You mean apart from digital and analogue audio? Firstly, that’s a strawman argument as you’ve already been told twice that DBT is not necessarily perfect. Secondly, of course we believe all audiophiles are imagining things; aren’t they listening to music, aren’t they perceiving the stereo...

Good spot, I hope it’s satire too. There are some real gems in there, I particularly liked the old green marker pen mention, it’s years since that one had everyone “rolling in the aisles”. The “Dark matter white paper” was impressive too but maybe it should have been “Dark matter black paper”...

Why is it “interesting”? The only reason I can think why it might be interesting is if someone falsely believes electricity is the flow of electrons and therefore electron speed/movement is somehow relevant. If that were actually the case, then when you flipped the light switch in a DC circuit...

If a DBT did have “biases just like a sighted test” then obviously it is NOT “introducing other pros/cons than a sighted test”, it’s introducing the same/“just like” biases! And of course, the whole point of DBT is to reduce/eliminate biases, if it introduced “biases just like a sighted test”...

Yes it does, or do you mean “doesn’t fit” with what hundreds of audiophiles want to believe? Firstly, how can it be “definitively a thing” (even partially) and also “a construct by science”, it’s one or the other. Secondly, placebo was not constructed by science, it existed long before science...

So in response to my last question (“That seems to be a perfect example, did you experience a difference or did you actually hear a difference? Are you capable of differentiating between the two and if so, how?”), your answer is effectively “No”. We do, it’s called “psychoacoustics”. If...

“Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.” - Wikipedia “The electrons in an AC circuit don't really move along with the current...

Firstly yes, “good science is always sound” but the video was not an example of good science, it was an example of bad science. Not only was his test so terribly designed that he wasn’t even testing what he claimed to be testing but then he also managed screw up the test that he did run...

I thought the quote below might actually be worth commenting on, that someone (other than who posted it) might find it informative. So I’ve broken it into bits and just quoted it anonymously in the hope he doesn’t notice and gets triggered into posting more BS. As it has been somewhat...

And what possible correlation is there between listener preference and 10MHz signals? … Especially when reproducing audio recordings that don’t contain any 10MHz content (or even anywhere near 10MHz)! G

“Useful for the consumer” who is reproducing recordings of musical instruments that produce sound up to 10MHz, recorded with microphones that can respond to 10MHz, using digital audio files with a sample rate greater than 20MHz and with speakers that can reproduce 10MHz! G

No, you are not correct! He did not give/represent a personal opinion, he represented the facts (which may or may not also be a personal opinion). You on the other hand are not, you are supposedly giving a personal opinion which is contrary to the facts/science. And as you have already been...

That’s not true, is it! “We all” did not present the facts, you presented cherry-picked and misrepresented facts, along with numerous fallacies and falsehoods, which obviously is NOT presenting the facts, it’s presenting pseudoscience which can only achieve the opposite of helping people “to...

Thought I’d address the quotes below as it seems typical. Like others, I don’t really get that. How is being anti-troll “trolling”? That is just “playing the victim”, probably the most typical reaction employed by trolls when they’ve been called out. Coming to a science discussion forum and...

To be accurate, I think we need to acknowledge that there are conditions under which this quote isn’t necessarily true. There have been some studies demonstrating that some young adults can process and hear/detect frequencies up to around 24kHz. However, this is uncommon and requires pure...

Unfortunately, only the first dozen or so paragraphs translate for me, so I’m not sure if the point I’m going to make is addressed (put right/into perspective) later in the article. There seems to be an unhealthy marketing driven obsession in the audiophile world, actually there are many but...

Sorry, it seems my response came across as much harsher than I intended and as far as I’m concerned it’s really not a big deal if you don’t want to start a new thread and would like to discuss it in this one. Although it’s not up to me, it’s not my thread. Yes, I’m sure “the definition of a...

I don’t see that as workable. You want a group of volunteers with limited time to organise and have a discussion about every problematic thread on sound science (which sooner or later is nearly all of them)? @castleofargh - In the most recent case, where the thread not only went off the rails...

I’m not sure you meant to post that in this thread, maybe start a new one of you want to discuss that article (or the translation). I presume it’s because @castleofargh doesn’t live on Head-Fi, is an unpaid volunteer and doesn’t monitor Head-Fi constantly. But they were the thread starters, so...

No problem. I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt to begin with but then he blew it up with claims of Woke Nazis and non-vaccinated Jewish Christians (or something), demonstrating the original post was just a troll prelude. G

“Sound Check” is Apple’s version of Replaygain, it can be found in Apple Music settings. There is also “Reduce Loud Audio” in the “Headphone Safety” section of the “Sounds & Haptics” section of main settings, which I believe does employ a limiter (compression). That is also a possibility. I...

...any loudness compression, it just reduces the level of each track according to the loudness metadata but you say you have Sound Check switched off. And, although the moondrop DAC stores PEQ settings, it *might* use a default setting unless it is connected to the app. Difficult to know for...

I don’t know, do you want loudness normalisation? You can turn it off if not. If it’s a profile type thing, that might be more difficult to solve if Apple doesn’t support the app but then that’s a user error effectively. G

It’s not easy to know what the iPhone is doing, what is being bypassed or what the moondrop phone is doing. For example, is the iPhone applying loudness normalisation (Sound Check) but the moondrop isn’t, is the moondrop sending some profile setting to the DAC that the iPhone isn’t, as bigshot...

If -30 is not below -23 then all math is wrong and the modern world doesn’t exist. Then try reading some. Yes, students commonly watch a great deal of YouTube videos, the vast majority of which are nonsense clickbait (just like your blog) so it is somewhat shocking when they watch one that’s...