Computer Forum Chat Thread

**Xuvial** · 2012-06-18, 06:10 PM

What are you using to rip them and what are you listening to them on o_O

**CheezusCrust** · 2012-06-18, 06:32 PM

What Xuvial said

Replaced my Sennheiser PC 350's with a pair of Creative Wrath Wireless headsets, I can walk like 8 meters away & still be able to hear loud & clearly.
Also a review said they could last ~8-9 hours per charge, so that's pretty sexy.

NO MORE CORDS! Going to test them with gaming later tonight.

**tetrisGOAT** · 2012-06-18, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Xuvial

What are you using to rip them and what are you listening to them on o_O

First question, can't remember, second question, Media Player Classic - Home Cinema.

**Xuvial** · 2012-06-18, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by tetrisGOAT

First question, can't remember, second question, Media Player Classic - Home Cinema.

No no I meant what speakers/headphones are you listening to your music on :P
Also Audacity + LAME is basically the go-to software to rip CD's to MP3 or compress FLAC (open source, totally free)...after some hunting around I found out that there's a lot of programs that completely butcher mp3 quality and make things sound a lot worse than they should.

**DeltrusDisc** · 2012-06-18, 09:13 PM

Last I heard, tetrisGOAT has the beastly HD 650s... which I looked up and gaped at a while back. lol

So if .wav is the normal full-size format of music off a CD, what is above .wav? O.o I've been told by audio-nerds that .wav is the way to listen to music, or .flac but .flac is a smaller file format.

**tetrisGOAT** · 2012-06-18, 09:16 PM

I'm actually looking to selling them!

.flac is compressed, but deemed loss-less.
MP3 has potential to be superior in audio quality, as long as the layers are fewer.
Like, a single saxophone-track has the potential to be of higher quality.
But the more layers tapped on, it loses this.
Just as an aside.

**DeltrusDisc** · 2012-06-18, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by Xuvial

so for the majority of home listening needs the "lossy" formats MP3, AAC, WAV, AIF etc are more than good enough.
Basically lossy formats have a cut-off point at 15-16khz which is an extremely high frequency, audible to only a tiny handful of people who have gifted ears and a sound system that can deliver those frequenies smoothly. 99.99% of music falls in the 100hz-11khz mark anyway.

This is why I mentioned the .wav thing, pretty sure .wav is the original format, right?

**CheezusCrust** · 2012-06-19, 02:31 AM

9x SSD's in RAID?

Yes please.

More pictures: http://imgur.com/a/DtGkV#12
May contain dangerously high internet speeds

**DeltrusDisc** · 2012-06-19, 02:35 AM

Some odd bondage going on in the last couple pictures it seems...

Also Kingston doesn't seem to care about cable management. =/

**CheezusCrust** · 2012-06-19, 02:43 AM

Surprises me the processor didn't just freeze up and explode from the -172c temps

**Apathy -** · 2012-06-19, 02:53 AM

Originally Posted by inux94

Surprises me the processor didn't just freeze up and explode from the -172c temps

I want -172c temps =(

**Butler Log** · 2012-06-19, 09:36 AM

I was watching a video by a guy from corsair who was playing around with liquid Nitrogen cooling, apparently his i7 990X packs in at -150ish.

**hapylol** · 2012-06-19, 07:40 PM

What do you guys do all day that you just browse random computer threads and articles

... because I need to starting doing it.

**DeltrusDisc** · 2012-06-19, 07:48 PM

I sit at my desk.

**tetrisGOAT** · 2012-06-19, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by hapylol

What do you guys do all day that you just browse random computer threads and articles

... because I need to starting doing it.

Depends.
It helps a lot, since when you need to learn something, you know where to find it.
In general though, just start following a hardware/software news-site you like the feel of.

What I "do all day" is different though.

**Xuvial** · 2012-06-19, 08:21 PM

OCN Industry News section. 'Nuff said.

**Cyanotical** · 2012-06-20, 02:41 AM

IT, it tends to fluctuate between weeks where im so busy i don't even have time to open a browser, and other times where every link on reddit is purple

**Nyq** · 2012-06-20, 03:20 PM

So im thinking about picking up a pair of these: http://north-america.beyerdynamic.co...g/mmx-300.html since my astros broke. Anyone have any experience with Beyerdynamic headsets?

**Marest** · 2012-06-20, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Nyq

So im thinking about picking up a pair of these: http://north-america.beyerdynamic.co...g/mmx-300.html since my astros broke. Anyone have any experience with Beyerdynamic headsets?

Those are basically DT 770s with a microphone, meaning that they are overpriced but excellent.

**Nyq** · 2012-06-20, 04:08 PM

Not really concerned with the price lo, how is the mic quality?

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