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Jan 10, 2018

rastusWait how is mp3 going to maximize their returns

Jan 10, 2018

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https://exposedvocals.com/features/mp3-destroy-music-industry/

Jan 10, 2018

samhithLow memory requirements for music with the soul ripped out of it, ‘lord the money we will save in flash chips:))‘, crap DAC - no life in it anyway/so use whatever is less than dirt cheap; who cares, amp up the bass with piss opamps through some @buds@ and call it music! And,, we will call it MP3 - Mass Profits Cubed!
“Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?…“

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Jan 10, 2018

rastuswhat soul are you talking about . its flacs that are tapping into surplus . flac costs much much more to buy digitally than mp3 when both are converted from the same master . It dosent cost them anything extra to convert to flac . and what flash chips are you talking about man 90% of audiophile setups dont have flash memory built into them and use something like an sd card or a hard disk. besides dacs are cheap af at component cost its the marketing that feeds you all sorts of crap to tell you you can hear something insane out of them when the only change you can hear will be less noise and distortion . Now you got people running around hyping about a technology they dont understand being fed bullshit from biased reviewers spending their hard earned money on crap that actually dosent make a difference
an ak4490 costs 3 $ and most implementations cost 30$ at component level . and yet they go for hundreds of dollars the only necessity of an external dac is to remove noise.

Jan 10, 2018

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Jan 10, 2018

samhithTalking history here; the little MP3 players that have brought you to defend this slop. The demise of quality music, with the introduction of MP3. Today we are finally seeing the resurgence of HiFi, and the industry is slowly giving us a little of what we want. Ripping of SACD’s woke them up... https://exposedvocals.com/features/mp3-destroy-music-industry/

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Jan 10, 2018

rastuswhy are you soo persistent with that link . it dosent even get technical . and no i dont have mp3 players most people dont . Hifi is something you can maybe experience after a couple a thousand dollars . you dont need nor can you hear 24bit audio . the entire audiophile community has lost its focus and is just running behind numbers and placebo . i mean 32 bit 768khz really . you really seem like you have been brainwashed by sponsored media

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Jan 10, 2018

samhithCome back and talk to me when you have truly listened to the music, and,, this is no longer your sound system: " i have a pair of ath m30x and audio comes from a dell inspiron 3542 . "

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Jan 10, 2018

rastushey man do you understand what a dac or an amplifier actually is or how it works . as i said i may be able to tell the difference on a setup worth a couple of thousand dollars but it wont be by a large margin enough to justify it. do a blindfold test man you just wont be able to tell the difference b/w 320 and flac . stop chugging snake oil bullshit from head fi like a pleb and do some research into the semiconductor aspect of it. a good pair of headphones will benefit from good amplification but thats about it . dacs just form an analog signal from data more sampling means less guesswork but modern dacs are good enough that their guesswork is quite accurate to the master.
you simply wont be able to tell the difference between a 1000$ dac and a 100$ dac (a well implemented one) same goes for amps headphones on the other hand are a different ballgame and need research semiconductor design is saturated

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Jan 10, 2018

samhithStop fighting it, be like Zenith-Lucifer, it's not complicated nor expensive, and listen... https://www.massdrop.com/talk/2212/lets-see-yalls-rigs#imagecarousel

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Jan 11, 2018

rastussure that amp will sound good and wont clip and so will the hd58x . i am talking about the format that he feeds it . more sampling or bit depth does not equal better audio . you should do a blind test and try to tell the difference between 24/96 and 320mp3

Jan 11, 2018

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Jan 11, 2018

samhithYou have this totally in reverse, move up from the "Dell Sound" to "Zenith-Lucifer" level, and then you do the blind test. I am blind testing between native DSD 2.8 and up-sampled to 5.6, already been there, done that...
I apologized to my home system, after feeding it my kid's MP3 crap gadget output on request back-then, damn that stuff was cringe-worthy...
Melophobia is real... perhaps you have a form of this manifesting itself as a fear of quality music?
Because this statement of yours, is the most nonsensical thing I have seen here on MD, or anywhere for a while: "i download 24/96 flacs and rip them to mp3 320 or aac ( only because i want to know it was mastered well) if i am sure the master is good i just download mp3 320 cbr all played from my dell"
The only real reason to down-sample, is to be able to make files compatible with hardware that cannot accept higher sample rates/formats. Yes, in movies they do things like make songs sound as they should when played on AM radios, for authenticity, is this what you are going for?
This is right in there with; I take the New York Philharmonic and give them Emmet Otter's Jug Band instruments to make music... to see if they are any good.

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