What Are You Doing Right Now

RojoLoco

@tim_g only for those who hate music. All digital formats are crap compared to analog. There are digital formats that have greater frequency range, etc, but music must be specifically recorded by super high resolution equipment for that to make any difference. Music that was recorded on tape originally was made to sound perfect on analog formats. Digital does it no justice. But even modern music usually sounds better on vinyl.

Edit - I should specify compressed digital formats suck. 24 bit / 192kHz wave files are as good as digital can get right now. Still not as good as analog unless all the source recordings are 24/192.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

OMFG I hate CITRIX!!!!!!

Which arm of citrix?

Is "all" an option?

^ this.

Obsolesce

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g only for those who hate music. All digital formats are crap compared to analog. There are digital formats that have greater frequency range, etc, but music must be specifically recorded by super high resolution equipment for that to make any difference. Music that was recorded on tape originally was made to sound perfect on analog formats. Digital does it no justice. But even modern music usually sounds better on vinyl.

Edit - I should specify compressed digital formats suck. 24 bit / 192kHz wave files are as good as digital can get right now. Still not as good as analog unless all the source recordings are 24/192.

I like music.

I have never noticed a difference between .mp3, wav, flac, analog, digital, whatever. It all sounds the same, and if it did sound different, I highly doubt it would be significant enough for me to care in the slightest lol.

MattSpeller

Anyone see any value in a petition to the whitehouse to load up all the executives from Equifax and fire them out of a naval cannon into the sea?

Obsolesce

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g only for those who hate music. All digital formats are crap compared to analog. There are digital formats that have greater frequency range, etc, but music must be specifically recorded by super high resolution equipment for that to make any difference. Music that was recorded on tape originally was made to sound perfect on analog formats. Digital does it no justice. But even modern music usually sounds better on vinyl.

Edit - I should specify compressed digital formats suck. 24 bit / 192kHz wave files are as good as digital can get right now. Still not as good as analog unless all the source recordings are 24/192.

I like music.

I have never noticed a difference between .mp3, wav, flac, analog, digital, whatever. It all sounds the same, and if it did sound different, I highly doubt it would be significant enough for me to care in the slightest lol.

Any record (vinyl) I've every listened too... it crackles and pops and sounds awful. Big difference there.

NerdyDad

@mattspeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyone see any value in a petition to the whitehouse to load up all the executives from Equifax and fire them out of a naval cannon into the sea?

Love the way you think. I think we should just do away with SSN in general. Nothing new, just abolish the old.

RojoLoco

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g only for those who hate music. All digital formats are crap compared to analog. There are digital formats that have greater frequency range, etc, but music must be specifically recorded by super high resolution equipment for that to make any difference. Music that was recorded on tape originally was made to sound perfect on analog formats. Digital does it no justice. But even modern music usually sounds better on vinyl.

Edit - I should specify compressed digital formats suck. 24 bit / 192kHz wave files are as good as digital can get right now. Still not as good as analog unless all the source recordings are 24/192.

I like music.

I have never noticed a difference between .mp3, wav, flac, analog, digital, whatever. It all sounds the same, and if it did sound different, I highly doubt it would be significant enough for me to care in the slightest lol.

Any record (vinyl) I've every listened too... it crackles and pops and sounds awful. Big difference there.

Get new vinyl. Old, shitty pawn shop records are crap. They were worn out before you were a twinkle in your dad's balls. Also, there's a 99% chance your turntable is a steaming plie of shit. That makes a difference.
Get a better amp and speakers. If you can't hear the difference, either your ears are f@cked or your speakers are f@cked.
To even put mp3 in the same league as FLAC or uncompressed WAV audio is... well.... I'm not sure how to say that without sounding insulting. Mp3 only exists because it had widespread compatibility in the early days. It was shite then and it remains shite. FLAC is semi acceptable for a compressed format (sorta). Not being able to detect a difference..... well..... I'd kinda put that under "hates music". Or at least under "hates great sound" or maybe "can't tell the difference so mp3 is fine".

Mp3 is not fine, btw. Not even a little. Not even when your music player dealy only had megabytes of capacity. Treat yourself to a listen of your favorite album on a true high fidelity system. If you still can't hear the difference, then I'll sell you some 128k mp3s I made from cassettes.

Obsolesce

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g only for those who hate music. All digital formats are crap compared to analog. There are digital formats that have greater frequency range, etc, but music must be specifically recorded by super high resolution equipment for that to make any difference. Music that was recorded on tape originally was made to sound perfect on analog formats. Digital does it no justice. But even modern music usually sounds better on vinyl.

Edit - I should specify compressed digital formats suck. 24 bit / 192kHz wave files are as good as digital can get right now. Still not as good as analog unless all the source recordings are 24/192.

I like music.

I have never noticed a difference between .mp3, wav, flac, analog, digital, whatever. It all sounds the same, and if it did sound different, I highly doubt it would be significant enough for me to care in the slightest lol.

Any record (vinyl) I've every listened too... it crackles and pops and sounds awful. Big difference there.

Get new vinyl. Old, shitty pawn shop records are crap. They were worn out before you were a twinkle in your dad's balls. Also, there's a 99% chance your turntable is a steaming plie of shit. That makes a difference.

Get a better amp and speakers. If you can't hear the difference, either your ears are f@cked or your speakers are f@cked.

To even put mp3 in the same league as FLAC or uncompressed WAV audio is... well.... I'm not sure how to say that without sounding insulting. Mp3 only exists because it had widespread compatibility in the early days. It was shite then and it remains shite. FLAC is semi acceptable for a compressed format (sorta). Not being able to detect a difference..... well..... I'd kinda put that under "hates music". Or at least under "hates great sound" or maybe "can't tell the difference so mp3 is fine".

Mp3 is not fine, btw. Not even a little. Not even when your music player dealy only had megabytes of capacity. Treat yourself to a listen of your favorite album on a true high fidelity system. If you still can't hear the difference, then I'll sell you some 128k mp3s I made from cassettes.

Lol, that seems like a lot of wasted time and money for something I wont notice. I'll just stick to the .mp3s on my phone/computer and my cheap headphones/pc speakers! I can hear it, sounds good, and I can spend that time and money where it matters more!

RojoLoco

@tim_g I guess it comes down to passion. And that last comment hurts my soul. I weep for your ears.

Dashrender

Weep for mine too then.
I can hear the difference, but I don’t care enough to drop $600 on a pair of shitty hifi headphones or thousands on speakers and good amp, etc.

I listen to audio primarily in my car or on airplanes (waiting on flight now).
So, since environment affects audio as much as the quality of the speakers, I’m already f’ed.

momurda

Having good sound is totally worth it. Dont have to spend hundreds on headphones, Sennheiser hd pro 280s is fine and better than anything youve ever heard if all youve ever heard is koby/apple/anyearbuds.
a nice high power receiver(mid level onkyo or yamaha, marantz if you want to get fancy and have money) and some nice speakers(can be cheap if you want to build your some diy kits from partsexpress.com, or can design an xover yourself). A nice sub and you have a great home theater that is good for a decade or more for less than 2k.

Dashrender

I’ve not been a fan of over the ear or on ear headphones. My ears seem to hurt after about an hour.

EddieJennings

About to do music library tasks for the Peachtree Winds.

jmoore

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g I guess it comes down to passion. And that last comment hurts my soul. I weep for your ears.

Infinity!
I used to like music. After upgrading all my stuff and re-listening to all my music , I love it.

black3dynamite

@mattspeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyone see any value in a petition to the whitehouse to load up all the executives from Equifax and fire them out of a naval cannon into the sea?

The executives is probably Trumps buddies.

nadnerB

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g I guess it comes down to passion. And that last comment hurts my soul. I weep for your ears.

I know what you mean. I can't stand crap audio (phone speakers/bad car stereos), so I would rather not listen to music when it can't be played through something decent. However I can't bring myself to drop a wad of cash on expensive speakers/headphones. So I have a scale of acceptability.

dbeato

Going to bed, so exhausted.

EddieJennings

Just finished a long winded Facebook post. Now time to play some Naruto on iPhone before sleeping.

scottalanmiller

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Going to bed, so exhausted.

Wish I was. Pretty tired here.

black3dynamite

Looks like Korora 26 is released.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kororaproject/files/26/

Just tried the links, nothing happens it must be a placeholder until the actual release. What's the point in showing them?

Nothing yet on there website.

Distrowatch show release date 9/21
https://i.imgur.com/C70QYRF.png