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Rob Watts talk at recent CanJam NYC 2023

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Lots of funny moments. Enjoy if you want a good laugh.

Note - it is clear he is a capable designer of discrete DACs. Several of his products measured very well here. Qutest, Hugo2, Hugo TT2

But he still speaks a lot of nonsense at the same time.

 

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You can tell he is a consultant as he speaks for an hour and gives you effectively no useful information.

On the bright side, we know now how he defines musicality, that is, being able to get emotional, the spine tingling thing, tapping your feet, wanting to listen to music for 8 hours, wanting to listen to different music. I think he means cocaine.
 

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Rob says, and I quote, "the only way of actually recognizing that you are not hearing true transparency is if it is more emotionally involving or not more emotionally involving".

That is an astonishingly sneaky way of giving yourself the creative freedom to claim whatever the hell you want. Rob's talents are being wasted in the audio world.
 

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Really puts me off anything designed by him, why does he feel the need?
Can you imagine Daniel Weiss or Matthias Carstens..
Keith
 

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Lots of funny moments. Enjoy if you want a good laugh.

Note - it is clear he is a capable designer of discrete DACs. Several of his products measured very well here. Qutest, Hugo2, Hugo TT2

But he still speaks a lot of nonsense at the same time.


Is it me or does Rob decrease the audible level of noise floor modulation by 50dB or more each time he talks? I've seen his early mentions of about -200dB being audible, then -300dB. In this talk he mentions -350dB! His ears are amazing, and need to be preserved and studied by science for centuries to come ;)
 
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Is it me or does Rob decrease the audible level of noise floor modulation by 50dB or more each time he talks? I've seen his early mentions of about -200dB being audible, then -300dB. In this talk he mentions -350dB! His ears are amazing, and need to be preserved and studied by science for centuries to come ;)
LOL yes he does. There was an interview with either Darko or Passion For Sound where he mentioned -400dB , but not seen plots yet. I'll find it because it is great entertainment
 

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What is -400db on the shout-o-meter? A mosquito farting on Pluto?
 

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What is -400db on the shout-o-meter? A mosquito farting on Pluto?
  • Assume SPL of mosquito fart is 0 dB SPL at a distance of 1 mm.
  • To attenuate to -400 dB, it will require 400/6.0206 = 66.44 doubling of distance
  • Distance required to attenuate to -400 dB SPL = 0.001 m * 2^(66.44) = 0.001 * 1e20 = 1e17 m = 10.6 light years
You have way underestimated Watts.
 

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Rob says, and I quote, "the only way of actually recognizing that you are not hearing true transparency is if it is more emotionally involving or not more emotionally involving".

That is an astonishingly sneaky way of giving yourself the creative freedom to claim whatever the hell you want. Rob's talents are being wasted in the audio world.

My blood uncontrollably fumes whenever I read "imply anything, commit nothing" corporate bullshittery word salad garbo.
 

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Imagine a WiFi signal with 300+ dB of signal latitude to work with :eek:… the range that you could have… Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Watts could have made a lot more money in wireless transmission systems:facepalm:
 

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Imagine a WiFi signal with 300+ dB of signal latitude to work with :eek:… the range that you could have… Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Watts could have made a lot more money in wireless transmission systems:facepalm:
We are getting dangerously close to quantum world.
 

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Apparently not:
Nope, that is a paper deriving Johnson-Nyquist noise from quantum mechanics. The original theory is based on statistical mechanics which is classical.

Here the abstract of the original 1928 paper. Hope we can put this to peepee measuring contest to rest now please.
The electromotive force due to thermal agitation in conductors is calculated by means of principles in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The results obtained agree with results obtained experimentally.

https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.32.110
 
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