I dunno, lemme go check
. . .
yes.

Derp...

That's good to hear (no pun intended).
Which headphone amp did you get again?

Pro-ject head box s, I heard the old one stinks and I'm a fan of pro-ject products so I had to get the new one to try it out, certainly better than the old one.

omg I almost forgot how good slam was.

Definitely challenges my #1 fav album intro

So I take it that amp has great insulation eh?
The open-air one I have works great, but without any insulation from emi I can hear a text message 5 seconds before my phone even receives. Gotta get a steel box for it or something.

Take it you have all of Pendulum's albums on cd now?

Only two albums, and yeah, the project has a radiation blocking metal cover

Probably steel.

on an unrelated note, is it possible to find vario on cd? I can only ever find digital downloads for it.

Nope, bitch ass savant has no physical releases, probably makes enough money for it, would definitely sell more than some artists like phutureprimitive, but no...

so much for having that on my cd wishlist then.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
chicken, point it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
** Write it**, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, chicken, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it,

>burn lossy audio to cd.

If your meaning is to play it in a car or on a cd player when a computer isn't available or too slow, what are your chances?

Though if you want good quality rips, I fell bad for you son.

I know his newest quite disappointing album "ISM" is out there in flac.

For me, there's two primary reasons for buying a cd:
(1) The quality, self-explanatory
(2) The tangibility, being able to attach sentiment to physical media.

Suppose you're offered an album in flac for digital download at the same price said album is on cd. Which one would you go for?

Even though I'd ultimately be ripping it anyway, having the physical media still means something.
Same with games and movies too.

Cds really win dude...

I just, less than a minute ago actually realized that daft Punk's "Musique" CD has "Forget about the world, which is not on said album in any online store.

The best song daft punk ever made, well, a remix, but still. The only thing I'm lacking is the encore from "Alive 2007" which is on the deluxe version only, which wasn't really available.

The happiness is dripping trough my pants right now.

awh, I got that image earlier.

I'm gonna try it out today since it was on sale for 17,99 at le random shop

Whassup`?

Home for the rest of this week.
On a laptop that can't do creative design worth crap.
Ordered some parts for my cloud-server.
Downloaded the nitronicrush soundtrack.
Overall pretty good.

How about you, how's life treating ya?

My boss got fired due to reason that was left unveiled, not sure if I'm gonna be working next year either now.

Life's good.

Have they said how management's gonna be sorted out? Probably won't matter all that much.
Hope you get to keep your job.

That would be appreciated.

Gonna battulfeeld, bai!

have fun!

Well of courese there's a fucking update before you get to play...

Games these days, when I was young, they made games that were good enough out of the box!

Well if it's for pc, it could be to accommodate the massive ever-changing spectrum of hardware setups for various users.
Other than that, console devs get no excuse as to why their game can't be perfect on launch.

Hmh yes, but still, games didn't use to have updates.

Console games, yes. Especially infuriating for Armored Core 4 where every other update would change the the specs on the parts of your mech.
Oh, you just finally finished making your perfect mech for your fighting-style? Well that's too bad, because this update's gonna fuck everything up so feel free to spend another five hours building your perfect mech again.

Modern pc gaming has been so over simplified in recent years. The only reason consoles got popular was because pc gaming was such a royal pain in the ass it was a nice relief to buy a device that would just 'work'.

If updates mean I can play AAA games flawlessly on pc, then I would gladly take the good with the bad.

Didn't quite get the last row

If waiting on updates to download and install means I can play the latest block-buster games flawlessly on pc, then I would gladly take the good with the bad.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ8NhxD0-Ek

mfatm

my face when & at the moment

I understand completely.
Well, I'm off to go with my brother to get parts for his router.

Take care.

bai

We can derive each part of the function individually, treating them as separate functions.
for polynomial functions, the rule for deriving is as follows:
if f(x) = x^n, then f'(x) = n*x^( n-1 )

so for the first part, where x is less than or equal to 1, we have
f1(x) = x^2 --> f1'(x) = 2x

for the second part, where x is greater than 1, we have
f2(x) = 2x = 2x^1 --> f1'(x) = 2

therefore, the derivative is f'(x) = 2x for x ≤ 1 and f'(x) = 2 for all x >1

I'm not sure if this would be what your instructor is looking for though.

Here is another part of that. What is the limit as x approaches 1 from below f'(x), the limit as x approaches 1 from above from f'(x), and if the limit of f'(x) as it approaches 1 exists.

Whoever writes your problems describes them terribly.
for this, it might help to use a graph to assist your train of though.
here we have f'(x) plotted, which states that when x is less than or equal to 1, then f'(x)=2x and if x is greater than 1, then f'(x)=2.

The key to this problem is that they're asking for "right-hand" and "left-hand" limits.
The right-hand limit is the limit as the variable approaches a value from the positive direction (eg you're right hand).
The left-hand limit is the limit as the variable approaches the a value from the negative direction.
Pro-tip: if the RHL and the LHL are not equal for some value, then the limit does not exist for that value.

So to the problem.
As x approaches 1 from the negative (left) direction (below, I presume), the limit equals 2.
As x approaches 1 from the positive (right) direction (above, I presume) the limit equals 2.
Since these limits both equal two for x approaches 1 from either direction, the limit exists (I think, take that with a grain of salt)

Be careful. When you're given problems to analyze graphs, a function is never differentiable at "sharp points."
We've proven that the limit exists for lim x-->1 f'(x)=2, but normally f'(1) does not exist.
Hope this helps.

Have in silico, still need to pick up immersion and hold your colour eventually.

What other albums did you get?

Daft Punk, musique and homework, plus this amazingness as a double lp

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDDBxT9uqBk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52-z7rYyjTU

Really loving this one!

Whatsup with you?

If it's not too much to ask for can you send me a rip of the Flying Lotus stuff when you get it?

How do you suppose me to rip a vinyl at home?

That shit costs 50€ in a music store, and that's the cheaper offer...

plug the output into the input of a computer?

http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3043075

No...

it's always rutracker, isn't it? Need something particularly obscure? it's always there.

Russians have it, when it comes to torrents.

Besides, this one is a vinyl rip.

Do the astral plane is my absolute favourite.

By the way, I forgot to mention the tangerine dream 5cd I got as well

tangerine dream?

Search up light of creation I'm kinda busy sorry

That's alright, I have to head off anyway.
Later!

Cya!

no I have not, sir.

Ahk. How you been?

Good. Been working on an animation project all day.
How about yourself?

Oh neat. What of?

soarinbolty said this vinyl player cartridge looks like it could be a ship from WipEout, so I've been playing with the idea and doing a bunch of 3d-modeling and such. Want to do a nifty assembly animation.
Progress is posted here:
intel-qube.deviantart.com/gallery/40650068

Wow thats awesome. I should show you my Animation some time :P

I didn't know you animate.
Is it on your da?

I used to Animate. Its not on DA, ill upload it to Youtube sometime. Just something I did for Uni

flash, 3d or flipbook, if you don't mind me asking?

Maya

"Why use Blender? Maya and 3dsmax are much more capable"

I'm not made of money, ya know.

"Says the guy with a 10 grand computer"

. . .

Lol. My cousin uses Blender, but for 3D graphic designs. Maya is great, so is Zbrush, but holy fuck it takes so long, and so much can go wrong

Never heard of zbrush. Is it a sculpting program?

Yeah. Basically do the basic modle in Maya, import into Zbrush, then sculpt the model in there. Its industry used from film and game. I just gave up. Too much work for animation.

Eh. Modelling characters was never my thing so much as vehicles and scenery objects.

True true. I just wanted to make my characters come to life

That would be cool. It just seems like a large amount of effort for little return.

Yeah, it is. Hence why i prefer to stick to static/graphic design

Did you have a studio to work with? It'd tough to choreograph a kung-fu fight scene in an apartment, I would imagine.

Lol, you would work in groups.

provided you have a nice wide open space to work with. :/

We had a greenscrean room in our Uni

Actually, on second thought, I wonder if character animation as getting much easier since more and more software tools incorporate motion tracking nowadays.
Blender now has motion tracking (though I have no idea how to use it), some people have done some pretty cool things with it.
Look at the special features portion of any game nowadays and you'll find scenes of an actor with a green screen and black suit performing animations.

That being said, I'd still have trouble animating even Steve from minecraft.

Motion capture has its pros and cons. I never got that far to know or understand if it was easier or harder, but it certainly has developed over the years to be more accessibale and functional/

Does character animation pay any differently than other forms of animation?
Salary figures for industry typically group all animators together.

Umm, I would think so. there must be a high demand for animators to work on films and games and such, more so than other forms of animation, for say adverts and other projects.

Why of course iyr!

I'd be glad if you came!

thank you.
time and url?

synchtube.com/r/UBDHFJ

What time is it there?

6:15p how about you?

Oh goody! Same time zone!

8:00PM

Neat, see ya then!

Definitely not a fan of his music, but I don't think he deserves half the crap he gets.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KK6Fo3Y0AU

What you get when you want realism

dat graphics processing power

I can't find the specs of his pc, but that looks like it would be more demanding on the cpu than anything else in order to do the calculations for the player and all of the npc's.
Similarly why World of Warcraft is still the most hardware demanding game on the market if you don't setup a raid right.

Never the less, arma 2 is the best fps war game

That's what I've heard.
Not a huge fan of fps games, but dayz does sound fun.

Hey I didn't make it, treyarch did.

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_0iGHXBtyLc#t=29s

Ghost recons hybrid clad soundtrack was still better

I didn't say you did, just voicing a thought.
and the project goes well; pipes, pipes everywhere.

Another game I've been planning to get.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cKYgIF45I

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JGW4Z_lumk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3TrjEuXuNw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ej9BFIJnwQ

What project?

dis one
Heard a lot about syndicate, but know almost nothing of it. What's it about?

I have no idea but it looks amazing!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cKYgIF45I

>EA
>>>Origin

yeah...

that.

BF3 seems like an uterrly awesome game, but but but origin. . .
It'll probably be the same for Syndicate too.
Wai, EA, wai.

Bf3 has a terrible community, and the game looks hardly entertaining.

imo

Actually, I'm really only interested in the flying/piloting portions of the game. Everything else looks boring.

Yes indeed, and the physics are fucked up to their extent, I gotta admit that flying jets and choppers in bf vietnam was the best thing ever

Too bad it doesn't run on win 7 ;_;

Play enough flight games and you eventually learn get over physics inaccuracies unless they're preposterously bad *cough*hawx*cough*

Have you tried running it in compatibility mode? That may or may not help.

The fuck is compatibility mode

>right click program
>go to 'Compatibility' tab
>fiddle with settings.

Running the game as Admi also may or may not help.

GLORIOUS!

Only one user on this computer so wouldn't I be the kim jong what so ever.

Yeah well, I promise nothing. Don't expect any miracles.

I am expecting miracles and you are personally responsible for arranging them if they will not occur naturally.

hue
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Znx-xSuxs

www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=aoWjErsaBfY

Awesome, I was thinkin' about picking up The Hobbit OST when it gets released.

Haven't seen Skyfall, but hopefully the ost will be just as good as the one from Die Another Day :D

Dude, die another day was amazing, but I don't think it really fitted as a 007 song, still really awesome.

The living daylights is my absolute fav^^

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm5zD-RTdLA

*shit, I have nothing else to say about bond, mustn't let convo die abruptly*
any plans for the weekend? Will uberderpy do another synchtube?

Every weekend tonight and tomorrow

I understand completely

Yis

Diddely.

alright for the most part, trying to figure out how to setup my cloud server since changing harddrives.
How about yourself?

www.airkoryo.com.kp/en/company/history

Checking out the north korean airline company website!

Doing good overall, just chillin on my day off, bought a little late fathers day present for my dad and he really liked it^^

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUbTW928sMU

"north korean airline company"
lol'd immediately, not sure why.

They say that it's the only one star airline company in the world...

Not sure if I'd fly in their planes

Been on a three star airline before, extremely uncomfortable.
Can't even imagine what a one star airline would be like.

That being said, did you buy the vinyl or a CD. Since it's you, I'm assuming vinyl, right?

What was the company? I don't actually know what kind of flight's I've been, I was so young.

Eyyup, 12"

It was a small regional company that mostly handled the midwest US. Given it was such a small company, it's somewhat forgivable, but for our flight the cabin air conditioner was malfunctioning and couldn't heat the cabin efficiently.
We were flying over the rocky mountains in the middle of winter.

Oh that's nasty

no heating aside, it wasn't that bad.
What brought you to look up airlines anyway?

Just found it on the internet by accident, I'm actually starting to think that the chicks on their site are minors

wouldn't doubt it, unfortunately.

Have you got any good music for me?

forwardsweep.tonidoid.com/app/webshare/share/25Six/
forwardsweep.tonidoid.com/app/webshare/share/05Stratosfear/

Don't want you to get banned so I deleted that post.
I do keep an open, public profile.

Nothing personal

I'm guessing YOU don't wanna get banned

sorry.

No, they'd flag your comment.
that's how yusei got banned; it was for porn he posted on tastyfreddy's profile.

unlucky bastard, I have porn here and there but I'm guessing many people don't go there

huh, maybe the majority of profiles you post on require friendship (har har) to view them.

yep

awwzies

ah

wassup?

Tired, just woke up.
How about you?

Tired cuz it's 2:47am

Jus chiiling and waiting for a chance to watch youknowwhat with friends

Actually I don't know what? The new episode?

yeas

Can iyr partake in your reindeer games? that is, if you get that chance?

Of course you are welcome :D

Approx two hours, get ready for house music, stupid youtube vids and poni poni, possibly a movie.

www.synchtube.com/r/UBDHFJ

lemme know when it starts, I'll be there!

Hell yea you can substitute me

>implying you're replaceable and would thus have capable substitutes.

That's really sweet of you, but my mom is a huge cunt and I swear to god she'll come in the last minute before the event itself and command me to bed with heavy blackmail

Maybe just a stand-in. I barely know uberderpyhooves beyond just being an acquaintance, so I don't know how he would feel about me being there.

Just replying to this to make the point

I am not a bad guy XD
I am really nice, you can ask Soarin

I would be honored if you could join us

I believe you when you say that.

I didn't reply your post because a power-outtage occurred _ literally_ as I was typing the reply saying thank you for letting me be a part of the livestream.

If it hasn't already started, let me know when it does.

It just started

New members are always appreciated, as long as the room can handle the quantity

oh goodie

Hope you like homoerotic videos and occasional drama and kids movies.

I have never questioned your sexuality actually.

Do you have any input on that?

Allow me to explain:
asdlkfahsldkjfhalsdhflajsdfl;lajs;f

futasexual. Hope that doesn't make you feel uncomfortable.

Nothing kinky will make me uncomfy, but I'm pretty sure that that kind of sexuality "doesn't exist"

shoot

Do you still have that gif?

The green "CORRUPT" one?

intel-qube.deviantart.com/gallery/37401500?offset=48#/d51l3pl

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

np

How to lose a customer: 101

So long as there's something you know how to do that others don't, you will always be in biz.
Specialization of labor; Is it ethical? Not really. Is it economical? Yes.

There's also the hard fact that you're gonna have to deal with that said person again in the future, if they're pissed it really isn't fun.

That's why I worked behind the scenes and not deal with illegitimate rage.
If I want bread, I must pay a baker for his product. If I want to learn how to bake bread, I must now pay him to teach me how to bake for the time he isn't producing goods as well as the fact that I will no longer need to buy bread from him.
If he freely taught anyone who asked how to bake he'd be out business and on the streets.
Any rage directed at him for not teaching his trade is entirely uncalled for.

Occasionally I would deal with someone like this. They said they would just ask someone else in the IT department because I was the asshole only to find out the people IT workers had exactly the same mind set.
Specifically, my favorite response to these kind of people would be:
"Teaching you how to do my job would cost me my job."

Yeah well, when you are something that apple calls "a genius", your services are free, but if you want professional help of course it'll cost ya.

You can't really compare that, it's not like the customers start to make their own laptops after I explain them how you navigate trough metro...

Do the laptops you sell come with any documentation on how to use the installed os?
If not, why not?

I suppose if their's no documentation to allow your customers to use the product themselves, then you have a duty to ensure they know how to get the user experience that's being advertised by teaching them how to computer.

Often times we'd get people trying to hook up a printer or something and wouldn't know how to install the drivers/software/cartridge/etc.
We would ask them "have you tried reading the user-guide?"
Then they would get angry at us as if it was our fault the user-guide was the very first thing they tossed when they opened their product.

Whadaya think?

It's a 299€ toshiba designed to run vista dubiously but due to reliability and sales success it's been on the market forever.

We'll torch the extra copies of windows and say we dumped them in a sewer.

Great, adrnin came on his servers

that's digital for ya, though most optical is only 20bits in depth.
Still wouldn't be quite as good as lp, no?

Do you have some fucking fixation with numbers man?

We are so damn different people.

hybrid mathematics/engineering major, so yeah.

Not that 20bits will do all that much on a cd player since music cds are only 16bits in depth.

Then I guess I'm studying feelings.

Well, I am studying economics and marketing.

Plus working with warranty is a great way to know what lasts.

And a warranty is only as good as the company that supports it.

For example, just recently OCZ's stock nose-dived. By the looks of it, they're likely to go out of business in the next couple of months or so. People are freaking out because their Revo-drives (which are known to fail) came with a nice five year warranty that won't be redeemable if the company goes under.

It's good that you're studying economics; as arrogant as this may sound, economics the most important discipline.

I don't give a shit about economics, a career in sales, marketing/advertising would be the most interesting for me.

Still the most important discipline.

Where is your humanity?

What game is this?

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, a true classic.

Too bad I never played games

well blah to you

http://box-designs.com/main.php?prod=headboxs&cat=headphones&lang=en

Any good ones to recommend under 300€

brb, currency conversion

Between 300$-400$

any feature you're looking for specifically?

Not really, stairless volume control, quarter inch jack, prefably golden, relatively small size, ohmage is practically irrelevant since I'm only in the zone from 55 (akg) to 64 ohms (sennheiser)

good night!

approximately 118€, give or take.

Ooo nice, I could fit a usb dac in that budget.

I gotta get to bed nao, cya later motherfucker! <3

The only thing that bugs me about the one you were looking at was the relatively low SNR.
It would definitely work, though. I can however recommend these:
www.firestoneaudioproducts.com/cute-series/cute-curve/

www.matrixelectronics.net/matrix-m-stage-headphone-amplifier-amp-black-co lor-p-198.html?zenid=e5mqhum6t4cjnq76j8go3ltdc2

I like the latter for the multiple inputs, wouldn't need to change headphones all the time, it's just that the channels should be made so that you can toggle them on and off.

Got any pricing info on the firestone cute curve?

Can't find it on any of my trusted shops.

working on my computer, tryin' to figure how to setup this os.
How about you?

Which os?


Trying to find reviews of certain speakers on youtube but this shit isn't really any helpful... Fucking kids using their dads speakers and then filming it with a bumkin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wrcB0yGzdU


Guess I have to take em for testing again...

Win server 2k8 r2

have you considered looking into krk's?

I know krks are one of the greatest but I'm not looking for active speakers, and I have no need for monitors

have you also considered these?
http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=11987&promo=Electronics-Audio& catid=97

you may need a mortgage, but your friendly local asylum will have no trouble admitting you.

Ahh, the nautilus...

I've actually seen these things but they're a bit over my budget.

www.hifiexpert.eu/hifi-loudspeakers/floorstanding-speakers/b-w-nautilus-f loorstanding-speakers.html

I've listened to these a few times in our shop, the ones I'm getting are the same brand at least.

www.hifiexpert.eu/hifi-loudspeakers/floorstanding-speakers/dali-megaline- iii-floorstanding-speakers.html

I don't know how it's possible to legally charge that much for speakers. . . or who the hell is even buying them to support that "market."

Have fun in audiosurf!

oh I'm just doing benchmarks, can still talk.

Benchmarks in audiosurf?

www.funnyjunk.com/user_pictures/phantoma/3983084/MLP+Friendly+Board/1611463#1611463

> Telling stuff like this on My Little Pony fan boards
> Telling stuff like this to me

I know of at least three other uses who would know what I'm talking about.

Then why not mention them or post directly on their profile

Alrighty

Do you have any good songs to suggest for me, mainly for n00b practicing in audiosurf?

noob stuff. . .

Try these, they should be somewhat easy, but not bore you to death.
www.dropbox.com/sh/dm2nk97ou9botg4/SQkQNpJrbw

Yeah well, I've played it twice so...

Thanks.

Then you need a few of those 29,000€ tube amps

I'mma go pick up some shit, quite literally. Cya laters!

I'll definitely admit, it's a cool sound (sounds similar to some of Juno Reactor's work, years before JR was on the map), but I fail to see makes it so special other than choice of equipment.

Would a symphony consisting of an orchestra using Stratovarius instruments sound better than an orchestra using modern ones? It's possible, but I wouldn't pay 300+$ for a ticket to see said symphony if the same/similar production using modern instruments was only 30$ a ticket.

I find it interesting; however, how the technology used to produce this music depreciates in value over time, but the music itself does not.
Definitely cutting edge for its time.

Slipped the "where" in there by accident lol.

Nice update Max Payne 3, real classy

Seriously.

Why...?

Looks like I gotta use google goggles for this one...

I've played many games in japanese before (at least I think that's japanese). Typically menu features are in english and dialogue will be in japn.
If you're not crazy about story, you should still be able to enjoy the game.

But Iunno what to do

keep mashing buttons until you're having fun

That is the plan, though I've never tried these live camera translators and now I'd have the chance

prolly a misconfigured file somewhere. Have you tried googling it?

I see...

still think it's a bad file

yay it worked

That is true. I find it good and interesting at the same time, the fact that I'm a huge materialist and a collector of random stuff might have an affect on the matter, there is plenty of stuff that is similar, as good or better than this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJOjjn8_d5k

It's kinda the same when you think of what kind of a phone you can get for 200 bucks today, four or five years back that would've been easily 700 to 800 dorru

Kinda like this painting, painted by Monet in 1872. Nothing special by today's standards; you see this kind of art all the time, but it was revolutionary for it's time period because no one ever tried anything like it before.
This painting: Priceless
Modern painting of similar style: $20-300.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZ-xsJUuEw

BTW, I was able to pick up the Pistolero single and rip it to flac. If you would like a high quality version of one or more of the songs, let me know.

If it has the picture of man mix, then that would be much appreciated!

I ordered some cds but the doubt of you liking them is intense.

So just that song then?

what cds?

Nuuu the whole single would be great!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFwIL5whx3M

Couple'a MIKA cds

Uploading now.

Not my taste, but sounds like something my sister might listen to (probably not, though).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1EVjCKuJ9g

I was pretty sure you wouldn't like pop music.

How would you like some epic breaks?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pLcw-3wXGg

First one's just a wee-bit too groovy for me.
Second's kinda repetitive, idk. Kinda sounds like it samples the amen break, but not entirely sure. . . does it?

dl.dropbox.com/s/ywewbyy8216u01r/Pistolero%20EP.rar?dl=1

Amen, brother.

huehuehue

har har

Wassup?

Nothin. Just finished establishing a good overclock on my new processor and motherboard.
How about yourself?

Sitting... in my chair.

Watching baman & Piderman

Speaking of watching things. Has youtube been glitchy for you?
Video plays, but other functions fail or timeout.

Nope

nevermind, I'm stupid. There was an alert the other day saying sandy knocked out a server and some functions would be temporarily down.

Dude

Wait

My playlists aren't loading

brb an hero

here

yeeeep, just like that.

Where

Huehue sandy

It's good to have a climate like that 24/7

In the middle of uploading a video, so the link will have to wait.

Iyr logic concerning music piracy:
(1) If there exists some set of music you would otherwise purchase, but does not exist on the market available for purchase to the end user by publisher, then piracy, being the only alternative, is an acceptable method to consume the desired music in question.

Notable example; Hybrid's "Scores"

Fine. How about yourself?

I'm doing pretty well thanks.

i just saw your famous dub rolling gif and thought i'd stop by to see what's going on. This hurricane isn't doing anything but giving me cold ass weather. Is it affecting you at all?

I live in Colorado, so no. Been sunny the past couple of days.

Has your internet been choppy? I know there's a big dns server in new york somewhere and I wonder if the storm is affecting connections to it.

Well I live in Indiana so not really no, but my mom is currently not working because of the main connections with Marilyn.

I also already knew you lived in Colorado because you mentioned it when that batman shooting happened

>crazed shooting, headline for a week, forgotten
>teen commits suicide, headline for a week, forgotten
>guy freefalls from sub-orbit, headline for a week, forgotten
>storm knocks out internet for a few days, OMG NEVAR FORGET

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-qgARGjT6s

valid points valid points, everyone is sooo morally conscious and caring there are so many other things to worry about...
BUT GOD NO NOT THE INTERNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

And so the earth keeps on spinning, as apathetic as that may sound.
As we wait for the next week's bandwagon, I'm eager to see how pathetic the candidates will be in trying to score political points from all this.

That's more analog electronics, so no, not really.

k

By the way, am I the only one that sees a great wipeout ship design?

needs more cowbell airfoils

Cya later man!

You're good at 3d designs, you should do an ortofon concorde ship!

Maybe this weekend, got two exams this week.
Were you ever able to find yourself a decent preamp yet?

http://www.thomann.de/fi/artdeejaypreii.htm

FUUFUFUUFUF

it seems the funnyjunk mistook some underscores in your url as formatting for italics, I'm getting a 404.

http://www.thomann.de/fi/artdeejaypre ii.htm

Space after deejaypre

If Vinyl is able to push up to 192KHz naturally, why is RIAA eq limited to 20Hz-20KHz?
One of vinyl's most prominent advantages of CD is that it can push a full, natural frequency range beyond that of CD.
I know 20Hz-20KHz is supposedly the limit of human hearing, but some information beyond that range can be picked up and interpreted by the brain in one way or another (like being able to physically feel bass, for instance)

If you want to go to 100khz you better open your fucking wallet

http://www.thomann.de/fi/slate-pro-audio-fox-quadtone.htm

I changed the lines this time.

here, take this:
goo.gl/

at 2000€, you'd almost be better off researching and building your own preamp.
I'm beginning to suspect the audio hardware industry is very much similar to the IT industry in that they'll charge you up the ass for premium equipment when you could build your own that's just as good if not better, at a fraction of the cost. (cough, Mac, cough Alienware)

The cost of ignorance be a cruel mistress. I've seen dacs go for 1000+USD that are only barely on par with an Asus essence one which is only 600USD. Being that Asus is known for delivering fairly good quality at reasonable prices (since they manufacture all of their components in-house), I'm curious to see what kind of quality a home-built dac can deliver for before things get too expensive.

Maybe the same could be said of preamps. It would be an interesting venture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4yEaXWeKj4

FUCKING HELL

Well there you have it, proof of concept.
Also this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gqhuGsAQn0

Background and education in digital electronics, check
Free parts from University and Texas instruments, check
Brother who knows how to solder, check
PCB design software, check
Building a high-end market quality dac shouldn't be a problem, might as well give a shot, ought to look into designing amps too.

I didn't know there was people who can't solder

I can't solder for the life of me, terrible at it. My brother; however, can solder to an amazing degree of precision and skill. Generally, he can do what usually takes machines or robots to do (to some extent).

Oh kay, I could solder but I'm also lazy so I'll just leave the work to the pros

'specially when it's a family member who will do it for free.

Aspecially when I have too much money on my hands

hooray for free-enterprise capitalism

Well, I'ma get started on homework and studying.
Talk to you later.

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You can do all kinds of shit at home, foxrock is making a preamp for school but he wasn't too confident about it I guess :P

brb, googling riaa eq

http://www.thomann.de/fi/art_deejaypre(add a low line)ii.htm

yes, I was able to insert underscores where the text was italicized, just contemplating something. . .

Tell me when you have finished contemplating.

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Gonna order this when I'll be sure that my stuff won't come.

hope you enjoy it.

I sure will!

Damn you you're too good for me and I can't pay back...

don't worry about it

I'll find a way.

paydaytheheistisfreeforthisweekend

Do you think that EAC really makes better rips than other software by the way?

Yes. I have actually ran rips from EAC against rips from wmp or other software using analyzers (was bored at work one day).
Nothing else sits on par with it.
EAC needs to be calibrated to your optical drive though and there's a good 5-15 minutes of setting up before you can even begin to rip. There's even more setting up to do if you want it to rip to a specific format like flac or mp3 instead of just wav.
EAC isn't called "Exact audio copy" for no reason.

Sweet, I must try it, my rob dougan rips for example are terrible when made in J.river

EAC is also known for being pretty good at getting accurate rips from even old or damaged CDs.

In reality though, the difference between using EAC and really crappy ripping software is about a 10-15% difference in quality at the very most.
The average computer user doesn't even have the hardware to distinguish that difference (I'm sure you do though).

Good to know.

I just hate it how my favourite song on "furious angels" has a crackling noise in my favourite chorus, even though I ripped it straight outta plastic covering and I even antistaticized it and all...

With all due honesty, I don't think CDs are the least bit susceptible to static electricity or charges since they're not magnetic media, but don't quote me on that.

But...

Can one really be too precautious?

You can be as precautious as you want, but stay realistic.

I've seen over-precautious idiots pay 200+USD for "premium" magnetically shielded / insulated toslink cables with the excuse that they wanted the best audio quality with no interference.
IT'S A FUCKING DIGITAL SIGNAL, YA AIN'T GONNA GET INTERFERENCE, DIPSHIT.
/rant

lol, toslinks are all basically the same, but if you have an aux or rca you gotta make sure it's good, 10€ a meter you get the best quality you need.

One reason why I'd love to have the cd player I ordered is that it sports a spdif slot and the pioneer I have doesn't, you don't even want to hear about my schneider "solution"

It's good to shield cables that transmit analog signal that would be susceptible to interference, but HDMI? Toslink? Displayport?
People are paying hundreds for digital cables that will perform exactly the same as a cheap alternative you can get at a computer store.
No, seriously, wtf is this shit?
www.audioquest.com/

Also keep in mind that spdif generally peaks at 20bits where as other digital signal run at 24bits.

Beats ideology

www.audioquest.com/tree-series/oak Nigga WHY?! It's so... unconventional...


One of the unfortunate consequences of building a successful premium brand is the appearance of counterfeit products. AudioQuest is not immune to this problem. While we make every effort to combat counterfeits, we continue to see various products being sold as “AudioQuest” that are NOT genuine. These counterfeits DO NOT meet AudioQuest quality standards and in fact often turn out to be nothing more than common hardware store grade cables hidden beneath an attempt to match our braid patterns and plugs. The persons most hurt by these phony offerings are our potential customers, who in all good faith may proceed feeling that they have stumbled upon a “too-good-to-ignore” deal. Also hurt are those who, while realizing the cables aren’t genuine, hold hope that the cables are at least “close” in quality. Sadly, this is very rarely the case.

Nigga hardware store cable is best cable, pure copper with no unnecessities

I almost wonder if it was a joke like whitepowermilk.com that somehow got out of hand.

My god what the ever loving fuck

Well I'm off to do homework, take care.

*Love

Off to practice audiosurf.

Olve you <3