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VoidX

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About VoidX

  • Birthday Dec 17, 1996

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    Male
  • Location
    Hungary
  • Interests
    Hollywood, anything that works with electricity, adrenaline.
  • Occupation
    Voluntary Digital Cinema ecosystem developer and integrator at home, car audio SW engineer at Harman

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  • CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 3600X
  • Motherboard
    One that works
  • RAM
    16 GB DDR4
  • GPU
    nVidia GTX 1070
  • Case
    Cheapest one that I could hide in the dark
  • Storage
    Kingston SSDNow V300 120 GB, Samsung HD502HJ 500 GB, and yes, it's enough
  • PSU
    Corsair AX860i
  • Display(s)
    LG 29UM57
  • Cooling
    Stock
  • Keyboard
    Tracer Avenger
  • Mouse
    Roccat Kone EMP
  • Sound
    HTPC: Cavern processor, ASUS Xonar DX, Crown XLS-202, JBL 8340A 5.1.4, DIY subs

    Travel pack: Genius SW-G 2.1 amplifier, JBL 8340A, DIY sub, Dayton Audio BST-1

    Notebook supplement: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, JBL Live 500BT, personal HRTF, dual AKG D40

    Phone supplement: JBL Reflect Flow

    Calibration pack: Audyssey APM-1, MiniDSP UMIK-1
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Education
  • Laptop
    Lenovo Legion Y520, Intel 600P 128 GB

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  1. But it works with free accounts too. Only the host needs premium for an ad-free jam.
  2. I once made a blind test tool that gives you different encodings in real-time called Nuance which you can download from here. Spotify has 256 kbps Opus, it's marked on your end result as a progress bar. I have asked an audio forum to send me their results, and this percentage of the 90 people could pass the following formats: Nobody was able to reach Spotify's compression, not even self-proclaimed audiophiles on a $300k system. We can easily call Spotify scientifically transparent.
  3. @mariushm is correct, that is the clock source for the FTDI chip handling the USB. However, this is not for synchronizing the data rate, that's done internally. External clocks are used for the same reason as in your CPU: it updates the IC to do the next step of work. This is how CMOS technology works, if it doesn't receive a nudge from outside, it stays in the same state forever, not doing anything.
  4. One of my best sources for a good laugh is posting videos like this on audiophile forums and reading how they cope with their purchases with a rage that lasts for days. To restore it for more days, just ask them "why?".
  5. I'm saying these things are super strong, even the smallest ones, so in my opinion, the best choice is the cheapest.
  6. I have the old BST-1. It's so strong I ended up limiting it to 10 watts. For an entire bed.
  7. Dolby Atmos for Headphones works on anything, you just have to buy it in the Microsoft Store. If you're lucky, the game you're playing supports full Atmos internally for free (like Overwatch). You can find the HRTF sets and virtualize 7.1 with the model of Atmos through Equalizer APO + HeSuVi, which is also on the free side. However, there are only two ways for true Atmos with movies, either the official app or converting with Cavernize.
  8. This corporate behavior usually goes hand in hand with forcing overworking. When the GN video dropped, I was stupid enough to support both of their views, but now it's clear that LMG has huge problems. I'm naive enough to think that this can change, but I've seen enough small to medium companies to know it's unlikely.
  9. MB audio is typically using a PCI lane, so latency is the same as with any internal sound card. If you go for latency, use ASIO. You can have an interrupt every 16 samples, that's the lowest, if I remember correctly. That's still 0.33 ms at 48 kHz. It requires vendor support, which you normally don't get for MB audio.
  10. We'll, technically, you can say so. The codec used for all digital phone calls before VoLTE is AMR, which has such a low bitrate that it filters out anything but the fundamental speech component as a side effect. Back then, most codecs worked by simply allocating a different bit depth to each frequency, with this specific codec allocating basically zero to all but the most important bands. These microphones still have huge distortions caused by noise, but you can only hear it as basically AM.
  11. Think of jitter as a wavelength and convert it to frequency. You want to use 192 kHz to prevent this, but this is usually already done on the DAC level. Most of them have native frequencies of at least 96 kHz, doesn't matter where you set them on the driver level. This is used to spread the noise over a larger bandwidth (white noise affects each band equally, across all present bands) so the top of it can easily be filtered out.
  12. I genuinely believe they only go for as much profit as necessary to stay afloat and build the lab. Otherwise they would have gone public by now, there are many ways to make 5-10x. Greedy companies are never this open. I'm OK with the fact that these minor mistakes happen in this quantity at this production rate. These happened in a time span of many years, and many will be fixed by the lab. They seem to accept it and not censor threads like this, others (like idk, The Verge, lol) might. I've worked for a similarly sized company in the past that lost 1 customer out of 10 equally paying ones, it's like losing one channel for Linus. 120 of 160 jobs were lost in the follow-up.
  13. Both channels strive for accuracy and risk their relationships for a correct review, this is one of the rarest and most important traits in the landscape. I can stand behind both of them. If you run a small company with only a few of you, then GN's way is perfectly viable: quality over everything else, and you only buy new toys when there's money for it. It's stable, but there's no way to do everything you want to do. Not even remotely close. LMG is one of the largest YT operations by a long shot, and he has to provide to all these people. Allocating more time for videos is a double loss in this case: you have to pay more for it, so you will have less views, less revenue from said views, sponsors, reach... This loss of income can and do hurt jobs. Just look at what happens at similarly sized companies when a minor project is canceled. Entire groups are fired. This company is not large enough that the CEO can take a smaller loss from his salary to keep said employees on the long term. That feature comes at 1000 people which is not yet possible in this landscape. You have to understand both sides. These creators act from the kindness of their hearts and not from greed. This is just an expected side effect of running a factory. Manufactories have way lower scrap rates than factories. Yes, it's true that the QMS is just better at GN, but Linus has a way wider portfolio. You just can't have the best of both worlds, that doesn't work. I won't believe that major changes will happen. Yes, the lab will do more comparable results, and the employees will be trained for more appropriate communications, but that's all they can do. And because we need both a quality and a quantity channel, it's good this way. Keep up with the good work, both of you!
  14. It depends on the content, what did you try? For example, YouTube has only stereo on PC, despite whatever there is in the title of the video.
  15. Just like with Xonar cards, you should remove the driver the vendor gave you, and use the generic one that comes with Windows Update. It won't have the nasty Realtek UI and also it won't have the reverb (EAX) problem.
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