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Florian Haas

@dan Yet another example of how extremism is indistinguishable from its parody.

Thanks to @jcfischer for the pointer; this gave me a good chuckle to start my Sunday morning. 🙂

12 Mar 2023 at 7:17 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Jens-Christian Fischer

@xahteiwi @dan I had these kinds of discussions around 25 years ago when I worked in an IT company, where the boss also was into HiEnd and helped design and produce speakers. The gear he had in his office was astounding.
But I also learnt to appreciate just how good good sounding gear sounds. Forever changed the price tag of Audio equipment I bought. (Around 2k is the sweet spot to get great audio). Luckily he wasn’t in that camp, but some of employees and colleagues…

12 Mar 2023 at 7:20 | Open on social.invisible.ch
Tane Piper ⁂

@jcfischer @xahteiwi @dan That's the thing, there is a perceptible difference *at some level* mostly because €2000 is going to get you better drivers, higher quality materials and build. Much like the difference between a commercial violin and a hand-crafted one.

But the gains beyond that diminish quickly.

14 Mar 2023 at 7:25 | Open on tane.codes
Jens-Christian Fischer

@tanepiper @xahteiwi @dan exactly this. I mean, it was fun to listen to a Krell amplifier that cost 50k but as you said, the differences become miniscule

15 Mar 2023 at 6:46 | Open on social.invisible.ch
Florian Haas

@jcfischer @tanepiper @dan

Gentlemen, I'm gonna confess that I do quite like me some Hendrix played through the aux input of my cranked Marshall. 😀

15 Mar 2023 at 16:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Jens-Christian Fischer

@xahteiwi @dan also at that time the best sounding CD players were cheap CD-ROMs from PCs. Simple reason: They transferred data in 8bits, and fed them to a DAC with an external clock, while audio CDs fed data serial to DAC and clock was derived from bit stream. That led to jitter, while the el-cheapo CD-ROMs had stable clock :)

12 Mar 2023 at 7:23 | Open on social.invisible.ch
Ramin Honary

@xahteiwi @dan @jcfischer
> Yet another example of how extremism is indistinguishable from its parody.
Yeah, seriously, I thought this was satire at first.

I used to joke that your CD player had to be designed such that the laser that read the disk was perfectly in-phase with the laser that wrote the disk or it could negatively impact sound quality. Or that the low-pass filter of your DAC had to be impedance-matched with the ADC circuit that recorded the digital signal.

But apparently there are people who would actually believe this.

@xahteiwi @dan @jcfischer
> Yet another example of how extremism is indistinguishable from its parody.
Yeah, seriously, I thought this was satire at first.

I used to joke that your CD player had to be designed such that the laser that read the disk was perfectly in-phase with the laser that wrote the disk or it could negatively impact sound quality. Or that the low-pass filter of your DAC had to be impedance-matched with the ADC circuit that recorded the digital signal.

12 Mar 2023 at 13:03 | Open on emacs.ch
Jens Finkhäuser
Ramin Honary

@jens @xahteiwi @dan @jcfischer
> "Ah, but laser vinyl players."

Witchcraft! Heresy!

12 Mar 2023 at 14:24 | Open on emacs.ch
Jens Finkhäuser

@ramin_hal9001 @xahteiwi @dan @jcfischer Well... there's no needle to scratch and degrade the precious record. Can that offset the digitization? Can we have analog laser-based readers?

So many important questions for audiophiles.

12 Mar 2023 at 15:05 | Open on social.finkhaeuser.de
Jens-Christian Fischer
Blobfrog9000 ☯️ :blobcatgoogly: :ablobcatsnowjoy:
@ramin_hal9001
I can sell you a CD player that uses a pickup instead of a laser.
@xahteiwi @dan @jcfischer
12 Mar 2023 at 20:24 | Open on blob.cat
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