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General Audio / Re: Another audiophile "expert"
Last post by jaro1 -
I've found this YT channel of an audiophile "expert": https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel

Two examples:
The magic audiophile switch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io4SDi5hLxs
The audio network filter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDiHFYHKij4

Enjoy :D

It's fascinating how the gentleman in the video, considering his age, talks about improving stereo separation, sibilance or sound relaxation...
And if he didn't perceive it that way himself and has it "second hand", then it's even more fascinating..
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General Audio / Re: Another audiophile "expert"
Last post by mycroft -
Perhaps you can suggest a situation where the sort of thing people are likely to do in SoX (or whatever) will exceed 32-bit processing.  I can understand needing some headroom in the processing chain over the 16 bits of CD-quality, and I can understand that 64 bits provides a much greater dynamic range, but is that amount of dynamic range ever actually necessary?  You can simultaneously mix 65,536 individual 16-bit sources in 32 bits, and that would be one heck of a sound stage.  Can you tell the difference in a blind listening test between 32-bit processing and 24-bit processing, let alone 64-bits vs 32-bits?

It's a more intelligent approach to understand how much resource is required and only throw that much at it.  Just because you "can" doesn't mean you "have to", and being disparaging about other users' choices is narrow-minded and insulting.

Pointless word salad above, do you know that once clipping happens in fixed integer domain you get distortions?
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FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by Replica9000 -
Same setup as my previous post.

flac git-cfe3afca (2024-05-16)
"Further improve calculation of when to use wide residual computation"
Code: [Select]
     1 thread    4 threads   8 threads
-5   0m13.561s   0m4.579s    0m4.598s
-5p  0m23.162s   0m7.237s    0m5.396s
-8   0m37.276s   0m11.841s   0m7.287s
-8p  2m52.772s   0m57.365s   0m36.769s