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Uber to begin real-world use of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh this month
This is exactly where I think Apple have been heading with project Titan. I have never thought for minute that anyone would actually be able to buy and drive an Apple car. I think Apple will just let you hail one and ride in it, for a fee. Why make 5 M vehicles when you can make more money from 50 K of them.
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Intel pushes USB-C as 3.5mm jack replacement, touts better sound, thinness & power management
wozwoz said:melgross said:
Well, you can make the case either way, depending on your proclivities. Both have advantages. The big advantage to digital is that the signal doesn't deteriorate while moving between steps, or going down the wire. Really, the best case is that the signal remains in digital form until the last amplification step. The closer that last step is to the transducer, the better.
so, digital to an on headphone amp is the best we can hope for in the present.
The problem with SACD and all such supposedly high-end sources is that 99% of the music in the world will never be distributed on them, so if you delude yourself into thinking they sound sonically superior, you will have to limit and surrender your musical taste to only the tiny catalog available, or suffer the never-ending angst of listening to stuff you actually do like, but never really enjoying it because of the nagging belief it could have sounded Soooooo much better, if only....
Listening to the content is ultimately far more rewarding than listening to the medium.
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Intel pushes USB-C as 3.5mm jack replacement, touts better sound, thinness & power management
clemynx said:Why did Apple make lightning proprietary? It's superior to USB type C and it would be great if more people used it!
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Intel pushes USB-C as 3.5mm jack replacement, touts better sound, thinness & power management
joe28753 said:melgross said:
Well, you can make the case either way, depending on your proclivities. Both have advantages. The big advantage to digital is that the signal doesn't deteriorate while moving between steps, or going down the wire. Really, the best case is that the signal remains in digital form until the last amplification step. The closer that last step is to the transducer, the better.
so, digital to an on headphone amp is the best we can hope for in the present.
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Intel pushes USB-C as 3.5mm jack replacement, touts better sound, thinness & power management
melgross said:eightzero said:I call bullshit on "better sound." It's digital. 1s and 0s going down that wire.
so, digital to an on headphone amp is the best we can hope for in the present.
There would be no audible benefit whatsoever. Have iPods and iPhones actually had lousy audio quality all these years and people have been lying about it all this time?