Post ATXMtsACyaWNsA9BpY by drwho@hackers.town
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(DIR) Post #ATX0oSdeFjbEGgvq5Y by dan@discuss.systems
2023-03-12T02:54:35Z
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This is your periodic reminder that 10 years ago an audiophile forum started debating which versions of memcpy had the highest sound quality.And that C++ new sounds better than malloc.https://www.audioasylum.com/messages/pcaudio/119979/
(DIR) Post #ATXMq3IrcLcjGNNFuy by ieure@retro.social
2023-03-12T03:22:26Z
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@dan oh god, lol, lmaoDid you see the audiophile SSD that made the rounds a couple years ago? They said it sounded best with the OS loaded onto it and music on a different drive entirely.
(DIR) Post #ATXMtrbp2R129W3jEW by dan@discuss.systems
2023-03-12T03:29:00Z
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@ieure Don't miss the world of audiophile-grade ethernet switches! https://jcat.eu/product/m12-switch-gold/
(DIR) Post #ATXMtsACyaWNsA9BpY by drwho@hackers.town
2023-03-12T04:34:27Z
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@dan @ieure This kind of thing makes me wish I didn't have a conscience.
(DIR) Post #ATXMypmnFAndwjYq5w by ieure@retro.social
2023-03-12T05:08:26Z
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@drwho @dan Think of it as a guerrilla progressive tax system.
(DIR) Post #ATXMyqUOd3g67xxf3g by ieure@retro.social
2023-03-12T05:10:00Z
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@drwho @dan You'd be using rich dipshits' money to create blue-collar manufacturing jobs. Seems like a win/win to me.
(DIR) Post #ATXTluQ7Oxz6EYjroO by feld@bikeshed.party
2023-03-12T12:12:30.960609Z
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Bring back the asylums
(DIR) Post #ATXToIXKhzh7bnFibY by Unarma@eientei.org
2023-03-12T12:12:51.914453Z
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@feld @dan cant find the funny, point me to it
(DIR) Post #ATXXIZqnCTeZrAU64W by feld@bikeshed.party
2023-03-12T12:51:56.431601Z
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Scroll up, but not too far
(DIR) Post #ATXh5MLN6dG9k87ihU by chtzvt@social.sdf.org
2023-03-12T03:54:28Z
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@dan switched from std::memcpy to Monster’s $60 gold-plated one and I can definitely hear a difference
(DIR) Post #ATXh9n5bbl33qrrVo0 by jonossaseuraava@post.ebin.club
2023-03-12T14:37:28.211436Z
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@dan HiFi is a meme
(DIR) Post #ATXh9uHuqO3SB4fwSu by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-03-12T14:42:32.077507Z
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@jonossaseuraava @dan this is the worst part. Sometimes they discover things that actually do matter, but it’s really hard to tell due to the sheer amount of terminally deranged autism.
(DIR) Post #ATXrjNKBsRrBuVI5cO by xahteiwi@mastodon.social
2023-03-12T07:17:13Z
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@dan Yet another example of how extremism is indistinguishable from its parody.Thanks to @jcfischer for the pointer; this gave me a good chuckle to start my Sunday morning. 🙂
(DIR) Post #ATXrjRldMMBZgmA3wu by jcfischer@social.invisible.ch
2023-03-12T07:23:51Z
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@xahteiwi @dan also at that time the best sounding CD players were cheap CD-ROMs from PCs. Simple reason: They transferred data in 8bits, and fed them to a DAC with an external clock, while audio CDs fed data serial to DAC and clock was derived from bit stream. That led to jitter, while the el-cheapo CD-ROMs had stable clock :)
(DIR) Post #ATXtDPuev1QwZyEmeW by brendan@discuss.systems
2023-03-12T02:59:16Z
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@dan this is breaking my brain worse than when I tried to parse HTML with regular expressions.
(DIR) Post #ATY9eGB4ovt1THjq9w by moffintosh@berserker.town
2023-03-12T20:01:59Z
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@dan Oh I almost forgot about audiotards
(DIR) Post #ATYBXtnXJZ1WEUp280 by ramin_hal9001@emacs.ch
2023-03-12T13:03:58Z
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@xahteiwi @dan @jcfischer > Yet another example of how extremism is indistinguishable from its parody.Yeah, seriously, I thought this was satire at first.I used to joke that your CD player had to be designed such that the laser that read the disk was perfectly in-phase with the laser that wrote the disk or it could negatively impact sound quality. Or that the low-pass filter of your DAC had to be impedance-matched with the ADC circuit that recorded the digital signal.But apparently there are people who would actually believe this.
(DIR) Post #ATYBYO3snLvO5shVlw by jens@social.finkhaeuser.de
2023-03-12T13:12:30Z
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@ramin_hal9001 @xahteiwi @dan @jcfischer Ah, but laser vinyl players.Need I say more?
(DIR) Post #ATYBcD45cduZ99cWUy by blobfrog@blob.cat
2023-03-12T20:24:02.987290Z
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@ramin_hal9001I can sell you a CD player that uses a pickup instead of a laser. @xahteiwi @dan @jcfischer
(DIR) Post #ATYp1RMnTxdmxFOOLw by FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange
2023-03-12T04:37:47Z
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@danThis site is addictive, it led me to https://6moons.com/audioreviews/furutech/rd2.htmlIt's a CD demagnatizer. It removes magnetism from aluminum CDs.
(DIR) Post #ATYp1RyjCvywqt8gTY by ricci@discuss.systems
2023-03-12T05:03:02Z
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@FritzAdalis @dan These people are buying NFTs now
(DIR) Post #ATYp1SOFg2Om8354G8 by gwozniak@discuss.systems
2023-03-12T15:30:20Z
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@ricci @FritzAdalis @dan This reminds me of when I was taking music production in the early 90s and people claimed that vinyl was better than CDs because vinyl captured the frequencies over 100kHz which gives music its flavour and colour.
(DIR) Post #ATYp1Ss1tKDZcP0qfo by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-03-13T03:45:32Z
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@gwozniak @ricci @FritzAdalis @dan Tell that to anyone who had a CD-4 quad setup. 45 kHz audio subcarrier with 15 kHz deviation, typically half-speed mastered in order to get to that point, you needed a special Shibata stylus to get enough response at those frequencies to recover it, and it would wear right off the groove after 10 or so plays.
(DIR) Post #ATZItEmjNG4YF1Wl2O by rich@dcerberus.com
2023-03-13T09:20:14Z
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@dan reminds me of the Monster Cable ads - for digital audio.
(DIR) Post #B270uQdck2dHYHLhYm by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2026-01-09T15:10:23.630049Z
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@dan what if I do zerocopy?