/tech/ - Technology

At leats it looks good.

>>540351

Someday you'll want the HD version when there's a new compression format or storage medium.

>>540361

WAV and FLAC exactly store the input, so there would be no loss of quality even if they were stored as compressed FLAC

>>540361

I don't see mp3s falling out of style within my lifetime. Everything has a USB port nowadays with nothing on the horizon being an easier way to share and play music. As a stand alone file with no DRM and works everywhere it's the nightmare scenario that the industry wanted to avoid at all costs.

And with those new audio formats or mediums it would probably be like trying to transfer VHS tapes to 4k video. It's a waste of time to get it to sound and feel right, just redo the music using higher quality samples.

>>540347

It obviously doesn't actually do anything except pose a fire risk. Looking close at the seller's pictures reveals no evidence of anything connecting the components on the boards, which goes some way to explaining why there aren't many photos of the backsides of these 'components'.

You'd have to be a lunatic to buy one of these.

>>540383

FLAC and WAV64 are like master tapes, MP3/AAC is like VHS/Blu-ray/CD/consumerformat. It's called lossless compression for a reason. When Blu-ray came out, did producers reshoot the movie? No, they went back to the master film reels and did a new scan with cleanup.

>>540383

mp3 is alreay obsolete, m8. Opus is the best, and Vorbis is the second best and almost as compatible as mpleb3.

>>540396

>When Blu-ray came out, did producers reshoot the movie?

If it's a live recording then of course it's not worth the hassle. But when it comes to music made on a computer with instrument samples it's a lot easier to just redo it with proper channel positioning and mixing for new formats with better samples than trying to use .wav files made a decade ago. I'd imagine it's the same thing with CGI films, you can re-render the entire movie in 4k rather than upscaling and remastering the original footage. Adding in 3d probably wouldn't be that difficult as well.

All the people I see make and keep those wav files never touch them. I ask them why they bother and they give me the same reason you just did, that they're the equivalent of master tapes. It's a waste of time in their workflow and clogs up their backups when a several hour long symphony has over two dozen instruments. I've seen 400+megabyte files for a triangle or gong that was used maybe 2-3 times in an entire piece. But they'll keep doing it as it's considered the standard way of making music.

>>540407

Go put some vorbis and mp3 files on a thumbdrive, 99% of consumer electronics out there are only going to play one format.

I work in an premium audio store selling hifi shit & let me tell you one thing, parts matter. I havent been able to check out PC parts in how thet affect sound wuality, but i have had experience with audioquest dragonfly & jitterbug and that shit is major difference in sound quality. Also cat7 ethernet does wonders for music streaming quality.

As to reply to the morons telling mp3 is not going away & stupid shit like that, even on your shitty ass phone youll hear the difference between a low quality lossy mp3 file & flac, and if youll ever buy a decent pair of headphones, youll hear the difference, which is overall a clearer sound.

I store all my files in FLAC to prevent rotational velocendensity, which causes mp3 files to lose data (almost 12kb a year!) each time you play it. I then run the sound through a DAC for a cleaner sound before it reaches my vaccuum tube amplifier, which helps further filter out any electrical infetterance and warm up the audio. Afterwards the sound is sent through a strong resistor, which ups the impedance and therefor the quality. The best way to experience this sound is using Beats by Dre as they provide the highest quality and most direct sound possible. Other headphones cannot compare to Beats and their authentic, professional and studio quality sound.

http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

320kbps MP3s are almost as good as flacs. Personally, I pick high-compression flacs in case the original MP3 encoder fucked up the compression settings. You can also recompress it yourself (without much loss) if you want songs on a small-storage device.

All this "quality" is nothing but personal opinions and all the equipment these fancy audiophiles have just colors the sound differently. Some prefer colder, some prefer warmer, some prefer mid-range, some prefer bassy sound.

>>540675

People pick flac to be able to encode the way they see fit. Because while mpleb3 can be transparent, you'll get transparency at much lower bitrates using opus, vorbis or even musepack.

>>540625

>make sure to slightly elevate your thick cables so they better model a transmission line

>>540388

>It obviously doesn't actually do anything except pose a fire risk

Well that's just patently false. Large capacitors with improperly matched transistors are a great way of creating oscillation on the ground plane.

>>540622

> I work in an premium audio store selling hifi shit

Thanks for stating your qualifications from the beginning. I hope you can learn more and get a better job.

>>540634

> rotational velocendensity

While bullshit isn't there a hidden truth in here due to bitrot?

Couldn't I just store my shit on ZFS?

>There are people who haven't made SoundNAS

Why not just rebrand FreeNAS and slap a price tag on there?

>>540332

>2V

>DDR3

:^)

crucial low profile 1.35v 1600mhz ddr3 2x8gb feels good man

>>540625

>make sure to elevate your cables so you'll trip over them and pull all your shit off the desk/table

best case scenario you trip and likely damage the cable.

>>540449

>400+ megabytes

>for a "ding" sound

How do you even generate that much data from a single sound? I listen to several very long podcasts that may only top out at about 60-70 mb.

>>540449

>400+ megabytes

>for a "ding" sound

How do you even generate that much data from a single sound? I listen to several very long podcasts that may only top out at about 60-70 mb.