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Archimago's Musings
Personal blog · archimago.blogspot.comhardwarescience
Archimago's Musings is a personal blog at archimago.blogspot.com about hardware and science. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “24-Bit vs. 16-Bit Audio Test – Part II: Results and Conclusions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for its blinded listening tests and audio comparisons, including the 2013 MP3, AAC, FLAC and CD results and a 24-bit vs 16-bit survey. The comments cite it as evidence rather than praising it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog for audiophiles about more objective topics. Measurements of audio gear. Reasonable, realistic, no snakeoil assessment of sound, and equipment.
Most-linked posts?
- 24-Bit vs. 16-Bit Audio Test – Part II: Results and Conclusions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-10
What Hacker News says?
Yes and no. A competently designed and implemented amp should be indistinguishable from any other competently designed and implemented amp in their operating ranges. Not all amps are competently designed and implemented. Price is not a good indication; there are very cheap well-made amps and very expensive lousy amps, and vice-versa. Here's a fairly recent comparison of two amps specifically chosen to highlight diff…
Comment linking /2021/08/summer-musings-no-not-all-amplifiers.html
on “Building a high quality audio system [video]”Submitted 24-Bit vs. 16-Bit Audio Test – Part II: Results and Conclusions as a story · 209 points
HN discussionHere's the full results from 2013 by the original blogger: https://archimago.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-02-24... Starts about halfway down the webpage.
Comment linking /search?updated-max=2013-02-24T21:57:00-08:00&max-results=15&start=51&by-date=false
on “MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD”Submitted HDMI Musings: YCbCr color subsampling, Dolby Vision MEL/FEL, and and5V injection as a story · 39 points
HN discussionWas your test blinded? I guess there is a chance you are an outlier but blind tests like this one don't support what you are saying. http://archimago.blogspot.com/2014/06/24-bit-vs-16-bit-audio... >In a naturalistic survey of 140 respondents using high quality musical samples sourced from high-resolution 24/96 digital audio collected over 2 months, there was no evidence that 24-bit audio could be appreciably differe…
Comment linking /2014/06/24-bit-vs-16-bit-audio-test-part-ii.html
on “MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD”Submitted Windows 10 native audio upsampler causes aliasing and distortion above 19khz as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Archimago's Musings: Part I: Comparison of Bluetooth Fidelity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Look at Linux Audio (ALSA, PulseAudio) (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MEASUREMENTS: On the value for ethernet “galvanic isolation as a story · 1 points
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