"audio magic" is an appropriate name, since this stuff operates exclusively on wishful thinking
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 17 October 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
someone really ought to do some kind of ethnographic study of this subculture
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 17 October 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
im going to hazard a guess and say old white ppl
― micah, Saturday, 18 October 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
GIS for "men with high-end stereos" both confirms your suspicions with some stereotypical lookin bros and suggests that actually men of all ethnicities seek that elusive high-end sound
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Saturday, 18 October 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
http://www.tonepublications.com/blog/the-future-of-audio-is-women/
― and in his absence, she (Lee626), Saturday, 18 October 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
Audiophile buddy of mine just crowed about his recent acquisition of these (for his speakers) on FB:
http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/departments.asp?dept=96
No idea if this is legit or snakeoil, completely out of my realm.
― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Spiky feet for speakers and turntables aren't snakeoil. These are a bit pricey though.
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
This photo from their site is O_o though: (url is a million miles long, this may not work)
https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8pwoFJtUXHUAAHWJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIybGM0Mm02BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM0Nzk1NDU1ZGU1ZjhmMDBmZWQwNzNlMjA0YTU3NWI3MQRncG9zAzQEaXQDYmluZw--?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dmapleshade%2Baudio%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26hsimp%3Dyhs-001%26hspart%3Dmozilla%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D4&w=1068&h=1600&imgurl=www.mapleshadestore.com%2Fimages%2Fmaingallery%2FMainGalleryImages-1.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mapleshadestore.com%2Fgalleries.php&size=496.9KB&name=Below+are+some+featured+images+of+our+%3Cb%3Eaudio%3C%2Fb%3E+products.+To+view+customer+...&p=mapleshade+audio&oid=4795455de5f8f00fed073e204a575b71&fr2=piv-web&fr=&tt=Below+are+some+featured+images+of+our+%3Cb%3Eaudio%3C%2Fb%3E+products.+To+view+customer+...&b=0&ni=21&no=4&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11c69kpjm&sigb=13n0cccmr&sigi=1226pt8av&sigt=12huedb9v&sign=12huedb9v&.crumb=p/veegT1alS&fr2=piv-web&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla
― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
Enh, thought so.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8peoFJtUIjcAmW.JzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIybGM0Mm02BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM0Nzk1NDU1ZGU1ZjhmMDBmZWQwNzNlMjA0YTU3NWI3MQRncG9zAzQEaXQDYmluZw--?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dmapleshade%2Baudio%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26hsimp%3Dyhs-001%26hspart%3Dmozilla%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D4&w=1068&h=1600&imgurl=www.mapleshadestore.com%2Fimages%2Fmaingallery%2FMainGalleryImages-1.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mapleshadestore.com%2Fgalleries.php&size=496.9KB&name=Below+are+some+featured+images+of+our+%3Cb%3Eaudio%3C%2Fb%3E+products.+To+view+customer+...&p=mapleshade+audio&oid=4795455de5f8f00fed073e204a575b71&fr2=piv-web&fr=&tt=Below+are+some+featured+images+of+our+%3Cb%3Eaudio%3C%2Fb%3E+products.+To+view+customer+...&b=0&ni=21&no=4&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11c69kpjm&sigb=13n0cccmr&sigi=1226pt8av&sigt=12huedb9v&sign=12huedb9v&.crumb=p/veegT1alS&fr2=piv-web&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla
― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
I give up.
This is as good a link as any:
http://mapleshadestore.com/galleries.php
― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
There is a certain irony in someone buying Amish crafted wooden racks for their hi-fi gear.
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Spikes under your speakers, spikes under your turntable if you really must, but this is really overkill.
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
If an amplifier on spikes isn't snake oil, nothing is.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
A friend-of-a-record-collector-friend had a concrete pillar built from his basement floor into his living room on which to place his turntable. For me, he's the winner of the Batshit Snakeoil Turntable Stability Olympics until someone builds a turntable housing into the pillar itself.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
I just want to start a band called Threaded Megafeet.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:27 (nine years ago) link
I hope record collector friend used Geopolymer concrete, that so-called "high performance cellular" concrete has a quite pronounced drop off in the 16-22kHz range.....
― m0stlyClean, Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
Reducing vibrations on a turntable is definitely not snake oil but it is diminishing returns past a certain point.
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Thursday, 25 December 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
I hang all of my equipment off of acoustically isolated roof anchors with lots of sonically invisible string.
Coma-style.
― GUARD YOUR EARS!!! ...with Gorman's. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 25 December 2014 05:06 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if your hi-hi system works better the closer you are to the equator.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 25 December 2014 10:51 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I mean decoupling and trying to isolate from vibration is actual pretty normal, same reason they make shock mounts on microphones
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 December 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
prbly don't need to isolate your amplifier though
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 December 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
b-b-but earth hum percolates through the substrate of the transistors and polymodulates the incoming signal in the sub-bass otherwise!
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Thursday, 25 December 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
the percolation of earth hum into one's transistor substrates can be such a bother to my ears
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 December 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
thank god I always have my audiophile geodes with me
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 December 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
Yeah amps no but speakers and turntables it's not some esoteric thing, plus w turntables it's good so the needle won't skip if you have kids jumping around & stuff
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 December 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Kris_Kross_Jump.jpg
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Thursday, 25 December 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
RIP Chris Kelly :(Sad the way things turn out
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 December 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
That tuner in the middle of the Maple Shade gallery looks really cool, hate to think of what it costs.
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 25 December 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
this is basically the home audio equivalent of morgellon's disease
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_to_storage.htm
― The Understated Twee Hotel On A Mountain (silby), Sunday, 4 January 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
ahhhh hah i came right in here when i saw that
now where are my gold cat 5 cables
― Brakhage, Sunday, 4 January 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link
OK that's amazing
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 4 January 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
this orange juice tastes horrible after brushing my teeth, and now there are even fewer answers why
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 January 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
Thought about this thread earlier when I was reading about Sonys new $1200 Walkman
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 02:44 (nine years ago) link
I was just about to post that.
http://gizmodo.com/sony-walkman-reborn-again-as-a-1200-hi-res-audio-han-1677643981
The market for a $1200 portable music player can't be very big.
― skip, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 03:18 (nine years ago) link
especially one whose only reason for existence is the rights to the name "Walkman" - a brand name that has little to no connection with audiophile sound.
― skip, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 03:20 (nine years ago) link
I was kinda looking at this as a potential replacement for my iPod classic when that eventually dies, but at $1000 they can fuck right off.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
can it play PONO files?
― m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
I was kinda looking at this as a potential replacement for my iPod classic
For $200 you can get a Fiio X1 with a 128gb micro SD card - plays FLAC, too. Fuck a Walkman.
― pelvic slang (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 04:01 (nine years ago) link
(I just had to replace my iPod classic with a Fiio and am pretty happy with it, although the operating system's really basic compared to the iPod.)
saw what you want about pono but the neil remasters sound amazing
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
Per that Gizmodo piece, "Your ears can only ear so much."
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
that was an interesting read
but yeah as i've said upthread a few times the thing that bums me out about this is that all this snakeoil crap convinces ppl that no one can really tell the difference between a good quality playback system and shitty skullcandy heaphones or a bose sound dock, and it's like man you are literally spoiled for choice today with more cheap options for great sound, analog or digital, than ever
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
xposts isn't there a fiio which can take two micro SDs at once? 2 x 128 GB = my beautiful dream
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
although this morning i just experienced a micro sd failure for the first time when one of my 128 GB cards fried itself while docked in my macbook slot, got super hot and now is dead to the world. But I've been pretty happy with the "assortment of micro SD cards in a Sansa Clip" approach in the 9 months I've been doing it.
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
taking mental notes on this "Filo" for when my Cowon O2 eventually dies
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
oh it really is "Fiio", sorry
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Still love my shitty skull candy Titan earbuds with their not flat frequency response and indestructibility thank you.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah but could get get monoprice ones that are better for peanuts
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Agreed, there are a lot of great choices for a wide variety of price points. At some point there is a diminishing return per dollar, but there is slightly improved potential performance for those who are willing to pay more for certain things. I'm just relieved that I really don't need to replace/upgrade my 8,000 albums of 16/44.1 FLAC files that took me 25 years to accumulate.
Considering how great gadgets like Fiio sound, I have spent more than I really need to on a Meier Corda headphone amp/DAC set and various headphones, but am happy with the results.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link