Yeah, I'm with supporting an optional system. It would greatly complicate inventories for the companies, however. But who ever keeps using the stock cables with their favorite cans?

Yes, removable cables had already won, before the post-HD800 >1k headphone takeoff. So, what stock cable should be included with a pair of high end cans, if any?

Just curious: At what point do consumers of high-end headphones think that the manufacturers should only supply licorice as a stock cable, if any, expecting consumers to disagree on having to pay an extra $20k for the Nordost cable for every new pair of headphones automatically? Some high end...

I'm not having too many crashes, only my ASIO output has to get switched to WASAPI and then started before immediately switching back to working ASIO. If it tries playing anything complex for longer than 4 seconds, switching to ASIO sounds like WASAPI went through a whole bunch of software...

Thanks for agreeing that Audirvana finally beats JRiver at everything. For some reason many people don't find Audirvana any different than any other player. Now that you are saying that Audirvana matches local files, are you ready to see if Audirvana can make your gear more resolving than that...

I use Audirvana to play back everything, because it is the best sounding player so far by far. I am thrilled to bits that they have included Tidal and Qobuz streaming support for a $10/mo subscription, especially since most streaming software sounds like junk compared to even a not so good...

I bought a $2k professional monitor with an extended color range for my video gaming, but Audirvana is also showing me higher res album covers from Tidal. They don't take up the whole screen, there is a bar on the bottom 1/4 for the controls and seek line, but the image is already 16", over the...

It did not start off with an insult. It started off with me saying that 192khz was better than 96. The insult was the way that someone disagreed with me, which I refute. Imagine playing a fast reaction video game: at the new standard 24hz for movies, someone who is a far away speck can be...

Look at it this way: vinyl plays back an analogue recording that was a single sample, and included a duration of time. It can constantly change. Your 44.1 is absolutely reproducing a 20khz frequency, and then in the next sample, reproducing a true 18khz frequency. The argument for higher...

Ok, so wee need to get to the bottom of this "higher resolution is 'better' makes us have to lose" topic. Do these few head-fi'res have an ai searching for threads who mention "uncompressed", to then go and chastise for believing that more frequent samples even can sound more detailed and...

Digital music is the playback of timeless snapshots of the audio that was originally played. Nothing before your dac recorded what was going on in between the snapshots, so it can't be played. Yes, I'm sorry, but your dac is only holding the sound of that sample continually, for the duration...

Heads up to all the audiophiles on head-fi: There ARE people who sign up for accounts, and then become Headphoneus Supremus for how many times they argue against people who talk about higher resolution being better than even lower than max mp3 compression. In fact, unless you tell everyone at...

If you can read between my samples, how can I be dangerous to you for supporting higher resolutions, or the lack of compression? Why do you have to ask for a thread to be closed, so that people can't talk about the subject? Hmm, it's starting to seem like I'm supposed to tell you you're a total...

The continuous waveform is created by playing each sample for 1/44kth of a second, until it alters. Your continuous waveform is highly stairstepped, and spends to much time not knowing what's next. You will have to ask moderators to use ai to refuse any posts that mention higher res digital...

Oh, bigshot says something that the rest of the audio community disagrees with, so my content can't keep him content. Do you also agree that your gear playing tracks that only play each sample for 192kth/second before the next one taken will introduce noise to the playback, for some reason only...