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by riprowan 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. I think that's actually the U87s you're hearing. They are very neutral, quite sensitive condenser mics - very unforgiving, not "flattering" just "realistic." Dynamic mics like most
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by riprowan 10y ago
Regardless of your dynamic range, in order to have maximum S/N you have to run as hot as feasible. So there's no point capturing and amplifying any signal you already know you don't want.
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by riprowan 10y ago
You don't find real audio engineers using stuff like that. Gear has its place or it leaves the studio.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> We use a simple Neumann U87 microphone as the house-standard microphone at all of our facilities. They’re expensive, but that’s what we’ve used for years. That simple U87 costs about 5x what the other broadcasters use (typically an SM7
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by riprowan 10y ago
That's how noise cancelling headphones work but it introduces audio artifacts that are often just as bad as the thing you're trying to remove. The thing most people don't consider is that white noise (hiss, a fan) is readily
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by riprowan 10y ago
> If you use your headphones with more than one device you get your chosen quality level on all of those devices. What if you buy speakers? Now you need a different DAC for them. If you have a good DAC in source device you have no prob
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by riprowan 10y ago
Agree about slippery slope. There has been so much misinformation and propaganda spread that some people are now convinced that a fork to change any consensus rule could lead to the change of any consensus rule - even the 21M coin cap.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Lightning can greatly increase the number of transactions that Bitcoin can support, but there are questions about whether it creates a problematic potential for financial centralization if successful. As a P2P system LN doesn't really
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by riprowan 10y ago
> They took what was a trivial to implement, obviously correct (in the sense of program correctness) fix: double the block limit. Not to mention, 2MB was a compromise from 8MB which was a compromise from 20MB. Where's the compro
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by riprowan 10y ago
> What’s the functional reason to get rid of analog headphones? It’s not quality – analog headphones have excellent sound quality, and 99% of people won’t be able to tell the difference with ‘digital’ sound, right? You have it backward -
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by riprowan 10y ago
> ‘the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak’ being translated to ‘the vodka is agreeable, but the meat is spoiled.’ This is great! The way I heard it: "out of sight, out of mind" translated to "invisible idiot."
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by riprowan 10y ago
Not to mention the very common practice of using one card with a very high balance and 0% intro fees to sweep lots of other card balances onto, in order to effectively suspend all your interest for a year.
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by riprowan 10y ago
A majority of hashpower as "ratified" by a sufficient number of nodes and holders.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Exactly. This is being pitched as a negative, when really, consensus-based changes are probably always for the best.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> the project leadership will intervene The project leadership can only propose change. Change requires "ratification" by a majority of miners as well as the support of node operators and holders. > So what now are the bene
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Where the Hell Are the New MacBooks?(gizmodo.com)
20 points by riprowan 10y ago|7 comments
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by riprowan 10y ago
> This is particularly amusing for anyone who was around in the 90s But that's just it: I was around in the 1990s and I owned Macs and PCs throughout that period. ADB had a 13-year run, sure, but it wasn't a "standard&qu
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by riprowan 10y ago
Well I never. TIL. I've always installed and started it because I assumed it wasn't already running. Thanks!
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by riprowan 10y ago
The mushiness of Toyota handling translates much better to trucks I have found. When you take a small car and make the handling mushy, it's like driving a smore.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Regenerative braking reduces wear on brakes. I am still on original brakes after 72000 miles. Wut.
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by riprowan 10y ago
I'm sorry, I fail to see the distinction you are trying to draw.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Isn't it well-established that learning of any sort produces physical change in the brain? Why would experienced trauma be any different from any other extremely powerful (and repeated) (yet traumatic) learning experience, thus causing
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by riprowan 10y ago
The fact that this is upvoted to #3 on HN gives me grave misgivings about the future of HN. --- Edit: apparently y'all disagree, and think this is a topic that deserves the full attention of HN. Can someone explain why? Isn't it
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by riprowan 10y ago
Thanks for the lesson in acoustics but I'm not sure what any of this has to do with OP. He wanted a Soundblaster. Also this doesn't add up: > in fact evne PCIe has too high latency compared to PCI, and when the switch from PCI
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by riprowan 10y ago
Who in the US can authoritatively certify Chinese labor? And what about the majority of iPhones which are not for sale in the USA? Can they be made with "slaves" since their destination is not the USA? And if not (because Apple i
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by riprowan 10y ago
> I don't know why we want so hard to bring these jobs back (the same way we always try to keep the metallurgic industry in Europe). Because countries that cannot source their own weaponry become the pawns of those who can.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Since Ubuntu doesn’t come with a firewall enabled by default, your postfix server is listening on all interfaces for mail immediately. But Ubuntu doesn't come with a postfix server enabled by default, so that's not really a c
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by riprowan 10y ago
What's the purpose of a "dedicated" soundcard? I'm an audio professional - from consumer to prosumer to pro, the best soundcards these days use USB (well, except for the Avid stuff). I don't think this has anything
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by riprowan 10y ago
Yeah but it isn't like Apple invented the idea of the ultrabook.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Apple went all-USB, people complained. USB mice and keyboard became the standard. LOL. Apple started with Apple Desktop Bus and then when that failed they tried unsuccessfully to force Firewire on their users and only caved and went w

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