What is this? No golden ears!

[Pdxwayne]

Got 80 with IEMs and the Mrs watching the Aussie open blaring over the TV.
what does that indicate?

And any more similar or different links?

Not exactly sure what 80 means. Please share screen shot.

Same site has other tests available. I did a few other from the same site. Those are tracked in the first post my thread:

Tracking my listening tests

I am using this to track my listening test results as posted in other threads. Online blind tests using my Samsung Note 9 with headphone. 0.5db - pass 0.2db - can't do up 5c pitch - pass 2 ways, 10ms - pass Screenshots in...

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In there, I also track other tests from other ASR members that I did. Some may still have the files available to download.

It would be great if you also create a thread to track your results!

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

Bearing in mind that I have just got 99% for both 3 and then 1 decibel, I think the tests are fun. Perhaps in the same manner as "Find the lady" performed in street theatre!
Can't imagine what it is saying about these tatty old ears!

 

[DanielT]

What really makes a difference: Sprinkle out a lot of subs ... yummy, ..but then (and I can assure you that they do not imagine what they hear):

Not my, woffers, attached picture.

 

[Holmz]

Not exactly sure what 80 means. Please share screen shot.

80% (with the background noise). So 80% of the time I picked out the 0.5 dB correctly.
At 0.2 dB, there was just too much noise in the room.

Same site has other tests available. I did a few other from the same site. Those are tracked in the first post my thread:

Tracking my listening tests

I am using this to track my listening test results as posted in other threads. Online blind tests using my Samsung Note 9 with headphone. 0.5db - pass 0.2db - can't do up 5c pitch - pass 2 ways, 10ms - pass Screenshots in...

www.audiosciencereview.com

In there, I also track other tests from other ASR members that I did. Some may still have the files available to download.

It would be great if you also create a thread to track your results!

Thanks.

 

[Pdxwayne]

80% (with the background noise). So 80% of the time I picked out the 0.5 dB correctly.
At 0.2 dB, there was just too much noise in the room.



Thanks.

It means you can sense it and have pretty decent sensitivity to small dB change.

So far, in ASR, I think only two other members can sense it and shared screenshot. I am sure more people can sense it, but, since so far only 4 people (including me) that I know of would confirm they can sense 0.5db...I would guess sensing 0.5db is not that common?

 

[srrxr71]

I've never heard any differences between CD players, even when comparing quite expensive models to the cheapest ones in the store. IMO it's all imaginary.

Pick outstanding transducers and amplification that's clean and provides sufficient power. That gives the best possible sound, or at least that's what I believe.

I have. But back in 2002. I had a entry level NAD (not the $500 nice one) then I got a mass market Sony SACD changer (yes they made those). Even on red book it was immediately noticeable. The Sony was superior despite the NAD costing about the same and was the entry level audiophile darling CD player at that time.

 

[Robin L]

I have. But back in 2002. I had a entry level NAD (not the $500 nice one) then I got a mass market Sony SACD changer (yes they made those). Even on red book it was immediately noticeable. The Sony was superior despite the NAD costing about the same and was the entry level audiophile darling CD player at that time.

That might be the Rubicon, though I'm betting on 2007 and smartphones with even higher rez than that Sony SACD player. I got one of those lo-rent DVD/SACD/CD Sony Players that Best Buy was blowing out at $129.00 soon after they appeared, 2003ish? I might be imagining things, but I really started to notice a difference when Gail [the Mrs.] got a blue-ray player, 24/192 capable, sometime after 2008. I don't think the issue is the high rez capability as much as the guarantee that by meeting performance capability well outside of what is actually audible, the performance becomes all the more fool-proof when played back as Redbook. Noticed similar qualities on other 24/192 capable gear.

"So many little things
Are so much better now
They were only the little things
Anyhow".

Mark Knopfler

 

[DanielT]

I continue on that track, Mark Knopfler..There's so many different worlds ... see attached picture. Used $ 8300

MBL

Sälja MBL 1621a = 80k sek- MBL 1611F 79k sek. original box- fint skick- skicka no problem.

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For a CD player ?!

When you can (I was a little lucky, a little more expensive they are used but not many $ more then) for $35:

As I mentioned in #60

Denon DBP-2012UD Blu-Ray Disc Player Manual | HiFi Engine

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Now wait for the one MBL 1621a is just a CD transport! :

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Well from the same post , #60, Denon DBP-2012UD + Topping DAC D10s in that case. As I said, different worlds.

In these times, I take the whole lyrics and the song:

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Someday you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn to be
Brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged high
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell and
The moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

Слава Україні!

 

[DanielT]

By the way, I have not listened to CDs for several months now. I actually only have the player to play really old CDs that have not suffered from loudness war and compression, otherwise I see no purpose with a physical player considering all the streamed music that exists nowadays.

I maybe just as well to burn the CDs them and save them on the computer.

Edit:
Topping D10s DAC is only powerd by the computer (Topping D10s USB DAC)so it together with CD transport does not work but the principle itself. Topping E30 DAC in that case. Or other modern DAC. They are now so cheap and good so it is no problem to find a sensible. Just read Amir's various DAC tests.

Topping D10s USB DAC:

 

[voodooless]

Topping E30 DAC in that case.

I’d skip the current E30 incarnation if your source is a CD/DVD transport. The SPDIF receiver is a bit picky with its sources.

 

[pseudoid]

You are testing audio so the red lead goes in the right ear and the black lead in the left ear.
Set the meter to resistance

Oh Dear Confucius,
I need instructions (as above) to be able to measure current draw thru those L/R ears.
I think my internal power supply is ClassA and by computing the power thru this measurement; I may want to convert to a ClassD topology for energy conservation.

 

[pseudoid]

Topping D10s DAC is only powerd by the computer...

I was trying to figure out what you meant; then, it hit me that there is no DC input jack.
Does this mean that just feeding the D10 w/a 5Vdc power thru that rear USB (Type-B) port will not power it up w/o the signal/data lines from a USB host?
Odd!

 

[antcollinet]

I was trying to figure out what you meant; then, it hit me that there is no DC input jack.
Does this mean that just feeding the D10 w/a 5Vdc power thru that rear USB (Type-B) port will not power it up w/o the signal/data lines from a USB host?
Odd!

I'd be very surprised if it can't take power for non PC use from that input.

 

[antcollinet]

I'd be very surprised if it can't take power for non PC use from that input.

No, I am wrong - it is ONLY for PC use. The only input is USB, The other digital interfaces are outputs.

 

[voodooless]

I'd be very surprised if it can't take power for non PC use from that input.

What good would that do? It can only make sound though USB.

 

[antcollinet]

What good would that do? It can only make sound though USB.

Yep spotted my mistake.

 

[pseudoid]

Yep spotted my mistake.

Yep, me too.
Darn thing's ONLY audio INPUT is the USB-B!
My Bad!

 

[DanielT]

Sometimes it does not work at all to put in where the opportunity is given, sometimes you can put in but what comes out can be a mess:

Edit:
By the way, I think it's a bit tricky this different signal strengths, ohms, any problems with grounding, balanced or not when connecting various HiFi gadgets with each other. It can be tricky (for me anyway) but does not have to be. Though take the thread about amp Topping PA5. I guess 20% of all posts there were about levels V on input, if I remember correctly (there was a while since I read that thread).

 

[mhardy6647]

Sometimes it does not work at all to put in where the opportunity is given, sometimes you can put in but what comes out can be a mess:

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Edit:
By the way, I think it's a bit tricky this different signal strengths, ohms, any problems with grounding, balanced or not when connecting various HiFi gadgets with each other. It can be tricky (for me anyway) but does not have to be. Though take the thread about amp Topping PA5. I guess 20% of all posts there were about levels V on input, if I remember correctly (there was a while since I read that thread).

I thought that was a chromosome spread (karyotype).

 

[DanielT]

I thought that was a chromosome spread (karyotype).

He he.

Edit:
By the way, I think it's a bit tricky this different signal strengths, ohms, any problems with grounding, balanced or not when connecting various HiFi gadgets with each other. It can be tricky (for me anyway) but does not have to be. Though take the thread about amp Topping PA5. I guess 20% of all posts there were about levels V on input, if I remember correctly (there was a while since I read that thread).

Regarding grounding, here the debate is hot:

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