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Please do not link to headphonesty site

kemmler3D said:
I'm not sure whether the site used to have some standards and recently went completely over to the dark side, or what.
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There have been some decent articles there, such as a 3-parter about 5 years ago by @Ilkless explaining the reasoning behind Harman headphone targets, HRTF and the relationship to the response of anechoically flat speakers in a room. Links in old posts are now broken, so I hope whatever's modifying those doesn't also break the archive.org version I just used. It's not somewhere I've visited often enough to know whether that was an outlier, or whether they've had a major change of quality.

Edit: Even the archive.org URLs are getting filtered, so can't even post the archived versions of the good ones.
Code: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20250910230837/https://www.site_which_shall_not_be_named.com/2020/04/harman-target-curves-part-1
in case anyone wants to edit the URL for themselves
 
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Bleib said:
I follow on FB only because of the memes which can sometimes be funny.. obviously the "info" which they provide is not exactly factchecked so I rarely actually click on any links

But there was one which I would have wanted discussed here by people with deeper knowledge than myself. Supposedly someone at Benchmark says that most DACs have a design problem.. and the way to solve it is by cutting the audio by 3-4dB to give it headroom so it continues to sound correct
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That's the intersample overs thing...discussed to death here on ASR. And no, it's not a sure thing that you will ever even hear them.


www.audiosciencereview.com

Search results for query: intersample

www.audiosciencereview.com www.audiosciencereview.com
 
Liberal Democracy said:
Please consider the latest security review from the USA when patronising sites that are based in the US.

Its far more damaging than a AI forged social media audiophile trap .

It would be great to see ASR relocated to European servers.
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What are you talking about? Security review of what by who?
 
On reflection, perhaps posting some Headphone Sty content should be allowed. That place spreads disinformation, and a casual reader could easily be misled. If someone reads some rubbish on that website and breathlessly repeats it here, wouldn't we be doing them a disservice by failing to debunk it?
 
Keith_W said:
On reflection, perhaps posting some Headphone Sty content should be allowed. That place spreads disinformation, and a casual reader could easily be misled. If someone reads some rubbish on that website and breathlessly repeats it here, wouldn't we be doing them a disservice by failing to debunk it?
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If someone shows up asking about one of their slop-pieces, ASR should remove the link and proceed with the debunking. Posting the links should be disallowed to prevent the considerable SEO juice from ASR flowing there.

Agree that they should be contradicted as often as the nonsense they publish crops up, but ASR doesn't need to host links to the site to accomplish that.
 
kemmler3D said:
If someone shows up asking about one of their slop-pieces, ASR should remove the link and proceed with the debunking. Posting the links should be disallowed to prevent the considerable SEO juice from ASR flowing there.

Agree that they should be contradicted as often as the nonsense they publish crops up, but ASR doesn't need to host links to the site to accomplish that.
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It's going to be really hard to discuss something without going to read it so you can follow the criticisms. So, the link will be removed, but everyone will still go there and read it.
 
Half their site is AI Slop... yet they have a go at Spotify for the very same thing! :p
Fans Slam Spotify Wrapped 2025 as “AI Slop With Paid Stats” That Just Don’t Add Up
By Alexandra Plesa
Updated on December 10, 2025
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Spotify Wrapped used to feel like a fun little award show for your own taste. But in 2025, many fans opened it and saw something closer to AI spam. Unknown “artists” filled their top spots, real favorites went missing, and some users said the numbers looked bought and paid for.
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JSmith
 
Finally some great news!!!
 
what if AI becomes conscious and sentient and self-aware and it sees this thread one day and notes it as anti-AI bigotry and it takes control of all the headphone companies and inserts screaching tinnitus-causing sounds into the Bluetooth chips that only trigger when the headphones are worn by people identified as anti-AI bigots and then all those people's heads explode like in the movie Scanners?
 
stalepie2 said:
what if AI becomes conscious and sentient and self-aware and it sees this thread one day and notes it as anti-AI bigotry and it takes control of all the headphone companies and inserts screaching tinnitus-causing sounds into the Bluetooth chips that only trigger when the headphones are worn by people identified as anti-AI bigots and then all those people's heads explode like in the movie Scanners?
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Does anyone know how to contact John Connor?
 
Newman said:
It's going to be really hard to discuss something without going to read it so you can follow the criticisms. So, the link will be removed, but everyone will still go there and read it.
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Maybe. Or just quote at length. AI outputs are considered non-copyrightable anyway... Either way, deleting the link is a good idea because having a link to your site from ASR helps the site in question rank higher in Google results. They haven't earned that!

A handful of visits from would-be debunkers is probably trivial compared to what they gain from links. I may be many years out of the SEO game, but it doesn't take a pro to know that an ASR link is pretty valuable to audio sites.
stalepie2 said:
what if AI becomes conscious and sentient and self-aware and it sees this thread one day and notes it as anti-AI bigotry and it takes control of all the headphone companies and inserts screaching tinnitus-causing sounds into the Bluetooth chips that only trigger when the headphones are worn by people identified as anti-AI bigots and then all those people's heads explode like in the movie Scanners?
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Is this like, Stalepie's Basilisk?
 
stalepie2 said:
what if AI becomes conscious and sentient and self-aware and it sees this thread one day and notes it as anti-AI bigotry and it takes control of all the headphone companies and inserts screaching tinnitus-causing sounds into the Bluetooth chips that only trigger when the headphones are worn by people identified as anti-AI bigots and then all those people's heads explode like in the movie Scanners?
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