Croddie: When do the HAphiles fail to accept claims of no difference? High-end audio codec (i.e. 192+kbps MPC/Vorbis/AAC)? High-to-low quality transcodes? I'm curious about this. There's a prevailing attitude. The examples I can think of is someone saying that when records are converted to CD the r...

PS Your's truly got a rather cold reception over at HydrogenAudio; I prefer to keep my tail out of those woods, nowadays.

Were you convicted of breaking rule 8?
I manage to survive there somehow, even though I quite like Microsoft! I keep quiet about mentioning "sound quality" directly.

However, you cannot know where the peaks are going to be, so 44kHz is not sufficient for a pure 22kHz sound under normal situations. This is what filters are for, I think. 44khz is not sufficient for recording frequencies up to 22khz for the reason you give, but you should record at much higher fre...

Croddie: They feel that claims of obviousness that are purely psychological are useless. Negative results are ones where no difference was distinguishable. This happens in two cases. When there is an error in proper testing (e.g. listening fatigue, idiocy, etc.) and when there is in fact no audible...

unless it 'moves' you twice as much, you got ripped off! i'd want to see double the shivers in your spine, twice as many tears (and not tears over how badly you got ripped) [Pomp]Philosophy only here[/Pomp] Hearing an accomplished group play the Requiem is great - there's so much in the music itsel...

2.How do you shield your monitor from the speaekers if you use bookshelf speakers with your pc? Can you buy small shielded speakers? Yes, there are lots of sheilded speakers for use with televisions which will protect against whatever CRT monitors do. 3. When connecting speaker cables do you solder...

Why 22khz "only in an ideal situation" Ever thought of upgrading that Onkyo, Ed? As you dare to call yourself an audiophile :). Wouldn't even the Panasonic digital receivers be much better for the same price? Might make it easier for you in those blind tests :) ABXing should work up to a certain lev...

If it takes fewer volt amps from the wall, it uses less power, so has higher efficiency. From the web You will not see any dollar savings with a PFC supply, it will use a bit more power, but it will present a cleaner load to the power grid. A power supply with poor power factor doesn't "lose" power,...

So it only matters if you're using a CRT, as with an LCD even if it uses analog cables you can just reduce the refresh rate and get a good signal? I imagine halving the standard rate won't be noticeable on an LCD, games and movies aside.

wumpus, what are the effects of this signal degradation? Say if you have a decent 5-10m VGA cable (DVI is better preserved?) - will the screen be full of errors? I doubt there would be a lag. But I don't know how video works.

This site isn't about silent rooms. We don't talk about ducting our air conditioners or duct taping our cats. We talk about making our PCs quieter. Can't you see that people don't like your solution? It's not for this place. Now leave our Grail Quest alone. But you could say, moving a computer to a...

An unsusually heated discussion! I think moving computers to other rooms should have its place on this site; though there's not much to it - I don't know what could be discussed apart from what cables are best. There should be perhaps not a whole section like there is for watercooling but a stick th...

Speedfan doesn't seem to work with hibernate. The lowest BIOS CPU fan voltage on my ststem (HP pavillion) is too high, so I use speedfan to adjust fan speed. This works fine until I hibernate: it seems that on resume the setting is read from the BIOS again, and now there's nothing speedfan can do ab...

Isn't it dangerous to have the PSU out of the case? I thought containing sort of PSU radiation is a main function of a case.

I hear you can move the system cache and temporary internet files to RAM (cookies too, but you'll want a program to save them to disc on turning the computer off). If you have lots of memory, couldn't you make a RAM disk and put the swap file there? Or even turn it off altogether?

Thanks for this, very useful. My computer wasn't starting up with a new fan, saying "system fan failure, service immediately" or something like that, so I needed the advanced controls.