Recent content by danadam

Hard to tell from FFT but if it is 32K point FFT then it seems to be about 8 or 9 bits of dynamic range/SNR. Here's 32K FFT of full scale signal at 8-bit / 44.1k sampling rate, for comparison: I have here Tanchjim Space (ASR review). With Cosmos ADCiso it shows: I reduced the volume by about...

... IEMs with sensible sensitivity ;-) Well, honestly I don't know if that's true, I only remember I had some IEMs in the past with some insane (IMO) values. <= -80 dB? Won't that leave with like less than 40 dB SNR (with very good DACs). That will sound kind of hissy.

I asked about the confusing descriptions and here's the answer from the author: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/beta-test-deltawave-null-comparison-software.6633/page-53#post-2306239

The difference between minimum phase (or short delay) and linear phase, in the frequency domain, is in phase only. Magnitude is the same. Looking at the difference of spectrums' magnitudes won't show anything. I took the first minute of "Daft Punk - Give Life Back to Music" (16/44k), played it...

:thumbsup: Archimago has recorded output of Technics SL-P110 [1986] (and Sony CDP-690 [1990]) https://archimago.blogspot.com/2021/12/retro-technics-sl-p110-1986-sony-cdp.html They sound fine to me.

I don't get such vibe, neither here nor on ASR. What I often notice though, is that people who say that the vibe is like that, also made some dubious claims earlier, about sound of DACs, sound of hi-res, etc., and their claims got challenged. And they didn't like it. Huh? So according to you...

Part of the reason could be, that it was produced by trptk, which is kind of an audiophile label, so it probably wasn't processed as a typical pop/rock would. In any case I like the result. It's one of my favorite albums. For some reason the album is no longer available in their catalogue [1]...

I certainly am :) BTW there are 3 other tracks in that ASR thread, from Dua Lipa, Hans Zimmer / Interstellar and Sibelius / Symphony No.1: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/offline-loudness-lufs-plotting.19296/page-3#post-1969944...

To me all the plots in this article are clearly in linear scale, not dB scale. Here are some metrics from that youtube download: Sample peak -0.45 dBFS RMS -23.55 dBFS Loudness -21.5 LUFS LRA 11.8 LU True peak -0.4 dBTP (The forum seems to have broken "code" tag and...

Here's the track from the article (captured from youtube) but with both axes included: And here with y-axis changed to dB scale:

Here are relative changes on analog output when changing Windows 11 master volume slider from 100 to 75, 1 step/s. The devices from top are: laptop internal dac, Apple dongle, JCally JM20 dongle, Dragonfly Red dongle. The y-axis is in dB. And here the volume slider at 100, 50, 25, 12, 1 and...

Decoders, not encoders.

Are you saying that bias can be turned off when the stakes are low (e.g. in audio) but not when the stakes are high? Huh? What pilot? The talk is about pilots, plural. Accidents/crashes are often caused by biases that affect pilots (just like they affect any human and even audiophiles ;-) )...

Testing for preference before testing if there is any actually audible difference seems backwards to me, but that's just me. You sound quite self-assured when you say that this is "more beneficial to users" but is it, like, just your opinion or is there something more substantive behind that claim?

5:50 Spotify does the right thing and the normalization happens before converting to fixed point: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/what-exactly-happens-to-a-master-after-its-been-sent-to-spotify.58449/#post-2143888 It shows those artists/producers cared more about...