>average pretender audiophile
>>51827915
One is better off dealing with badly reproduced music than hearing how bad producers are these days.
No he's an actual audiophile. Most of them act this autistic as well.
>>51827977
Oh this is terrible then. Any examples of other audiophiles?
>>51827915
Where is this from ? I'm quite curious about his reasons for overreacting like this.
>>51827987
Whoever owns pic related.
>>51828062
god, ahahaha. That's pathetic.
>>51828062
>>51828077
That's a lot of money right there, isn't it ?
>>51828091
they coast loads of money, but they have almost no resale value.
So in theory, it's a lot of wasted money.
>>51827915
Every fucking time I see this I get more confused. Does it sound bad or does it sound good?
I honestly can't tell if he's orgasming or being tortured.
>>51828142
You also haven't read a single thread with the webm, because EVERY TIME someone posts that he doesn't like them.
>>51828142
former/latter
See the original video
>>51827915
>when you nut and she keeps sucking
>>51828165
Source ?
>>51828062
>mfw
>>51828091
>That's a lot of money right there, isn't it ?
Oh yeah. At least $100,000+
>>51828128
>but they have almost no resale value.
KEK
Old McIntosh stuff goes still goes for ridiculous money. My Uncle has some old 70s era standing speakers that someone saw in his garage and offered him a grand for.
>>51828062
All that for a fucking Phish album that was recorded and engineered by burned out hippy hacks.
>>51828179
back to reddit
>>51827915
>He paid for frequencies he can't hear
>laughting_girls.jpeg
>>51827915
hey. stop with the audiophile bashing. i make good money selling them overpriced shit.
>>51828142
>Oh. My. Goodness! My senses feel assaulted … as would my wallet, if I had had to pay for these. With every smack of the snare and blare of a trumpet my eyes wince in pain. Fast transient edges are transformed into indiscriminate micro-bursts of tizz. Likewise, low notes are powerful, but have lost all definition as they are reduced to a bloated blur. The mid-range seems like it could be pretty good, but I hear it as so disconnected from all else that I could hardly keep track of what’s what in the confused aural picture. I’ve heard worse headphones before, but for $2749 these have got to be the worst price/performance headphones I’ve ever experienced.
>>51828040
It's from a review. Apparently the headphones were so bad that they were nothing short of an assault on his ears.
>>51828384
That was an enjoyable read
>>51828384
HE HATES IT!
CRAAWWWLIING IIIN MY SKIIIIIN
>>51828428
悔しい
I just want to know the name of the song.
Here is the video review by the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L34S4Tt1EuQ
>>51828040
>I'm quite curious about his reasons for overreacting like this.
It was a joke.
>>51828216
the fuck is that gif from
>>51828524
Thank You
>>51828062
>All this money spent on the perfect sound
>Computer isn't fanless
>Mechanical external harddrive
these people
does he have 10,000 dollar unobtanium plated cables?
>>51828062
that's pretty cool. McIntosh always looks nice.
>>51828384
Shit, I figured that they were defective and sending painful electrical jolts to his ears
>>51828524
>review
I honestly can't tell whether his reactions are good or bad.
>>51828062
It's like audiophiles only care about how big, flashy and expensive their magic boxes are, fidelity doesn't even matter to those subjectivists.
>>51828747
anyone with any engineering sense could easily tell you that every part you tack on to your audio signal muddies the signal ever so slightly more. And there's no magic box that can undo that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ
>>51828524
>>51828796
Song name?
>>51828745
It's an exaggeration, or simply a joke. The Ultrasones are very expensive headphones which perform very very badly if you were to see their frequency response, and other tests.
>>51827915
This is basically his reaction to realizing what kind of a fucking waste of money these shitty headphones are.
>>51828796
his reviews seem fine, but I can't trust a man who wears shirts like that.
>>51828062
reminds me of horn loaded. i miss him
>>51827915
I could buy a nice car with that much money
Being able to measure with equipment != being able to tell the difference with your ears
Too much of this is just confirmation biases and other shit like that
>I spent a fortune on this audio equipment
>it *must* sound good!
Daily reminder there's no audible difference between tube and semiconductor amps except at the cut off ranges which you shouldn't be in anyway. It's just a placebo.
>>51828277
Why do you broke fags keep saying this.
You act like thats really what hes looking for.
>>51828681
is unobtainium easy to obtain?
>>51827915
So how are Audiosone headphones?
FUCKING
SONG
NAME
>>51827915
>average audio philistine who doesn't know pic related
>>51829946
>Implying your eyes can tell the difference
>>51829946
I always download FLAC but even I know that's bullshit
>>51830040
holly fuck
>>51830040
SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS WIZARDRY
>>51830040
I never get this phenomenon. I never lose the image in any of these. Do I just not have a blind spot?
>>51830167
There's a spot in the retina where the blood vessels and nerves enter/exit, and it lacks receptors. The brain normally fills it in automatically, but sometimes this happens
>>51830225
Keep going, don't stop when the red line stops, just keep moving the mouse right. Do it slowly too because it's subtle. Expect it in your peripheral vision
>>51829946
ftfy
>>51830304
still wrong because high resolution images are better then low res
>>51830167
You're dying
>>51830304
>>51829946
fix - ftfy
>He uses lossless compression
Uncompressed WAVs sound so much better, fucking FLAC plebs. The uncompression adds so much trans-shift phase polarity distortion it's not even funny.
FLAC is for archiving not for playback
>>51830415
This. Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.
I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange...well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.
>>51830391
this
>>51828742
I thought the volume was turned up too loud for a minute.
>>51830477
This must be bullshit, how coould a song lose 1 and zeroes? Next your telling me my jaypegs lose quality if I let them stay on my hard drive...
>>51830040
I don't understand. What is supposed to happen?
>>51830225
I don't get it either, maybe it's because I'm using a laptop?
>>51830477
One of my friends pretty much verbatim quoted this at me once. I laughed in his face.
>>51829946
>>51830304
>>51830391
Jokes aside, I fixed it
>>51830595
Yeah, the pointer has to get to your periphery. If your screen isn't wide enough it won't work
>>51830477
>What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.
I can't go on reading this, my sides already stopped working
>>51830581
>>51830607
>Disgusting newfags can't spot pasta
>>51830642
But its real my friend, but not to that degree though.
>>51828278
>cable lifters
>>51828524
>mfw he's breathing heavy
>>51828591
nature documantry on some bugs that eject stink on foes
>>51830040
Hah! That's cool as shit
>>51828278
You have my dream job.
>>51827915
>even YTPers make fun of this guy
https://youtu.be/qYNhB0R-bIQ?t=221
>>51831192
the headphone guy starts at 3:40, why don't youtube links start at the right time when you add that to the link anymore?
>>51830608
192 sounds like ass if the source material was 320 or flac.
>>51831192
ultrakek
>>51828384
is he serious?
Reminder that audiophiles prefer shit sound
>>51830040
>cursor
>>51828384
Reminds me of a wine taster. Ever noticed how when people are reviewing placebo bullshit they make up tons of tiny pointless details?
>>51827915
who is this semen demon
>>51830590
To me, somewhere in the middle line the cursor disappear and then reappears. you have to keep looking at the black drawn sphere.
storage is cheap as fuck, stfu and download flac.
>>51831916
and then transcode for portable devices because theres no audible difference
Q: What do you call a coat that plays music losslessly?
A: A FLAC jacket!
>>51828524
> Listening to shitty jazz recorded in the slave house of some plantation
M-M-MUH EARS
>>51831927
Only if your portable device doesn't have expandable storage, like apple shit.
>>51832064
Expandable storage is pretty limited itself if you have a large collection. Plus apple shit tend to have the best onboard sound.
>>51830040
Shit man, It finally worked. That was spooky.
why do people not understand his jokes
neo-/g/ doesn't even recognize him
>>51832108
>Plus apple shit tend to have the best onboard sound.
>what is Xperia z3
>>51832206
>xperia z3
lol
http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-5/audio-quality.htm
>>51830040
Whoa there
>>51832231
post an article doing a comparison instead.
>iphone
lol
>>51832267
nobody bothers to measure crap like the z3
>>51832196
They'll never know. It's a shame, but it happens as time moves on.
>>51830477
>rotational velocidensity
Every time.
>>51832274
I guess Sony doesn't care enough to pay for reviews
>>51832296
>pay
looks like they've invested too much in paying you to shill here instead.
they're too busy coming up with meme audiophile sd cards anyway to make a phone with good onboard.
>>51832318
>>51832274
>>51832231
How much is Tim Cook paying you? does he pay in cash or homosexual favors?
>>51832330
>being this upset
smfh does it bother you this much that sony don't bother to put decent audio in their smartphones?
>>51832338
>sony don't bother
oh so you're a nigger. Now it makes sense
>being this mad about someone talking shit about apple
>>51832355
wat? feel free to talk shit about apple as much as you want, you can't deny the measured performance on the onboard of the iphone (5 in that review)
feel free to prove me wrong about the xperia z3 though or the iphone 5's onboard being good
>>51832355
>>51832338
>>51832330
>>51832318
Guys, stop fighting. I think we can we all agree lolis are the best?
>>51832382
>lolis
lol kill yourself you casual
>>51832388
take your monster shota futa NTR diper gore shit to /d/
>>51832399
take your casualfag shit back to MAL, faggot.
>>51832399
dubs have spoken
>>51827915
Go to /b/ faggot.
>>51832367
http://www.head-fi.org/t/737108/sony-xperia-z3-audio-quality
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2014/10/01/xperia-details-hi-res-audio/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/general/sony-win-xperia-z3-audio-quality-t2900303
http://www.qobuz.com/ie-en/info/hi-fi-guide/testing-the-audio-section-of-sony176470
>>51832428
>Headfi
Oh shit nigger what do you think you're doing
>>51832428
real measurements not subjective word of mouth or manufacturer specs you stupid fuck.
>>51832231
>kenrockwell.com
>>51832516
>measuerments
>>51832689
would you /g/?
>>51832689
That pic is sad.
>>51831430
>I have the palate of a street rat, the ears of a 90 years old, and the sight of a bat
>therefore everything is placebo!11
Archive in lossless, listen to archive on desktop, listen to OPUS on mobile master race.
>>51832689
This is what two hits of Marijuana will do to you.
Stay in school, kids.
>>51830608
He posted it in the wrong thread and meant F22, F16, F2.8
>Bi/pansexual male to female queer butch trans* vegetarian nerdy kinky disabled slut
>>51827915
>implying audiophiles don't know better than you
>thread filled with fedoras.
go be audiophile somewhere else, placebofags.
>>51835062
Go be deaf somewhere else thank you.
>>51830040
I LITERALLY SAW IT ALL THE WAY ACROSS BOTH MONITORS
THIS POST IS EITHER SHIT
OR
I HAVE THE BEST VISION IN THE WORLD
>>51834634
>he's never injected marijuanas
>>51827915
Is he listening to Helen Keller's biography?
>>51828524
It's JC on the Set by James Carter. Here's the specific version he was listening to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlJFnmpfppw
>>51835315
Thank you, anon.
>>51835259
>tfw injected cannabis oil directly into my eyeballs and woke up with down syndrome and AIDS
>>51829946
>>51828524
why are there so many russian comments?
>>51828524
Why does he already look depressed before he even starts?
>>51836099
because those are extremely overprice and extremely awful headphones.
>>51836179
But he runs a headphone site, doesn't he deal with extremely overpriced and awful gear every day?
>>51832027
>implying jazz is bad music
Fuck off to /b/ kid and enjoy your shit electro noises.
>>51830040
Now try this, put it in full screen.
https://youtu.be/_FlV6pgwlrk?t=23
>>51836202
Maybe but that was an exceptionally bad headphone for the price.
>>51828524
I swear this is the song he listened to
https://youtu.be/xU-5_Rgq6Vo
"Audiophiles don't use equipment to listen to music, they use music to listen to their equipment."
>>51828062
All those expensive things for a record that was probably recorded in someone's barn.
>>51837787
>Not wanting to hear the subtleties of the breeze as it wafts under the barn doors.
>>51828062
Why do these shitters always spend $100,000 on a bunch of shiny equipment and then stick it in some weird, inconvenient cluttered shithole room in their house?
Is it so hard to find a fucking empty wall?
>>51835135
So did I.I think something is wrong with the test.
>>51827915
When you suck but she keep nuttin
>>51836609
good video, very educational
honestly you're better off not hearing it the way todays producers are mixing and mastering
As a musician I really like the fact that the same signal can sound vastly different through different speakers/phones. Its like a guitar player picking out the amp he likes the sound of best, instead of the one that reproduces the natural sound of the guitar the best.
>>51838716
That's the one room their wife would let them tear out all the walls and stuff everything full of sound treatments.
>>51827915
Link to this video please? What the hell is he doing?
>>51836266
not to defend electro music, but jazz IS fucking shit.
its just annoying as piss.
>>51838828
>honestly you're better off not hearing it the way todays producers are mixing and mastering
Tell me more please.
>>51838828
That's completely different, though. You can't judge the quality of a performance if you use phones that don't output flat sounds, but the whole point of the guitarist choosing the amp IS to make his performance sound right.
>>51838828
If people want to hear the natural sound of the recording they should use the same monitors that the engineer mixed it on.
Do you have a sound card /g/?
>>51830415
But why would I store an objectively worse version just to listen to?
I've already got the FLAC "for archiving" why not listen to it as well?
>>51830477
> my sides
>>51830889
people buy this crap?
i dont want to live on this planet anymore
>>51828524
>all that audio equipment
>poorly tagged music w/ no album art
start from the bottom buddy
What's worse, an audiophile, or a pedophile?
>>51839733
You.
>>51827915
>/hpg/
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
>>51839545
lol, that top bit looks like something I could design in a week. I should start selling this shit.
>>51839914
_Majority_ of /hpg/ is anti placebo. Then every once in a while, a person from Head Fi comes along and talks about amp synergy with shimmering highs, liquid mids and massive bass.
>>51840001
Why did this make me laugh.
Humans have this disjointed sense of need. Gotta put everything into its little boxes, have to categorize, have to rigidly define. Have to cram even the most arbitrary and subjective experiences into what language is capable of conveying.
"Shimmering highs."
"Bright."
"Deep lows".
Lol. Just why. These aren't subjective descriptors, they're combinations of words people are trying to make into a thing. It cannot be. And by golly by gosh, why I oughta just tell em to stop... But they'll never hear it my way. ;^)
>>51839194
Loudness wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
>>51840091
>>>/tumblr/
>>51839545
Sound cards are good in some cases but I wish I opted for a DAC instead
I bought a Xonar DX and the sound was ruined by placing an ASUS GTX960 mini in the next slot, some kind of RFI or EMI interference raised the noise floor to the point to stupid levels, the fact there is no shielding on this card is a massive oversight
What does impres me is my 1992 Pioneer amplifier outclasses the Xonar in maintaining linearity and resisting environmental distortions, must be all that analog circuitry
>>51840242
or maybe Pioneer knows their shit when it comes to audio
>>51840241
>>>/fuckofflolXD/
>>51830477
Now this is a pasta I've not seen in a very long time. It's as delicious as it was in 2008.
>>51839545
Nope. My GPU and 2 x RS-232 port card fill up all the slots on my case.
>>51840242
I had the same issue
But DACs are extremely overpriced
So I built a new ITX system just to run the sound card
Gets fed from my main system's onboard via optical SPDIF
Now there's zero interference no matter how cheap the GPU's coils are
>>51832689
wow fucking faggots fuck this what is his profile post it here for the lulz i guarantee someone will fuck his shit up
>>51827915
*pedophile
>>51832689
>>51839159
>not understanding music played by humans vs shit music made in a studio in a program.
Kill yourself, jazz is a sophisticated genre that actually incorporates many aspects of music into a song. And not just American influence, it has many non-western influence too, such as Latin and African music. While I I like western rock better, the musical aspect of jazz is really good to listen through headphone with. Especially when testing ambience/soundstage since the whole point of going into audiophile equipment is to reproduce a similar but not live performance.
>>51831430
Basically none of those points were tiny or pointless though
Audiophile equipment might be the best trickle down effect in modern history. Those idiots even pay it out of free will.
>>51830040
holy nigger my cursor disappears in one spot
>>51830040
I remember noticing this when I saw part of my finger disappear, and become filled in by the floor behind it.
I'd like to know the logic the brain uses to interpolate / extrapolate what to fill in for this area. I know it uses visual data from the other eye to fill it in normally, but there are still errors from time to time. Close one eye like this image says, and you get an even more erroneous result.
>people spend thousands of dollars on audio equipment that has equalisers and treble/bass controls
This one always baffles me... a 30 dollar tda 2024 chip amplifier literally sounds better than those shitty 1000 dollar "pure signal" amps
>>51841624
Philistine please.
>>51841232
I know you're not even trying, but somehow, that looks better.
>>51842957
>I have no idea what I'm talking about.
>the feeling when no matter how many of my favorite albums i collect in flac how good they sound is solely dependent on how much i've spent on equipment
>>51842957
I bet you like wubwub lmao
>>51829946
>AAC 128
>>51835802
I've been trying OPUS at 160Kbps and everything sounds fine.
>>51828142
I agree with you. I fell the same.
Apparently he doesn't like it.
>>51828142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZY0qGrA9Y
Quote from the guy's written review of the headphones he wears in the video:
"Oh. My. Goodness! My senses feel assaulted … as would my wallet, if I had had to pay for these. With every smack of the snare and blare of a trumpet my eyes wince in pain. Fast transient edges are transformed into indiscriminate micro-bursts of tizz. Likewise, low notes are powerful, but have lost all definition as they are reduced to a bloated blur. The mid-range seems like it could be pretty good, but I hear it as so disconnected from all else that I could hardly keep track of what’s what in the confused aural picture. I’ve heard worse headphones before, but for $2749 these have got to be the worst price/performance headphones I’ve ever experienced."
>>51827915
>listening to music
>on a fucking phone
>thinking the headphones will make any difference whatsoever
W E W
E
W
>>51846432
DURR
http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-5/audio-quality.htm
HURR
>>51846534
>>>/lemonparty/
>>51830167
Because your eye anatomy a shit.
>>51835135
You vision has no impact on it. Anatomically speaking, everyone has a spot on the back of the eye that lacks receptors where the blood vessels and nerves enter. The image posted isn't very helpful because such things usually come with a set distance to view from. Try putting your face a foot away from the screen and do it again.
>>51839695
>i dont want to live on this planet anymore
Please stop quoting an episode of Futurama, especially one from a season so late in the franchise's existence that it was basically a cheap too-little too-late revival.
>>51843395
Yes, that's the point.
OPUS is masterrace.
>>51839733
Audiophiles.
Atleast pedophiles have good taste.
