why do we hate audiophiles again?

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>>61025775
P-L-A-C-E-B-O

>>61025815
I don't understand why old people who have already lost 50% of their hearing care

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>>61025775

>>61025828
because they don't actually need to hear
it's more like a spiritual thing

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>>61025856
one comment that always stuck with me was when someone said
>10k setup
>shitty old eardrum
the meme is real

>>61025892
is it biological or simply because more men tend to work in workplaces with a lot of noisy equipment?

>>61025892
no it's because they tend to live in places with constant female nagging
>ba dum tss

>>61025775
because u're a bunch of normies

>>61025977
I wonder why /g/ has so much /pol/ overlap

who was in the wrong here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ

>>61025775
They have more disposable income than us.

Friendly reminder that V0 MP3 is completely transparent.
You literally can't tell the difference between it and FLAC.

>>61025939
probably because using earing protection isn't manly enough

>>61026920
I use v2 :^)

There are plenty of rational people who are still young with good hearing that engage in audiophilia, but most of them have limited budgets and also realize the stupidity in spendings tens of thousands on 2 channel playback gear, class A stereo amps, tube gear, and thousand dollar headphones.

The old-wrinkly fucks that buy 300b tube amps and 10,000 single full range driver speakers to listen to bit band and the doors are also the most vocal against technological advances. They refuse to accept the fact your average hypex class D amp or crown drivecore amp is more linear with less disortion and more watts/voltage.

>>61027327
Excuse me I meant big band.

>>61026920
Burn a cd burned from flac and one from mp3s and play it on a decent system. The diff is more apparent. Plugging a phone into tape monitor (analog to analog) and streaming mp3s is even worse.

>>61025775

Is this a YLYL thread?

>>61025775
>vinyl

>>61027988
(not true btw)

my chink iems sound better than any audiophile trash

>>61025775
>>61025856
TOP FUCKING KEK

>>61027988
Don't spread fake news

>>61025775
Because moralfags are jelly they're not getting that sweet brand-new snatch.

Because a lot of them believe in snake oil and placebos.

>>61027327
>They refuse to accept the fact your average hypex class D amp or crown drivecore amp is more linear with less disortion
That's because, compared to a well designed Class A, it's not.
>more watts/voltage.
That's a better argument, but still not a particularly good one, there's only so much you need if you have high efficiency speakers. (And if you don't, there's no point to having a great amp in the first place)

>>61029656
High efficiency does not mean "sounds better"

>>61029741
Strictly speaking, no, it doesn't. But in the real world, high-efficiency speakers do actually sound better than 89 dB @ 1 watt vuvuzelas.

Dynamic range matters, and you're always going to get a better dynamic range out of a speaker that's more efficient vs one that's less efficient, with the same power handling capability.

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I listen to music on my runs with $4 earbuds I get from Dollar General. When they inevitably die after six months of absorbing sweat, I go spend $4 on another pair. Audiophiles are odd ducks.

>>61029656
>Well designed class A
Any amplifier that uses 90% of its power draw as heat is not well designed. Class A is a relic, class D is the future especially considering hypex and crown have solved all of the kinks involving switching power supplies.

>>61030061
just get into the 5 dollar ranger and get some chinks iems, like night and day

>>61029542
My chink IEMs we're $350 and do sound better than most sennheiser offerings (more linear too). That being said, the chink IEMs are more expensive.

>>61030061
Some people like to enjoy listening to music. That being said, there are plenty of competent earbuds and IEMs that are cheap.

>>61029805
The issue is that it's completely dependant on amplification, and if low sensitivity speakers are driven by a robust amplifier they will sound just as good and/or better than the high sensitivity designs if it measures better in other parameters.

>>61026050
>>>>/r/TheDonald

>>61030107
>Any amplifier that uses 90% of its power draw as heat is not well designed.
For a start, not all Class A amps are that power-inefficient, secondly, it depends on what you value more from the amplifier - power efficiency or linearity. There is simply no getting around the fact that switching power supplies switch. That doesn't happen in a Class A circuit, and a well-designed, solid state Class A amp can be around 15% - 20% power efficient (theoretical maximum is 25%), and it will be more linear and less distorted than a Class D will ever be.
>>61030183
Until you fry the voice coils because they don't have enough power-handling to reach the same SPL as a more sensitive speaker.

There is no good argument for low-sensitivity speakers. Power efficiency is a good thing for speakers and a bad thing for amplifiers (Nothing will ever beat a well-designed, solid state Class A amp for accuracy) if you're trying to achieve the most accurate sound reproduction possible.
>if it measures better in other parameters.
So you're intent on comparing apples to oranges in the first place, it seems.
If everything else is equal, a higher-sensitivity speaker is a better option.
Especially when it comes to dynamic speakers, due to the fact that cone excursion introduces distortion in the first place, therefore the less work the speaker has to do to produce a higher output, the less distortion it'll be introducing.

>>61030138
>more expensive stuff is better

who would have thunk

>>61030517
It's not always true... We all know about "Monster Cables" and other such pointless bullshit.
But yeah, if you want something that is truly high quality, it's not going to be cheap.

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I find these people hilarious.
Later in the thread they praise him for providing his expertise.

>>61030592
If you don't know malloc allocates memory on the device. It's a rather high level function. Same with new in C++.
The thing is most C++ compilers support mos parts of C. And all the popular compilers i know of just calls malloc behind new.

So it's literally just a different name for doing the same thing.

>>61030164
ur such special snowflake

>>61030425
Classification of amplifiers is based solely on power consumption vs heat. What the fuck are you smoking.

Also, there are plenty of reasons to trade efficiency for linearity and less distortion, considering solid state amplification means that anyone can get lots of power that's linear for cheap.

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>>61025775
Because they make us (/g/0 feel uncool.

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Doesn't help that certain people reinforce stereotypes

>>61025775
They have sex with underage headphones you sick fuck! You should all be in jail!

analog is superior and under the influence of psychedelics digital sounds especially tinny and empty

>>61025775
They're elitist hipsters with special snowflake syndrome who circlejerk around overpriced headphones and placebo high quality audio formats.

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https://chiru.no

>>61031719
>Psychedelic drugs somehow make two formats outputting analog sound sound different from one another.

Um. No.

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>>61032394
I drop acid while listening to chiru.no on my SR-007 bro, I'm basically god

>>61025973
you made me laugh. THANK YOU!

>>61031719
You're a fucking idiot. What ever "psychedelics" you've been taking haven't been real.

>>61032463
I mean... Good for you i guess?

I tend not to get good complexes on acid or 2cs. Probably because im not a faggot.

>>61032565
God*

>>61030768
>Classification of amplifiers is based solely on power consumption vs heat.
WRONG.
You're probably trolling, but regardless...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_amplifier_classes

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>>61025775
1. because we're poor
2. because we live in a small space
3. because we are afraid to leave and go outside
4. because audiophile equipment is expensive and requires space and some trading skill
5. because we have no interest in music fidelity beyond the constraints of 1 through 4
6. because we have never heard anything good that wasn't headphones that cost less than $500 or that wasn't some logitech shit

>>61032463
>SR-007
Listened to those in Tokyo, they're really good

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>>61025973

>>61032348
>Ryuichi Sakamoto
Keep this wonderful man out of your shitposts

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>>61030592
>new sounds better than malloc

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>>61025973
ayy