measure difference in analog outputs using h... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? @knownothing Bruno Putzey is obviously a brilliant circuit designer, but he’s not quite right when he says "the ear is not a spectrum analyzer." Maybe he hasn’t looked into hearing and auditory perception as much as he’s looked into circuit desi... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? Absolutely fascinating!! Any penny that bright can get thrown on the tracks can't happen often enough. Do you mind sharing your background to have that knowledge? I'm just a guy who is really interested in how stuff works, and that includes t... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? FFT is a mathematical transformation from time to frequency domain. Our ears respond to frequencies over time. The details of how they do that is a whole different story. chervokas seems to have a good handle on it. Not to derail the thread, ... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? So, if I’m reading you correctly you are saying that our brains re-convert (analog) sound waves into digital? It’s not really digital, though Susan Rogers, who was Prince’s recording engineer then went on to get a PhD in music cognition and psy... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? You might be surprised by hearing some very nice sounding DACs / players from long ago. They will absolutely measure like dog crap compared to modern. But our ear-brains do not process information via Fast Fourier Transform! Perhaps surprisingl... | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama @ezwind Again, I'm not an expert but I'm not sure a finding of malice would be necessary. As I understand from a bit of googling, malice is required for a defamation finding against a public figures or officials. Companies offering goods and ... | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama @atmasphere Generally speaking, a negative review (not one that is positive with a few minor beefs) should be looked upon as unethical. I must say, as someone who spent decades in the journalism business, for both big and small news organizat... | |
| Honesty of the Reviewers As a professional who has spent more than 20 years in the news business including more than a few of those at major national news organizations I have to tell you that all these conspiracy theories about what goes on in new orgs are complete bunk.... | |
| New Jazz Releases A couple of new releases I've really enjoyed so far this year are:Ben Goldberg - Orphic MachineJD Allen - GraffitiVijay Ayer - Break StuffMyra Melford - Snowy EgretSound Prints - Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (though it doesn't do justice to ... | |
| Entry level turntable If the table you're buying uses an AC synchronous motor, I don't think one for use with a 60Hz power line will play at the proper speed with a 50Hz line.I have no experience with the current crop of budget tables, but the U-Turn Orbit seems to be ... |