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Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by fredsted »

jf- wrote: post #71
baxtr wrote: post #2

> Right now I'm absolutely astonished at how difficult it appears to be to just listen to music with a good pair of headphones. Is it not 2018? The media is full of talk about preposterously ambitious ideas such as AI and self-driving cars and yet I can't even listen to a fuck-damn music track? O_o I enjoyed reading this. The whole time I thought however: that’s not an issue on my Apple devices. Then I read: > If any…

> APPLE IS A SYMBOL OF PRETENTIOUSNESS AND IGNORANCE - YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR PHONE WORKS Is this guy for real? I don’t know the nitty gritty of how most of the things I use work, I’m only concerned that they work. Sounds like sour grapes.

The guy is soldering a bunch of stuff to listen to music, so he's obviously not Apple's target market. Maybe he likes over engineered solutions?

At least, it sounds like he just likes being contrarian.

Android or Linux is not helping him much in this case, that's for sure.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by seanp2k2 »

Latteland wrote: post #259
jjeaff wrote: post #233

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Gold plating? Ridiculous. All my cables are mineral water shielded.

Ha, loser! My cables were made in the same places that they make the best cuban cigars, naked beautiful people of the appropriate genders make the best cigars and the best cables. My ethernet cable is sex on wheels.

https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2015/07/24/audioquest-diamond... a review of >$1k cat7 patch cables

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by patchtopic »

I think the author of the article just wanted to get out the soldering iron.. as otherwise a few minutes on a search engine would have revealed the existence of the CMOY headphone buffers and a plethora of similar devices for laptops and phones already out there, including ones with their own high quality DACs.. unless there is something I'm missing here?

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by seanp2k2 »

tcoff91 wrote: post #307
joecool1029 wrote: post #249

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Its going to sound crazy but stick a paperclip into the lightning port and scrape along the top. I bet a small amount of dirt will come out. These ports pick up some lint and dust after a few months and it packs in pretty hard. Eventually it will give you connection issues.

I would say use one of those brushes that are for flossing in between teeth, that’s what I use and it works great.

Use a cotton swab with some of the material plucked off to make it thinner and soak it in CAIG DeoxIT or MG Chemicals Electrosolve (you can typically buy these from Fry's / MicroCenter / online). These chemicals are made to actually clean and de-oxidize contacts.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by seanp2k2 »

jakobegger wrote: post #210
orbital-decay wrote: post #193

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>exposing proprietary application APIs which fundamentally make applications unportable and thus contributing to the rise of Electron/RN. I don't think there's anything modern about this.

Yeah, there is no standard for high level APIs provided by operating systems. Everybody has always just done their own stuff. And it's not like the Open Source world is any better, with Linux and the BSDs coming up with their own solutions for common issues. There's POSIX which is pretty great because it at least allows to write somewhat portable networking & io code. But for pretty much anything else, you'll have to…

Even within Linux, consider Wayland vs Xorg, systemd, etc.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by seanp2k2 »

snvzz wrote: post #235
013a wrote: post #156

I have a pair of powered studio monitors (Mackie MR5), and I completely relate to this problem. Many PCs and phones will emit an audible hissing noise while plugged in. I've tested on a dozen different devices, with integrated and external DACs, five hundred dollar sound cards, massively shielded cables, practically every modern OS you can name, tweaking every audio setting exposed to me. The only devices that work p…

aliexpress, topping dx3 pro, solved. Motherboard audio and soundcards are just terrible.

I typically recommend Fiio gear for people just getting into higher-end audio. They have some great stuff for https://www.fiio.com/amp

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by seanp2k2 »

frio wrote: post #294
SSLy wrote: post #280

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That would cut into the Beets business.

They don't support aptX, but Beats and others (the Sony 1000Xs, for instance) usually support AAC over Bluetooth which is similar in quality.

FYI for anyone wanting higher-quality over Bluetooth, make sure that your devices all support a compatible codec: https://www.audioholics.com/audio-technologies/bluetooth-aud... e.g. iDevices support AAC but not aptX, while Android devices are typically the opposite. See also: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-aptx-aac-bluetooth-a...

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by gymshoes »

dextersgenius wrote: post #35

> _It turns out that all music players on Android actually play music using the Android-media-player-service._ This is inaccurate. Neutron music player bypasses Android's Media Player APIs and talks directly to your DAC and plays music without resampling (if the DAC supports it). Never had any audio popping or explosions using Neutron, and I've tried it on 6 different devices so far without any issues (LG G3, Nexus 6…

I think Poweramp does this as well

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Post by setquk »

samatman wrote: post #271
setquk wrote: post #177

Just buy an iPhone. Oh no wait. No hole that decent headphones fit in. Have a 6s with a dicky headphone hole and some nice HD25’s. Not sure where to go. I feel like my time on this planet is nearly over.

Suggestion if you haven't: take a plastic dental pick and try to get lint out of the headphone jack. I've had to do this sooner or later to every phone I've owned, except my latest, which lacks this port entirely.

Yeah I’ve done that. No luck. I’ve used switch cleaner on swabs as well. Think it needs a new port. However I can’t be bothered to take it to Apple store yet.

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Post by [deleted] »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #344
jstarfish wrote: post #329

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Those aren't positives. It does nobody any good to have 1000 books on a single device if the whole thing is subject to revocation, especially when you paid full retail price for the privilege of being allowed to read it. This is regression. Previously you paid your $10 and received a paper book. You could read it, re-read it, lend it, sell it, or burn it for warmth. You owned it for as long as you kept it dehydrated.…

> Whether most people can tell the difference between 320k and lossless is irrelevant-- the retail price is the same for a technically inferior product. This is a regression. My camera can save images as either raw files or maximum-quality jpeg's. I know for a fact that I will never need to edit these photos later on. Which format is superior? Useless data is of no value to anyone, and data we cannot perceive is usel…

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