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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to ShearMe in Superlux HD-668B?   
    Does le audio-technica rubber band mod work for them?
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to TheSLSAMG in You kids have it so easy these days in building a computer....   
    I have to say, that res is fucking brilliant.
     
    Also, I don't see how his tone is "too condescending". It's obviously written in a whole "you kids these days" comedic sense?
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to Arct1c0n in You kids have it so easy these days in building a computer....   
    You kids these days have it so damn easy in building computers. It's utterly amazing how much has changed when 14 years ago at this time, I was spending hours and hours between my college IT classes figuring out why the hell Intel was getting its ass kicked by this "AMD" company and why spending the money on this new "Geforce 3" was such a big deal compared to previous versions that ran Quake 2 just fine but Unreal squashed that.
     
     
    Back when I wanted to build my first computer in late 2000/early 2001 as a  young lad of 20 *God I feel old now* I had to go through a rirtual only other old, get off my lawn farts can understand now 
     
     
    1. There was no Youtube, social media, flash art to give you visual refrences on how to put stuff together. You went and got a "Build Your computer Bible " Version 28 book from Barns an Noble and marked pages
     

     
     
     
    2. You didn't have price search engines, you opened up multiple WINDOWS of etailers and compared prices side by side
     

     
     
    3. You spent SLOWLY modem dialing across  forums for hours on end dealing with "veteran builders" who kept ignoring you
     

     
     
     
    4. You had to still learn to use jumpers on your IDE drives correctly, or no booting for you. And God forbid if you bend one of the IDE pins
     

     
     
     
     
    5. Make sure you didn't crush your new Athlon GPU die by putting too much pressure on heatsink
     

     
     
     
    6.  USB was VERY MUCH "Plug and Pray" back in those days...
     

     

     
     
     
    7.  Driver downloads took half an hour on times on dial up modems
     

     
     
     
     
     
    8. BIOS'es were still big Blue and white screens of fear.  Good luck configuring boot up devices if you didn't understand with the included manual 
     

     
     
     
     
    9. LED lighting? Hah, didn't exist. You spent good money on a cold cathode to show of your pimped rig through the window YOU YOURSELF cut and installed
     

     
     
     
     
    10.  Dual CPUs?  On a single die? NO no, they had their own sockets. If you had a dual cpu setup, you were a farking god among men
     

     
     
     
    11. Overclocking was a true russian roulette game, with a mis firing gun.  You would spend hours on forums trying to get detailed information on what BIOS settings to tweak and NOT to touch. There was no preset and "forget" oveclocking, let alone Windows versions
     

     
     
     
    12. Boot to windows over USB? Whats that? 
     

     
     
     
     
    13. If your Windows key didn't take for whatever reason, have fun spending half an our on hold with microsoft. 
     

     
     
     
    14. Is your Soundcard or add on NIC card *most mobo's didn' thave onboard LAN* not working or crashing system? You got to play the PCI slot swapping and reinstalling gaming to find which one was the culprit
     

     
     
     
     
    15. All in one, prebuilt water cooling kits for $100? Pffffaa bwaa haa!! You had to spend $300 or more from DangerDen on DIY kit with tubing like garden hoses and pray to god your seals held on your waterblocks and self made reserviors. 
     

     

     
     
     
     
    16. Downloadable ISO's? Hah, you went to the store and bought your copy of Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 if you were a really rich pimp and prepared for hours long install with the CDROM drive spinning away
     

     
     
     
     
     
    17. Pre painted and sweet looking cases with good airflow? HAAA!!! Nope, you broke out the spray paint cans, the dremel and jigsaw and MADE your case look good and cool well. 
     

     

     
     
     
     
    18.   24-30 inch flat screen LCDs? Oh no, you were a pimp if you could afford a quality, 20" flatscreen Sony Trinitron that weighed 40 pounds that you lugged to LAN parties. If you were poor, you bought Viewsonic 19'' CRT monitor.
     

     
     
     
     
    19. If your dial up 56k modem was getting you downloads speeds of around 33 kbytes a second, God was smiling on you.
     

     
     
     
     
    20. Was your case getting to hot with that AGP graphics card and multiple hard drives?  You had to make your own blowhole, jigsaw style!  Or get real creative....
     

     

     
     
     
    21. Presleeved power supply cables and SATA cables? Haa!!!  What are those?
     

     
     
     
     
    22. If you couldn't afford a $300 CD burner, you got a Iomega Zip drive.
     

     
     
    23. You wanna listen to your Blink 182 music CD in full digital? Be sure you have this cable installed
     
     
     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    So be thankful you little digital rascals of what you have today. Now get off my lawn....   
     
     
    And after some googling, I actually found a archieved image of my VERY FIRST computer build back in May of 2001 with my very first case modding project based off the Enlight 7237 case which was vey popular back in the day. Wow....the feels....
     

     
     
     
     

     
     
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to ShearMe in AKG K7XX or Phillips Fidelio X2   
    600/650 are definitely overpriced at MSRP, but just about every headphone over $50 is. I'll agree $200 for the K7XX is a good price, but not that is is a great deal.
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to ShearMe in AKG K7XX or Phillips Fidelio X2   
    This logic makes my stomach churn. If they can sell a $400 headphone for $200, then it's not a $400 headphone. 
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to SSL in Sennheiser HD518 vs Audio-Technica ATH-AD500x   
    Neither is better, they are just different.
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to SSL in I WANT TO SHARE MY PROJECT WITH YOU, Feedback Appreciated! ^_^   
    I would also be concerned about having anything occluding the speaker driver. The second design seems better in that regard but could still affect the radiation pattern of the drivers.
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to Jerakl in I WANT TO SHARE MY PROJECT WITH YOU, Feedback Appreciated! ^_^   
    I honestly think the second design looks cleaner.
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    WobblyMusicStand got a reaction from Oktyabr in Superlux HD-668B?   
    If only you could replace the silly head wings with a full length band it would be glorious. After a couple years of use on my end, the pleather tabs have harded up and are sometimes uncomfortable.
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to Silent_Xaxal in Is Netflix's commitment to net neutrality a lie?   
    The Verge. Continuing it's FUCKING SENSATIONALISTIC hole digging.
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to Victorious Secret in Microsoft HoloLens receives a blow as designer Mike Ey killed in hit-and-run crash   
    Manslaughter implies accidental circumstances that could've been avoided by both parties. 
     
    Homicide is intent. Getting a vehicle while under the influence (willingly) is not accidental. 
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to Trik'Stari in Apple to Buy 1/3 of Global Gold Supply for its i-Watch   
    Or I don't know, that foil they use to protect spacecraft, making semi-conductors, you know, all those things that can help advance mankind.
     
    No, fuck it, lets just make asinine watches for hipsters who can't actually afford the fucking things in the first place.
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to creatip123 in Static on youtube videos?   
    If it's plugged in again, and it suddenly work out good, maybe loose contact pin, possibly the ground pin, on the first case. Maybe it got pulled or knocked a bit. 
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    WobblyMusicStand got a reaction from Octavialicious in Static on youtube videos?   
    They help me too, I can make the generic with a few edits and use them as general troubleshooting docs if people have similar issues in the future. Take care!
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to creatip123 in Static on youtube videos?   
    How about when you take the adapter off? Still static?
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to Octavialicious in Static on youtube videos?   
    I took it out and plugged it back in and now it's fixed .-.
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    WobblyMusicStand got a reaction from Octavialicious in Static on youtube videos?   
    It sounds like your problem is more global then just Youtube then.
     
    Try turning down the overall output volume on your computer. It is likely that the same problem is occurring in games but the extra stimulus (and often volume) is more distracting. (You can test this tor, by sitting in a game menu or similar and letting the music play from that source)
     
    Somethings to test.
    To test if the problem is being cause by a weak connection between the jack and the port, try plugging the speakers into a second output on you computer (front panel if you have one). You can also try plugging in a different pair of headphones to the same port and seeing if they experience the same problem. If two different devices experience the same problem when plugged into the same output, but not when plugged into another then the issue is likely a lose connector on your computer. (But you said a DAC output had static as well, so this may not be the case)
    If one device works well, and the other is staticy it is probably a issue with the cable or connector on the speaker side. (But you have already indicated your phone is fine, so this is possibly not the case)
     
    To double check that it is not the position of your speaker cable, plug in your phone but leave the cable in the same spot as it runs from your computer, it may be that it is picking up RF interference, try running the cable a different way.
     
    If the above fails to fix this issue, try lowering the overall output level from your computer.
    You can also check that you are not attempting to play unsupported bitrates and codec through you sound system
    Try right clicking on the speaker icon and selecting "Playback Devices" Find your speakers on the ouput list Select "Properties" from the right click menu Go to the tab "Supported Formats" Follow the testing instruction, uncheck any that do not play back correctly. (odd pauses, crackling).  
     
    Other note. Another post made by you indicates that you got a new mic recently. It may be feeding noise into your system, try unplugging it (and rebooting) to see it if is causing the noise)
    Try right clicking on the speaker icon and selecting "Recording Devices" Find your new mic on the input list Select "Properties" from the right click menu Go to the tab "Listen" Uncheck "Listen to this device" if it is checked. This may have been causing you to pick up the noise from your speakers and continually play it back into your output.
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    WobblyMusicStand got a reaction from Octavialicious in Static on youtube videos?   
    ... well now you know! Repeat ad nasium if problem reoccurs (half of tech support is having had the problem once before -.-)
     
    I probably should have specified that this applies to all connectors... odd that the video adapter caused the interference though.
     
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to ShearMe in Pm   
    Pulse Modulation?
     
    Are you just copy-pasting questions off some school work into a new thread per question? That's not cool bro.
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    WobblyMusicStand got a reaction from weez in What's a good way to level out a voice over   
    Realistically you have 4 options.
     
    1) Move the mic closer to your mouth
    Moving the microphone closer to your mouth will allow it to pick up the sound of your voice more consistently. Be careful though, with the microphone closer to your mouth it become easier to speak directly into the diaphragm: resulting in more pops/hisses. Remember to talk over the mic and not at it at all times. 2) Talk louder
    If you can't move the mic you can also talk louder to facilitate the pick up of your voice into the microphone. 3) Turn up the output volume
    This is usually done by adjusting the output volume of the channel if your mic if it is running into a mixer. (Virtual or physical) By Adjusting the volume you can increase the loudness of your voice without significantly affecting the noise level in the background. Increasing the volume does not change what the mic picks up, instead it amplifies the existing signal. 4) Turn up the microphone gain
    You can also adjust the gain on your microphone itself (or the input gain on a mixer). However, this will increase the amount of background noise in your recording. This is because gain is in essence the sensitivity of the microphone, so the higher the gain the more sensitive the mic pickup and thus the more of everything that it will pick up. (Including your voice, but also everything around you)
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    WobblyMusicStand got a reaction from anfor68 in Tech Confession Time!   
    I do too, because I can't justify the cost of a graphics card with how much I play games anymore.
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to SSL in Vinyl player on pc?   
    The audio on them may be better, the format is otherwise no better.
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to Aniallation in Asking torrenting questions on this website   
    It IS allowed. Torrenting does not mean piracy. It is a means of P2P file transfer. On the forum there is nothing wrong with talking about torrenting if it's done in a lawful manner. Encouraging piracy however is not allowed.
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to thekeemo in Asking torrenting questions on this website   
    torrenting is not illegal pirating is
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    WobblyMusicStand reacted to -TesseracT- in Converting between audio and video formats.   
    There are programs that can extract audio and video tracks from the container so that you can put them in a new one without loosing quality.
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