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.Sup wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

As much as this is debated I'm surprised that there hasn't been some sort of official "taste test" to settle it. Go on record and see who can identify each.

What do you mean?

Skeptic James Randi, through his foundation, has offered a prize of $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate that $7,250 audio cables "are any better than ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables".[17] To date, no one has claimed the prize.

.Sup wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

.Sup wrote:

What do you mean?

Have the industry listen to the two in front of cameras and see who can pick out the difference in sound. It won't happen though. Only one of the parties has anything to lose.

hmm I found this: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/calling-bull … 305549.php

Skeptic James Randi, through his foundation, has offered a prize of $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate that $7,250 audio cables "are any better than ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables".[17] To date, no one has claimed the prize.

At first I thought you wanted to organize a BF2s listening test

phishman420 wrote:

/facepalm

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

.Sup wrote:

What do you mean?

Have the industry listen to the two in front of cameras and see who can pick out the difference in sound. It won't happen though. Only one of the parties has anything to lose.

hmm I found this: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/calling-bull … 305549.php

Skeptic James Randi, through his foundation, has offered a prize of $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate that $7,250 audio cables "are any better than ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables".[17] To date, no one has claimed the prize.

Monster cables are a joke, can't really be compared to something that's based upon removing data.

Uzique wrote:

mikkel wrote:

Good god. This thread is just brimming with phrases, abbreviations and sentiments sucked dry from reading review after review suckled from the RSS teat that's feeding you guys. Barely any original thought, and none from the usual suspects. People who read the thoughts of others, and  then arrogantly pass them off as their own have a very distinct ring to them, and this thread is a veritable bell tower.

+100.

Seriously. This audiophilia thing is just the new 'in thing' fad for you techgeeks to sink your grubby mitts into; a few months ago none of you would shut the fuck up about that awesome philanthropy F@H thing all you wonderful altruists do, nowadays all you want to talk about is the awesome fidelity of your multi-million dollar sound-system and how none of the uneducated masses 'get it' because they haven't experienced anything nearly as awesome. The hilarious thing is that none of you can actually afford a proper audio-setup, instead you just spout knowledge and references from shit you've read/masturbated to on other audiophile websites/forums, in an attempt to imitate and contrivedly posture the genuine audionuts that for some reason feel compelled to spend £10,000 on an audiosystem for their shitty mp3's. It's just the flavour of the month for you techgeeks; the latest form of making yourselves feel technologically and geekishly superior to the rest of the poor and ignorant BF2s computer community. Move on to the next gimmick already, it's embarassing for you. I preferred it when Freezer talked about his batteries rather than his impressive one-shelf music collection, and when .Sup was just an average techy instead of an uber-leet-audio-fanatic-with-sublime-home-audio-system-that-your-uneducated-philistine-ears-simply-cannot-appreciate.

Last edited by Flecco (2009-03-22 09:42:09)

FFLink13 wrote:

Uzique wrote:

mikkel wrote:

Good god. This thread is just brimming with phrases, abbreviations and sentiments sucked dry from reading review after review suckled from the RSS teat that's feeding you guys. Barely any original thought, and none from the usual suspects. People who read the thoughts of others, and  then arrogantly pass them off as their own have a very distinct ring to them, and this thread is a veritable bell tower.

+100.

Seriously. This audiophilia thing is just the new 'in thing' fad for you techgeeks to sink your grubby mitts into; a few months ago none of you would shut the fuck up about that awesome philanthropy F@H thing all you wonderful altruists do, nowadays all you want to talk about is the awesome fidelity of your multi-million dollar sound-system and how none of the uneducated masses 'get it' because they haven't experienced anything nearly as awesome. The hilarious thing is that none of you can actually afford a proper audio-setup, instead you just spout knowledge and references from shit you've read/masturbated to on other audiophile websites/forums, in an attempt to imitate and contrivedly posture the genuine audionuts that for some reason feel compelled to spend £10,000 on an audiosystem for their shitty mp3's. It's just the flavour of the month for you techgeeks; the latest form of making yourselves feel technologically and geekishly superior to the rest of the poor and ignorant BF2s computer community. Move on to the next gimmick already, it's embarassing for you. I preferred it when Freezer talked about his batteries rather than his impressive one-shelf music collection, and when .Sup was just an average techy instead of an uber-leet-audio-fanatic-with-sublime-home-audio-system-that-your-uneducated-philistine-ears-simply-cannot-appreciate.

My God you're annoying.

I'm all for music. I love it, it makes me feel great. I think this FLAC stuff is bollocks, though.

I don't care too much for quality. I care for the songs I'm listening to and its lyrics and rhythm and what it makes me feel like.

Way too many pointless arguments in this thread.

Last edited by Uzique (2009-03-22 09:54:52)

Zimmer wrote:

I download in FLAC because I can. Not because it's 10x better than mp3 or because it's just damn awesome. I only do it because I have the space and the time. It's also useful if I want to transcode to several different qualities ( like v0, 320 etc ).

It's up to you whether you think FLAC is better or not, most of the time you wont be able to tell a difference.

Also, who cares?

Pochsy wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

As much as this is debated I'm surprised that there hasn't been some sort of official "taste test" to settle it. Go on record and see who can identify each.

Good idea. Settle this the easy way. One of you go make a thread, a third party will host 2 files of the same song and you should be able to tell us which is FLAC. I'm not sure where you could embed a FLAC file, but I'm sure somebody will know how/where. How would you keep them from just checking the file properties? Tech geek needed.