Recent content by Gohde

From my understanding db is sound pressure, so for listening volume (the experienced sound pressure by the listeners) would be measured at listening position. If that is 90db to the listening ear in a small or big room or open space, it will be equally loud, but the speakers (assuming they are...

My condolences to family and friends. He helped me with a turntable and hooked me up with one too. Chatted politics, Quad ELS63s, and most importantly Esbjörn Svensson and Iiro Rantala. I was going to reach out to drop by for a few ACT record. He seemed like a lovely and modest guy.

Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima I think art is amazing because it can invoke a lot of different emotions. Music tends to focus on the triangle of joy, anger, and melancholy, but for music to accompany the end of the world, I am putting forward this piece: in invokes unease...

Found it: Assessing the Impact of Closure Type on Wine Ratings and Mood And I think in the media, a lot of wine psychology is presented as the mind being easy to trick, or that wine expertise is made up. But that is not really the message of the papers: it is more about how our brains work and...

@juan I wasn't referring to specific papers, but more a scientific consensus. Cognitive psychology has an obsession with wine, and I think it is by the most thoroughly studies area when it comes to the complex biasing that happens in our brains. It is also an area with a lot of work on how bad...

On the topic of vivid imagination: this is a constant and critical part of the human condition. It is not that 'someone is being stupid' or 'fooling themselves' or 'not having common sense' - if buying expensive HDMI cables make you experience a TV image in a different way, then that is a real...

Sorry to butt in, but with HDMI there is a difference in bandwidth requirements depending on the quality (resolution, bit depth, refresh rate and chroma subsampling) of the signal. So, a difference in image quality makes a difference in bandwidth required and cable suitability. I had two...

I’ve had a fairly bad run with Bosch. It feels like their motors are made for Europeans: smaller home with a vacuum a week, compared to here with an overly eager helper in the house. Miele has been amazing. It is just so quiet as well. Pricier though. I got an end of line clearance deal at...

Since it was not common to use various fonts and sizes in letter in the 70s, it is almost guaranteed to be a joke.

Hi all, One of the last things my dad did as we was trying to settle affairs was to gift me a ReVox H system (amp, CD player, tape deck, and tuner). I think I would like to use the amp and cd player, and a good streaming DAC (maybe a Node X). Shipping them to SA with DHL, UPS or the like is...

https://darko.audio/2023/11/wiim-amp-review-flying-high-on-value-for-money/ Here is the Amp review from John Darko.

My two cents: MQA’s error was to produce a very capable compression codec that was genuinely innovative. In a landscape where, to be an audiophile product, it needs to say lossless and hires on the box, MQA oversold what they had and caused controversy. If the new owners add a little...

PlayStation is buying premium headphone brand Audeze | Engadget Interesting development and curious how it’ll affect the brand in the longer term.

I also played around for 5 minutes and saw on my Ifi Gryphon that: - “Max” is a bit of mix of things, and some song still arrive from iOS to the Ifi as partly unfolded MQA, some are PCM. - Some albums were available as “Max” but only played in “Hifi” quality. - PCM quality was 96 and I didn’t...

This is me, most of the time too. And I sit and turn those cents over and over. Then the deal is gone. And my spouse says “Should have gone for it!”