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Unless its just music
by cptaj 3y ago
Unless its just music
- itishappy 3y agoIt may not be safety critical, but remember that people can and will purchase $14k power chords to (ostensibly) improve the experience of listening to "just music". https://www.audioadvice.com/audioquest-nrg-dragon-high-current-ac-power-cable https://www.audioadvice.com/audioquest-nrg-dragon-high-curre...
- binary132 3y agowhat if your analog sampler ruins the only good take you can get? What if it's recording a historically important speech? Starting to get philosophical here...
- duped 3y agoUnless that music is being played through a multi kW amplifier into a stadium and an xrun causes damage to the drivers and/or audience (although, they should have hearing protection anyway).
- beiller 3y agoYour talk of xrun is giving me anxiety. When I was younger I dreamed of having a linux audio effects stack with cheap hardware on stage and xruns brought my dreams crashing down.
- robocat 3y agoxrun definition: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199498/what-are-xruns https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199498/what-are-xru... (I didn't know the term, trying to be helpful if others don't)
- spacechild1 3y ago> and an xrun causes damage to the drivers and/or audience An xrun typically manifests itself as a (very short) discontinuity or gap in the audio signal. It might sound unpleasant, but there's nothing dangerous about it.