We need physical audio kill switches

Post by rollcat » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 11:30 PM UTC

auxym wrote: post #289

Judgmentality wrote: post #80

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I don't think there's much benefit to being an audiophile, unless you're so rich you can actually enjoy your insanely expensive setup in your sound-proofed room with your specially-purchased lossless audio sources. Luckily, very few people who claim to be audiophiles can actually hear the difference in a blind test. https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...

Heh, back in the day we purchased those "CD" things and they were lossless. Actually, they didn't employ any compression at all!

Post by pbronez » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 11:37 PM UTC

Natales wrote: post #172

Judgmentality wrote: post #80

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I don't think there's much benefit to being an audiophile, unless you're so rich you can actually enjoy your insanely expensive setup in your sound-proofed room with your specially-purchased lossless audio sources. Luckily, very few people who claim to be audiophiles can actually hear the difference in a blind test. https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...

Don't judge all of us audiophiles with a blanket statement. Yes, measured hearing capacity is definitely a key metric to know (why invest in super tweeters when you can't hear past 18KHz for example), but room acoustics is probably the very next thing I'd look at. I've seen so much "expensive" gear in rooms that are absolutely horrid in terms of sound reflections. Just a carpet, curtains or a couple of cheap sound pa…

Post by oasisbob » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 11:43 PM UTC

lopmotr wrote: post #42

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My Topping DAC/Amp has an optical rotary encoder for volume control and it is awful, it will randomly jump 10x the amount of steps you have rotated it, sometimes even in the opposite direction. There's something to be said for a good old fashioned potentiometer.

Potentiometers have that problem too when they get worn, which they always do if they also double as on/off switch like on most cheap radios.

Post by frankosaurus » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 11:46 PM UTC

lozf wrote: post #271

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Nice, I need to come up with a solution for this on desktop. My dream is a Chrome extension which recognizes Youtube ads and auto-mutes while they are playing.

I open youtube with `mpv` (which uses youtube-dl) ...Ads are automatically skipped, and there's a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for skipping & fine-grained speed control etc. I have a single-button shell alias that calls it with appropriate options, and a slightly longer one that adds a dynamic range compression filter which is sometimes handy.

Post by therealx » Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 12:18 AM UTC

stingraycharles wrote: post #154

toxicFork wrote: post #109

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I was working as a video/audio engineer for a bit and for Bluetooth especially the latency is insane. For some devices it was around half a second. I don't think I have seen two seconds though. The main thing was that we would need to stream the audio first, wait for the latency duration, then start showing video frames. If you press pause, the audio would stop after that much time. I haven't checked if some devices…

I have stopped using Bluetooth audio altogether. I feel like it’s a major step back in audio quality, but maybe you may be the best person to ask: for someone who appreciates high quality music codecs on eg spotify, what can I do to make this work over Bluetooth? I have some Bose QC2 headphones and as far as I can tell it’s pretty much impossible to get anything over 128kbits. Is there something I’m overlooking here?