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Performance review of Thomas Savage ;)

I believe the difference is whether the device provides any volume controls to the operating system or not. From what I understand @Aerith Gainsborough has RME Adi-2 (not sure if DAC or Pro), which doesn't provide volume controls to the OS. What do you have @edechamps ? Here I have Tanchjim...

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I don't know... he ignored it the first time it was posted :-) https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/relationships-between-physical-sound-auditory-sound-perception-and-music-perception.5549/page-2#post-2179472 I didn't watch the video, only read a summary on sound science...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/they-curdle-like-milk-wb-dvds-from-2006-2008-are-rotting-away-in-their-cases/

I'd be careful saying that this is "time resolution" because then someone will come arguing "Ah! So CD time resolution is only 22 µs after all!"

That's what it reminded me of: "First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and...

I'm not sure what you mean by "in a time function". That graph shows FFT magnitude, so it's a function of frequency. Maybe there are some advanced algorithms which change the noise shape dynamically, depending on content, but usually the shape is constant. Here are options available in SoX...

I recorded the noise in my room using UMIK1. That's what REW shows for this file, in dBFS: The levels are: -75.8 dBFS (RMS), -81.7 dBFS (C), -88.6 dBFS (A) (This is without using the calibration file.) To check the audibility of signals at/below noise floor (at least for single tones) I...

Any reason why not to set the axes manually?

I have this Beethoven version, both 24-bit and 16-bit, bought from https://www.eclassical.com/labels/bis/beethoven-the-nine-symphonies-2.html According to the short-term LUFS the quietest parts are in the 2nd movement at around 9:30 and 14:30. Here's the graph for 9th- and 14th-minute: I took...

Changing the timing of the animation helps, I think: or (120 bytes more):

I've seen this: Though I've read it was (ab)used to imply a naughtier gesture :-)

If you want to be that pedantic, then we only know you typed the difference, we don't know if you said (told?) it ;-)

He doesn't say what audio codec he used in his mov and mp4 uploads. Here is sweep uploaded in 1080p MP4 with ALAC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n55vzDb3rQ Spectrograms seem fine to me: input: downloaded Opus stream: captured when playing in Chromium (which resamples to 44.1k): and the...

No, through the whole the track. In attachment there is captured output from JA11 and Samsung dongle played at similar volume. In alsamixer JA11 was at -29 dB and Samsung dongle was at -25.5 dB. Through Truthear Zero Blue that's moderate volume. The captured audio contains some music in the...

A bit unrelated: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the graph is somewhat misleading in the vertical direction. The blue trace shows, I assume, spectrum of the DSD noise floor, while the bottom edge of the boxes is at -144 dB, which is integrated value for 24-bit PCM noise floor. The spectrum...

Is there any practical difference between "wave is made up of sines" and "wave can be reconstructed from sines"? Can a wave with zero rise time physically exist? To my knowledge, no.

Maybe he changed the file in the meantime, but it doesn't look so bad here (gain 0, range 120): Your "square" wave seems to have 2nd harmonic (and quite a lot of DC): What I can hear are the discontinuities at the moment of switching. When the test file is prepared properly, like the one...

You read data from /proc/asound/ and that's handled by ALSA: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/sound/designs/procfile.html AFAIK both pulseaudio and pipewire use ALSA drivers underneath, so that's why it will work for both.