I may not live another twenty years!

Just dropping this here.

what are we talking about? Do we all get to talk about anything we feel like? If so, I'd like to talk about banana slugs.

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iTunes is so well implemented into the MacOS, it’s hard for third party apps to compete.

I haven't tried Bit Perfect, but that is a weird name because my Mac is already bit perfect... I have tried Audirvana. It was buggy and the interface was the exact opposite of what I prefer. I was hoping it was convenient for multichannel MKVs, but it wasn't. I use Plex for that. Does it have...

I just downloaded his test track and it is hot mastered right up to the edge. My suspicion is that this is another case of an AAC encoder pushing the level over the line into clipping. There may be significant clipping mixed into thee track itself too. I just normalized his track down a bit and...

For modern codecs, 320 is well over the line to being audibly transparent. As Gregorio said, in most cases, 192 is over the line to being transparent. This is all based on psychoacoustics, and spectrum analysis isn’t designed to measure it. There may be more than one way to skin a cat so to...

Lossy audio works by removing masked frequencies you can’t hear anyway. It ends up with less data, but the same sound to human ears. At very low data rates, like 64k, the codec is forced to throw out audible sound and compromise the sound quality, but at higher data rates there is enough...

1) I’ve had iMacs, Mac Towers, MacBooks and Mac Minis, dating all the way back to the 8500AV. I’ve tested every one and they’re all audibly transparent. 2) That’s right in general, but the Oppo PM-1s are the exception to the rule. They were designed to not need amping. I don’t know about the...

I think the problem is the encoder you’re using. AAC should be transparent. I use a Mac. If you want to hand me your FLAC, I’ll convert it to AAC for you and it might be better. Just PM me a download link.

If you just buy an Amazon Basics cable that is made for the purpose you're using it for, you're good to go.

A balloon full of air is bigger than a deflated balloon, but it's still a balloon. If songs come from different sources, the likelihood that the mastering is different is high. That has nothing to do with the format.

I haven’t found anyone who can consistently discern the quality levels in high data rate lossy audio. Well, aside from the people who cheat the test. I don’t know how redundant data equates with luxurious Corinthian leather upholstery myself. And I haven’t found the mastering on SACDs or HD...

I honestly can’t think of anything I’ve ever bought for reasons other than function. Perhaps that’s because I studied design in college. If I’m going to get something for aesthetic reasons, it’s something where the aesthetics are the function, like with art. If I bought an expensive car, it...

I treasure the music, not the format it’s packaged in if there is no perceptible difference between formats. A clear improvement, like new mastering, a multichannel mix or a better master being used is great. I’ll welcome that. But not just taking the same sound and adding a bunch of redundant...

I’m here to talk about ways to improve the sound of home audio systems. It wasn’t like I was saying DSD had bodily fluids in it, just that it sounds identical to high data rate lossy and every format with more unnecessary data above that. More data isn’t better if you can’t hear it, it’s just more.

They’re using abstract theories of quality to listen to inaudible sound.

If you can’t hear the difference it doesn’t matter. If it does matter to you, the sound isn’t why. It has more to do with you than it does the file format.

For numbers to have context with audible sound, they need to be related to perceptual thresholds. A lot of audiophiles think better numbers always mean better sound, and that just isn’t the case. Human ears hear up to a point and they stop. Super audible frequencies are inaudible. Compressed...

you need a cosmic wave counter and a sunspot counter.

Ingesting spit can pass disease. You aren’t going to be infected by your headphones. Noise is a natural part of sound reproduction. All recorded sound has noise. You just don’t want it at audible levels. The thresholds of perception are what matter, not some desire for absolute purity. Absolute...

4. You’ve got to be kidding

fascinating….

Frogs dig SACDs.