let your mom know what you’re doing. She might want to have a say in it.

This thread is dumb.

Thank you! Please do move on!

That’s assuming 1) they want to learn and 2) this discussion is about audio. I just spent a half hour composing a carefully worded explanation of what he was mistaken about, and he replied having barely read what I said. He was agreeing with me about things that I hadn’t said. I could spend...

Inaudible can’t be heard. I believe the highest frequency any human has been recorded as being able to hear was around 22 kHz, and that was a child. Adults generally aren’t able to hear as high. CDs are able to reproduce frequencies you surely can’t hear. And the noise floor of CDs is lower than...

It’s fine to go chase down rabbit holes as long as you realize it’s not going to make any audible difference. There is a point beyond which no human can hear, and even inexpensive digital audio gear and CD quality sound far exceeds that. The audible improvement beyond that isn’t small, it’s non...

Messing with the power cable is bad advice. Putting boxes of crystals around wires is silly advice.

Bfreedma is right. You should never jury rig any cable that plugs into the wall. That could invalidate your equipment warranty, make it impossible to collect on insurance, electrocute you, or burn down your house. A licensed electrician would never mess around like that because he’d lose his...

I misspoke. You’re correct. There is theoretical perfection and practical perfection. I was intending to always keep it in context of listening to music on a home audio system in a living room, but I strayed into theory, which I was trying not to do. Theory requires caveats that cloud the actual...

This is part of the power cord? I thought it had something to do with RCA jacks.

hoodoo

You didn't hear what I was saying I guess... For the purposes of playing commercially recorded music in the home high res files are not at all useful. HD audio doesn't have any more resolution than 16/44.1. See the link in my sig file "Bit Rate Is Not Resolution". According to Nyquist in order...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking Or more precisely what we are dealing with here... "Quasi-magical thinking" describes "cases in which people act as if they erroneously believe that their action influences the outcome, even though they do not really hold that belief".[47] People...

Your syntax is convoluted, but if I understand you correctly... "Audibly transparent" is not a subjective term. It means that a difference is so small, it can't be discerned with human ears. That is a binary "yes/no", not a judgment call. The thresholds of perception are determined objectively...

wait... Are you the guy who used to do ASMR videos with all his equipment wrapped in tin foil?

The problem we seem to always find popping up around here is that people will decide on a conclusion and then go looking for evidence that shows that they're right. They don't let the evidence lead them to a conclusion. Cherry picking and ignoring evidence that doesn't go the direction you want...

Defective by design.

Audible transparency is the goal, not theoretical perfection. One is easily achievable. One isn't.

He doesn't understand how it works, so he assumes everyone- science included- doesn't know.

Like the rest of us.

It’s good enough for the medicines that save your life. It should be good enough for some stupid wires or a digital player.

Bias is remarkably consistent.

Maybe crochet like a tea cozy!

I guess he figures a filter is a filter.

I knew a crazy old woman that claimed that her TV emitted strange rays and the only way to fix it was to put boxes of loam on top and all around it.