Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating?

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The people actually making the music: I mastered this album with the $100 audio technica headphones and checked if it sounded good in my car

  Self proclaimed audiophiles listening to that same music: for about twenty thousand dollars you can get a basic setup, sure. But to really understand the artist’s intention you need at least a hundred grand

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally.

    And for those songs with too much dynamic range for a car, well, that’s what the volume knob is for!

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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As long as I don’t have to consider any tetrapods.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Songs are also mixed and mastered using equipment (headphones or monitors) with the flatest reponse as possible. You don’t need super expensive gear to hear a song was meant to be heard.

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  • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    audiophile is just a synonym for a person who hates bass

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s someone who doesn’t hate bass, they just hate your bass?

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      • miked@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hater.

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      • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A jealous fisherman

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As an audiophile, this alt-j tune has great bass on a good system. (And when not played from YouTube) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDunSOoXNo

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are people who will sell you a volume knob, machined from specially selected wood with exactly the right qualities, which will attenuate harmful resonances or otherwise purify the music you’re listening to. Others will sell you gold-plated SPDIF optical cables, or oxygen-free Ethernet cables which give the audio you’re streaming a warmer, fuller, more alive sound or something (presumably the expensively sourced copper in the cables somehow flips the bits in packets containing audio so that the audio the DAC reconstructs from the data is more aesthetically fulfilling). And if you’re a true ‘phile, you can pay the electric company to replace the transformer your house is connected to with one that delivers electricity with superior acoustic properties.

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• ech@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just remembered this review I ran across years ago for “audio rocks”. Audiophiles are a strange bunch.

  adventuresinhifiaudio.com/…/audiophile-rocks-down…

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