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Is audiophile a sickness?
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What the hell is pic related doing? He seems to be memed by /hpg/
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>>51775879
He is listening to an mp3 and cringing hard at all that shitty compression. You would too if your audio palette was sophisticated enough.
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>>51775908
He is definitely a sick bastard. I would never leave my child alone with him.
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It's a video of an audiophile reviewing $2000 headphones that his buddy swears by, in the video those are faces of pain and needless to say he gave them a bad review, sorry for no sauce that's all I can remember
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He's listening to mainstream radio
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>>51775879
He actually hates those headphones.
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hes crying because he cant afford food, he is hungry all the time
but hey hes got some nice headphones tho
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>>51775879
Looks like surprise buttsecks to me.
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>>51775927
Sauce?
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He's listening to an OPUS file
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>>51775879

Here you go /g/entoomen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ
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He's not using a line out connection and is double amping.
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>>51775879
>people keep posting that webm i made those month ago on /mu/
>it wasnt even about audiophile shit
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>>51775917
Totally agree with you anon. The shirt gives it away and for anyone to orgasm like he does while listening to a tone generation sweep indicates that he must molest woofers and tweeters on a daily basis.
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I would argue that yeah, it is a mental illness. It makes you prone to placebos like $1,000 DACs, cable lifters, and magic stones. Thus making you a huge target for scammers. It's not healthy buying placebos since you will spend money on them to the point of poverty sometimes.

Though it's not a threat to others so forcing these people into asylums is not necessary at all.
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>>51776042
>I invented the çuck meme.
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He's being a retarded snake oil chugging "audiophile" retard like every other "audiophile". He wouldn't make those faces and have that fake reaction if he was listening to the band live. What a fucking tool. Old senile men with too much money.
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Audiophiles are just as mentally unstable as trannies tbqh
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>>51775879
He seems to be listening to a Donald Trump speech.
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>>51776070
topkek, dam
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Audiophilia is a sickness. as a rule the science behind how sound works and is (re)produced is very, very, very well understood and really there aren't any earth shattering advacements in the field anymore (at least at the sort of levels we are talking).

Thus companies that make sound equipment thats not for professional work spend lots of money on marketing and buzzwords to attract a crowd of people that strongly believe in placebo. Market something enough and your bullshit becomes reality to these people who then start to deride anyone who disagrees with them (this happens for everything - see /g/'s gpu wars).
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>>51776112
upvoted
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>>51775879
When you bust a nut but she keeps on sucking.
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ya nigz ain't even kno he cop dat hot fiya mixtape sMh
das how it is rill talk
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>>51776264
Spotted the /mu/ poster. Trolling aside, Is it just me, or does it seem like that board is populated mostly by niggers and underage/community college white kids?
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He's listening to Mijew Jewrus.
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>>51776119
>see /g/'s gpu wars
It's just ayymd shills getting hyper with every new 'driver' update their ayymd cards get.
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>>51775879
He is listening to soundsofyourwifegettingfuckedbydr.bbc.mp3
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>>51776448

Its really not - Nvidia can do no wrong, its all amd lies, etc etc.
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>>51776558
I ain't saying my 970 has 4gbs of gddr5, but seriously though, it beats a 390x in a lot of cases. So yeah.
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>>51776600

It doesn't.
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>>51776399
Dunno actually, I was just merely emulating the basketball-american language. Although your observation is quite plausible after a quick glance and the given number of tripfags.
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>>51776399
>underage/community college white kids
Just like the rest of 4chan then?
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>>51776658
the guy in the middle is a hostage right?
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>>51775908
>audio palette
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>>51775879
its a horrible sickness but once you find your endgame, its worth it
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>>51776650
>Relative performance aka digital spec sheet
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>>51775908
>audio palette
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>>51776799
Relative performance across all the games they tested during their review, dumbass.
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>>51775879
What the fuck is this???????
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>>51777374
WAT R TTHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>51776042
Anon, no one cares that you converted an mp4 clip to webm
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>>51777429
JOHN CENAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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>>51777484
WHY THE FUCK YOU LYIN
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>>51777498
Okay, no, I am not doing this back and forth for the rest of eternity faggot.
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>>51777374
The guy that starts all the /hpg/ threads embracing his mental illness.
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>So here's the deal: in my view, to be Pono with regards to music reproduction, you have to know how to execute subtle things that makes the music more accessible to your root human being. At some point, depending in part on how much your willing and able to enter the experience, the sum of those subtle things will allow you enter a mode of sensation in which you deeply engage and experience the art. To mash up my words with some of Neil Young's words: It's the difference between recognizing the music, and resonating with it. A Pono piece of gear just makes it easier to enter the meditation on the music. The improvements over other gear may be subtle, but they're important because they help you make the big jump into a deep engagement with your music. But that big jump happens in your head and heart, it's not in the player.
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>>51777458
I care.
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>>51775879
>listeningtodeathgripsforthefirsttime.webm
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>>51777671

Do you work for coconut audio?
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>>51775879
Surely this is actually a webm of him using a wireless vibrator app and you're all just playing along with OP right?
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>>51776042
I saw that webm way before last month

stop lying to try to get some attention, retard
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>>51775980
How does he not cry when listening to his own sighs and voice?
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>this is what an average audiophile is like
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>>51775879
He likes to listen to heavy metal while dropping the kids at the pool.
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>>51775879
Old people are weird
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I firmly believe that if you told an audiophile that some top notch headphones were shit and some shit earbuds were the latest military-grade audiophile tier wonder they would believe it and agree.
You could make a blind test of 5 recolors of the same 10 dollar paki earbuds and they would tell you all different ranges and made up shit.
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>>51775879
Is he hurting himself? Why not turn down the volume?
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>working during Christmas break
>have some downtime, read the Crutchfield catalog in my area
>see multi-room audio systems sold by the individual speaker, cheapest ones are around $200

Legit what's the point? If you honestly can't carry your laptop or something, speakers can already be purchased and connected to computers.

>>51776081
>google cable lifters
>suspect they're some kind of signal enhancing device, which would be dumb enough
>they are literally props for holding cables above the floor

This is like homeopathy or some shit, goddamn.
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>>51779903
they prove that kinda stuff all the time. they give alcohol tasting experts bottom shelf stuff and they try to find the 'hints of french ocean breeze' or whatever. art galleries full of hipsters nod in appreciation when a woman shoves beans up her cooch because they want to show they 'get it.'

that's what we have known since "the emperors new clothes" was written. it takes someone like a child to remove themselves from peer pressure or expectations or self identity.

dude, that's a great business idea! have kids give unbiased reviews of audiophile products. they will cut through the bullshit and we can get mad youtube views
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Here he's testing Beats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZY0qGrA9Y
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>>51780306
hue
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>>51775966
You must be new here...
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>>51781347
show anon around hotshot
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>>51776751
uhhh, did I give you permission to post my wife?
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>>51775908
thanks for that i needed a good laugh captain autism
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>>51775879
<-- typical audiophile
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>>51776042
>caring about this type of shit
"HE STOLE MY OC!! D:"
Please go back to reddit.
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>>51775879
>Is audiophile a sickness?
Yes
>What the hell is pic related doing?
Pretending.
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>>51775879
He's cringing at how apparently bad the music sounds through those headphones

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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.

what an overly-dramatic faggot
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>>51779903

Pretty much spot on. They do that with soda, whine, among other things. Connesiuers of wine have been known to not pick apart ages fine wine between walmart branded wine. Its all a placebo. Its what you think you want and you believe it so badly it simply seems real to you.

But I will say my friend was giving all of us shit about not being able to tell the differneve between Flac and 320kbs and he posted some site and it was music samples and it asked what type of file each sample was and we ended up always coming out of around 7/10 at least. It is noticeable but not because it sounds better but because it sounds a little different.

Being an audiophile is just another time wasting money sinks like everything else in life.
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>>51776124
I bought a pair of hd 558s that were on sale, I've always been using 20$/desktop speakers or gamescon 780s for audio. Will I become an audiophile now?
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>>51783975
Not without a tube amp and cable elevators you won't
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All these genetic lottery losers in this thread not lucky enough to be born with golden ears.

I also sense jealous among audiophile haters. Hating the fact that we spend more on power strips than you do on your cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOwqyWdsWrE

Enjoy your Audio Shitnichas and Miccas. Meanwhile, I'll be in audio heaven.
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>>51784130
$10000 for a power strip. Looks nice though, maximalist and stupidly luxe.
>My power strip is MARBLE.
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aren't you guys sort of audiophiles?

you buy expensive headphones..
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>>51775879
Hes listening to nikle back
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>>51775879
It's just some mentally ill guy. Acts like he is being anally raped.
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>>51784418

Nothing wrong with being an audiophile.

Audiophool is a different matter. Those who spend any amount of money on useless gimmicks, like cables, marble power strips, expensive DACs, etc.
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>>51775879
>listeningtomucore.jpg
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It's iDoser. He's trying out marijuana for the first time
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>>51784418
you can get a setup for around $600 that is radically better than anything you've had before, if it's all best buy offerings and shit.

it gets stupid once you go over the 2k mark
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>>51776042
>claiming credit
>on anonymous board
fuck off to reddit
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>>51775879
there are people on /g/ that buy shit like $300 dollar mechanical keyboards, SSDs, full size ATX tower cases for ricer shit, Noctua anything, water coolers, gaming mice, gaming mobos, gaming RAM

if you have any of those you have NO room to talk as you ALSO spent money on placebo build quality shit or just straight up faster speeds on paper placebo
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I have a hd518 that i was using for a good 2 years. Then I got hd600s and they sounded amazing for about two days... and now i kinda don't even realize there's a difference since i use them regularly. It just became a norm sound.

I feel like audiophiles keep chasing that brief moment of the time when you put new headphones/speakers on and hear that diffierence before it fades into the back of your mind and you need to refresh it by getting new ones.
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SSDs are pretty useful tho...
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>>51784812
You're retarded.

>$60 for a Leopold FC200 keyboard. Theblue switches feel amazing to type on, 100% worth.
>$25 Sandisk 128Gb SSD. Bought it second hand from my aunt who bought the wrong thing. Have my OS & main tools installed on it, HUGE speed improvement. 100% worth.
>full size ATX towers are cheaper than itx ones.

You're right about all the gaming shit.
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>>51785316
>>51784812

I actually agree with anon. Mechanical switches is a meme and I fell for it three times. Neither my Ducky Legend with brown switches, my pok3r with clears or my Quickfire TK with blues make up for the hype.

I probably have problems to be perfectly honest.
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>>51775879
Is he ok? Holy shit audiophiles are fags.
He looks like somebody hit him with a bat in the head.
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>>51784130
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