http://machinadynamica.com/machina44.htm
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lololololol
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
"The very best sound was obtained when I slightly loosened the screws on the Duplex Covers. And they sound great!!.
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― morris pavilion, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
lolololol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
every product on the site is like New Hope for the Ape-Eared
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i love that website! check out this fancy table: http://machinadynamica.com/machina25.htm
it's supposed to isolate your amplifier from vibrations, "especially the 0 -10 Hz variety produced by Earth's crust movement, traffic, subways, tides, etc. "
how a spring could cancel out waves slower than 1 Hz?
― elan, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
but the best is this "teleportation tweak" http://machinadynamica.com/machina60.htm
― elan, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
everything on there is great but I'm still standing by the Tru-Tone Duplex cover as the most balls-out
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_12_3/marigo-labs-signature-3d-mat-7-2005.html
― ciderpress, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wait though codename turquoise is pretty fucking rad
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Brilliant Pebbles is my favorite one on that site i think
― ciderpress, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
From cidepress' link, this was amusing:
"Where most audiophiles would agree, however, is that tweaks are a minor aspect of system building. Defined by the dictionary in Microsoft Word® as "a slight adjustment or change in..."
italics mine.
― Clay, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://machinadynamica.com/water.gif for brains
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Somewhere, audiophile dude pushes the leather sofa away from the wall, sees four-socket outlet, shrieks.
― bendy, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, these are great, but you don't have to spend a lot of money to improve sound:
http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/Free_Techniques/Free_Techniques.html
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 18 November 2007 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy shit the Teleportation Tweak! We are dealing with <i>balls</i> here, gentlemen. Big, round, shiny balls, of finest brass, lovingly hand-polished to a mirror shine by a taskforce of brilliant Sound Artisans. These balls can be yours for the astonishingly low price of $680 (Big Shiny Brass Balls are not subject to our 30-day money-back guarantee)
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 18 November 2007 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
it doesn't actually take any courage to be a con man, is the thing. you just have to really, really hate everybody.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 18 November 2007 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The interesting thing about these tweaks is that they abandon the pretense of scientific support. Whereas w/ feet for speaker stands in Stereophile or whatever they'll be some physicist explaining how the damping works, here's it's just like, Hey, put this magic clock in the room and it'll improve the sound. I love it.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 18 November 2007 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, maybe I'm Billy-doesn't-get-it, but is this site real or an elaborate spoof?
― Matt #2, Sunday, 18 November 2007 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I had initially assumed spoof, but I followed some links and poked around and it appears to be real, or at least elaborate enough a spoof to include three or four different sites. Stereophile had an article on some of these tweaks a few years ago anyway:
http://www.stereophile.com/news/10415/
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 18 November 2007 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
even if it is a spoof there's certainly enough real snake-oil products with extremely similar purposes/explanations
here's a collection of some more: http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm
― ciderpress, Sunday, 18 November 2007 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i know someone who swears by this .... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280182123367&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=018
― zappi, Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"extremely flat"
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 December 2007 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't even know what "a richer, fuller sound, with less emphasis of detail" means. it's supposed to be a good thing?
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 13 December 2007 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
My latest tweak = this chair;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Photo624.jpg
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 13 December 2007 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm actually buying a glass platter for my turntable. i might even buy that mat for it. i'm a sucka 4 luv.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
actually the chair i'm assuming was a joke, but honestly i was suprised how much getting speaker stands and "correctly" positioning my chair i listen in and the speakers in the room made a HUGE difference in how good things sounded.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
The chair's totally not a joke; it's expensive and comfortable and easily moved but it's not likely to make me fall asleep in it (no headrest); if I'm comfortable and awake, I can concentrate on listening more. I bought it (almost) with the sole intention of it being a 'headphones' chair.
But yeah, basic physics says position your speakers correctly and sit in the right spot; you simply don't get stereo-imaging without it.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/audiophiles-cant-tell-the-difference-between-monster-cable-and/
...a coat hanger.
― bendy, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
that's AMAZING. audiophiles are some weird people, man.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
-- M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:39 PM
totally true
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
actually properly treating one's room acoustically would probably do a better job than moving your chair and speakers about
― electricsound, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
is there already a company selling audiophile interior house paint?
because if there is, I should start selling audiophile EXTERIOR house paint.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
(xpost) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Dbsts2.jpg
― snoball, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I was much, much less impressed with this enormous fucking Naim set-up than I should have been given how much it ought to have cost. Sure it went LOUD, but sound-wise I wouldn't swap it for my own system, I don't think.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_0126.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_0128.jpg
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Is it just perspective on that first photo, or are your speakers nearly at shoulder height?
― Rob M v2, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, no - is that a Cyrus CD player? Or tuner? And why isn't everything on Mana shelves? That's why it doesn't sound that good. And has it been on continuously for five years? Another biggie with Naimists. (Seriously, that doesn't look like a great room for those huge - and amazingly ugly - speakers).
What's the turntable - Nottingham Spacedek or something? Oracle Delphi?
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
mp3s out a old marantz amp someone gave me and 15 y/o bottom of the line cambridge soundworks speakers all day babay
although i did love to read sudiophile magazines when i worked at a bookstore just for the lulz
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
The speakers are nearly to chest height - I'm 5'8".
The Cyrus is just a DAC for his wireless streaming thing. Dunno what the turntable is. The room is big but odd; it's a loft that used to be three bedrooms. There's a (low) double bed behind the speakers, plus a desk, which is where I slept (not the desk) (although that picture was taken at 6am so sleeping wasn't exactly urgent and key that weekend).
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I really wish someone had just given me a peek into my co-habiting/flat in communal block/married-with-kids future when I was handing over the moolah for all my gear in 1996-97. I wish I'd just got something good/2nd-hand with a small footprint (Cyrus CD/integrated, ProAc speakers, something like that; maybe a Pro-Ject record deck, old Marantz cassette deck, NAD tuner, cables from Maplin) and STOPPED there. Think of all the photographic gear I could've bought with the money saved if I'd just contracted that particular hobbyist bug a decade earlier!
(Ah, DAC for wireless streaming; the Naim box-stacking is kinda insane - external power supplies for everything. Makes my Audiolab pre/mono arrangement look positively understated).
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
The speakers are Naim DBLs. They weigh about 15st each. Retail these days at £15k. When he got them, in 2000, they should have been £12k. He got them for £4k cos they were "shop-soiled" - the band he's in had an arrangement with Naim and they'd been using them as a playback set-up when they recorded an album in a country house, and the guitarist's dog had taken a bite out of the bottom corner of one, or something.
I'm kind of glad I've had a brush with stuff that's seriously high-end because it's warned me off a bit. Our flat's not that small, but it's a flat nonetheless, and, you know, I want stuff on the walls and holidays and a new camera and stuff maybe too.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
I think my main response to audiophilia these days is that the best way to make your hi-fi sound great is to play better records on it.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
How so?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
the best way to make your hi-fi sound great is to play better records on it.
b i n g o
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
if anyone is looking for really great speakers that won't break your bank....i bought these about a year ago and couldn't be more pleased with them...they are really surprising given the price and size:
Epos ELS 3 mini monitors:
http://www.musicdirect.com/product/73457
i run them with a Cambridge Audio integrated amp w/Cambridge phono pre-amp.....
My turntable is a Rega P1 -- one thing on that i would recommend is buying a glass platter and also i replaced the original ortofon cartridge with a Denon DL 160 cartridge which is a fucking amazing cartridge for the price...
For CD player I run a really really old NAD one that I got off craigslist for $35...it works pretty well, has a hard time tracking CD-Rs but will play them after awhile (it's from 87 though so I guess there weren't even CD-Rs then)
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Post more pics of slobs in garrets seasoned with with ridiculous sound systems and ugly furniture.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
I really like the coffee table.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
I think my favourite way / place to listen to music these days, rather than the big sofa and NAD / Cambridge Audio / Tannoy / proper rack & stands set-up in the living room, with everything anchored in a nice triangle, blah blah, equidistant from rear walls, speakers toed in, is the hotch-potch system in the back room, with the knackered Marantz CD, 20-year-old Marantz amp, DAC, and diddy Q Acoustics speakers. Cos I have space, peace, my comfy chair, books, headphones, no TV or console to distract.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 8 May 2008 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Those are the kind of speakers you buy to justify having previously bought Monster Cable.
― kenan, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
What's the sensitivity rating on those things? It might be all show, but they certainly look like they could bring on an involuntary bowel movement.
― kenan, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
sleeve city outer sleevs are my favorite but i have yet to find a satisfying solution for doubles/gatefolds
― brimstead, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 21:15 (one year ago) link
for every possible way to protect your possessions, there is a cat who has figured out how to counter it
― mh, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 22:31 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poEu9uBwyM
― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 November 2019 04:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La3U41b0WSU
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 28 November 2019 05:03 (one year ago) link
xpost to mh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7dcSr04G8s
― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 November 2019 05:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tHOUV_bJn8
― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 November 2019 05:45 (one year ago) link
Kind of a bummer/guilt-trip final selection on that Pfork list.
― Soy Bean False Chicken (morrisp), Thursday, 28 November 2019 06:48 (one year ago) link
No one said loving vinyl was easy. Between caring for old records and getting the best sound out of your gear, being a turntable devotee is as rewarding as it is intensive*sigh* speak for yourself re this whole vinyl is hard nonsense
― brimstead, Thursday, 28 November 2019 07:02 (one year ago) link
ok how do you pronounce ‘phono’?
does it rhyme with slo-mo or Bono?
(or Pono)
― umsworth (emsworth), Friday, 17 April 2020 02:03 (ten months ago) link
Pono
― Nudeln und Klopapier Gore (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 17 April 2020 02:14 (ten months ago) link
like phonograph
― mh, Friday, 17 April 2020 02:18 (ten months ago) link
Thanks
I said it in conversation last night and realised that it’s a term I’ve never actually spoken aloud and someone said “is that how you say it?” and I freaked out
― umsworth (emsworth), Friday, 17 April 2020 02:33 (ten months ago) link
RIP Stereophile's Art Dudley
enjoyed his writing
https://www.stereophile.com/content/art-dudley-rest-peace
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 02:36 (ten months ago) link
oh man I have read a lot of art dudley columns over the years... RIP Art.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 17 April 2020 03:01 (ten months ago) link
yeah he was one of the good ones
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 03:36 (ten months ago) link
damn, Listener was a great little magazine.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 17 April 2020 03:52 (ten months ago) link
https://jcat.eu/featured/m12-switch-gold/
― Dan I., Monday, 29 June 2020 17:44 (eight months ago) link
What a shame they have to sully it with an RJ45 connector at the other end of the wire, albeit one from the space station where “air” and “fine grained ambience” are a must for all data
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:19 (eight months ago) link
amazing
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 21:18 (eight months ago) link
thank god that the audiophiles have finally invented a 5 port unmanaged ethernet switch you can spend 4000+ euro on
NB I checked eBay you can get a Juniper EX4200 for like less than $100
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 04:12 (eight months ago) link
an acquaintance observes that the M12 connector, having only two twisted pairs, is insufficient to actually deliver gigabit ethernet, so this dumb thing doesn't even work
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 04:21 (eight months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/eaa92jl.jpg
psych - this is a real ad
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 August 2020 16:55 (six months ago) link
That seems...reasonable? Analogue TV tech remains amazing to me!
― Michael Jones, Monday, 10 August 2020 17:02 (six months ago) link
Who knew? "Snivets are thin parallel vertical lines which may appear at one or more positions of the reproduced image. It has been suggested that the production of such thin vertical lines is due to Barkhausen oscillations developed in the horizontal output tube."
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Monday, 10 August 2020 17:11 (six months ago) link
the history of analog TV tech is fascinating, even more than the history of radio
― Brad C., Monday, 10 August 2020 17:15 (six months ago) link
How does this ... possibly work
https://www.stereogum.com/2101286/oda-speakers-jessica-pratt-madlib-arca-microphones-standing-on-the-corner/news/
― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:51 (five months ago) link
Two wireless speakers vibrating across your wooden floor connected by wireless internet... I'm sure this sounds just like being at a concert
― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:12 (five months ago) link
The idea is to sit a drink on one of them, and then at some point the speaker treads on your foot and spills the drink on you.
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:01 (five months ago) link
huh...weird
honestly half of it is they are going to put in the instructions that people need properly space the speakers and everyone will be impressed by the stereo field
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:13 (five months ago) link
should probably be in mono to sound live
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:17 (five months ago) link
I've been using a product called a 'record butler' which is just a felt oven glove/circular disc grabber for records ( not even that cool).
it seems to work, or at least enough that its part of my listening at home ritual.
Off topic for this thread as I got it free with a purchase and it probably does the thing its supposed to.
but I can confirm it has stopped the 'holding records so delicately that you drop them and cause more damage than if you had been holding them properly' issue.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 10:18 (four months ago) link
Those speakers just look like surface speakers. They've been popular recently with lots of people don't things like this:
https://www.yankodesign.com/2019/07/27/place-this-puck-sized-gadget-on-any-surface-to-transform-it-into-a-vibrating-speaker/
Those look like the vibrating surface, the wood at the front, is built in. Not that different from the paper or plastic cone in normal speakers. I'm unconvinced by the puck things tbh, think you'd need the surface to be relatively free to move, which maybe those speakers improve upon.
― koogs, Saturday, 10 October 2020 09:48 (four months ago) link
Selling speakers as part of a gig subscription service is a bit weird. In fact, a gig subscription service is also weird.
― koogs, Saturday, 10 October 2020 09:50 (four months ago) link
(although, thinking about it, cinema season tickets exist)
― koogs, Saturday, 10 October 2020 09:51 (four months ago) link
Pono type of business
― mh, Saturday, 10 October 2020 12:21 (four months ago) link
guys i just bought new speakers. they need stands. so i bought the stands. did i buy sand to go into the stands? reader, i did.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 10:48 (four months ago) link
Audiophile sand?
― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11:14 (four months ago) link
I'm offended you even have to ask
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11:20 (four months ago) link
I take it you're aware of Atabites SMD-Z 7HD Inert Filler
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11:21 (four months ago) link
Sand seems like a pretty obvious benefit if for no other reason than to make the stands heavier and more stable.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11:30 (four months ago) link
Yes - with kids and a growing puppy it seems like a good idea
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11:33 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHde39Lkxww
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:37 (four months ago) link
Tracer otm, i stan stand sand
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:42 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGI1cqXU9h4
― brimstead, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 18:07 (four months ago) link
Master boot vinyl record: It just gives DOS on my IBM PC a warmer, more authentic tone
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 28 November 2020 10:57 (three months ago) link
this look intertsing.....
http://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 17:06 (one week ago) link
yeah will have to try that when i have more time
a little disappointing the first track was a killers song that was absolutely butchered with brickwall mastering, not the easiest example
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 17:21 (one week ago) link
"Lordy Be!You can almost certainlyhear the difference between the lossy and lossless samples"
It was just the test tone :) Which I preferred to the Eagles.
(I started the proper tests and was really just guessing, so I gave up. Lossless streaming is probably wasted on me. Also I don't really want to hear any of these samples again :/ )
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 18:02 (one week ago) link
i cackled at the stupidity of it all upon hearing the killers, so i just alternated "x is a, submit, x is b, submit" and got 60% accuracy.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 19:16 (one week ago) link
Does mat material honestly matter at all? I’m trying to reduce the amount of time I spend fretting about static and/or tracking and it seems like a cork mat might be a decent, cheap upgrade...if that actually does anything, to say nothing of psycho shit like deerskin mats, which I genuinely thought were some kind of gag at first
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 4 March 2021 03:05 (two days ago) link