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yeah audiophile can be so may things. To me it means 24bits or more.
More than 21-bits is meaningless. It's all hype beyond 24-bits.
Aside from the Rust aspect (which is cool!), I can't believe we've come this far and still don't have low-latency video conferencing. Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but people talking over each other and the lack of conversational flow drives me crazy with things like hangouts.
>I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?
and to relate to the other post about landlines: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/992778768417722368
>I made a long internal post yesterday about audio latency, and it included “Many people reading this are too young to remember analog local phone calls, and how the lag from cell phones changed conversations.”
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There are hard limits at play. No matter what you do, you can't go from New York to London in less than ~20ms; add video/audio encoding, packet switching, decoding, etc. and it's easy to see why any latency under the 100ms mark at that spatial scale in a scalable, mainstream product would be close to a miracle. The thing is that when we talk in a room, sound will take See also this interesting comment about the feeli…
> it's easy to see why any latency under the 100ms mark at that spatial scale in a scalable, mainstream product would be close to a miracle. It seems normal phones are able to do it, though. At least it seems normal phones suffer less latency problem. In a way, simplicity in technology often means better performance.
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More than 21-bits is meaningless. It's all hype beyond 24-bits.
You might be right, however 16-bit sounds really harsh to my ears, and 24-bits is the only widely used standard, better than 16-bit.
Are they still using WebRTC, just their own implementation? Or have they switched to something else on the wire?
There's a section in the article about it: "In the beginning (or: why we're not WebRTC)"
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The issue with 'military-grade' is that anyone in the military will attest it translates to: Cheapest possible thing that gets the job done. Audiophile grade at least has roots in high fidelity.
> Audiophile grade at least has roots in high fidelity. Does it though? Audiophiles generally seem to eschew fidelity in favour of something that sounds subjectively nice , including the psychoacoustic effects of spending a lot of money. Eg. they seem very fond of "warmth". If you asked me to make something sound "warm", I'd be applying some soft clipping and dampening the top end, not eliminating sources of distorti…
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The issue with 'military-grade' is that anyone in the military will attest it translates to: Cheapest possible thing that gets the job done. Audiophile grade at least has roots in high fidelity.
3DES is still military grade.
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The issue with 'military-grade' is that anyone in the military will attest it translates to: Cheapest possible thing that gets the job done. Audiophile grade at least has roots in high fidelity.
> Audiophile grade at least has roots in high fidelity. Does it though? Audiophiles generally seem to eschew fidelity in favour of something that sounds subjectively nice , including the psychoacoustic effects of spending a lot of money. Eg. they seem very fond of "warmth". If you asked me to make something sound "warm", I'd be applying some soft clipping and dampening the top end, not eliminating sources of distorti…
Also warmth is just a single quality. I have a pair of very accurate “cold” headphones that I prefer for music and a pair of “warm” headphones for electronic music and gaming.
Past the headphones, it is not so much warmth as it is space in the sound for me. My headphone amplifier sounds effortless and that’s the best way I can describe the quality of what I hear.