Mnyb wrote:
> On case anyone missed it .
>
> http://archimago.blogspot.se/2018/01/audiophile-myth-260-detestable-digital.html?m=1
>
> Great blog by Arch as usual .
>
> The conclusion these ringing graphs are a red herring . They ate
> interpretted out of context.
> They are good if you want t
Mongo wrote:
> Hello Audio Engineers,
> I read in these fora mention of DSP based room optimization. I have a
> highly non optimum room so anything helps.
> Can anyone recommend software/hardware that does this? Relatively easy
> to implement would be a good starting point.
> thanks
Hi Mon
Archimago wrote:
> Hey Ralph,
> Finding Kool-Aid again is very much like an ex-cult/religion member
> finding "the way" again...
>
> ---
>
> Oh ye of little faith. Cast aside thy apostate ways and come rejoin the
> fold!
>
> For penance since you have upset the Almighty Stereophile, go buy
sckramer wrote:
> Haha, where do you find this crap /s?
I browse Audio Asylum from time to time, and I saw this one on a forum
called "Isolation Ward" ("Iso"). :)
Once in a blue moon I get some good information from AA. I found out
about the 1jazz.ru group of Russian jazz stations from there a
Archimago wrote:
> Amazed that the Belts are still at this! I would have thought they'd
> have retired by now.
I know! They just keep cranking out these ideas.
I do get a good laugh at audiophile stuff that's this crazy though. I
wonder if any of these items will make it to the Stereophile re
Thought you guys would get a kick out of this... :)
'_Peter_Belt_Morphic_Link_Paper_Clips_(PDF)_'
(http://www.pwbelectronics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/PWB-Morphic-Link-Paper-Clips.pdf)
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Archimago wrote:
>
> So the dude measures distortion levels in a 16-bit format at -65dB. Very
> low level! So he's basically only using the lowest 6-bits! Is that what
> they did? And given that CD players / DACs in 1985 were incapable of
> full 16-bit accuracy, it looks bad with at best 36dB dy
arnyk wrote:
> "Noel admitted that just stating that CD had 40% distortion was about as
> meaningful as trying to say that it had negligible distortion, but he
> pointed out that digital differs in one vital way from analogue. And
> that’s in the fact that with analogue, as the signal level gets
Julf wrote:
> Heh, yes... "These were exciting, ground-breaking and pioneering days in
> hi-fi. Linn and Naim were the first manufacturers to talk about music.
> How a system has to swing, have rhythm. They talked about their systems
> only in terms of music not treble, bass and midrange."
Tha
Julf wrote:
> I am simply using an established term describing the 1980's Linn/Naim
> enthusiasts.
>
> http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/the-new-flat-earth/
They even had their own magazine for a brief time:
"'_The_Flat_Response_'
(http://thetomtomclub.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-flat-response-
It seems somehow appropriate to link to that favorite old usenet song,
"'*_The_Lurkers_Support_Me_in_Email_*'
(http://www.jowaltonbooks.com/poetry/whimsy/the-lurkers-support-me-in-email/)",
sung to the tune of "My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean".
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Mnyb wrote:
> Cheers for that :)
The glory days of Squeezebox. :) Actually, LMS has never been better.
I'm loving the random albums feature of 7.9.
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Here's Sean's original post in this very forum (from my bookmarks). :)
'_Sean_Adams'_Response-O-Matic_'
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Many of the exalted high-end gurus have an interesting story associated
with them. They tend to be "child prodigies" who have been designing
audio equipment since the age of 12 or so, yet never managed to obtain a
degree in engineering, physics or mathematics. This failure is seen as
an advantag
ralphpnj wrote:
> So someone else besides me called them "clowns" :) (By "them" I'm
> referring to the editors and writers of all the high end audio, aka
> audiophile, magazines and web sites.)
I see that line of argument a lot. Here's a
'*_funny_example_of_a_sarcastic_response_*'
(http://www.a
Julf wrote:
> The "I am right and you are wrong" principle, perhaps? :)
>
> OK, more seriously, I think it stems from the 'Galileo_Gambit'
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Galileo_Gambit)
> variation of 'association fallacy'
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallac
Perfect! LOL.
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Mnyb wrote:
> Let's measure an audio note DAC voodoo design galore:P and also some
> modern home theater amp the complex functionality of those makes
> mistakes likly software bugs etc.
Don't get me started on non-oversampling DACs!
There's an obsolete chip made by Philips, the TDA1541A, that's
Archimago wrote:
> But when they start courting companies like Synergistic, Nordost, or
> (for the most part) AudioQuest where the products they make are either
> without merit or borderline insane, then we have real problems if the
> magazine feels it has to cater to them and "put in a good word
Gandhi wrote:
> Bury most of your face in pillows and read with eyes half-closed! You
> have been warned.
> http://www.stereophile.com/content/zanden-5000-mkivsignature-da-converter-2000-premium-cd-transport-measurements
Wow, the measurements of that DAC really suck! A bargain at $15,470! :D
ralphpnj wrote:
> Come on gentlemen please tell me exactly what difference Stereophile's
> holy measurements make? If the equipment under review and measurement
> sounds great to the reviewer but has terrible measurements then JA (aka
> clown in chief) writes some nonsense about how just because
ralphpnj wrote:
> As you said in the early days CD not only were they rather expensive but
> many times they sounded quite unpleasant, especially all those poorly
> mastered and hastily released CD versions of analog recordings. Heck in
> those days the record companies often just digitized the a
Mnyb wrote:
> Linn is a very good example on marketing on the slightly shady side .
>
> they " discovered " that the source component was the most important
> part of an audio system , while in the beginning they did nothing but
> said source component the LP12 :) so now you where to place a
> d
ralphpnj wrote:
> Hey wait a minute I also have a Linn LP12 turntable and it WAS one of
> the best audio purchases I ever made. Here's why - back in the late
> 1980s and throughout the 1990s while everyone was busy getting rid of
> their LPs and (re)buying everything on CD because of the Linn my
Mnyb wrote:
>
> The really stupid part is that I'm a person who should know better being
> an electrical engineer ...
>
Same here! In fact, I decided to get into EE because of my interest in
the hobby back in the 1970s.
Mnyb wrote:
>
> i think my own involvement in the general sceptic move
Yes, I realize I am preaching to the choir here.
I also read the audiophool forums like Audio Asylum though, mostly for
amusement purposes. Stereophile has been loudly and preemptively
proclaiming this "Chinese Wall" thing for years, more so than the other
publications. In the audiophool cultur
There's recently been some entertaining fallout as a result of Sam
Tellig having quit Stereophile. It seems that for many years now,
Stereophile has claimed to have a "Chinese Wall" between advertising and
editorial departments. A Google search (via '_this_LMGTFY_link_'
(http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ste
Gandhi wrote:
> Interesting. I have read the PDF files and must say that most of his
> points och conclusions are quite surprising to me. It's not how I have
> interpreted other sources. I'm not questioning him, he seems to have
> done his homework, I'm just surprised. His views are also very str
Gandhi wrote:
>
> I'd like to, but dare not use subwoofers. I have a neighbor with such a
> contraption and this buildning clearly wasn't constructed with that in
> mind. I don't want to stress my neighbors more that I already do. And I
> do. But just for adding to my brainweight, or in case I m
My understanding from reading the paper and Toole's book is that
reflections from the front and back walls may not be beneficial for
giving the illusion of spaciousness because the reflected components of
the sounds in the left and right ears caused by them are highly
correlated, while the opposit
One good source of information about psychoacoustics and how it relates
to sound reproduction can be found in '_Floyd_Toole's_book_'
(http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Acoustics-Psychoacoustics-Loudspeakers/dp/0240520092/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402868463&sr=1-1&keywords=floyd+toole)
For more on Hovland, see the -Stereophile- article
"'_Hovland_Calls_it_Quits_'
(http://www.stereophile.com/content/hovland-calls-it-quits)" and their
'_forum_post_referencing_it_'
(http://www.stereophile.com/news/hovland_calls_it_quits/).
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Gandhi wrote:
> Hilarious! Especially that some people actually defend this bep>!
>
> How does one avoid becoming (even more) cynical with the accumulation of
> knowledge? Please let me know.
I have no answer to that, only the workaround of allowing oneself to
value the humor one can find
Just ran across the "'_My_Time_At_Hovland_'
(http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/tubes-valves/227913-my-time-hovland-hp-100-lore.html)"
thread at diyaudio.com. Funny stuff!
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Pretty crazy stuff!
The Windham hill CDs sound great to me, but I don't like most of the
artists they had. I may get razzed for this, but I will admit to liking
Michael Hedges.
BTW, the Fruitlooper General has determined that reading audiophool
forums can be hazardous to your sanity. :D
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Julf wrote:
> In that case, I nominate all of Computer Audiophool.
One of my favorite posts over there is '_this_one_by_Cookie_Marenco_'
(http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f13-audiophile-downloads/sound-better-uncompressed-downloaded-files-6158/#post70764),
in which she claims that sound quality
Well, since I left out the word "quantum" in my last post, I'll try to
make up for that by linking to the '_Synergistic_Research_Quantum_Fuse_'
(http://www.synergisticresearch.com/featured/new-category-synergistic-research-quantum-fuses-furutech-hifituningsupreme-fuses/)
page. :)
> Synergistic Re
ralphpnj wrote:
> On the other hand, in the world of high end audio things (devices,
> ideas, beliefs, etc.) that are quite clearly fruitloopy come along on an
> almost daily basis and so I'm launching this official list so that we
> can keep track of the all the audio fruitloopery out there.
So
Awesome article. "Fruitloopery" indeed, LOL!
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Can 7.8.0 be made to work with the '_magical_firmware_15_'
(http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22firmware+15%22+site%3Aaudiocircle.com)? :D
(I used LMGTFY just to avoid temporary URLs)
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Clowntime is -never- over in audio-tard land. BTW, -even if- the
ludicrous "rest of the world" claim were true, it's -argumentum ad
populum- anyway.
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The level of bulls--- in "high end" audio is an always-increasing
function. So if you thought it couldn't get worse, remember that
tomorrow is another day! :D
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Peter Galbavy wrote:
> the customers reviews for the (in)famous Denon Link cable are wonderful
> to read:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM
>
> Yes, it is just a piece of shielded Cat5e cable with Denon printed on
> it. For $500.
And the Accoutrements Hor
ralphpnj wrote:
> Hopefully you came full circle and along the way picked up some nice
> sounding audio equipment. In addition I hope that people reading these
> anti-audiophile threads understand that no one here is against well made
> decent sounding reasonably priced equipment. What I and many
ralphpnj wrote:
> You guys have it backwards - one has to be either smoking, drinking or
> just plain on something in order to believe all their BS. In other
> words, the last thing any audiophile who believes in this nonsense needs
> is more drugs!
Speaking of which, be sure to check out the TA
garym wrote:
> Oh my! this entire page of misc components (posted above) is just
> unbelievable. If one was trying to create a humor page (ala "The Onion")
> regarding fake, stupid audiophool stuff, they couldn't do better than
> this page and the writeup of each item.
>
> http://www.stereophile
ralphpnj wrote:
> Once one is wrapped in the cloak of subjectivity (made by the same
> tailor who made the emperor's new clothes) there is no limit as to the
> nonsense who can publish and the profits to be made. The audio rags
> praise and recommend this worthless junk. Then the worthless junk i
In other news, Peter Belt's P.W.B. Electronics "Cream Electret" (WTF?)
made the
'_Stereophile_Recommended_Components_List_in_the_miscellaneous_category_'
(http://www.stereophile.com/content/2013-recommended-components-miscellaneous).
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Archimago, this was a very well-written and well-reasoned article.
Thanks for posting it.
However, if one were to write a letter to the editor about it, the
letter might be based on an assumption that the authors of the HFN & RR
article are behaving in an ethical fashion, and that the issue is j
It's worthwhile to understand the nature of the pro-Jplay cranks. For
instance, one major crank feels that reality does not
"'*_consort_with_his_epistemology*_'
(http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/isolation/messages/7030.html)" LOL.
Another, who has insulted Julf, implying that he does not unders
Archimago, I see you've been '*_recognized_by_JRiver_*'
(http://www.jriver.com/jplay.html) :).
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It's weird that Oppo decided to support DSD when they still don't do
DLNA gapless. Seems like messed up priorities to me.
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ralphpnj wrote:
>
> And I also saw this review linked in the above thread:
> http://www.audiostream.com/content/audioquest-ethernet-cables - very
> upsetting since Mr. Lavorgna now seems to have drank about 200 gallons
> of very potent audiophile Kool-Aid. Too bad since in the early days of
> A
ralphpnj wrote:
>
> Thanks Andy for the link to that most amusing video. Is that the same
> Mr. Smith from the Matrix movies because they sure do look very similar.
Somebody posted that to the Stereophile forum a few years back, and I
enjoyed it very much. I haven't seen The Matrix, but I prob
Archimago wrote:
> Thanks for the video, Andy! Fantastic :-) Just watching it right now.
>
> By hearing them use the term "high fidelity" rather than generic terms
> like "audiophile quality" makes the discussion seem more meaningful to
> me.
My favorite part is the studio scene at 1:03. "...
My philosophy is similar to that of "Mr. Smith" in
'*_this_1957_hi-fi_video_*' (http://archive.org/details/HowtoLis1957).
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SBGK wrote:
> life's too short to listen to mp3, who records/mixes/masters in mp3 ?
I doubt that any audiophile type would save their own personal
collection to MP3. That said, when I want to discover new music (and
who doesn't?), I listen to internet radio, which is almost exclusively
MP3. Wo
AndyN wrote:
> If I understand correctly; for the Nyquist sampling to result in a
> perfectly reconstructible waveform (at the receiving end) the sampled
> waveform must be repetitive and the waveform must be sampled for a
> period that is long in comparison to the waveform.
The requirement for
I don't think I've ever read that forum. I have read the
'_*alternative_Hoffman_forum*_'
(http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/index.php) though :D.
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Soulkeeper wrote:
>
> Which makes me wonder, is there one single person in the "I defragged my
> neighbor's cousin's wristwatch and now my system sounds 100x better"
> crowd who has ever tried to stand behind a mixing console? Or record an
> original musical sound track on any system?
Well, the
infamous Pear Cables :).
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eliminate clipped samples, that resampling down to 16/44.1 will be
transparent in all but the most extreme of cases. I haven't tried it
with really crazy types of files like Tom Danley's fireworks recordings
though.
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you're looking at Denon and buying online, go to their list of
authorized online dealers and call several of them for the best price.
I also recommend checking AVS forum as they have lots of tidbits of
inside info such a
ng to prove regarding the
alleged audibility of USB cables, but on the other, you claim that
there is nothing to prove. Either way is fine with me, but you can't
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Mnyb;693864 Wrote:
> Which font was used on the newsgroup any serifs would add a peculiar
> edge on stuff :D
I use only monospaced fonts when reading newsgroups, as the uniform
spacing between bytes reduces jitter considerably! :D
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> for posting.
uuencode and base64 sound waaay better than yEnc. :D
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Sounds like Cookie Marenco. Google her for all kinds of audiophile
hilarity.
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audiophile double standard
regarding harmonic distortion. If a cap has distortion levels in the
ppm range, it seems to cause all kinds of hand-wringing. Yet for tube
power amps with upwards of 1 percent THD, the distortion is routinely
dismissed as benign.
So, which is it? :-)
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ion in the file.
That's like the 'water memory'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory) claims of homeopathy
advocates. The homeopathy people even claimed the effect could be
transmitted over phone lines :-).
Sounds like a twe
ld thermos joke - 'how does it know?'
(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/read/483546/)
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There's an 'interview with Audio Note's Peter Qvortrup'
(http://hifi-unlimited.blogspot.com/2010/05/10-qs-for-peter-qvortrup-of-audio-note.html)
by a Malaysian blogger that I found quite funny :-).
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s use this as a combination ad hominem and red herring, avoiding
much of any substantive discussion of his actual views.
I find his views to be a bit extreme on the objectivist side, but I
also find that aspect of his writing to be a refreshing counterpoint to
the subjectivist baloney of th
Society Convention; or, The
Invasion of the Credibility Snatchers'
(http://theaudiocritic.com/back_issues/The_Audio_Critic_17_r.pdf). The
link is a PDF file. The followup article by Jeff Corey is very good
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By the way, the OP claims his '*professional background is in scientific
research*'
(http://db.audioasylum.com/mhtml/m.html?forum=general&n=592550&;). LOL!
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My all-time favorite is "'*danceable cables*'
(http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue32/anjou.htm)", which of course
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e of that too.
So it appears the error signal they're seeing is just from inaccurate
computation of the delay between the two signals. They're trying to
reinvent the freeware DiffMaker and doing a much poorer job. Whether
this is deliberate or not I
o equipment.
How sad. The author of this piece is known for his belief in '\"the
healing power of whistling\"'
(http://www.jasonserinus.com/pages/healing.html). Unreal!
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LOL!
http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/index.php?topic=64328.0
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deg out of phase
(which can be due to errors of the capacitor that are entirely linear
in nature, such as ESR and ESL), and hysteresis in the D-E
characteristic (which would result in distortion).
A better article on capacitor nonlinearities is by Cyril Bateman in
Electronics Wor
n the two cases read open even on the 200 MegOhm
full scale setting of my multimeter.
So the possible ground loop problem is a non-issue with standard
ethernet cables. Standard ethernet cables will give galvanic isolation
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> Ronald McDonald is a clown?
Yes, but he is a rogue clown, not a legitimate one. There is a strict
hierarchy within the clown community :-).
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"Real audiophiles" on AA vs. "audiophile poseurs" on AC. Kind of like
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has been spamming
his software over a bunch of audiophile forums, and I called him on it.
His post has apparently been deleted (and rightfully so I think),
making it appear as if my post is responding to yours, which it
wasn't.
So please carry on :-).
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imary wires may reduce the residual AC
voltage in some cases.
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ee - so why not? Just
reverse the plug. I'd still like to see some system noise measurement
that demonstrates that the tweak works though. There's so many
audiophile "old wives' tales" floating around it's hard not to be
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See figure 3 on this page:
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/ampins/groundloops/grndloop.htm#cap
But I haven't seen anyone provide evidence of improved audio
performance from doing this - onl
with the swapped dots is electrically
equivalent to the original.
The entire "start of the winding" and "end of the winding" concept is
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tuation is debatable - yet I'm sure it
will be trotted out by the usual suspects for some time to come.
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Sean, you are a patient man. As a person that's deeply skeptical about
the typical audiophile stuff, I'm grateful that there are still some
folks in the audiophile biz that have not abandoned rationality.
;\"Branded\"' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmJPnAGUJk)*!
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much poorer VSWR than the plugs, so I suspect
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Skunk;185385 Wrote:
> Luckily I just came across this* post by AndyC on cableAsylum. I wonder
> if he and AndyC772 (here), are the same real person?
That was my post about the Canare RCAs hooked up to Belden 89259 cable.
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