this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
227 points (98.3% liked)
Technology
69110 readers
3353 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Audiophiles will go nuts over this
Honestly I have no idea how audio encoding works but I just imagined going from 80 decibels to 81 decibels (10x) and an audiophile losing his shit
When I was sort of an audiophile, my first steps were to switch from ALSA to OSS under Linux. I still think I heard the difference for music, and probably yes - because that was OSS without mixing.
And I still think I hear the difference between FreeBSD newpcm and Linux sound stack. newpcm's mixing is simpler (firefox starting, opening a sound device and music volume sharply dropping in half is not nice), but it seems to spoil the sounds less.
I can already hear them