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Off Topic / Re: So later I learn I have a fashionably large snake...

« on: June 12, 2014, 07:41:33 PM »

Spoilers: Guys care about their richard size more then women do

Is that what your girlfriend tells you?

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Off Topic / Re: Keys you never use?

« on: June 12, 2014, 07:40:28 PM »

Hmm. Page up, page down, scroll lock, pause break. Some of the F keys. That's it. I use all the other keys frequently.

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Off Topic / Re: So later I learn I have a fashionably large snake...

« on: June 12, 2014, 07:36:38 PM »

6.5 inches isn't even large. It's like on the upper side of extremely average.

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Off Topic / Re: I don't understand Age-Rating Systems

« on: June 12, 2014, 02:56:33 PM »

I remember I played a ton of Teen rated games when I was like 7 or 8 and I turned out fine.

Then again, you do jerk off to bird research.

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Off Topic / Re: I don't understand Age-Rating Systems

« on: June 12, 2014, 02:54:33 PM »

The average person gets no gratification from the murdering of random characters.

The average person, conversely, does get gratification from seeing random characters naked or having love.

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Off Topic / Re: tell me how to make money

« on: June 12, 2014, 12:46:24 PM »

As Pie said that put them under the impression that you should be paid for doing something, kids need to learn early that you can't expect to always receive something for helping. Yeah you can pay them, but don't do it for everything they do.

Actually, you should expect to be paid for doing something. My time is not charity. Unless it's very clear that I'm volunteering to help for free, I expect to be compensated for my labor. I'm not making a comment about chores in your house, I'm more talking about how the world works outside of your house, where the 'lesson' would be applied.

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Off Topic / Re: The Greatest Moment in Sports History

« on: June 11, 2014, 03:08:00 PM »

50 Cent's First Pitch

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Off Topic / Re: The Rec. Drug Thread - FAQ, Q&A, and general information.

« on: June 09, 2014, 09:17:13 PM »

Since it's a smoke shop, you probably want to wear something that hints at formality, but not anything formal at all unless it's an upper-class smoke shop. Something like a chill button up shirt and jeans w/ sneakers. I wouldn't tuck the shirt.

I wouldn't bring your resume in with you. I'd ask them about their hiring process and/or what they are looking for in an employee. Tell them you have a resume if they want to see it, and either go grab it from your car or offer to bring it in later. If possible, ask that dude you had an hour conversation with about it.

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Off Topic / Re: Apple's master plan may have been revealed.

« on: June 09, 2014, 07:38:30 PM »

This is exactly what the article is saying they're possibly going to do, and also make it so that only their headphones work with their products unless you get a big bulky expensive adaptor

No, the article is saying they'll abandon the headphone jack. Brian Smith is saying they'll keep the headphone jack, but all Beats sold from now on will connect through the connector at the bottom instead. Therefor Beats can only work with their products, but so can every other type of headphones.

Whoops. Meant modify my last post.

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Off Topic / Re: Apple's master plan may have been revealed.

« on: June 09, 2014, 07:36:08 PM »

you must have absolutely no grasp of how a headphone transducer even works

this is physically impossible

He's saying that the computer should modify the signal sent to the headphones to adjust for things like frequency response and harmonic distortion. Obviously you'd never be able to solve something like the square wave by modifying the signal, but in theory you could alter the frequencies sent to the headphone so that when played back with that particular frequency response it'll come out as if the headphones were flat-line.

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Off Topic / Re: Apple's master plan may have been revealed.

« on: June 09, 2014, 02:37:13 PM »

you're assuming that what the microphone in the dummy head is recording is exactly what the headphone is outputting and exactly the same thing the person will hear, which is highly idealized

The thing is, it's impossible to account for HRTF without making a model of someones head and making headphones specifically for them. In the same way, it's impossible to estimate the gas efficiency of a car because everyone drives in a different way. That doesn't make metrics useless. It means they have to be taken with a grain of salt. Is a flat line FR the absolute perfect shape for everyone? No. Is it better than a wonky ass line? Yes. It's not that a perfectly flat FR is required, it's that it's the point people aim towards because it's better than the alternative direction.

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Off Topic / Re: Apple's master plan may have been revealed.

« on: June 09, 2014, 01:23:04 AM »

Edit: why do people think I'm defending Beats?  I'm really not...

You're (possibly unintentionally) arguing that they don't actually sound bad by trying to attack the metrics used to objectively prove they suck.

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Off Topic / Re: Apple's master plan may have been revealed.

« on: June 09, 2014, 01:16:30 AM »

Frequency Response as flat as possible?  Nope, this is why I dislike measurements in the first place, the FR of a headphone is affected by something called HRTF, head related transfer function, which describes how sound reflects off the geometry of the head and ear.  Everyone's head, ear, and inner ear geometry is different, and because of this, everyone hears things differently.  "Flat line" is not a flat line for everyone.  There's no way to account for this in measurements, you just need to listen to a headphone you're interested in and decide for yourself.

HTRF can't be predicted. Having a flat line makes it, on average, the closest to the way it was designed to sound for everyone. Having it be a non-flat-line just forgets it up even more.

Harmonic Distortion doesn't matter?  Are you stuffting me?  THD is very important, if a region has high THD, it will sound thick and heavy, how does that "bear little importance to overall sound quality"?

Harmonic Distortion does matter, I agree, but not nearly as much as frequency response. If a harmony is slightly distorted, it'll still sound like a harmony.

Impedance, while it's good to have a flat impedance, the phase is what really matters, and tbh having higher z is usually a good thing, as the output z of the amplifier you're using can interfere with the bass response of the headphones z is too low.  It's called damping, ideally, you want the output z of the amplifier to be 8x less than the headphone's z.  A lot of amplifers are poorly designed or have lax design, leading to output zs of greater than 1 ohm, tube amps especially, though tube amps in general are a debate for another day and another thread.  When the factor of 8 is exceeded, the headphone's diaphragm starts to lose control in the bass, and as the output z of the amp increases, the effect affects higher and higher frequencies.  I would go into reading the impedance, phase and sensitivity for the sake of choosing an amp that will power the headphones correctly but that's a 10 pager that doesn't belong here.

I agree with this, but you're not really supporting dre with this so it's not like I'm conceiting this point.

Square Wave, nothing will ever be square, and in fact, having a moderately strong leading edge and fast recovery is better than looking like a square.  As tak said, after that it should be a smooth line.

It seems like you don't realize why a square wave is supposed to look like a square. If a frequency changes instantly, you shouldn't be able to hear all the frequencies between the two as it changes. It should change instantly, without playing anything in between.

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Off Topic / Re: Apple's master plan may have been revealed.

« on: June 08, 2014, 10:42:58 PM »

The subject is ludicrous. Apple is not abandoning the headphone jack. Obviously they're planning on creating a line of high-fidelity headphones made for compatibility with iPhones, that doesn't mean they're cutting everyone else out. The headphone jack is still the standard and there's no way they're going to abandon that. This dude is just trying to start stuff.

I don't know if I could take this "informed opinion" seriously if they spelled learned, "learnt". Also, even if this were to happen, it wouldn't occur until the next NEXT generation. Patents for the 6 have already shown the design to have a 3.5mm jack.

Learnt is a real word. Just like burnt instead of burned.

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Off Topic / Re: PSY - HANGOVER FEAT SNOOP DOGG

« on: June 08, 2014, 08:22:54 PM »

I certainly do want to click on it, but I am most certainly afraid.