Quote: I'm just going to quote wikipedia here, because this is what the whole military analogy amounts to. It's actually very basic psychology, and has very little bearing on blind testing.   "Sensation is the function of the low-level biochemical and neurological events that begin...

Danneq:   Unconscious perception in psychology is better termed unconscious processing, since (as far as I know - any experts feel free to correct me) it deals with behavioral responses to subconscious stimuli (i.e. priming in response to millisecond stimuli, or something such as...

Why do you create a new thread for everything? This could have easily fit under one thread. Anyway, I'm ignoring the entirety of the first post because this response should have been in the first thread in the first place; I might respond to it later, but it's very lengthy and makes use of some...

  Quote: Your reviews, as you do them, tell nothing at all about the actual piece of audio. By shifting the focus from (what you term) the "sound as sound," to that of "feeling," you've effectively shifted the focus from the audio equipment to yourself. This is problematic because that...

My friend recently dropped my laptop with my headphones plugged in, and the jack on my DT880's snapped. I posted in the cable section about recabling services, but it looks like recabling the DT880 involves boutique cables and/or balanced, and cost as much as the headphones themselves. Since...

That's fine, I was looking for people that would do a recable though. The only recabling services I could find cost nearly as much as the headphones themselves - and since I'm only out to restore these in working condition, I was wondering if anyone would do a no-nonsense repair recable as...

I'm not particularly picky about what cable it is necessarily - I should have made that explicit in my first post. All I'm looking for is a cable that isn't a high-end audiophile cable, but just normal headphone cable. I don't want/need boutique cabling, just something to get my headphones into...

Unfortunately, the jack on my DT-880 snapped, and I am in need of a replacement cable. I'm not up to the task of a recable, but it seems that everyone offering to recable headphones will only do so with high-end and dual-entry cables. Is there anyone that will do headphone recables with stock...

Just tossing my opinion out to anyone who cares: I like my headphones to be neutral. Obviously, that word has a lot of connotations, especially in the audio word when it has no defined meaning whatsoever. However, I personally look for the flattest frequency response possible. I like to think...

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Make sure you volume match. Adding impedance may lower the volume, which would make sense given the characteristics of what you are hearing.

I agree with the above, however if you are going to rip to 320kbps, I would rip instead to -v0 variable bitrate. This gives you the quality of 320kbps while saving on disk space. EAC can accomplish this, as can (iirc) foobar. You can also rip to FLAC for when you're on your computer and then...

Quote: Originally Posted by b0dhi I'd be curious to know how you came to that firm conclusion? I can't speak for those graphs, but if you have any experience with RMAA and the like, you can literally run two tests back to back without changing anything at all and have them show a...

Quote: Originally Posted by b0dhi I love how you try to rebut one anecdote with another anecdote The bit about casinos isn't an anecdote, it's a decently well-known psychological phenomenon, and a fair amount of research has been done to corroborate it.

Quote: Originally Posted by chinesekiwi So in other words, I can save a crapload of money by just Replay Gaining the files? In fact thinking about it, Replay Gaining the digital audio files is better as it's easily reversible as Replay Gain is only metadata. Correct me if I'm wrong...

Quote: Originally Posted by xnor Volume wasn't set to the max and it didn't resample anything. And I officially hate the stupid term 'bit-perfect' until I get a proper definition. AFAIK bit perfect simply means "sans-resampling" (by the OS) wrt playback from a computer. It is...

Quote: Originally Posted by iriverdude Snap High end processors VS low end processors/receivers, hardware differences? Archivist

K: wouldn't you still need a TRS plug for each channel (versus one TRS for SE)? I don't see how you can have balanced drive without additional cabling.

Quote: Originally Posted by haloxt Uncle Erik, I don't see anyone eating Monster's profit anytime soon. In that sense Monster should be in the pantheon of godly companies. Monster has a large share of the cable market, especially for the at-large population - however, that's...

Just an interjection: Claiming that "supply and demand" justifies the way that cables are currently priced just shows that whoever is making the claim has no idea what they're talking about. Supply and demand, even in its most simplistic form (that many are referring to in this thread)...

Quote: Originally Posted by anetode I understood it as saying that using an inefficient method may sometimes be beneficial in avoiding frequency drop-offs. Then again I know jack crap about the mechanism feedback in an amp and was quoting something that I thought explained the...

Anetode: You're completely misquoting. The original quote, when read in full, is referring to negative feedback to make the output of an amplifier linear. This is a completely separate issue from what is being discussed in this thread. Negative feedback involves trading gain for linearity...

Quote: Originally Posted by b0dhi "but it isn't necessarily enough for Dynamic Peaks when listening anywhere near live music levels" Can you cite a specific piece of music or other such example that has such a high dynamic peak?

Quote: Originally Posted by moonboy403 Has anyone ever try to measure the frequency response of a tube amp and use RMAA to see the specs? I'm curious as to how the FR of a tube amp changes relative to different tubes used and how much they deviate from a flat FR. Here's a...

Quote: Originally Posted by JaZZ I don't really understand your argument. An audible noise floor doesn't prevent amplifiers from sounding different, just as little as headphones. I know that most contemporary amplifiers measure virtuelly perfect, but (luckily!) that doesn't influence my...