That’s not true, is it! “We all” did not present the facts, you presented cherry-picked and misrepresented facts, along with numerous fallacies and falsehoods, which obviously is NOT presenting the facts, it’s presenting pseudoscience which can only achieve the opposite of helping people “to...

Thought I’d address the quotes below as it seems typical. Like others, I don’t really get that. How is being anti-troll “trolling”? That is just “playing the victim”, probably the most typical reaction employed by trolls when they’ve been called out. Coming to a science discussion forum and...

To be accurate, I think we need to acknowledge that there are conditions under which this quote isn’t necessarily true. There have been some studies demonstrating that some young adults can process and hear/detect frequencies up to around 24kHz. However, this is uncommon and requires pure...

Unfortunately, only the first dozen or so paragraphs translate for me, so I’m not sure if the point I’m going to make is addressed (put right/into perspective) later in the article. There seems to be an unhealthy marketing driven obsession in the audiophile world, actually there are many but...

Sorry, it seems my response came across as much harsher than I intended and as far as I’m concerned it’s really not a big deal if you don’t want to start a new thread and would like to discuss it in this one. Although it’s not up to me, it’s not my thread. Yes, I’m sure “the definition of a...

I don’t see that as workable. You want a group of volunteers with limited time to organise and have a discussion about every problematic thread on sound science (which sooner or later is nearly all of them)? @castleofargh - In the most recent case, where the thread not only went off the rails...

I’m not sure you meant to post that in this thread, maybe start a new one of you want to discuss that article (or the translation). I presume it’s because @castleofargh doesn’t live on Head-Fi, is an unpaid volunteer and doesn’t monitor Head-Fi constantly. But they were the thread starters, so...

No problem. I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt to begin with but then he blew it up with claims of Woke Nazis and non-vaccinated Jewish Christians (or something), demonstrating the original post was just a troll prelude. G

“Sound Check” is Apple’s version of Replaygain, it can be found in Apple Music settings. There is also “Reduce Loud Audio” in the “Headphone Safety” section of the “Sounds & Haptics” section of main settings, which I believe does employ a limiter (compression). That is also a possibility. I...

As far as I’m aware, the iPhone doesn’t do any loudness compression, it just reduces the level of each track according to the loudness metadata but you say you have Sound Check switched off. And, although the moondrop DAC stores PEQ settings, it *might* use a default setting unless it is...

I don’t know, do you want loudness normalisation? You can turn it off if not. If it’s a profile type thing, that might be more difficult to solve if Apple doesn’t support the app but then that’s a user error effectively. G

It’s not easy to know what the iPhone is doing, what is being bypassed or what the moondrop phone is doing. For example, is the iPhone applying loudness normalisation (Sound Check) but the moondrop isn’t, is the moondrop sending some profile setting to the DAC that the iPhone isn’t, as bigshot...

If -30 is not below -23 then all math is wrong and the modern world doesn’t exist. Then try reading some. Yes, students commonly watch a great deal of YouTube videos, the vast majority of which are nonsense clickbait (just like your blog) so it is somewhat shocking when they watch one that’s...

No you are not correct, just for a change. You are not discussing “facts related to audio science”, the rest of us are but you are doing the opposite and promoting pseudoscience related to audio science and falsely calling it “facts”. No, I’ve never met or even heard of a primary school kid who...

Indeed, I left those out. I was trying to leave a bit of a safety margin for “definitely” inaudible, to account for potential extreme conditions that almost certainly won’t exist for a consumer but I can’t say definitely can never exist. For example a potential recording where the peak level is...