Recent content by castleofargh

This is a fallacious concept. Here are 2 clear facts: 1/ A perfect impulse response requires infinite bandwidth. 2/ Music can be reproduced accurately through digital media only if the signal is properly band limited(see sampling theorem). There is this false idea that if an impulse response...

It's the same stuff taken by different ends. The original DS concept is 1bit with very high sample rate(oversampled inside the DAC), so the linearity is great, but there is an enormous amount of noise to move and filter. It works, but limiting everything to 1 bit doesn't feel like the best...

Because position has significant acoustic impact, and our brain makes significant use of those cues. They matter to our experience. I don't get the idea of discussing accuracy and at the same time arguing that change is fine because we manage to interpret sounds even when they changed a lot...

Harman is supposed(according to Harman) to come close enough for like 6 out of 10 listeners(still worth fooling around with the bass for seal quality reasons or just taste and music genres). DF targets or what Etymotic was aiming for all those years, are fairly objective approaches with some...

First, we need to clear the confusion between perception of fidelity and fidelity. You're mostly talking about subjective opinions on what feels more correct to some listeners. That might not have anything to do with fidelity of the sound, for various reasons: - The most obvious being that taste...

It's not clear-cut simply because what will make us happy isn't well-defined. It might be for some listeners, but it isn't for many who don't really know what they want and just try, hoping that something will be a revelation. I'd argue the market makes a lot of money on those guys still...

I can imagine many direct and indirect costs, R&D, exclusive components certainly have a cost, more so if they're made internally instead of asking Sonion to slightly tweak a BA driver and say it's a unique model. Tighter tolerances mean more rejects and/or more time spent on measuring and...

If it was only a matter of what I prefer, then I would only use speakers, and IEMs when going for a walk. But like the friends above, I limit my speaker use for the people around me throughout the day(and night). And so in practice I'm like 80%headphone(with speaker simulation), maybe 15%IEM and...

So? How many people can eat 40 hot dogs in one sitting? How many can dive from 30meter high(or 6.25 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500)? How many can fly? After all, it's mostly about jumping higher for a longer time. Having the philosoraptor tell us that the chosen ones can do it, without actual...

From the specs in the picture, 30mW to reach 95dB would suggest a sensitivity of about 80.22db@1mW(just in case you later look for other amps and find some online calculators using sensi in dB/mW). Or looking for voltage into that load using P=V²/R 0.03mW=V²/120ohm V=1.9V So basically 2V to...

Up until now, your options have been to forget the money you already paid, or offer to pay the actual full price(minus what you already paid) and get a unit.

For naked HD650 with no other DSP or fancy speaker simulation, I used to have this and quite like it some years ago: Nearly everything is debatable, and just pair to pair variations could invalidate all the fairly subtle upper frequency stuff. As for the bass bump, I like it, but I can't sell...

Those 2 seem to stretch forever with no actual story in the mangas. Out of all the stories of little kids with some power, Atelier is the least creative one, IMO. There is still the easy early emotional grab they all have(nice kid does the thing, everybody's amazed), but what else? Same with...