is this overkill?

>>57907706
I want to see this faggot's setup with MBP2016 and all the dongles.

>>57907706
a few thousand dollars arent even money anymore anon

>>57907706
yes and no.

the set up looks more excessive than it is.

looks like a high end DAC, and an high end tube amp.


but the choosing of a tube amp and the over shielded cables are signs of autism.

>>57907706
those cables are looking sorta flimsy

Considering his hearing wouldn't be good enough anymore to notice differences in audio quality it is massive overkill.

>>57907730
>MBP2016

My Brony Pony 2016? Im one of those too, I setup the con actually, can we chat?

>>57907730
Underrated

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What is he listening to?

>>57907791
192kpbs fake flac
danger music

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>mfw i just use magni/modi v1 to power my HD800

>>57907791
I'm cringing

>>57907836
t. Type 0

>>57907791
The big joke is those tiers all contain the same music except the so-called high tiers use bigger and more obscure names.

>>57907791
>Inuit throat singing

what the actual fuck did I just watch

>>57907958
Have you never heard throat singing before?
It's pretty cool, but difficult.
I took a class on it 2 years ago, and failed.

> tfw a 15 years old with apple earbuds can hear more detail than he with his thousands of dollars worth of equipment
Hold me bros. I'm getting old and don't want to lose my hearing.

>>57907706
No it's not, shit headphone taste tho.

cables are overkill

>>57907706
no it's "i have no idea what i am doing" setup. and yes i know that's not his.

>>57907791
fuck you stop posting this cancer. it's one of those images which i think(and certainly hope) was made to be a bait but you can never find out for sure and it bothers me.

>>57907825
>just
given how simple load hd 800 is and how powerful and capable magni is, that would be an "overkill" of sorts for the headphones.

>>57908031
When u consciously go out of ur way to listen to music with hq audio its very accurate. The higher you go the more obscure the music until eventually there isnt even a melody and just an asortment of sounds that your brain will somehow after years of listening make sense of

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>>57907971

>TFW you have to balance your audio because you fucked one of your ears on some night out that wasn't even good.

:(

>>57907706
Dem cables look just like the hoses on the back of my washing machine.

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>>57908316
>not using audiophile-grade hoses to wash the clothes that you're gonna wear whilel istening to music

I bet you don't even have audiophile-grade RAM or USB ports in your computer.

>>57908405
I'm sold, tell me more, how!

>>57907706

probably just the power conditioner and the cables

>>57907791
Bruno Mars

>>57907791

/mu/ is such a fucking piece of shit board.

>>57907706
those cables probably cost more than my entire stereo system

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Don't forget your audio rocks for supurb listening experience!

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm

>>57908616
This

Strong contender for worst board on this entire site

>He said while posting on /g/

>>57907706

This is me when I'm listening to NPR.

>>57908688
i recall reading one guy who replaced all the wiring inside his amp with silver wires, and also had all the electrical wiring in his house replaced with special audiophile electrical wiring to ensure a consistent power supply. audiophiles are bonkers

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dont forget the cable risers

MUH SIGNAL PURITY

>>57908793
no isolation pads underneath the risers? pleb tier

>>57908793
Isn't that just cable management? Pretty autistic.

I guess they measure the sound output from the headphones to verify that all this shit works and its not somthing they imagine

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>>57908793
4/10

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>>57908793

they're called cable elevators

and yes they make a difference

>>57908907
looks like a big 'ol snek

>>57908907
ayy
>>57908913
>し

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>>57908616
>>57908031

>>57908907
thicc

ROTATIONAL VELOCIDENSITY

>>57907706
>network or modem cable on the right
is that a hotel room?

Who has the gif/webm/video of the guy looking like he's in pain because of the headphones?

>>57908907
getting clean power is important, but how is that thing supposed to help?

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>>57908967

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>>57907791

>mfw im type 6 because Salsa isnt on there.

>>57909111
i noticed that too. maybe it was a demo set up in a hotel suite at a convention

>>57909186
>Take us to your leader!

>>57908907
who plugs a whale penis into a wall?

>>57909223
a gay whale?

someone please post the edit with the foobar window and it says converted using a mp3 to flac website

>>57907706

>power cord is thicker than audio cord
>power cord is thicker than garden hose

it should be illegal to be this stupid

These threads make me feel bad about preferring losses music files. Storage is cheap and I'd rather have the original file over some compressed shit of questionable source. The cringe is real though.

It's more about archival purposes, my ears are pretty shit anyway.

>>57909186

>doesn't even have a wave cone

criminally stupid

>>57907791
It reads like that deep web marianas trench image, but it seems like all of those are real things. Impressive.

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>>57907791
lol, wtf is that meme

>>57909346

100% accurate chart senpai

>>57909372
no

>>57909346
is he ok?
he better call suicide watch.

>>57909432
We don't know desu...

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>>57908907

>>57907706
>not using noise-cancelling foam on walls for maximum open headphones clarity
>not using psx for cd playback
this guy setup isn't bad at all, but he definitely could do better

>>57909644
for fucks sake does any of that shit really make a difference?

>>57907791
eurobeat
tier 7

>>57907706
No, I like to be able to hear every time the drummer farts.

>>57909719
No, placebophiles are the biggest suckers on the planet besides homeopaths.

>all that equipment
>to connect to a tinny piece of shit that pierces your eardrums with 20db 8khz waves
lmaoo

>>57909719
It does. People who don't believe that have either insufficient hearing abilities, never used really good audio hardware, or are plain dumb and think it's funny to spread misinformation because LE MEME XD I'M SMART.

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>>57909998
>capcha "ROAD CHES"
Fairly accurate description of euro beat I'd say

>>57910066
I never get why musique concrete or throat singing are always put in the super high/low tiers on these images when both those are more or less strange but normal music.

>>57909264
Seconding this

lmfao these fucking audiophile dorks spend more on listening equipment than the people making music nowadays. I know big name producers that have mastered tracks on ipod earphones that turned out some amazing mixes.

>>57907785
MBP = Mac Book Pro

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>>57907785
/)

>>57908907
thicc snek

someone post the webM of that guy cringing listening to an Ipod

>>57908405
do

do people buy this

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>>57908764
>audiophiles are bonkers

>>57910066
>Forever bound to drift in the void
Listening to this right now, good shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9jYn0Dqurg

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>>57908913
especially to your wallet

>>57907791
>inuit throat singing
>hindustani classical music
>South east asian classical music
>north east asian classical music
This is the funniest thing I've seen all week.

>mac
No

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>>57909264
>>57910506
The best one desu

>>57907706
Why is this guy is /g/'s placebo mascot?

>>57907730
>I want to see this faggot's setup
But it isn't even his.

>>57909196
>>57909111
It is a Head-Fi trade show.

>>57910026
>besides homeopaths.
It basically is, when you get to the "feel good" tweaks they sometimes offer.

>>57907783
>Considering his hearing wouldn't be good enough anymore
-No one has that kind of hearing.
-The age isn't the biggest discriminator of ability to discern sound.

>>57907706
Remove everything between the headphones and computer and you have a good setup. If your computer has really audibly shit audio, get some basic sub-$300 DAC/amp.

>>57907791
>Xenharmonicism
Brendan Byrnes' Micropangaea actually sounds pretty cool on the HD800's, all my other headphones have trouble reproducing the wall of sound.

>>57912639
What's so funny about throat singing and classical Asian music?

>>57908950
All composers in that picture broke the conventions of their time. Thats how you advance.

>>57909998
eirobeat is true ascension.

>>57907730
I see literally 2 cables coming out of the macbook. So you will see 2 1cm extensions. Pretty underwhelming, hm?

>>57907791
The fuck is drone and doom metal?

>>57914271
Your question is lacking a pronoun.
"What the fuck is Drone and Doom Metal?"

Drone music,[3][4] drone-based music,[5] or simply drone, is a minimalist musical genre[1] that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece. La Monte Young, one of its 1960s originators, defined it in 2000 as "the sustained tone branch of minimalism"

>>57912304
DESU it sounds like most 2000s anime opening themes... Nothing wrong with this. If you're looking for real autism give east European jumpstyle a go. God tier euro rave/trance - > almost anything on the love parade compilation

>>57914290
I know what it is I just wanted to know which tier of autism it is...

>>57907706
He's 90
Let him be

>>57911910
I think my motherboard has this but thats certainly not the reason I bought it

>>57914484
>I know what it is I just wanted to know which tier of autism it is...
Then "where" was the pronoun you're looking for.

>>57907791
Miles, coltrane, the list goes on..

>>57907706
Poor guy had to use make do cables for electric train because he forgot his normal ones.

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>they don't have a Playstation One for their CDs

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>>57916233
The motherboard "features" -page is useless as far as judging performance in any area goes. Pic related is the FR of the headphone jack on this motherboard:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5481#ov

"GIGABYTE AMP-UP Audio™ Technology" with who knows what else there. It's a heap of crap. The kind of crap that makes you wonder how did they even manage.

>>57917448
>killing a SCPH-1001 model for audio shit when you could just drop a slimline laser and have it work forever
Fucking uggo retards.

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>>57909266
Speaking of garden hoses

>>57917470
Ridiculous

>>57909194
Chunky, or restaurant style?

>>57917508
The fuck is that?

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Audiophiles and gardening enthusiasts mix very well

>>57917448
That is not a Playstation One, just a Playstation. Or PSX as it's also known as.

>>57914188
Including kanye west, of course.

>>57908405
>Placebo

>>57917577
I'd like to interject, for a moment.
What you're referring to as "Playstation" is, in fact, PSX, or as I've recently taken to calling it, PS + X...

>>57917558
Standard HDMI to H2O converter

>>57917615
>GNU + Linux meme
certified hood classic

>>57917648
Why would such a thing exist in the first place?

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>>57917615
What does an autistic communist's interjection have to do with anything ?
The original Playstation literally wasn't called Playstation One. It was just called Playstation, and became known as PSX after the slim model named Playstation One was released. These are two different units.

>>57917655
How else are you supposed to connect your computer to your Gardena watering system?

are audiophiles just autistic about music?

>>57917692
>How else are you supposed to connect your computer to your Gardena watering system?
>connecting a PC to a watering system
>a literal watering system
holy shit

>>57917699
Pretty much the opposite.
Audiophiles don't care about facts and hate scientific methods like double-blind testing.

>>57909125
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ

>>57917684
bro i was downloading "PSX" games long before there was a PSONE. it was known as PSX before the PSONE

>>57917741
That's just the dumb part of them. I hate how the term audiophile is used around here. It's an umbrella term for the people who are enthusiastic about audio. Not necessarily synonymous with an audio mysticist who believes in trinkets and tweaks to make the loudspeaker altar in his dedicated listening room sound more pleasing.

>>57907706
Placebo is never enough

>>57917705
it's called watercooling. do we really have to spoonfeed you this much?

>>57917811
not that person, but you guys were arguing over the PS ONE name, not the PSX name.

>>57917859
>watercooling
>watercooling fucking HDMI
When did /g/ get this retarded? Where did it go wrong?

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>>57918176

>>57917508
I need an explanation

>>57918229
>watercooling HDMI
>watercooling a fucking cable
Are you dense?

>>57918381
That's.
The.
Joke.

Dumbass.

>>57918381
Are you retarded?

>>57908793
>>57908907
all these fuckers spending so much money on their cable risers are probably fucking stupid enough to use public electricity. too much tonal resistance with that—i prefer mennonite electricity. just have a bunch of mennonites in the basement pedaling away. superb sound quality when you've got pure mennonite electricity running into your 200µV capacitors.

also, the type of wood you use matters. looks like these fucking idiots are rising their cables on mahogany or something stupid like that. cedar is infinitely better for tonal purposes

>>57918416
>he thinks this is a motherfucking fucking joke

"Full HD per liter, made possible by ionized water. Fully shielded audio and video lines for optimum reduction of electromagnetic interference. Return of the audio signal without additional audio cable (ODT, RCA, etc.) Only Connect the water hose! Transfer of all high-speed floating data. For questions, contact the water company or your gardener."

>>57908907
seel

>>57918502
Also you get better quality electrons, because instead of them having to smash trough copper they just flow with the water current

all of that shit when you are old as fuck and you can't pick up half of the frequency sound spectrum anymore lmao

>>57914465
>If you're looking for real autism give east European jumpstyle a go.
Every form of entertainment from Eastern Europe is superior.
Music, Movies, Books.

>>57908913
Wouldn't a properly shielded cable prevent any noticeable stray em radiation that may interfere?

>>57918587
You know, I've never considered this. It just makes audiophiles even more laughable.

>>57908881
No, looks like that guy is trying to isolate his cables to the maximum level to remove additional noise.

>>57919211
don't overthink it. cable elevators do nothing.

>>57919436
next big thing will be suspending cables in a vacuum.

cap this post

>>57919564
I do see some point though. I have terrazzo floors and if the cables are coiled on the ground there's a distinct buzz you can hear. You also get a little bit of a shock if your bare feet touch the floor and you touch anything grounded, so that probably has something to do to it.

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I was chatting with this guy on Grindr, he sends this, I respond "LOL!", he says "oh", never hear from him again.

>>57919588
cables are insulated, the equipment is grounded, lifting them off the floor does nothing

>>57907706
Really, the only crazy things in there are the power regenerator and the macbook. The power cables are overkill but I can see why he's using them when he has a power regenerator. You actually have a reason to shield them with that.

Otherwise it's just
DAC
Amp stack with separate PSU instead of 1 case
Headphones
Digital Coax in

That's pretty typical.

How ridiculous it is depends entirely on the cost of all that and the internals.

>>57919694
oh

>>57919810
i'm sure his setup sounds amazing, but you could probably get 99% of the quality of his setup by spending less than half as much.

The audiotisticphiles need something like the hubble telescope to see the point of diminishing returns because they have gone so far past it

>>57919919
We vibrate, we vibrate, we are reborn.
The goal of molecular structures is to plant the seeds of gratitude rather than discontinuity. This life is nothing short of an unveiling quantum leap of mythic synchronicity.
You must take a stand against suffering.

It can be difficult to know where to begin. Have you found your mission? Being, look within and unify yourself.

We must learn how to lead eternal lives in the face of greed. The multiverse is approaching a tipping point. Imagine an awakening of what could be.

Without divinity, one cannot vibrate. Yes, it is possible to eliminate the things that can confront us, but not without inspiration on our side. Turbulence is born in the gap where knowledge has been excluded.

Who are we? Where on the great circuit will we be awakened?

We must change ourselves and fulfill others. It is a sign of things to come. Eons from now, we messengers will heal like never before as we are recreated by the infinite.

We exist as expanding wave functions. The infinite is aglow with ultrasonic energy. By blossoming, we believe.

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>being a real audiophile

>>57918247
Fucking wrecked.

Also Tales of Mystery and Imagination is literally a perfect album.

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>>57907730
imagine 5 different dongles each with its own Dongle Lifter

>>57919787
True, I was using my unsheilded copper cables before.

>>57908313
>tfw you spent your teenage years at concerts standing way too close to giant speakers and now you always hear ringing

i can still hear the difference between my shitty 5.1 logitech speakers and my sony home theater with pioneer speakers. but anything higher quality than that is lost on me

>>57919915
>but you could probably get 99% of the quality of his setup by spending less than half as much.
I'm absolutely certain you could get measurably better quality for a fraction of that money. This isn't about fidelity, it's about finding whatever sounds the most pleasing in that moment without it having to even relate to audio reproduction. Unless they are running some signal processing(which I highly doubt from a person with a setup like that), it's going to sound like music through HD 800s anywhere mixed with whatever cognitive biases he is constantly under. The only thing which might make some audible difference is the output impedance here but HD 800's high nominal impedance will make it a rather small one.

>diminishing returns
Stupid concept given how subjective value is.

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>>57918176
when you took the bait my man

>>57917448
Do the original PlayStations have supernatural audio or something?

Why do people use them.

>>57920514
high quality laser and good DAC

>their audiobuild doesn't include giant hand-wound transformers, the guts of a macbook and a psx

>>57920542
20 years ago*

>>57907706
>using tubes
>2016
that's not overkill, is just idiotic, like going around with those bikes with the giant front wheel

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>>57920607
tuuuuuuubes

>>57920563
oh I'm not trying to validate it, just explaining why audiophiles say they like them

>>57920796
Yeah but since people here possess about the same level of gullibility, source criticism and knowledge as your average 6moons reader I had to point it out.

>>57920796
so, it's something on the line with vacuum tubes right?

>>57907791
Dub step by skrillex

>>57920846
yeah, they "prefer" the way it sounds

>>57907836
>i'm 12 and i cringe at everything

>>57909266
>>power cord is thicker than garden hose
The power cord looks like it is as thick as the ones on my 30 amp APC PDUs. Something makes me think a headphone amp doesnt draw 30 amps at 208V.

>>57908793
This makes me feel good. Maybe audiophile is for me.