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Another vote for JBL 308 (and the 310s subwoofer). The price/sound quality is in the obscene category (that is, definitely beyond good, or great, or outrageous).

These are In My Humble Opinion, from United States perspective. There are different definitions of Green. I take it to mean "de-carbonized", since climate change is the most serious threat to humans. Internalizing the cost of carbon in our economy. For example, Meat and carbon fuels needs be a...

Well actually... Below is a chart showing where the low-pass filter is for LAME encoder. My ability to ABX LAME -V0 is not because of the low-pass filter, but the pre-echo characteristics of the mp3 format. Frequency cutoff is not the primary way of how lossy audio compression works. For...

What does this mean? As I said in a post 5 months ago, I can abx lame -v0 for certain samples. I understand the limits of my hearing.

I'm in my 40s, and I got curious how my hearing was these days. I can't hear the mosquito tone anymore (17+kHz), and I can't hear below -70db, according to https://www.audiocheck.net. I can hear a 14khz tone, but not pass the 14kHz low-pass filter test. So, CD resolution is definitely good...

Not enough Michael Jackson on this list, I think. Still, continuing the trend:

I think when they find out that their beloved classical collection wasn't "pure" enough, they go looking for audiopile labels who use audiopile equipment and process. And then they can be sure they're listening to great music!

OP is right. How do you people listen to "music" that's been subject to so much manipulation? I refuse to subject my golden ears to brick filtered 22kHz signal, mixed on a DAW with only 18 bits of precision. And only 2 channels? What a joke. Tomorrow, I'm going to unsubscribe from Spotify...

As an anecdote, I did some serious listening tests (abx) last summer, and try to find the "near transparency" point for different codecs. I hadn't done this in a decade or more (pre Opus), and I'm in my 40s. For most typical music, casually listening, LAME -v4 (163kbps), Vorbis -q4 (128kbps)...

This is absolutely false. See my post above. Generally, Youtube plays the highest quality audio unless your bandwidth is very restricted. I was given 720p video but still highest quality audio (opus, format id 251). When I manually set the video quality to 480, it still gave me opus.

This is a "science" forum, so I'm going to show you the specs and not some imaginary magic bitrate. Nobody knows what the original upload audio format is, but the highest quality audio for this video is 129kbps aac and 136kbps opus. Pasted below is the output from yt-dlp -F, which shows all the...

Here is a potato quality video of a 15 year old kid playing the piano. I will take this over any "audiophile" piano recording any day of the year. Cheers.

Is crypto: Decentralized? Private/anonymous? Store of value? Inflation hedge? Secure? Is it even money?

This is discussion is like talking about photo editing before and after Photoshop. Before, all kinds of mistakes were left in pictures. Sure, there was some rudimentary (analog) fixing of mistakes, but after Photoshop, almost every photo is absolutely perfect. Similar happened with music. With...

None of the this stuff can be observed or noticed by human perception. It's highly sensitive instruments all the way down. Yet audiophiles perceive differences that instruments cannot detect. They must truly be gods.

Bacon wrapped shrimp.

Cable burn-in is now scientifically confirmed. It was molecular structure change with electron flow all along. These dumb "scientists" who can't explain how power flows got it wrong again! Back to rubbing two sticks for fire for me then.

So much convoluted reasoning to justify the price or the measurements in this thread. Since The Matrix is back in theaters, Red Pill or Blue?

Someone finally did the experiment! TLDR: current starts to flow immediately. Full current after light speed delay.