"audiofielen"

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 14:21 schreef Thomass het volgende:
Je kan wel twintig kastjes aan je iPod knopen, dan nog zit de DA converter in je iPod en niet daarbuiten. En ik kan me niet voorstellen dat die dingen van superfantastische kwaliteit zijn, eigenlijk.

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 14:17 schreef boskameel het volgende:
Je hoort het wel degelijk. Ik heb laatst ook zo'n portable amp gekocht, daarbij, ik gebruik in plaats van de gewone line-out de iPhone dock line-out, en hoge tonen zijn beter, en vollere strakke bas.

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 14:25 schreef zquing het volgende:

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Zit je toch verkeerd, de DAC in een iPod is bijzonder behoorlijk goed

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 14:33 schreef Thomass het volgende:

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Ah dat wist ik niet, ik heb er verder weinig verstand van trouwens. Het leek mij alleen overkill om iets heel goeds in een apparaatje te stoppen waarnaar je 99% van de tijd naar luistert met oordoppen.

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 17:06 schreef sinadO het volgende:
Een eenvoudige reactie van mijn kant:

LOLkabels!

Ik ben audiofiel maar tot nu toe heeft niemand mij kunnen bewijzen en laten horen dat zijn duizenden-euro-kabels beter zijn dan mijn Van den Hul. En die heb ik ook alleen maar omdat ik ze heul goedkoop kon krijgen.

Dus: LOLkabels!

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 17:08 schreef zquing het volgende:

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je beseft wel dat je van den huls waarschijnlijk al duurder zijn dan wat een groot deel ervoor wil betalen of niet?

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 18:05 schreef Aardappelbeertje het volgende:
Of mensen die geloven dat je kabels moet inspelen....

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 12:53 schreef _Led_ het volgende:

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Maar het hangt zoals gezegd meer van de dikte van de kabel af dan van het al-dan-niet dure materiaal.
Lees bv dit : http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/speaker/index.htm
Zij leggen onder andere studiobekabeling aan.

Zo mooi, mensen met kabel van 300 euro per meter kabel thuis - terwijl dat spul echt niet in de opnamestudio ligt hoor

"The biggest issue in speaker cables, from the point of view of sound quality, is simply conductivity; the lower the resistance of the cable, the lower the contribution of the speaker cable's resistance to the damping factor, and the flatter the frequency response will be. While one can spend thousands of dollars on exotic speaker cable, in the end analysis, it's the sheer conductivity of the cable, and (barring a really odd design, which may introduce various undesirable effects) little else that matters. The answer to keeping conductivity high is simple: the larger the wire, the lower the resistance, and the higher the conductivity.
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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 17:08 schreef zquing het volgende:

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je beseft wel dat je van den huls waarschijnlijk al duurder zijn dan wat een groot deel ervoor wil betalen of niet?

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 18:05 schreef Aardappelbeertje het volgende:
Of mensen die geloven dat je kabels moet inspelen....

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 18:21 schreef Steve-O het volgende:
Audiofiel+ Usb gaat dat samen dan ?

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 13:53 schreef Eutow het volgende:

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Dat zal vast het geval zijn. Je bent alleen het voordeel van een kleine speler een beetje kwijt.

Daarnaast is dit denk ik een beter voorbeeld:

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Koop dan in ieder geval een mp3 speler met een redelijke geluidskwaliteit

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Michael McKinley - See all my reviews
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A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews.

I was disappointed. I consider myself an audiophile - I regularly spend over $1000 on cables to get the ultimate sound. I keep my music-listening room in a Faraday cage to prevent any interference that could alter my music-listening experience. Sending any signal down ordinary copper can degrade the signal considerably. While ordinary listeners might not notice, to somebody with even a rudimentary knowledge of sound, the artifacts are glaring. Denon should have used silver wiring (hermetically sealed inside the rubber sheath to prevent any tarnishing, of course), which has a significantly higher conductivity than copper. Furthermore, Denon needs to treat the wires they use in the cable with a polarity inductor to ensure minimal phase variance.

Needless to say, I returned the cable and wrote an angry letter to the so-called engineers at Denon.

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 17:08 schreef zquing het volgende:

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je beseft wel dat je van den huls waarschijnlijk al duurder zijn dan wat een groot deel ervoor wil betalen of niet?

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The Clever Little Clock is a small, battery-powered travel alarm clock that has been extensively modified using a number of highly specialized techniques. The Clever Little Clock does not plug into the wall and has no influence on house wiring, audio components, cables, interconnects, power cords or acoustic waves in the room. Yet the Clock has a pronounced affect on the sound heard by listeners in the room. In addition, any video systems in the house will be improved - the picture will be clearer, with better color saturation and contrast.

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One reason the Chip is called "Intelligent" is that if one attempts to treat a CD that's already been treated the Chip will expend no further energy on that CD -- the Chip recognizes that the CD has already been treated.

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 19:44 schreef Agiath het volgende:
Dat verhaal over die kabels dat ze terug in de tijd gaan

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A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews.

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1,702 of 1,759 people found the following review helpful

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I'm an engineer, so trust me on this one. Sound is a wave, moving in one direction. A uni-directional cable such as this is needed for optimum listening pleasure. Some other poster, incorrectly I might humbly add, said using it backwards causes the music to play backwards. Installing it in reverse causes the 1's and 0's to start to clog the line since they have no where to go. As a result, you'll get no sound at all. If you do that, be careful when you turn the cable around as all the 1's and 0's will come out at once, potentially overloading your ethernet connection and exceeding your ISP's bandwidth caps.

Overall, I gave it 5 stares because, in spite of the price (apparently there is one made every minute), it clearly does what it is designed to do.

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$500 is really ripping off Dennon, these cables are worth 5x that much...yep thats right, $1500!!! If you believe these other readers that its all just "1" and "0" then I suggest you go back and read your bible. Each one of these cables is blessed in the blood of a dead pope. I hooked it up to my Daewoo surround sound (that's right surround like the movie theater) system that I got at Walmart and it sounds like a there is a symphony in my pedophile listening room. When I listen to Chris Daughtry or Creed with this cable I can truly feel the pain and anguish that they must feel getting up every morning and realize they are Chris Daughtry and Creed. This cable is so good that it brought my dead mother back to life when I played Skynard. I give this cable 6 out of 5 stars.

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 18:27 schreef The_Terminator het volgende:

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Sommige zijn gek genoeg om dat te geloven idd. Ik ben zelf wel een muziekliefhebber, maar kabels boeien me weinig. De audioboer waar ik mijn speakers heb gekocht gaf zelf ook al aan dat je echt geen peperdure kabels nodig hebt. Laat staan dat ze ingespeeld moeten worden

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This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be sometime around 2007 for whomever is reading this. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES. Something... happens with them. Something came through, something from somewhere else. We were overrun in days, not many of us are left. WE LIVE UNDERGROUND! ONLY YOU CAN STOP IT NOW. SAVE US. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES.

I don't have much time. This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be--

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I accidentally dropped one end of my Denon cable into a glass of Tuscan whole milk I was drinking. Later when I finished my milk (yeah, I still drank it; should I not have done that?), my right arm (lost in an accident in 1987) spontaneously grew back.

Is that normal?

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For $500 I would have expected these cables to be worn in. They aren't. The procedure for pre use wear in of digital cables is significantly different to analog cables. They should be worn in for a period of 24 hours in each direction. Use a unidirectional protocol! _Never_ use TCP for wearing in digital cables, as TCP uses return packets for acknowledging, causing interference in the uplink channel being pre worn. Use UDP or ICMP (no ping) for wearing. Preferable use a payload of 64Kb with a datapacket consisting of consecutive 1's and 0's to settle the electrons. After 24 hours, reverse the cable and repeat. Always make sure that the cable is connected to a sender and a receiver, as Layer 2 will prevent data transmission if there is no positive ARP response from the receiver.

This process is quite delicate and difficult, and I would have expected it to be performed by the manufacturer for this pricetag.

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Transmission of music data at rates faster than the speed of light seemed convenient, until I realized I was hearing the music before I actually wanted to play it. Apparently Denon forgot how accustomed most of us are to unidirectional time and the general laws of physics. I tried to get used to this effect but hearing songs play before I even realized I was in the mood for them just really screwed up my preconceptions of choice and free will. I'm still having a major existential hangover.

Would not purchase again.

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Me and my brother chose to listen chose Captain Beefhearts 'Trout Mask Replica' after setting up this cable with our Denon Home Theatre System.

The results are truly horrific. The first few seconds of silence before track one we could hear the universe inhaling before we were pressed into our respective couches and mutli coloured tartan was projected upon all surfaces in our basement. Barely able to speak or move with our fingers ripping into our arm rests, I turned to see my brother age 20 years in 5 seconds and his feet expanded like a rubber band across the floor and up the opposing wall to reach the ceiling.

Bear in mind all this happened before the twanging chords of Frownland had even kicked in - at which point I had noticed similar effects upon myself - I was suddenly wearing a 4 foot trout on each leg as trousers. Not only that but the walls of the basement had dissapeared and we were flying on our couches through what I can only describe as a burberry electrofunk acid poetry rift in time and space.

The most horrific thing of all was that after having spent 300 years crawling to the system to unplug said cable, my brother was unable to control the sheer power of such a quality signal and like an ancient psychedelic Mr Miyagi struggling with a running fire hose, pointed the beam directly into his face.

This was over 2 weeks ago - I am only now able to wield a keyboard, my finger nails having grown back. Since then my brother has randomly been appearing around our neighbourhood in a kind of mirror prison (like the one in the superman movie) only it's like he is trapped inside the album cover. (Trout Mask Replica)

For now this cable will remain where my brother dropped it. The equipment and entire basement are off limits until we break him out of his transdimensional prison.

Do not buy this cable.

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If you are a parent you'll know what I'm talking about. I used this cable to improve the audio to my baby monitor. Now I can hear her breathing, pulse, everything. Yesterday, I heard a strange heart rhythm as she slept (I was watching a Family Guy rerun -- the one where Brian has eaten dental floss? Gross!) I checked on her, and decided to take her to the hospital as a precaution. It turned out to be nothing, but the look in her eyes! I've never seen a 14-year-old girl so pissed off at being woken up for nothing.

But who am I kidding -- audiophiles don't mate.

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OMG OMG OMG - those are the only three letters on my keyboard I will ever need to use in my life from now on: I have seen the future, and that future is DENON AKDL1!

I received three of these cables in the mail without warning - I came home and they were just sitting on my front step. I never ordered these cables, so I wasn't sure what was going on. I brought them in the house and set them aside while I checked my Amazon account. Surely enough, it had seemed that someone purchased these cables four days prior, using my account. At first I thought it might be fraud, but if so, why were the cables shipped to my house and not somewhere else? So the only other explanation that made sense to me was that maybe Amazon got my account mixed up with some other purchase.

I was in the middle of sending an email to Amazon about this mix-up, when my laptop network cable went dead! I pulled an AKDL1 out of the package and hooked it up between my laptop and router. ALL I CAN SAY IS OMG. I didn't follow the directional markings on the cable. After all, ethernet cable is bidirectional, no? I didn't think it mattered which end I plugged into the laptop. I WAS SO VERY WRONG.

To make a long story short, it appears that IF YOU HOOK UP THESE CABLES BACKWARDS, THEY WILL SEND AND RECEIVE ETHERNET PACKETS INTO THE PAST. That's right! When the cable were hooked up backwards, every website I visited served content from four days in the past. Few examples: Windows Update tried to install old patches my system already had; visiting the WWW clock website showed the date from four days prior; my Amazon.com account didn't show the cable purchase I just mentioned above; all articles from digg and reddit were four days old; no email that I sent or received within the past four days was being displayed by my email host.

When I switched the cable to be connected properly, I started seeing current website content again. What the heck was going on? The only thing I can figure is that maybe the Denon cables pass electrons at faster than the speed of light, effectively causing them to travel backwards in time.

To see if this was really the case, I switched the cables back again so that they would serve content from the past, and I logged into Amazon and purchased three of these cables. When I received a tracking number from Amazon, I compared it to the tracking number on the package I received, and they were identical! So it turns out that I had been the one who originally sent myself the cables, only I hadn't known it because some weird sort of causality loop caused a time irregularity to spontaneously form. I wonder if this causality loop was somehow caused by someone else who had also hooked up the AKDL1 improperly.

Anyways, I love these cables and plan to see what weird effects I can accomplish with three of them hooked up in random configurations. I'm going to try to download some diagrams of a flux capacitor to see if I can make something like that with these cables. I also am going to do a Google search to see if I can submit winning lottery numbers to online lottery sites four days in the past. If so, I should quickly be able to win up enough money to buy a few more of these cables. I'll report back on my progress by sending an email back to myself, telling me to edit this comment with the results.

[UPDATE: These cables do all that I hoped they would, and more. In fact, you better buy them while you can - I have enough money now to buy Denon and discontinue their production facilities. This cable is too powerful to be allowed to fall into the wrong hands.]

My overal opinion - if you have the choice between life-saving surgery or buying one of these cables, buy the cable! You'll be able to send yourself an email into the past to warn yourself about anything that's coming up. Also, you could probably send emails into the past whenever you get into arguments or whatnot with your significant other. That alone is well worth the exorbitant price!

[UPDATE: My apologies to Denon for calling their prices exorbitant. It seems that they too experienced time causality problems with these cables; they updated their website pricing from far in the future, when $500 is worth more like $25 of your present day currency, due to inflation. And as you can guess, my attempts to buy Denon were unsuccessful. They have more of these cables than I do, and were effectively able to out-strategize me.]

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Op dinsdag 3 maart 2009 14:54 schreef boskameel het volgende:
Ooit ook eens gelezen, dat ze als een test hadden opgesteld: Als bron een iPod (weet niet welke) hadden gehangen aan een versterker, daar lossless muziek op afspeelden, en alle "audiofielen" geloofden ook nog dat het 1 of andere peperdure CD speler was die daar stond opgesteld .

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Op dinsdag 3 maart 2009 15:06 schreef zquing het volgende:

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Wist je dat uit een iPod dus een bijzonder goed geluid komt? Dat een iMod zeker wel tegen dure cd spelers op kan?

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Op dinsdag 3 maart 2009 15:54 schreef fs180 het volgende:

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weet niet hoe dat zit met de meest recente modellen,maar de ipods die ik heb gehoord vond ik toch aardig ruk klinken, geen merkbaar verschil met een aldi mp3

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Op dinsdag 3 maart 2009 15:54 schreef fs180 het volgende:

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weet niet hoe dat zit met de meest recente modellen,maar de ipods die ik heb gehoord vond ik toch aardig ruk klinken, geen merkbaar verschil met een aldi mp3

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Op dinsdag 3 maart 2009 16:00 schreef _Led_ het volgende:

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Oren uitspuiten ?

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Op maandag 2 maart 2009 19:30 schreef BUG80 het volgende:
Een klein klokje in je huiskamer kan ook wonderen doen trouwens ($ 199).
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Er zijn ook speciale chips die je in je CD-speler kunt monteren, maar daar kun je helaas maar 20 cd's mee "upgraden" ($ 50)

Aan de andere kant zijn ze wel "intelligent"
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En dan zijn er nog de "brilliant pebbles". Gelukkig lossen die al je resonantieproblemen op! ($ 39 - $ 159)

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En hebben jullie wel in de gaten dat microseismische trillingen de geluidskwaliteit van je versterker verpesten? Gelukkig is daar ook een oplossing voor:

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Ik kan nog wel even doorgaan. Zo verkopen ze ook "teleportation tweaks" (duurt maar 20 seconden!). Maar je kunt beter zelf even kijken: http://www.machinadynamica.com/index.html

Lees ook de testimonials: http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina19.htm

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Op woensdag 4 maart 2009 01:13 schreef Agiath het volgende:

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Kijk dit plaatje ook echt
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Wtf staat daar allemaal echt

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Op woensdag 4 maart 2009 00:56 schreef msnk het volgende:
Ik ben een beetje een audiofiel wat betreft mijn mp3 collectie. Alles moet wel minimaal 192 zijn

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Op woensdag 4 maart 2009 07:46 schreef sinadO het volgende:

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Op de gok, vanwege slechte foto: cd speler, twee parasound eindbakken met nog een andere eindversterker ertussenin, een voorversterker, een onduidelijke andere bron, kan ook een losse dac zijn, een platenspeler, wat die twee kleine kastjes zijn zie ik niet, kan alles zijn, twee speakers en twee subwoofers. Heel normaal systeem hoor.

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Op woensdag 4 maart 2009 10:03 schreef Agiath het volgende:

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3 eindversterkers + 1 voorversterker, plus dat ding tegen microtrillingen , en dat een normaal systeem noemen.