Reading reviews for headphones amplified make me feel like my brain is slowly liquified. What's the point of these tubes there? I can bet that the tubes aren't even soldered into anything and are there just for swag. The reviews are also as retarded as it can possibly come:
"I left the amp to warm up for 6 hours with my hardware white noise generator and it still produces suboptimal sound."
WHY ARE AUDIOPHILES SO GODDAMN FUCKING RETARDED? Is this how computer people sound too to the uninitiated? What the ever living fuck?
"I left the amp to warm up for 6 hours with my hardware white noise generator and it still produces suboptimal sound."
WHY ARE AUDIOPHILES SO GODDAMN FUCKING RETARDED? Is this how computer people sound too to the uninitiated? What the ever living fuck?
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@newt
There's educated audiophiles, and then there's placebo peddlers.
What you encountered is the latter.
The former will tell you that things like tubes are bs. Anything over CD quality is imperceptible. You don't need special cables to carry digital signals etc.
@newt
If you think you can hear above 22khz, good luck with that delusion.
@alyx hahaha no, I don't think that. I'm lucky if I can still hear even 18kHz. But that's beside the point.
The idea behind using highres audio is that lowpass filters eat shit, and if you record live instruments at 44kHz, it's possible that some harmonics will wrap into lower frequencies and add noise. It's just easier record stuff in the highest possible sampling frequency and filter out that shit in digital.
https://producelikeapro.com/blog/digital-audio-basics-aliasing-explained/
The idea behind using highres audio is that lowpass filters eat shit, and if you record live instruments at 44kHz, it's possible that some harmonics will wrap into lower frequencies and add noise. It's just easier record stuff in the highest possible sampling frequency and filter out that shit in digital.
https://producelikeapro.com/blog/digital-audio-basics-aliasing-explained/
@alyx although, switching from 16bit sample size to 24bits definitely adds resolution and this can even be audible in some cases. These days there's literally no reason not to use 44kHz/24bit encoding for storing music.
@newt
>24bits definitely adds resolution
Yes, but it's not actually needed. To properly make full use of that added resolution, you'd need to blast music loud enough to incur hearing damage.
