- yea or nay: Sound Improvement Disc
- Reviewing components
- People rate 192kbps mp3 higher than FLAC in test
- Ripping audio from DVD
- one source, several amplifier?
- Impedances and sound in my system - please explain me what's going on!
- Bit depth and sampling frequency explained
- Scientific Way To Find out amplification requirements
- MarkL Mods/ Lawton Audio
- Please Help w/ Terminology
- My FLAC files are gone!!! I converted using EAC
- Clarification/Correction Requested : iTunes AAC VBR
- Burn-in Naysayers:
- What are Reference-Level Headphones?
- please point me in the right direction
- Video of Handmade Vacuum Tube
- Bass sweeps (break-in) Damage?
- Sound problem...
- Green mean nanomachines
- noob iTunes question
- Best $30 Spent - Get your hearing back. - Do it..
- Another dumb iTunes question
- Stupid Question
- Steve Hoffman's Voodoo
- Designing to cost
- MediaCoder: what do you think of it?
- FLAC converter question
- Why FLAC is better.
- Soundstage and IEM Theory
- Headphone Cables - Less Debated?
- EAC & Lame Question
- Heres My ABYX Results: Lossless vs MP3 at 96,128,256KBps
- A little dum question...
- Knowledge?
- What to listen for in mp3?
- How fast are drivers?
- Sound Volume Normalization - what's wrong with it?
- How do you tell if a cd is actually cd quality?
- Better Hearing During the Night
- A silly but serious problem
- EU seeks to make 'cranking it to 11' on DAPs nearly impossible
- Are all of these "audio lies" generally true?
- Would Creating Pressure on in-ear phones enhance or change burn-in?
- How cognitive dissonance can prevent otherwise reasonable people from accepting DBT's as valid [interesting!!]
- Are there actually any Scientists in the Sound SCIENCE forum?????/
- Science is....not often found in these threads
- Where to start?
- Measuring dB output.
- New cool microphone tech can revolutionize audio recording forever
- Not noticing a difference between 128 kbit/s Ogg and Flac
- Any harm in adding a resistor with low impedance phones?
- Spectrum Analysis
- Please help an extremely frustrated noob to rip his CD collection :-)
- Theta Digital compli blu is a rebadged oppo.
- What's the point in using ASIO for audio playback?
- Best format to convert songs that I've downloaded from Itunes online?
- power transformer for Stax 007tA (230V -> 100V)
- skepsis continues: the balanced hype
- Headphone wire resistivity
- Just got a radioshack SPL meter (longish read)
- high-frequency loss with crossfeed??
- The "golden ear" (Questions)
- Nokia E51 - Audio file information - bitrate?
- A Head-Fi Prize for pseudo-scientific technobable :)
- Science or marketing blabbering?
- Method for quantifing the differences in cables?
- Using DSP to Avoid Ear Damage & Fatigue
- Tube amp frequency response?
- How To tell between a 'real' FLAC and a 'fake' FLAC?
- I need a Record player any suggestions?????
- How long for a CD to burn in?
- Copying and duplicating of audio files
- MP3 320 vs AAC 320
- Source differences and headphones vs speakers
- Capacitor burn in, how long does it really take?
- Cable Burn-In....what physically changes in the cable?
- Silence of the CPU
- Wired Article: "Placebos Are Getting More Effective"
- Burn-in your brain
- virtual surround retention?
- A Cartridge Question (those into vinyl)
- DBT problems --methodology
- Impedance optimization
- Is there a maximum number of sound that a audio equipment can produce?
- Life-like sound
- Headphone Damaging Frequencies!?
- Sampling rate and bits per sample – a practical comparison
- Changes in frequency response and their effects on sound
- Are there real differences between electrostatic amps?
- My Lossy vs Lossless ABX Experiment
- Do amps perform better towards their middle volume level?
- How to quantify sound quality of equipment?
- Audio Critic Good Guys / Bad Guys
- What do Pro and Anti Cablers Agree on?
- Encoding advice needed
- dampening cups...is that what we want?
- Consumer Perception of Premium Audio
- Question re: Audio Critic Benchmark DAC Review
- Lossless Transcoding
- mp3 bitrate and upsampling
- Next-gen implanted hearing aids are also headphones
- Poll: Audible Difference between FLAC and 320kbps MP3?
- Impulse Responses Graph, what does it mean?
- Ways to improve hearing ability?
- Tweaks and the better half
- CAST technology, how much do you know?
- Question about Electronic Noise Cancellation
- Question About Impedance (another one)
- The argument to end all cable wars
- EQ makes all the difference
- the argument against dbt
- When/will we ever get past "subjective" audio quality?
- Would "amp modeling" be feasible for headphone amps?
- Burn in overstated
- To the cable non-believers...
- an observation
- The Inherent Value of Burn-In
- Any benefits from having a higher sample rate?
- Hearing tests
- Low Impedance... what is the advantage?
- 1hr 20mins to rip 10 songs?!
- Do all the wav files ripped from different CD drivers and the same CD sound the same?
- I just ripped my CDs to lossless..
- sound art technical questions
- Isnt having special made holders for your cables so they dont touch the floor a bit...
- headphone stands?
- Seeking your thoughts: Nousaine T. "To Tweak or Not to Tweak?" Stereo Review, June 1998. 79-81
- Shock! Horror! Cable companies start a Measurements programme
- "Balanced"?
- To make headphones sound as loudspeakers...
- Interesting question for people who believe cables make a big difference in SQ
- Lossless before and after amping
- Help with a philosophical problem with blind testing cables
- How can you tell if a lossless file was converted to lossless from lossy?
- Propose your protocol here
- My approach to interpreting ABX and Blind listening tests
- High end processors VS low end processors/receivers, hardware differences?
- High end processors VS low end processors/receivers, hardware differences?
- Using headphones as microphones.
- Do you fully burn in your cans before start listening to them?
- Blinded or controlled listening tests - do they exist?
- I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this
- Post Your Subjective experiences for Data Base
- Blind tests have shown that most cant hear the difference between 192kb/s and the original CD recording(320kb/s)
- Question about cables.
- A question about jitter
- A suggestion for a blind cable test
- Matching an amp to a headphone (specifically, HD800)
- The case against cables and for convention DBT
- The validity of ABX testing
- cyroparts don't understand their own process?
- "Burn in" in amps (and all other electrical parts)
- How can i measure jitter?
- Fixed and variable outputs
- SPL Meter
- The case for caution in interpreting null results
- REVOLUTIONARY NEW CABLE UPGRADE!
- optical out
- New cable test idea
- Links to Double Blind Tests
- One for you cable fans!
- "Burn in" - actual measurements promised!
- PROPERLY Deciding On Amp/DAC
- Hooray for Objectivism!
- Do you non-believers sometimes see flying pigs?
- Transcoding source quality
- Impact of the power source to sound
- Advice (as in blunt truths) for confused (ex?)-"audiophile"
- Earphones, Headphones (EVP) Electronic voice phenomena
- "Perfecting Sound Forever"
- MP3 Encoding Question
- "Imagination contamination"
- ABX Test of 320kbps VS FLAC - Results
- Type 2 error
- you cannot trust your eyes, so why trust your ears?
- How many colors do you see?
- Apple lossless
- The science behind head-staging… could anybody explain?
- A breakthrough in comparing sound!
- Blind cable testing: initial report
- Tubes and MOSFETs... Help
- "useful" distortion
- The intersection of the subjective and objective
- Better explanation (with pictures)
- Anyone know some good books/resources on audio science?
- My Latest Conundrum: Please Read
- Sealed Headphones Causing ear heating and discomfort?
- Impedance and drivability
- Listening psychology
- Burn in question.
- A site worth enter for LOUDNESS WAR fight
- "Remembering the sound"
- Cable testing protocols
- Question about amps
- old Luxman M-120A vs Marantz MS-9S2
- Headphone outputs : lots of measurments and one ABX
- CD and SACD formats questions
- What images sound like!
- Best way to mix the source gain and amp gain?
- The experience of music, and comparisons
- sound differences in DIGITAL cables
- What harm has low-fidelity done to mankind?
- Will there be a degradation in quality?
- Hearing loss...After how long of listening?
- Article claiming CD-R's make audible differences
- Difficulty of blind testing
- After listening to bass for a while, no more bass can be heard
- Ruminations on burn-in (not headphones)
- What is Clock Regeneration?
- "Power Handling"?
- Damage to Headphones?
- FLAC or Apple Lossless?
- What's more damaging? High average or peak volume?
- 1/4 and 1/8 plug. is there a different in sound?
- Alpha/Beta State and it's impact on sound.
- FLAC Ripping issues.
- Encoding music DVD's
- Why is there no vbr for aac 320kbps on itunes
- my ears hurt
- Power supplies affect on the sound.
- Move along, nothing to see here.
- Safe Headphone Volume
- Audio placebo with relation to medicine and drugs
- amps for hd650
- What changed in headrooms measurements?
- Audio levels
- Tube amp
- Interesting new transducer technology
- Would this be a fair test? MP3 vs. Flac
- Simple way to test cable
- "Amateur" (home and mobile) recording setup?
- live drumset volume???
- Are dedicated amps really required?
- What songs to use to compare mp3 vs flac?
- Are Non-believers happy with their systems?
- Does adjusting the volume in tracks affect the SQ?
- TUBE TEST values
- Terminology?
- distortion with volume
- Application/something to reincode all my music!
- cd burning question
- "The Dragon In My Garage," by Carl Sagan
- A petition to SOW (Save our wallets).
- Speaker wattage: discuss
- Arrows on my cables, Can you explain ?
- Proposal for a standard test when comparing equipment
- Please help making my Ulimate Ears Super Fi.3 sound better with S9
- Audiophile Placebo
- iTunes 8 (and newer) -- AAC VBR vs AAC CBR
- Coaxial and Toslink Volume Question