Being aware of misbehaviour of the playback chain

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audiophiles' constant upgrading is a measure of the effort they are putting into chasing unicorns

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the Borg has assimilated your image...

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15 minutes ago, gmgraves said:

... he doesn't know enough about either electronics, physics or acoustics to come up with anything at all as novel as what he asserts. 

 

 

whoa - since WHEN was any knowledge of anything a pre-requisite to being an audiophile??

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10 minutes ago, gmgraves said:

Unfortunately, it's not. Let me rephrase that a certain amount of knowledge is necessary to be a successful audiophile. And keep in mind someone who throws a fist-full of green-backs at some audio consultant to choose and install a system is NOT necessarily an audiophile. And of course people like that generally aren't. They may be music lovers, but mostly they are just Nouveau Riche jerks who want the "best" merely for bragging purposes (and in their garage there is a Porsche that they have no idea how to drive either).

 

I thought the Nouveau Riche jerks always bought Italian cars ??

 

but you know what they say about porcupines and Porscheys...

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1 hour ago, fas42 said:

... I don't worry about the room aspects.

 

Why? Because they are important?

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impressive even on mediocre midfi gear ===> mastered for itunes

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removing all those obstacles really cleans up things - you can hear the distortion of cheap crummy components in all its #$%^&*()_(* glory!

 

I'm gonna do it to my boom-box!

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transducers suck

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6 hours ago, marce said:

All?

 

yes, compared with say an amplifier, all transducers suck

 

there is always a penalty for changing energy from one form to another

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43 minutes ago, anwaypasible said:

you seem to be a non-believer of weightless possibility.

makes me think levitating magnets freak you out.

 

are you a native English speaker?

 

your response has nothing to do with my post

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1 hour ago, anwaypasible said:

yet the length of this thread & how balderdash the quantifiable details are, there is more done to demoralize wishful thinking at a place meant to build the industry than there is profit making it to your stocks & bonds.

 

or just use phrases & white space

 

sentences are not required

 

see above

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1 hour ago, pkane2001 said:

 

Sounds like a poorly done, computer-generated attempt at English.

 

some AI Systems are better than others

 

just as some NIs are better than others

 

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what counts is being aware of misbehaviour of the answer back chain

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15 minutes ago, mansr said:

If it can't be reproduced by any microphone/speaker pairing, we cannot say which is responsible for the loss.

 

unless we can feed a speaker with a simulated brassy waveform, then compare...

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1 hour ago, mansr said:

If we can't record brass, how do we know what to simulate?

 

you could simulate the pain from listening to live trumpet

 

or... inter/extrapolate what should be there

 

or construct an AI system to predict

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19 minutes ago, gmgraves said:

You could try LISTENING to real trumpets. live!

 

too painful