Computer Forum Chat Thread

[BicycleMafioso]

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]

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]

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.

[BicycleMafioso]

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]

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?

[inux94]

9x SSD's in RAID?

Yes please.


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[DeltrusDisc]

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

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

[inux94]

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

[Resentful]

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

I want -172c temps =(

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

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]

What do you guys do all day that you just browse random computer threads and articles... because I need to starting doing it.

[DeltrusDisc]

I sit at my desk.

[BicycleMafioso]

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]

OCN Industry News section. 'Nuff said.

[Cyanotical]

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]

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?

[Deleted]

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]

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

[noteworthynerd]

What do you guys do all day that you just browse random computer threads and articles... because I need to starting doing it.

I'm an IT Support Tech for a small bank, sometimes I'm buried in work, other weeks I receive two or three calls max.

[inux94]

If you're not concerned about the price then go grab some HD 800 :P