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Best explanation of rationale for ABX for laymen?

Reply #50 –
Quote from: Thad E Ginathom on
I suspect that you could actually tell me, at least approximately, how much the "hi-fi" cables and accessories world is worth these days; just the "mainstream," not the way-out-weird market, that is. Head-Fi is very much a part of that world, as are other audio forums, and this thing is not going to go away.


Reports of such things could be found with google were they present on the web.

But, information like this is usually only available from specialist consultants in pay-for marketing reports.

They might appear occasionally in magazines that serve audio dealers, but issues of those are also not usually on the web.

Best explanation of rationale for ABX for laymen?

Reply #51 –
Quote from: Thad E Ginathom on
I suspect that you could actually tell me, at least approximately, how much the "hi-fi" cables and accessories world is worth these days;
 

>8 billion dollars annually in sales to US dealers:

Best explanation of rationale for ABX for laymen?

Reply #52 –
Quote from: Arnold B. Krueger on
We discovered a few years later that so-called hi-rez recordings were about a 50/50 mixed bag and that is being very generous to the hi-rez viewpoint.


You know, for me that grew up with 8-bit samples on the original SoundBlaster card, 16bit 44.1KHz IS high resolution audio

Best explanation of rationale for ABX for laymen?

Reply #53 –
Quote from: mzil on
Quote from: Thad E Ginathom on
I suspect that you could actually tell me, at least approximately, how much the "hi-fi" cables and accessories world is worth these days;
 

>8 billion dollars annually in sales to US dealers:



And the people who buy into it are as passionate about keeping it alive as are the people who sell into it.
The most important audio cables are the ones in the brain

Best explanation of rationale for ABX for laymen?

Reply #54 –
Quote from: mzil on
Quote from: Thad E Ginathom on
I suspect that you could actually tell me, at least approximately, how much the "hi-fi" cables and accessories world is worth these days;
 

>8 billion dollars annually in sales to US dealers:





There are two markets in that  multibillion dollar lump - the market for cables that are designed to do their job which is transmit audio signals well, and the cables that are designed to transmit money from purchaser's pockets to liars pockets.

Best explanation of rationale for ABX for laymen?

Reply #55 –
Quote from: Cartoon on
Quote from: Arnold B. Krueger on
We discovered a few years later that so-called hi-rez recordings were about a 50/50 mixed bag and that is being very generous to the hi-rez viewpoint.

You know, for me that grew up with 8-bit samples on the original SoundBlaster card, 16bit 44.1KHz IS high resolution audio

My sampler claimed to be 8-bit, but I'm not sure it was even that good. If you wanted to trigger it from a MIDI keyboard, you could only sample at 12.57kHz stereo or 14.98kHz mono. If you just wanted to record and playback, it could reach the dizzying heights of 25.03kHz sampling. (Those numbers are from memory. They were really weird numbers, but may not have been those exact ones.)

There was no anti-alias or anti-image filter (it told you that in the manual, and suggested you used a graphic equaliser or tone control to reduce aliasing), and when you pressed your MIDI keys to play back the samples at different rates, I would guess that it used nearest-neighbour "resampling" to adjust the pitch. In that MIDI mode, it used to whistle at a few kHz when no keys were pressed.

It sounded great...
[attachment=8338:badsample.mp3]
(the vocals and rhythm are sampled, the hi-hat, strings, bass and piano are from a keyboard)

Cheers,
David.
 

Best explanation of rationale for ABX for laymen?

Reply #56 –
Quote from: 4season on
McGurk Effect videos, Meyer & Moran white papers, web sites of NWAVGUY, Sean Olive, Tom Nousaine, Rod Elliott, The Audio Critic, et al have no effect on people who simply Want To Believe. To an audio nut job, rhetoric carries at least as much weight as scientific evidence if not more.

Buzz Aldrin knows how to deal with aggressively stupid people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptn5RE2I-k


The average layman won't even know what the hell "burden of proof" means, much less confirmation bias.