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i just wonder how good it sounds. open audiophile grade hardware is something of a gap.
by pitchlatte 3mo ago
i just wonder how good it sounds. open audiophile grade hardware is something of a gap.
- itomato 3mo agoIt’s an off the shelf SOM. Audiophiles are safe from this device.
- loloquwowndueo 3mo agoNah. A true audiophile would be analog only - no room for anything digital, smart or connected. “Wifi EM interferes with the sound”
- mghackerlady 3mo agoNo, I don't know any audiophiles who think analog is superior. Digital is objectively better sounding
- bluGill 3mo agoMaybe not anymore, but that used to be a thing. I suspect some are still left, but I stay away from the places where audiophiles hang out.
- voakbasda 3mo agoIt’s still a thing, but it is no longer based in objective reality.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoI can understand thinking analog sounds nicer or more nostalgic, but it is strictly worse than digital
- bluGill 3mo agoThat is false for reasons that have nothing to do with analog vs digital. Analog doesn't allow all the tricks the loudness wars required to win, so often analog really was better than digital. That is garbage in garbage out, and analog got less garbage on the input side. When someone who cares about good music in a perfect listening environment mixes and masters everything to the best of the technology, then digital is better. (but note that perfect listening environment is rare in the real world so good experts are compromising anyway to try to correct for the bad environment people listen in, this can be done well or bad)
- mghackerlady 3mo agoI feel like mastering shouldn't be a factor in this, because yeah some CDs where obviously terribly done to sound louder but that isn't a quality of the format itself
- dsr_ 3mo agoIt's capitalism making things worse again. CDs improved over LPs in dynamic range, frequency response, error correction, replayability, stereo separation, and noise floor. They also, at scale, became much cheaper to manufacture and distribute. But if the engineers, producers and marketers insist on not using the technical capabilities, or deliberately degrading them to chase perceived loudness, there's nothing the purchaser can do except complain.
- bluGill 3mo agoWhat matters is the final result not the parts.
- intrikate 3mo agoIf only; you can definitely get "audiophile network switches" which provide a cleaner sound when you pull your music from Roon over them, or something. Audiophiles are the easiest marks on earth, man.