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by rokweom 5y ago
As I said, spectrograms are not indicative of compression quality. Codecs should be judged by ears only. What you see in a spectrogram will vastly differ between codecs and will not reflect their compression efficiency.
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by rokweom 5y ago
Just as a side note, spectrogram are not in any way indicative of compression quality. Its interesting that you didn't see any differences between flac and opus, as opus has a hard 20 kHz low-pass filter and is 48kHz-only.
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by rokweom 5y ago
https://lygte-info.dk/
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by rokweom 5y ago
That's cool. Is it out for PS5 yet?
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by rokweom 5y ago
There's a great tool for creating online ABX tests: https://abxtests.com/ The guy who made it, jaakkopasanen, is also the author of other great audio tools - AutoEQ and Impulcifer.
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by rokweom 6y ago
There are passive and active dongles. With a passive dongle, the DAC is built into the phone and the analog signal is simply passed through the connector. Active dongles are essentialy tiny USB DACs, they communicate with the phone digitall
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by rokweom 6y ago
The issue with modern displays (OLED and LCD) is that they are sample-and-hold, which means that a frame will remain lit for its whole duration, leading to motion blur. Even a perfectly instantenous pixel response won't fix that.
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by rokweom 6y ago
Considering he's linking to Sean Olive's (the main guy behind Harman's research into headphones and Harman curve) blog, he's likely very much aware that flat frequency response doesn't sound good.
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by rokweom 6y ago
I can't believe people actually find those results to be amazing. None of these algorithms, or as they call them - "AIs", are yet capable of adding detail (be it spatial or temporal) in a way that actually makes it look belie
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by rokweom 6y ago
Try Portal and Portal 2. The series is really friendly for begginers, and it has one of the best stories and writing in video games. If you never played a first person game, it might take some time to get used to the controls, but Portal is
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by rokweom 6y ago
I wish publishing pre-sound era films in their original framerate was a common practice. However, for some reason it seems to be beyond the scope of people handling these restorations.
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by rokweom 6y ago
There's a difference between having to comply to certain standards when opening a new service, and being forced by government to retain a service that is unprofitable.
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by rokweom 6y ago
How can government tell you what services you must provide? That's ridiculous.
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by rokweom 6y ago
Wow, that's amazing. Nowadays a 3$ board from aliexpress can do the same (with SD card or USB drive instead) and much more - more formats supported, Bluetooth etc. How the technology progressed.
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by rokweom 6y ago
Sodium lamps are very efficient. Saying that they consume up to 250W doesn't mean anything. There are LED lamps that consume much more.
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by rokweom 6y ago
In large part this is caused by the education system. Instead of promoting thoughtful reading, discovery and broadening horizons, it forces kids to read through literature classics that are boring and completely unrelatable to modern kids.
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by rokweom 6y ago
Yes, he talks about it later in the video. What's interesting about this Technics is that it's fully integrated - no need for a separate PCM processor and VCR.
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by rokweom 6y ago
Criterion Channel and MUBI are two streaming services I can think of off the top of my head, plus there's a much wider selection of physical releases. Nothing is "behind their iron media curtains".
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by rokweom 6y ago
Not only Eastern Europe, Crunchyroll started out the same way. At the beginning they were an illegal streaming site with fansub translations, and gradually they transformed into a fully legit anime streaming service.
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by rokweom 6y ago
Plus the movies aren't that high in quality - many are only in SD when 2K or even 4K restorations are available, and many are marked as HD even though they are clearly upscaled from SD. If you really wanna watch them, just pirate them
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by rokweom 6y ago
It's the same situation with VP9. It's supposed to be a competitor to HEVC, but in reality lack of serious psychovisual optimizations in any of the publicly available encoders make it at best on par with x264 compression-wise, whi