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You see, anechoic flat FR that can be EQ'ed to the room and user requirements is really bad from the very charitable "selling my stuff" PoV.

I was entertained, thanks Amir!

I'm just a stinky pleb who knows my music was recorded on $2 power cables, $0.50 NE5532s and $3 per meter XLRs.

I'm all for cutting cable clutter, but Hi-Fi speakers of all sorts simply isn't a big market in the grand scheme of things.

Reminds me of the Dynaudio official image for their Heritage Special, which featured a cutout of them showing the most generic cables possible for their drivers and crossovers inside.

I'm numb to these now.

I like how all audiophile myths can be traced back to gross incompetence.

It baffles the mind how this even happens when even $10 100mbps network switches are bulletproof at data integrity.

I mean its not like Redbook actually stops broken-assed implementations in the wild.

Yup bits are oh-so-hard to send reliably, which is why we can now run 100Gbps Ethernet up to 40 kilometers on LC fiber that costs like....~$1 per meter for short runs and even less when longer.

Rip from a cheapo portable USB DVD drive into FLAC, than play it on a budget Topping/SMSL DAC?

I mean who would really notice a crappy clone if there's next to no chance to hear the original?

Something like this.

Speaking of CDs, I hope Amir can test the overall performance of those Aiwa/Panasonic/Sony etc all-in-one stereo sets that were popular in the 90s. My dad had a Pioneer one, and the headphone out sounded pretty good from CD playback with an Audio-Technica headphone which exact model now eludes me.

I have heard a pair of room-corrected KH120 IIs and I found it rather unimpressive with my music genres at ~70dB SPL versus my JBL 305Ps at 1/10 the price. Which made me realize there's no more day-versus-night veils to be lifted.

That's only because you haven't watched his videos through a $10K HDMI cable that was cryogenically treated and exorcised by Tibetian monks.

Yup every guy on Youtube now has the stupid gaping mouth thumbnail now.

I have a hundred or so Cisco switches at work, and so far I have never ever saw one dropping frames on GbE rates despite nearing 10 years of 24/7 continuous operation.

Pretty sure it will work well. -20dB on high gain for my 7Hz Zero is already plenty loud with the Youtube volume slider at 40% on my PC.

I have more interest in the next Minirig 4 portable speaker than any audiophile stuff.