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View Poll Results: Are you an audiophile? | |||
Yes | 96 | 55.17% | |
No | 78 | 44.83% | |
Voters: 174. You may not vote on this poll |
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I was speaking idiomatically. |
I molest little audios all the time.
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
Audiophiles are music lovers.
AUDIOPHILES, however, are indiscriminate consumers prone to autosuggestion with impeded critical thinking skills who get hung up on bullshit distinctions such as lossy versus lossless. FELIPE NO
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Last edited by Cal; Apr 9, 2006 at 08:44 AM.
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I guess I am an audiophile... I hate .wma files and the like, and re-ripping cds of mp3s etc. I always rip vbr mp3s with EAC (as instructed by a tutorial on these boards before the downtime).
When downloading, I always try and get the best bitrate, and am on a constant mission to educate my heathen friends about the evils of their WMP. I'm forever tagging and sorting mp3s; I've got my downloaded music separated from my ripped cds, which again are separated from ripped burnt cds. On several occaisions my HD has been full due to music. Totally. 0bytes free space. If I had the HD space, I'd love to use .flac, and I'm still looking for a high capacity mp3 player with all the features I 'need'. Alas, I have not enough money for either. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
How ya doing, buddy? |
Nope, but hell if my brother doesn't get angry as hell if i'm playing anything other than lossless.
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
It depends, when dealing with ordinary albums/songs/soundtrack I'll listen to anything. I do try to avoid 128 kbps though.
When I'm dealing with bootlegs then it's another story, all my bootleg material needs to be lossless. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
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I believe the record states that I loathe audophiles.
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
I wish I could be an audiophile...disk space won't let me. With headphones you Can tell the difference between 320 and 128....I never noticed until I started using headphones (Mac Mini Speakers SUCK). *sigh* Someday when I have, like, a terabyte...Ha....
FELIPE NO |
Anyway, all this bitrate talk isn't all that relevant. A 160kbps LAME MP3 can sound better than a 320kbps Blade MP3, for example.
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Does this mean having sex with music. If so then yes I am an audiophile. GOA FTW, gotta make sure I hit all those freqs.
Jam it back in, in the dark. |
OK, I have a few questions for audiophiles.
1st - Let's say you got a song from the internet, or downloading or whatever, but definitely NOT from ripping CD. You don't like the sound quality of it because it's 128 (or lower) and is CBR. What would you do? I'm asking in the case that you really love the song and do not want to toss it away. My question is you would not convert it to VBR or even lossless or FLAC, would you? WHat I'm guessing is since its quality is "not good", you cannot convert it to a higher standard to make it "good", right? Just like you cannot burn a 128 mp3 to CD and make it sounds like a real CD, isn't it? What would you do in case you're a hardcore audiophile and you just want everything high birate? 2nd - Putting hardware aside, will sound effect plug-in from soundcard program or music player affect your judgement between ... say 128 and 192? With the EAX program come with the Creative Audigy deluxe that I own and winamp's equalizer, I can pimp a 96 sounds nearly as good as a 160 or around that. I can't tell the difference between 128 and 300 if I leave all my setting on. 3rd - The one above leads me to this one. Do you leave your sound effect setting the same with every song you listen to? For the home system, some people prefer real equalizer to make sound the way they like. But, will audiophiles (who have equalizer) come and change the setting as songs go? I think it must be a pain. Sorry for the shitload of questions. I'm a audiophile wannabe so I want to hear opnions from every aspects. Though, I have an opinion about lossless or FLAC and the likes. I'm against the whole "everything lossless" thing. Let's say I have an OST CD of a video game from the previous generation. Its sound quality is already "not good" eventhough it's professionally recorded. Any PS1 OST or any portable system's games (hell, even PSP) will work my point. Some people are obsessed with ripping music from games. Those ripped music will never have good sound quality. It goes the same for the old music. Akkk... I don't wanna make all of them lossless. It's space and time killer while doesn't make the quality goes any higher. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
As long as it isnt below the 128kbps mark, and is "normal sounding", I don't care. Anything below 128kbps, sounds a bit stale.
I can tell the difference in quality, but quite honestly, I don't care. Very rarely will you find a music file that is 320kbps or above on my computer, as I couldn't care what amount of kbps a file is. Just as long as it's enough to make the "stale" sound go away. Which in my opinion, is 128kbps, or in some cases, 112kbps. How ya doing, buddy? --yeah...; [ υ сяєатєd а яιfт wιтнιи мє. ] now there hav been several complications tht hav, left me feelng nothng. ...i mite say...; u were wrng 2 take it from me...; u left me feelng nothng. i lōōk 'rōūnd ūr hōūse. būt there's nōthin' 2 steāl.
Last edited by вяоκєи.; Aug 1, 2006 at 06:40 AM.
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Nope. Don't know the different between VBR or CBR, and don't spend much money to get a good set of soundsystem.
However, i like good music. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
I think I may be becoming an audiophile. I recently bought my first DAC/Amplifier, a portable Total Bithead from HeadRoom. I have three pairs of rather high-end headphones, and I'm already looking at another. Although, in the end, the equipment is still a means to an end, rather than an end in itself.
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I have habits and equipment that may make me look like an audiophile, but I am not an audiophile. I used to use an 800 watt subwoofer that I played real soft to listen to Les Claypool or Victor Wooten, just for that clean, crisp bass. I have a bad habit of messing with people's systems when their 5.1 surround is completely off. I used to have a music file server that would only have .wav files, because they sound better than any .mp3s.
but I still think I am not an audiophile. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
I don't listen to anything below 192kbps. I'll tolerate 128... On very rare occasions. I have shitty speakers, though, but I do have kickass earbud headphones with noise cancelling and changeable heads.
FELIPE NO |
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Partly!
I do not use Mp3's less than 192kbps, first of all. Secondly if there's this CD i really like, I rip it in WAV to get everything out of it Also, I've gone from using some random MP3-Player under $99 to now investing $300 in a player and headphones. I'm on my way! (Is this thead old? It says I've already voted no in this poll) Jam it back in, in the dark. |
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I'm not really an audiophile. I mean, I can tell the difference between a poorly encoded file and one with better quality, but I'd rather save the disk space than have those extra samples that you're not really going to hear.
How ya doing, buddy? |
I don't think very many music has a need for anything higher than 192 kbps, and possibly for modern music not much of a need for anything higher than 128 kbps. For classical, it's best to have the highest possible, 192 VBR at least. With that said, I don't really consider myself an audiophile, but I will not accept anything lower than 128 CBR. The quality is too poor.
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Unless the quality of file was really poor then maybe. The notes I am hearing is more important to me than the quality of the recording. Personally I just can't hear that world of difference.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
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