CPU Load and Sound Quality

[kumakuma]

32 minutes ago, Blackmorec said:

The bottom line is; when something sounds better, its not creating anything. Its simply doing less damage to the audio signal.....losing less, smoothing less, filtering less, reflecting less, picking up less noise, whatever.  Audiophiles aren’t imagining this. Its real which is why the whole thing gets so much traction. The fact that it contradicts what engineers have learned and read counts for very little when people actually experience it for themselves. 

 

If this were true, you would think that there would be a cable that does so little damage that everyone agrees that is the best sounding cable out there and you all could get off your audiophile treadmill.

[kumakuma]

50 minutes ago, Blackmorec said:

Its a competitive market out there so you’re not going to get just one, you’ll get many...unfortunately with very high prices.  Consequently you'll get the next level of cables, the nearly best, not quite so eye watering but still a fairly major financial commitment. Which leads to the next level of value cables, great performance for more affordable money. Next you’ll get the affordable cables, really good performance for a reasonably economical price.  Finally you’ll get the bog standard, basic cables, well designed, adequate if unremarkable performance and broad appeal to people who just want to get a signal from A to B in the most cost efficient way possible. 

 

Are you a dealer or in the industry?

 

I ask because I've read numerous reports from other audiophiles stating that there is limited correlation between price and quality, especially when it comes to cables. 

[kumakuma]

1 minute ago, Ralf11 said:

 

Describe your system - Sandy demands this BTW.

 

I thought we had post pictures of the PCBs inside our equipment to make him happy less angry.

[kumakuma]

38 minutes ago, davide256 said:

Apologies, I made the assume mistake.  It was not my intent to provoke rash behavior on your part. which sadly is what the "baiting" goal is of most of those countering @sandyk

 

 

 

You appear to making the same "assume mistake" again.

[kumakuma]

1 minute ago, PeterSt said:

 

You keep thinking this is an Audiophile forum.

 

and that it's his job to police it.

[kumakuma]

23 minutes ago, sandyk said:

In case some like Kumakuma haven't noticed , this forum is also supported financially by Audiophile manufacturers, unlike forums such as Hydrogen Audio etc. Without their support this forum would more than likely cease to exist.

 

No idea why you feel the need to call me out in your post but please stop dragging me in your rants.

[kumakuma]

32 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

 

# 320

 

I guess randomly dropping my name into a post on a completely unrelated subject is one way to respond...

[kumakuma]

13 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

NO, for starting a thread where you are not interested in hearing opinions/reports other than those that suit your own personal  P.O.V.

 

 

Threads on this site come in all colors and styles.

 

There are even a few here that you haven't disrupted yet with your ill-tempered posts... 

[kumakuma]

18 minutes ago, fas42 said:

 

CPU Load ... 🤩

 

Nothing to do with bitperfect; all about altering the electrical activity within the plastic, while the track is playing. Since all the circuitry is next to each other, with only the most basic power supplies in the thing, it should be pretty obvious that one can alter the interference activity going on ...

 

 

Nothing you can in this area is going to move the dial much because you're limited by your shitty speakers and internal DAC.

 

Get yourself some powered speakers and an external DAC.

 

 

[kumakuma]

3 minutes ago, fas42 said:

 

Which is not the point. I want to see how capable the laptop is of getting the sound right, in the areas that it can, if I give it every chance - I don't intend to seriously listen to it, merely explore how well the audio circuitry can perform.

 

This is an example of how I approach each system - what's it doing right, what's it doing wrong? What happens when I alter parameters, in any sense ... the point is to learn ...

 

Enjoy!

[kumakuma]

1 hour ago, marce said:

Whens half term over....

 

???

[kumakuma]

8 hours ago, sandyk said:

 

I don't find anything humorous in posts like that, knowing how you and several other closed minded participants in this thread, and other threads in the General Forum area really feel about virtually all of my posts in this forum. 

 

Your use of the insult "closed minded participants" in your post suggests that you believe folks here are responding primarily to the content of your posts.

 

This is an assumption that you may wish to reconsider in the interest dialing back the noise level on this forum.

[kumakuma]

1 minute ago, Blackmorec said:

 

I’d be really interested to hear which laws of physics are violated by the following:

• Interconnecting cables whose sound differs from one another
• USB cables whose sound differs from one another
• Vibration control of electronics and transport
• Removal of LF and HF noise
• Sound that changes during the first 100 hours of operation of newly manufactured components.

So here you go Ralf. Here’s your opportunity to switch gears and get scientific and factual....have at it  

 

 

I'm pretty sure that Ralf was referring to Alex's beliefs in regards to bit-identical files, AKA the "third rail" of Audiophile Style.

[kumakuma]

Just now, Blackmorec said:

 

all I’m asking you to do is match them up with the laws they violate and explain why or how. 

 

 

Even if Ralf or someone else went to the trouble of doing this, would it change your mind in any way?

[kumakuma]

2 hours ago, sandyk said:

 Your personal reality is obviously VERY different to a huge number of other members of this forum who post in the Music Server area of the forum.

 

Are you saying we should accept all the findings that are reported in that thread, even the ones that contradict each other?

 

If not, what criteria should we use?

[kumakuma]

20 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 Definitely NOT.

 However, where  quite a few members are reporting the same things INDEPENDENTLY, then they should be worthy of further investigation by qualified members with access to suitable test equipment, but not just spouting what they were taught many years earlier, or have read in a textbook.

 

I doubt that even that wouldn't change anyone's mind.

 

For example, you've been presented with overwhelming evidence why some of your claims are impossible but yet your mind hasn't changed one whit.

 

In fact, you've said time and time again that you will reject any evidence that disapproves your claims. 

[kumakuma]

15 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

That is your own biased opinion.

 Youi keep ignoring the results of correctly performed DBTs, and even the reports of one of this generations most famous Recording and Mastering Engineers, as well as the reports of  >several dozen members.

 

 It's a complete waste of my time further discussing anything with you, and I will not be doing so, as many members would already be aware, if I said something was Black, you would insist that it was White.

 You are UNABLE to disprove  my claims because I am also100% able to demonstrate them directly.

 This is just one example  from  acg with a couple of my video comparisons :

acg  (Anthony is from Queensland, and was using a 4K monitor with the videos side by side)
Replied: Tuesday at 02:35 PM

Wow Alex.  I looked at the first two links...big quality difference in the video.
How are they different?  Or, what did you change when recording them? 

A

 

I'm sorry but there is no indication that any of the "tests" performed on your files were "correctly performed" double-blind tests. For example, the tests that Barry performed were not double blind. In fact they weren't even single blind.

 

There are also numerous other issues with your test methodology that you refuse to address.

[kumakuma]

9 minutes ago, fas42 said:

to keep bandying the word distortion around, when the main offender is the rig that's reproducing them, is quite an insult to all the people who have spent significant chunks of their careers creating the versions for release.

 

Isn't your constant harping about how bad audio equipment sounds out-of-the-box equally insulting to the people who have spent their careers designing and manufacturing them?

[kumakuma]

10 minutes ago, fas42 said:

 

People have to work under the constraints of what the market wants, and expects

 

 

The same logic applies to recorded music. Take the Loudness Wars as a case in point.

[kumakuma]

7 minutes ago, fas42 said:

 

Don't be silly, Blackmorec - you don't want a sensible answer, because that would spoil the fun of hurling over-ripe tomatoes over the barriers ... 🙂.

 

At least they don't smell as bad as what you're slinging...

[kumakuma]

17 minutes ago, Blackmorec said:

Would you like me to explain in transactional analysis terms how these childish insults are supposed to operate and what’s behind them or would you rather discuss hi-fi? 

 

Not surprised that you should mention a pseudoscience like TA...

[kumakuma]

15 minutes ago, sandyk said:

You haven't mentioned either how your CDs are ripped. It does make a huge difference as others have reported and verified.

 

This is new.

 

Your claim in the past was that ripping CDs with a linear power supply provided improvements so subtle that they disappeared when the files were transferred over the Internet.

[kumakuma]

3 minutes ago, sandyk said:

Bullshit.  As usual, you are only quoting the part that suits you. I have stated on numerous occasions that they are degraded .  The Love Over Gold files that I sent to Martin Colloms for the series of DBTs were sent via the Internet. However, I have no doubt whatsoever that if I had sent them on USB memory, or as I did later on, with a series of comparison CDs that the Audible differences would have been much more obvious. Just like another member you are very adept at massaging the truth, so I will ignore further replies from you in this area.

 

Bullshit right back to you.

 

If there are "huge differences", why didn't your hero Barry D say that instead of reporting possible subtle differences between your test files?

[kumakuma]

8 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 Except perhaps in the area where your training tells you that there shouldn't be any audible differences.

 I would put it to you, that in this case that your brain may not let you hear what others are reporting due to your Expectation Bias not being able to be fully overridden. 

 

I suspect that you'll disagree but I believe that the differences would need to be extremely small for this kind of expectation bias to kick in.

[kumakuma]

1 minute ago, sandyk said:

 

Perhaps because I refuse to be bullied by the likes of a closed minded Troll,( by your own admission) , like  you ?

 

What about the likes of open minded Trolls?