Finding out accurately our listening level is complicated. The way I do it uses things you are unlikely to have(mic+coupler, a reference IEM with an individual certificate giving the sensi(er4sr), and some plugs, so I can feed the IEM and measure the voltage with a multimeter at the same time...

I strongly suspect it's 4V not 44. The power of 53mW is for 4V into 300ohm. Then for the sensi, from 1V to 4V we get a gain of 12.04dB. You'd actually get 97+12=109dB SPL at 1kHz. So first I'd suggest making sure the specs are the right values and right units. And second, if that predicted...

I did what I should and then more, by now I've read most of his posts(time I'll never get back) his article, the one he took the screenshots from, Monty's article and watched the video(it had been a minute). I did it several times for each by now(to fact-check a bunch of things). Trying to...

@theveterans. sunjam is trying to fool you with a little flattery and a game of replacing dialectic by kindergarten rhetoric, misquoting, strawmaning, cherry-picking, and just a general lack of logical continuity in his make-believe demonstrations. Sure, he's not insulting in form, but the...

If the game has Atmos or some multichannel setting, then there is no saying what a player will use to output the audio. Some guy might be in his man cave with a magnificent multichannel speaker system. I understand the philosophy of wanting a fair game, but that never existed in the first...

What he's demonstrated so far was that: His persona thinks very highly of itself. He can be top poster of the day on Headfi with messages that, upon scrutiny, have no content. End of list. He didn't address any legitimate point made against his Don Quixote narratives. I looked a little and...

@sunjam is the journalist in the Jordan Peterson's "so you're saying" meme.

You get confused because many people use "hard to drive" to mean just about anything. Higher impedance does not mean harder to drive, there is no such rule. It doesn't even ensure how loud a headphone or IEM will be. So of course people who conflate those concepts can say many confusing things...

Yes, I reinterpret while you look right into his soul. Have fun feeding those pointless delusions. I've had enough of pretending to have a logic conversation.

More people who probably did not say it, are saying it. Great, let it be known that the strawman is not targeting just one man anymore.:face_palm: You (also) got it wrong about staircases. People don't try to demonstrate that hires is useless by saying there are no staircases. That makes no...

I was wrong, I imagine I mixed up AD and AK chips. But please don't let someone easily admitting to being wrong, stop you from steady misrepresentation and dishonesty. Your clear errors are all excused and reinterpreted by you, but Monty not repeating in every sentence the entire list of...

You find this to be a proper explanation? How can you have so much tunnel vision and act like you're a critical thinker at the same time? I'm dumbfounded. The facts: -In the video's intro, Monty mentions an article he wrote. That is not the content of that video you referenced and pretend to...

You think someone here is going to take this seriously? The first post had a video titled "Orgone pyramid...".

It seems to be a real thing on some AKM chips. It achieves nearly no phase shift at all by using the extremely innovative approach of filtering almost nothing at all ^_^. It's one out of 6 settings on that particular chip, and of course it is by far the worst possible setting for fidelity. But...

@sunjam. If you actually wish to fight pseudo-science right now, take down your article, let's delete this thread and move on. It's the obvious, honest thing to do. There is nothing you're arguing against, that is worse than what you yourself have done in that blog. You think that saying hires...

A Dirac pulse is not music! There is a reason why we often talk about a Dirac pulse as an illegal signal. The concept is infinitely high amplitude at instant t, and nothing before or after. In the real world with sound, that would require the power of teleportation, and even that would only...

Or even better protection from this classic product:

It's a messed up filter, there are no staircases with the other filters, which is evidence that this filter in particular is the problem(and not CD or whatever narrative your blog tries to sell). The original article spends a lot of time on that filter and showing how it's a weird filter that...

Oh cool, a snake oil thread! I guess you needed to lose all credibility, so you made this.

Electrons are very slow, not slightly slower.

Maybe I should have said blatant misrepresentation instead? When you have to go for non oversampling and inappropriate or no filter to demonstrate why hires is better, and show that signals have staircases, I feel like you're actually making a strong case for 44.1kHz and that old Monty's video...

All those debates aren't about DAC differences, but about how much someone can insist he has conclusive results despite relying on a notoriously flawed testing method. The entire thing isn't all that far from asking a tarot card reader if DACs sound different. And then finding excuses as to why...

IDK if the filter and your tinnitus were related. Perhaps if you listened too loud, as we often do when we try new stuff. Or same thing, if the setting and your system resulted in maybe some high energy crap somewhere. But your explanation looks like a confusing mix of real information, and you...

The actual source for the measurements is linked as https://addictedtoaudio.com.au/blogs/how-to/how-to-pick-the-best-filter-setting-for-your-dac Contrary to the link from OP, in the original article the guy understands what he's talking about and at no point does he make the silly silly claims...

@Ghoostknight. First, congrats, you managed to make another thread go off-topic to fuel your personal vendetta. You must be so proud. A scientific approach often consists of having an idea, then tests to see if we can disprove that idea. In very many cases, even when a model for how things...