The HD800 are a great example as to why all of this testing of this codec vs that codec vs that bitrate is somewhat for naught on the intranets. If the particular artifact that a person is hearing was at, say, 6kHz, then a person listening to that artifact on the HD800 can have a 6dB or even...

Even though I'm stuck in headphone hell for the foreseeable future, I make sure to buy what I can in surround because one day... What do you think of Waldrep's quote on there being 75% of households with 5.1? Seems like 99% of those wouldn't be exactly calibrated ("We put the little speakers at...

Just got my 2U in the USA; backer 23.

So no elevation in the head tracking? I guess that's ok but was that always the plan?

I have the Andsnes Grieg CD. It was made on Grieg's own piano, if I recall. Any specific track/time that OP finds especially bad? This disc has my favorite version of Homesickness, so I'm loathe to dig into hating the sound ^_^

So they're asking if a 2ms delay is audible? Yeah?

Tested out a 40Hz tone to L vs a 40Hz tone to LFE and the latter definitely put out more juice (didn't get a good measure so can't be sure it's the 10dB standard). Boosting the LFE manually 10dB and then sending it to the SXFi results in waaaaaay to much bass, so that does't seem to have been...

Saw this blurb at the end of a booklet today: I would have preferred if they started that last sentence with "The theory is that, since dead salmon…"

The issue with headphones at least is that the tuning of the specific cans amounts essentially to an EQ. If there's an artifact with content near 6kHz and your cans have what amounts to a massive EQ boost at 6kHz, you are more likely to hear the artifact.

There's certainly material that is non-ABX-able at 96k (even 64k), but I had a harpsichord track that needed 128k, and I'm sure there are still killer samples at that rate. I certainly haven't found anything at 196k that was remotely worth trying to ABX. You know this, but others should note...

I think it's registered for mp4 but I'm not sure if anything supports it in the container yet. It definitely uses different algorithms than AAC, so I guess they are only the same in the sense they are both lossy codecs… I would wager that your AAC examples would have different artifacts (or none...

In a sense Opus was probably too little too late to force a quick victory. People are already satisfied with their ~128-256k streaming or download solutions, and at those rates there's very little reason to choose Opus over AAC (or even MP3 if one uses the nearest VBR option). One could argue...

Meaning the EQ stays set after I unplug from Windows and plug into something else. I see they are slow getting a macOS version going.

Does this Windows software let you bake in EQ?

Haven't noticed crosstalk issues in normal stereo mode. I would call -47dB as-far-as-you-go-south before issues probably arise. Now that's a separate question than 'what does Creative's marketing promise.'