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But all three definitely taste like "diet" YUCHIt's got caffeine and I assure you , Diet Coke and Diet Mountain Dew and Diet Dr. Pepper do not taste like each other.
You are too kind.
That's not correct at all.
MAB
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It is. Or Milli Vanilli's greatest hits.Just to be clear, for now the "file" here is not something like wave file of Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love of All" ripped from CD, right ?
You can do the same with DeltaWave as stated earlier.
The thing is, complex waveforms make quantification and diagnosis of noise and distortion difficult, without exercising the hardware in any novel way. Especially if MilliVanilli.wav is used
!If people were finding dramatically different behaviors with music it would be somewhat profound. They don't.
No. I don’t keep such on my computer. It could, however, be Pachuko Cadaver. That IS on my lab computer.Just to be clear, for now the "file" here is not something like wave file of Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love of All" ripped from CD, right ?
Diet Coke tastes awful, the other two are varieties of sweet energizing nectar.
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I have a friend who is an audio engineer in Nashville. He ran a famous studio for a long time and has hundreds of album credits.. He thinks this hobby is a joke, honestly. He says the differences in sound reproduction at home is marketing with alot of diminished returns. The guy is an expert at analog sound recording. I have found that I like to know as much as I can about how sound works so it will help inform on what it am hearing. I then use as much knowledge as I have gain to make a buying decision. I learned the most from reading these posts and watching the tutorial videos. Though I know there is a lot of nonsense in the hobby, I love it. There is always something cool to learn and great tech.Doesn't occur in my household. Each significant purchase is case by case. There are no compromises due to monetary concerns. I just bought a $300 chef's knife. There will be zero effect on our household spending. A pet had $5700 in surgery two weeks ago. Check written.
If someone can't afford a hobby there are others less expensive.
I am not saying there is anything wrong with giving advice. Advice can be very helpful. I've taken in that given here. Will I act on it? Not without validation. Popularity doesn't make true. ASR and like forums are great jumping off points. Good "advice".
I accept and act on advice from an auto service manager I deal with. Very smart guy. I accept it because his knowledge has been proven in real life. Not because he has a bunch groupies. It's all about whether it's true.
A purchase of an amplifier i made began based on advice posted on ASR. Research followed. Only then was the unit ordered.
We can make things as complicated as we want. And boy do some like to. In the end all the advice, suggestions and expert opinions in the world have to pass through the ear of the beholder. What you and I like are going to be different. Perceived differently. Prefered differently. Anything belief to the contrary is just so much verbiage.
Music is subjective. Some call Rock noise. Others can't stand the twang of country. I think it's rather arrogant to tell someone what they like and how or why is somehow wrong because of how they are listening. They aren't hearing it correctly. They are being fooled. There is something wrong with their ears. It's snobbish.
How much listening is really critical? Rock, Metal, Pop is cranked. Some bands purposely add distortion. The Beatles did it.
As I said some posts up I'd treasure having a conductor or seasoned audio engineer school me on critical listening. But somehow I feel he would say "You hear what you want to hear".
Maybe it's no more complicated than that. I'll pass on the kool-aid.
Good discussion. I do appreciate your thoughts.
He's absolutely right. The saddest part is that in groups of the technically knowledgeable, the "audiophool" crowd is a laughing stock of discussion with their belief in things like the sound of power cords, digital cables, and all the rest of the snake-oil in our hobby.
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And they justify their stupidity by claiming that they have better ears than the rest of us.
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Or that ‘your system isn’t resolving enough to show the difference’. Always cracks me up that one.
One of the biggest stupidities of audiophools is that they think by purchasing gear they know more about the electronics and what makes it work and combine that with their gear is more expensive so only they can hear the differences mindset.
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Yet they can't hear it!
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Wait you cant hear what powercords do.?
Play your usual Monkeys reference track , unplug your amp powercord and play it back .!
The difference should be very audible ....
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Watch dem Xperts , X is an unknown Quantity and a pert is a drip under pressure ..
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They fuck up the inky-black silence.
