General computer talk/advice

Personally I like colourful headphones, as long as they sound good. However a lot of them seem to be going for a very compressed sound signature with a frequency response that warps songs heavily. That isn't something I am keen on.

For me bright audio fatigues my ears, flat can sometimes have the same effect. So for me I need headphones that don't cause me physical pain

Being in a small recording studio with a drummer is an absolute nightmare for me since that sort of thing physically hurts. But outside of that I don't ever really feel pain other than when listening to stuff through certain headphones.

 

Isn't 24bit just marketing? Bit like 192kHz, I think I read or saw a video about blind testing these things and it was not possible to hear difference between 16bit or 24bit, I think it was 44.1kHz against 192kHz, but can't remember exactly.

But I guess that depends from individual, I'm quite sure that good quality 16bit 44kHz will be more than enough for most. Just would need to get new USB DAC ordered.

Good bass is not loud bass, it is something that fills the space without sounding bassy, not sure if I can explain that at all, but reason I love sub is I can adjust it independently, especially when gaming there is lot of bass boosted sounds or something like that because with some games and also with some songs, I find need to adjust bass to lesser amount, while with others higher level seems to be that exactly right level.

I'm not audiophile though, at all, but I have come to learn how huge difference very small change in sound can make.

Update: My musical taste is of course such that it might not matter to have very high end hifi, currently playing Stormlord - The Gorgon Cult album.

 

Good bass to me is tight, punchy and doesn't drown out the upper frequencies. Good bass isn't all about having good speakers either, you could have a pair of damn fine loudspeakers or subs but if you pair them with a under powered amp with a weak power supply you're going to get shoddy bass response. That's why I always look for amps with nice big high value filter caps and a nice big beefy transformer. Plenty of reserve power and filtering for when the music gets complicated.

 

What I don't understand is people who do this:


If you can afford 2 sets of Logitech Z5500's then buy some proper speakers instead. For the money they are a really solid system, but for twice the price you can do better than two sets of them.

Then you get people who take that philosophy to the extreme


I must admit though it is hilarious watching everything on the desk shake

 

That when bass floods out mid range to upper range, sounds indeed terrible and sadly that is what these bass boost things tend to do.

Piano is another thing I use my speaker system to. I think I did mention sometime earlier to @aljowen about midi synthesizer, attached is one midi file played by synthesizer, recorded by ALC1150 stereomix, does it sound how you though it would?
It is better than what my cheap Yamaha portable keyboard can do, so I use that synthesizer to play piano sound, instead of Yamaha samples. No, not me playing, I wish, that is pianist called Finley, YT has clips probably.

 

Posers. FEEL THE BASS BRO. *Plays boring tune with some 50hz bass notes*

 

I have a Yamaha P50-M piano tone generator, its pretty ancient by today's standards though


I really should learn how to play piano some day. I'll add it to the list of things...

 

I'll admit, synthesizers are impressive but to me they just sound off. I can't really describe it, but when compared to the classical records I have they just don't sound the same as a real analogue Piano, granted they do sound almost as good, but just not as lively.

 

The difference in resolution between 16 and 24 is within human hearing. I think the difference a human can hear is meant to taper off from about 17 or 18 bit per person dependant. Humans can hear upto 20khz again per person (i myself have a reduced hearing range) but the higher frequency outputs is in order to address aliasing. A 22khz DAC cannot produce a 22khz sine wave, it can barely reproduce a 4khz one faithfully.

 

Well in fairness the one above is over 20 years old in design.

 

For my poor ears, difference is like if sound would hesitate to spread out, what ever that might mean, but difference between Virtual midi synth with Salamander Piano and real piano recording is that + of course lack of reverb, adding reverb helps a lot, but still there is that tiny thing that makes quite bit of difference.
Wins cheap instrument sounds by a mile though.
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Oh yes, OT thing, how you get words inside the grey spoiler boxes? I tried = but that clearly was not it or I applied it wrong.

 

Spoiler: this is a spoiler on how to create spoilers

Just use spoiler tags

click reply to see text formatting

 

Why I did not though of that, cool, thx! It seems I missed only "" part. I guess next I need to look into table formatting of posts as my performance testing information is growing rather large.
Wish I could afford to get different kind of hardware for testing purposes, but I guess that stuff is for not so poor fellas.

 

I don't think the forum supports tables but I would be more than happy to be corrected on that. The Wiki does support tables but not all table features are supported.

 

Seems to be so, at least there is no apparent button for it.

What I would like to do is to get one spoiler starting from left aligment and next spoiler to be at same line at right of it, but I guess it is not possible because how spoilers take space when opened, for that table would be useful because now post becomes lot longer than needed.


At least table based on this is not working:
http://www.bbcode.org/examples/?id=14

 

That would be really cool for the repository to be able to have tabs within the description.

However I think in reality no one will read that much. You should ideally be able to fit everything worthwhile in not a lot of space. Especially since you can separate updates from the description.

If you need to embed a table just put it in a jpeg.

 

I accidentally dropped a coin in my printer and cant get it out, but I really have to print an essay. Should I risk it???

 

You've got a coin op printer? That thing must be ancient.

 

Speaking of coin operated things:

It was free AND it works. No quarters required if you know the trick and no, it's not a quarter on a string. It's easier.

 

Whoa... Free!?
Let me guess... the trick is opening the coin door and triggering a credit?