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nina

@vidister i've seen people argue that oss sounds better than alsa soooooo

(and i've seen audiophiles talk about sound differences with ssds and ethernet cables so...)

16 September at 10:46 | Wall-to-wall | Open on blahaj.social
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mia

@q66 @vidister the OSS thing might not even be wrong because some distros don't install libasound plugins so it'll do linear interpolation resampling instead of speexrate by default 🙃

16 September at 10:49 | Open on movsw.0x0.st
Hans-Cees

@q66 @vidister you need a sata drive with 5200 spinning for good sounds for sure

16 September at 10:49 | Open on mas.to
nina

@hanscees @vidister audiophiles are so funny because you can make up literally whatever nonsense and still be sure some of them will unironically claim it's true

16 September at 10:59 | Open on blahaj.social
mia

@q66 @hanscees @vidister audiophile bs makes a lot more sense once you understand that it's all men going through a midlife crisis

16 September at 11:02 | Open on movsw.0x0.st
Windfisch

@q66 @vidister well, back in my days™ OSS did definitely sound better because it actually played my music rather thab outputting some static distorted gibberish, but that was back then when windows had actually better driver support than linux (lol)

16 September at 12:29 | Open on chaos.social
Breizh

@q66 @vidister My favorite is still the gold-plated Toslink cable.

Because it's become so mainstream that it's the only type of toslink cable available in some stores (I mean, stores that don't even target a particularly audiophile audience).

Gold plating is already rarely useful (if ever) for a digital connector, but Toslink is an optic fiber, often made out of plastic (and sometimes glass)! 🤣

16 September at 14:30 | Open on pleroma.breizh.pm
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