America has a great wealth of craft brews and an equally amazing wealth of bourbons and ryes and other forms of whiskey.
It's just such a shame that your mainstream junk BudMillerCoors, Jack Daniels Old No. 7 (Gentleman Jack is great, though), Jim Beam and so on tends to completely overshadow it.
No, 1 beer = 1 review will just get you a taste that's determined by the people who drink tons of beer to get plastered, instead of the people who buy one beer and spend some time enjoying it.
I don't think it'll end up quite that badly, but there is definitely an issue with a lot of people just wanting to "get hammered" and equating ABV with quality. I've talked to people who would refuse a 3.5-4% beer, even though it tastes amazing, because "don't give that weak-ass pussy bullshit, I want a REAL MAN's beer!".
My point is, don't necessarily give people exactly what they want, because they'll just ask for stronger beer with a taste that's inoffensive and bland. It's much more fun to explore unknown tastes and maybe discover something surprisingly that you never would have asked for directly.
I have to say that I was surprised at the apparent level of bass reproduction from the Soundlink Mini one of my colleagues brought to work last week. I'm sure it's mostly being done by accentuating mid/upper bass frequencies and possibly some psychoacoustics (adding more upper hamonics to bass frequencies, that sort of thing), but it also does move a fair bit of air. It's pretty cool what you can do with Li-ion batteries and class-D amplifier these days.
But people only use those bots in order to resell the tickets later at a large markup, otherwise there would be no reason to buy such large amounts of tickets.
There's a much more elegant and fair solution to the problem. Set a reasonable ticket price that allows you to make money while allowing as many fans as possible to afford the show. Restrict reselling of tickets so they cannot be resold at higher than face value. This allows people to resell their tickets if they can't go, and it stop unscrupulous scalpers from making a profit off of frustrated fans, who could get a ticket because the scalpers bought them all up.
Fuck scalpers. Fuck them in their greedy little asses.
Everyone hates the RIAA, but the fact is without the marketing by these entities you would never have found your "favorite" bands.
I found my favorite bands through word of mouth, pirated music from friends at LAN parties, and from reviews on independent websites and mentions of similar bands in the comments of said sites.
And they're real, actual favorite bands, not just flavor-of-the-week "favorite" bands.
You flash the image to a blank SD card, and the first time it boots up, it expands to fill the entire card. Then you plug in a blank USB stick and RetroPie will create the relevant ROM folders. After you populate the USB stick with ROMs and plug it back into the RetroPie, it will copy the ROMs over to the correct folder and make them available in the menu.
On first bootup, it'll go straight to the controller configuration, and it's very easy to go through for additional controllers.
As long as you're connecting to your TV via HDMI and use USB controllers, it's about as self-configuring as you could ask for.
That's a meta-analysis, of a number of (flawed) other studies. The biggest problem is that the meta-analysis just accepts the findings of those other studies, no matter how flawed they are, and tries to draw a conclusion from that.
If there really was that big of an audible difference as many audiophiles claim, it would have been proven conclusively years ago. But so far, the "best" result they have to show is this deeply flawed meta-analysis, which doesn't really prove anything at all.
Meyer and Moran's study on the audibility of a CD-quality downsampling in the signal chain of hi-res audio is still significantly more relevant, and factual.
I know not of this Opeth of which you speak, however. Should I check them out? I'm not too much of a Death Metal fan; but their Wikipedia page makes me think they are more akin to Dream Theatre (but maybe a bit less "Proggy"), which I quite enjoy in limited doses... As for metal for metal's sake, I'm more of a Rammstein fan.
Opeth are a prog metal band. They started out heavily influenced by death metal, so they interspersed heavy guitars and growled vocals with acoustic sections and clean singing. The contrast between soft/hard sections was their trademark. I recommend checking it out, even if you're not really into death metal.
They started working on a softer, more prog rock sound on the Damnation album. And their last three albums have been full-on prog rock. A lot of the old fans don't like those albums, but I love them:-)
Most of the musicians I know have kinda crappy stereos. All-in-one systems, bluetooth speakers, random cheap 80s plastic junk, you name it. They spend all of their money on instruments and gear instead.
They don't care about the absolute sound quality, they hear the track (even in crap quality) and in their mind, they're playing it themselves, so they relate to it on another level.
The problem is that devices have widely different output levels. Some mobile devices put out less than 1Vrms maximum, but headphone amps can output as high as 3Vrms. If you scale the headphone sensitivity to the mobile device, the headphone amp will play really goddamn loud, but if you scale them to the headphone amp, you will barely be able to hear anything from the mobile device.
What should ideally be brought to market, are headphones with limiters/compressors built in, so the maximum sound level delivered through them is ~85dB. The tech already exists for the professional market for hearing protection that feeds in outside sound through front-mounted mics, and caps the maximum volume level. But it will make consumer headphones more expensive, which is probably why no one is making them.
You could make a device that plugs in between the source and the headphones, with a calibration to the specific source and headphones, which can be set and locked by an adult. But that takes effort, and no one will probably bother to do it right.
Howard Leight Bilsom 303. I bought a huge box back when I rode motorcycles everyday (the wind noise around a helmet is a real ear-killer), and I'm still using them for concerts. They're the best earplugs I've ever used, foam, silicone, molded, wax, you name it.
Headphones are perfectly fine, as long as you either get ones that isolate outside noise, or only listen in already quiet areas. Trying to block outside noise by turning up your music is what damages hearing.
I wish I would have known this when I was younger and absolutely blasted music through tiny earbuds. "It doesn't hurt, so it must be OK".
Now I have absolutely no hearing above 16KHz, additional mid-high frequency loss in my left ear (barely able to hear things like hi-hats) and mild tinnitus. And let me tell you, it sucks major ass.
I wear good earplugs to all concerts now, and in general any time I expect to be exposed to even moderately loud sounds.
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I get all of my packages delivered to my workplace, it's so much more convenient.
America has a great wealth of craft brews and an equally amazing wealth of bourbons and ryes and other forms of whiskey.
It's just such a shame that your mainstream junk BudMillerCoors, Jack Daniels Old No. 7 (Gentleman Jack is great, though), Jim Beam and so on tends to completely overshadow it.
No, 1 beer = 1 review will just get you a taste that's determined by the people who drink tons of beer to get plastered, instead of the people who buy one beer and spend some time enjoying it.
I don't think it'll end up quite that badly, but there is definitely an issue with a lot of people just wanting to "get hammered" and equating ABV with quality. I've talked to people who would refuse a 3.5-4% beer, even though it tastes amazing, because "don't give that weak-ass pussy bullshit, I want a REAL MAN's beer!".
My point is, don't necessarily give people exactly what they want, because they'll just ask for stronger beer with a taste that's inoffensive and bland. It's much more fun to explore unknown tastes and maybe discover something surprisingly that you never would have asked for directly.
I have a friend who pre-ordered the day they were announced, and he still hasn't gotten it.
I have to say that I was surprised at the apparent level of bass reproduction from the Soundlink Mini one of my colleagues brought to work last week. I'm sure it's mostly being done by accentuating mid/upper bass frequencies and possibly some psychoacoustics (adding more upper hamonics to bass frequencies, that sort of thing), but it also does move a fair bit of air. It's pretty cool what you can do with Li-ion batteries and class-D amplifier these days.
901s are interesting. I wouldn't call them "good" or "accurate", but they're very capable at filling a room with acceptable sound quality.
So what you're saying is that only rich people should have a chance to go see U2, AC/DC, Metallica or any other big-name performance?
Fuck that. Music is for all the people, not just the rich.
Because then only people with large amounts of money will be able to go.
Music is for all people, not just the rich elitists.
But people only use those bots in order to resell the tickets later at a large markup, otherwise there would be no reason to buy such large amounts of tickets.
Ban scalpers.
And then burn them alive.
Bingo. That's how it is here, and it has worked extremely well.
All fans get a reasonable chance to go, not just those with really deep pockets.
Set a fixed price, don't allow resale above said fixed price.
That's how it works around here, and it's 99,9% eliminated scalpers, allowing more "normal people" rather than rich fucks to attend concerts.
There's a much more elegant and fair solution to the problem. Set a reasonable ticket price that allows you to make money while allowing as many fans as possible to afford the show. Restrict reselling of tickets so they cannot be resold at higher than face value. This allows people to resell their tickets if they can't go, and it stop unscrupulous scalpers from making a profit off of frustrated fans, who could get a ticket because the scalpers bought them all up.
Fuck scalpers. Fuck them in their greedy little asses.
Everyone hates the RIAA, but the fact is without the marketing by these entities you would never have found your "favorite" bands.
I found my favorite bands through word of mouth, pirated music from friends at LAN parties, and from reviews on independent websites and mentions of similar bands in the comments of said sites.
And they're real, actual favorite bands, not just flavor-of-the-week "favorite" bands.
RetroPie a pain in the ass?
You flash the image to a blank SD card, and the first time it boots up, it expands to fill the entire card. Then you plug in a blank USB stick and RetroPie will create the relevant ROM folders. After you populate the USB stick with ROMs and plug it back into the RetroPie, it will copy the ROMs over to the correct folder and make them available in the menu.
On first bootup, it'll go straight to the controller configuration, and it's very easy to go through for additional controllers.
As long as you're connecting to your TV via HDMI and use USB controllers, it's about as self-configuring as you could ask for.
That's a meta-analysis, of a number of (flawed) other studies. The biggest problem is that the meta-analysis just accepts the findings of those other studies, no matter how flawed they are, and tries to draw a conclusion from that.
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.p...
If there really was that big of an audible difference as many audiophiles claim, it would have been proven conclusively years ago. But so far, the "best" result they have to show is this deeply flawed meta-analysis, which doesn't really prove anything at all.
Meyer and Moran's study on the audibility of a CD-quality downsampling in the signal chain of hi-res audio is still significantly more relevant, and factual.
I know not of this Opeth of which you speak, however. Should I check them out? I'm not too much of a Death Metal fan; but their Wikipedia page makes me think they are more akin to Dream Theatre (but maybe a bit less "Proggy"), which I quite enjoy in limited doses... As for metal for metal's sake, I'm more of a Rammstein fan.
Opeth are a prog metal band. They started out heavily influenced by death metal, so they interspersed heavy guitars and growled vocals with acoustic sections and clean singing. The contrast between soft/hard sections was their trademark. I recommend checking it out, even if you're not really into death metal.
They started working on a softer, more prog rock sound on the Damnation album. And their last three albums have been full-on prog rock. A lot of the old fans don't like those albums, but I love them :-)
And of course, you can list all of those topics? :-)
Most of the musicians I know have kinda crappy stereos. All-in-one systems, bluetooth speakers, random cheap 80s plastic junk, you name it. They spend all of their money on instruments and gear instead.
They don't care about the absolute sound quality, they hear the track (even in crap quality) and in their mind, they're playing it themselves, so they relate to it on another level.
Yeah, not really much difference between Trump and Hillary, honestly.
https://www.politicalcompass.o...
The problem is that devices have widely different output levels. Some mobile devices put out less than 1Vrms maximum, but headphone amps can output as high as 3Vrms. If you scale the headphone sensitivity to the mobile device, the headphone amp will play really goddamn loud, but if you scale them to the headphone amp, you will barely be able to hear anything from the mobile device.
What should ideally be brought to market, are headphones with limiters/compressors built in, so the maximum sound level delivered through them is ~85dB. The tech already exists for the professional market for hearing protection that feeds in outside sound through front-mounted mics, and caps the maximum volume level. But it will make consumer headphones more expensive, which is probably why no one is making them.
You could make a device that plugs in between the source and the headphones, with a calibration to the specific source and headphones, which can be set and locked by an adult. But that takes effort, and no one will probably bother to do it right.
Howard Leight Bilsom 303. I bought a huge box back when I rode motorcycles everyday (the wind noise around a helmet is a real ear-killer), and I'm still using them for concerts. They're the best earplugs I've ever used, foam, silicone, molded, wax, you name it.
A lot of my friends still refuse to wear earplugs at concerts, even REALLY GODDAMN FUCKING LOUD DEATH METAL SHOWS.
I learned my lessen, and while my hearing is a bit damaged, I'm doing my best to not damage it any further.
Headphones are perfectly fine, as long as you either get ones that isolate outside noise, or only listen in already quiet areas. Trying to block outside noise by turning up your music is what damages hearing.
I wish I would have known this when I was younger and absolutely blasted music through tiny earbuds. "It doesn't hurt, so it must be OK".
Now I have absolutely no hearing above 16KHz, additional mid-high frequency loss in my left ear (barely able to hear things like hi-hats) and mild tinnitus. And let me tell you, it sucks major ass.
I wear good earplugs to all concerts now, and in general any time I expect to be exposed to even moderately loud sounds.