Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th...
by ZiiS on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:49AM
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I aggree the placebo effect is a huge problem. I am not suggesting expensive solutions, I am just saying check your physical installation and maybe not the very cheepest hardware off AliExpress.
The are lots usecases for nearly live audio where TCP stalls cause problems you would never notice browsing the web and would not be a TLS error (which is ushally how networks are 'tested' leaving the problems unfixed).
Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th...
by hnlmorg on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:31AM
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Live is a very different problem to home listening. Live requires near real time playback on content that is generated in real time. Whereas for any kind of pre-recorded performance, such as listening to music at home, you can read ahead and buffer. So the issues you present simply don’t exist in home set ups.
And before you comment about listening to live performances at home: the broadcaster would be compressing your audio stream anyway. That would be far more impactful to your audio quality than a few dropped networking packets.
Source: I used to work in broadcasting.
If you’re getting audible errors from your network then literally everything you do on that network would feel like 90s dial up days and with lots of corruption. Most websites wouldn’t even load due to TLS errors.
The problem such arguments as yours is that people have subjective experiences that can be influenced by a multitude of personal emotional states and they then retrofit pseudo-technical explanations for why they perceived those experiences. Or in layman’s terms, you basically just buy an expensive placebo.