geoffkait
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| What is the least compressed signal? Getting back to the real world for a second...Exhibit A - Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingershttp://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Rolling+stones&album=Sticky+fingersOther recordings may show different results. This is one data point so to ... | |
| Helmhotz resonators for audiophile at almost no cost and without calculus... With all due respect, wheatstix, he got them from your friend and humble scribe. Hel-loo! | |
| What is the least compressed signal? It appears you agree with me. | |
| What is the least compressed signal? n80@geoffkait :"vinyl frequently has greater dynamic range than its digital brethren, sometimes shockingly so"I have not noticed this ’frequently’. I have noticed it some. Rarely does the CD of any given recording have the best DR. Sometimes the v... | |
| Acoustic treatment Ya don’t get what I’m saying here. Look, it’s not rocket science. All you have to do, gentle readers, is compare the cassette version of almost any record with the CD version. Or the LP version. All will become clear. | |
| What is the best BNC Digital Cable under $4,000? Observation: since digital cables are directional just like any other cable or power cord or fuse it’s probably rational to assume that it’s the quality of the voltage and current traveling through the digital cable that’s the case, not 1s and 0s.... | |
| Acoustic treatment In the case of the wretched CD there are two reason why bass response is really rather wimpy and apparently rolled off and otherwise unimpressive. It’s because of the two problems I have been pointing out of late regarding (1) scattered background... | |
| What is the least compressed signal? kosst_amojanWho exactly is mixing and mastering for CD today???? Pretty much nobody. It’s widely expected that a release will be distributed on lossless digital or something working to preserve that standard. Vinyl has lousy dynamic range. >>... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? I wouldn’t dismiss tachyons so quickly. Any more than, say, artificial atoms or quantum teleportation. from somewhere in cyberspace. OK, Wikipedia, you got me! “The possibility of particles moving faster-than-light was first proposed by Robert Ehr... | |
| What is the best BNC Digital Cable under $4,000? Why would a recording studio have any digital cable, even a $10 one? 🤔 | |
| I've never believed much in cables, that said... (USB) “The shielding is not comprised of mu-metal as it would not contribute to better Sound Quality plus it would make the cable unmanageable and also way more pricey.”>>>>Two things. Mu Metal is shielding for magnetic fields not rf. Two, m... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Statue of Liberty souvenirs from NYC make excellent cable lifters. 🔝 | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? But what if you use cardboard toilet paper cylinders like Elizabeth? | |
| I've never believed much in cables, that said... (USB) andy2One of the differences (among many) between water and electricity is that before turning on the faucet in your kitchen, the kitchen does not have any water in the first place. But with electricity, even before you turn on the switch of the am... | |
| Your vote: Most Useless Audio Adjective Accurate. |