I bought a $2k professional monitor with an extended color range for my video gaming, but Audirvana is also showing me higher res album covers from Tidal. They don't take up the whole screen, there is a bar on the bottom 1/4 for the controls and seek line, but the image is already 16", over the...

It did not start off with an insult. It started off with me saying that 192khz was better than 96. The insult was the way that someone disagreed with me, which I refute. Imagine playing a fast reaction video game: at the new standard 24hz for movies, someone who is a far away speck can be...

Look at it this way: vinyl plays back an analogue recording that was a single sample, and included a duration of time. It can constantly change. Your 44.1 is absolutely reproducing a 20khz frequency, and then in the next sample, reproducing a true 18khz frequency. The argument for higher...

Ok, so wee need to get to the bottom of this "higher resolution is 'better' makes us have to lose" topic. Do these few head-fi'res have an ai searching for threads who mention "uncompressed", to then go and chastise for believing that more frequent samples even can sound more detailed and...

Digital music is the playback of timeless snapshots of the audio that was originally played. Nothing before your dac recorded what was going on in between the snapshots, so it can't be played. Yes, I'm sorry, but your dac is only holding the sound of that sample continually, for the duration...

Heads up to all the audiophiles on head-fi: There ARE people who sign up for accounts, and then become Headphoneus Supremus for how many times they argue against people who talk about higher resolution being better than even lower than max mp3 compression. In fact, unless you tell everyone at...

If you can read between my samples, how can I be dangerous to you for supporting higher resolutions, or the lack of compression? Why do you have to ask for a thread to be closed, so that people can't talk about the subject? Hmm, it's starting to seem like I'm supposed to tell you you're a total...

The continuous waveform is created by playing each sample for 1/44kth of a second, until it alters. Your continuous waveform is highly stairstepped, and spends to much time not knowing what's next. You will have to ask moderators to use ai to refuse any posts that mention higher res digital...

Oh, bigshot says something that the rest of the audio community disagrees with, so my content can't keep him content. Do you also agree that your gear playing tracks that only play each sample for 192kth/second before the next one taken will introduce noise to the playback, for some reason only...

Doesn't Vinyl reveal the full range of distortion that exists in between the timing of cd samples continually, just like there is in reality? Why don't the cd samples ever capture the distortion of the original? Have you seen a 4k video screen? Are all of the extra pixels also actually just...

I've understood the dilemma, and will now post very short and simple thoughts one at a time, so that it doesn't have to be Theory of Relativity. If Einstein hadn't kept on explaining his theories while nobody in the world knew what he was talking about, still nobody would know what he was...

No, 192khz waves are finally starting to seem like they tell me as much as vinyl did. DMA is the ancient thing that allows direct from disk to memory transfer. There is no processing to be done for a wav file anyhow, so it would always beat FLAC at noiselessness. 24bit would only require a 24...

I guess, since all you've done since I began this thread is try to insult me because you think I'm trying to "win", I should report you to a moderator. Otherwise, you will, because of my answering back. 👋

Actually, the argument is that the later cpu's get, the noisier they get, because the extra processing power creates noise. That's why people are saying Raspberry pi's and dedicated streamers send better outputs to your dac, lower processing requirements. Most people have only ever listened to...

A 192khz refers to a recording's sample rate, and is a nice higher res file. You are mistaking me for meaning only 192kbps, which would indeed have to be compressed. I know you never said anything about turntables, why would you think you would have had to? 192khz sample rate uncompressed...

Ok, so you just can't tell the difference, then. Lucky for you, I wish I didn't think 192khz uncompressed files still lose to turntables.

Compressed tracks require a processor to decompress them, before output. A fast desktop will have a processor that makes it sound like the original has a noisy hyperspaz presentation, compared to uncompressed, which will beat even low powered playback, like a pi or a dedicated streamer. Are...

Sorry for being rude, bigshot. It's just that you've already proven to me that you don't think it's possible for digital to get worse. Exactly, you can't even tell when only 96kbps are playing. Further, lossy encoders do NOT induce artifacts, they just shave off the data that they think you...

I just tried reading my posts, too. The sentences are long, and cover a lot of ground, but they make perfect sense. I can try it slowly, so that each post is simple, and the back and forth takes forever: First: Have you ever actually tried your favorite tracks as local wav files, instead of...

Besides that being an MQA thread, which thankfully people agreed with my complaints about that scam, and MQA went bankrupt because of it, although I was most frequently argued against on this forum, I also have streaming services all providing FLAC at best, and nobody is complaining that they're...

You're probably all busy thinking it sounds like FLAC versions are still all there, which they not only are, but have processing noise added, compared to the original, but just in case you have tried listening to your music the way money is no object, and have a low powered usb ssd feeding your...

I'm going to start a high end cable company that makes a $1k power cable that is competitive with the rest, and then make a $100 cable that "borrows design elements" from the $1k cable, and also borrow from PlayStation's idea of designing it as a cable that costs me $100 to make, so that I make...

I don't know why someone would prefer standard hd800, without using eq. The S model was correction of the new and expensive OG, which launched 100 companies into a frenzy of trying to defeat the hd800 at everything it was outstanding at, not only it's fatal eq flaw without a ceiling in $...

I fix my original 800's with Sonarworks' microphone measured EQ. Everything is dialed right in super-flat. Since I splurged on this really expensive and way better $600 cable 3 months after getting them, in 2009, I really don't think I can be beaten, for my price. I will replace my hd800's...

I don't know why you care about up sampling. Oh, right, it's only playing samples per second, and there must be a way to fake filling some more in. If your highs are rolling off, you have an EQ balance or setup problem. Dynamics are where my current setup is blowing away all I've previously...