is audio quality really that important?

>mom found the sonic serpents

>>212346373 (OP)
Garloid sleeves are such a ripoff, you can just cut a hole in the toe of a sock and it won't kill them.

what are those things beneath the serpents?

>>212346373 (OP)
Did this faggot put the cables on little stands so that the connectors trailing onto the floor wouldn't cause vibration damping? what am i looking at here? plz rspnd.

>>212346373 (OP)
Yes, yes it fucking is.

Audio is 50% of the movie watching experience. A proper home theater set up should be at least 5.2.2 (meaning three front speakers, two rear surrounds, two overhead atmos speakers, and two subwoofers). This is the proper way to experience movies in your home. Also, kudos to the strong cable management work being displayed in this image. I use the same material to bundle my cables.

The set up I just detailed is how I enjoy my movies, games, and music and it is phenomenal. Dialogue is much clearer if you have a proper center speaker. Subwoofers add the low end bass that hits your chest like in a movie theater. Soundbars are for cheapskates who don’t know any better or don’t own their own homes.

>>212346373 (OP)
No

>>212346373 (OP)
I use handbrake to mixdown 5.1 audio to stereo. TVs dont even use 5.1 even in 2025.

>>212346373 (OP)
imagine spending all that money only to listen to shit like the beatles. "audiophiles" are retards

Dude where'd my cat go

>>212346538
carefully calibrated chakra ashtrays

>>212346373 (OP)
SAY WHAT! IS TRUMPET LOUD ENOUGH?
NOISES SCREAMING IN MY HEAD. IS IT ON YET?

>>212347018
TVs don’t provide true 5.1, correct. That is why you buy an A/V receiver that gets the signal from your media device (preferably a 4K Blu Ray player) and then sends an uncompressed signal to your speakers for the proper audio experience.

….or you can just stream crap from your tv’s apps in shitty lossy/compressed format.

Take the step up to a proper home theater. Your ears and eyes will thank you.

>>212347045
What’s wrong with the Beatles?

you can't convince me that these do anything other than provide a placebo effect to audiofags

>>212347045
Tons of new and old music is now available in atmos and sounds amazing on an atmos speaker system.

Old films look and sound revelatory on 4k discs. Lawrence of Arabia and the Ten Commandments are glorious. Same goes for anything shot in IMAX by Nolan. The scenes are breathtaking to watch.

>>212347207
>What’s wrong with the Beatles?

>>212347237
The hiss when you max out the volume when nothing is playing is gone.

>>212346373 (OP)
To some, I wish it wasn’t
>watching cozy movie
>gunfight scene
>everything is 25 decibels louder to keep audioautists happy

>that boomer audophile that spent $1 million on his "sound system" and his kids dismantled and sold it off piece by piece for $10k total when they "inherited" it
kek

>>212347207
It's simplistic pop music that was recorded on 1960s audio equipment, so there's absolutely no nuance or detail to the sound that warrants these set ups.

>mogs 99% of home theater setups at 1% of the cost

I’m assuming most audiophiles don’t actually know the first thing about music theory. Cart before the horse

>>212346373 (OP)
Sure, to a reasonable extent. I don't think you need to be completely retarded asshole about it, but if you like movies, music, or video games its well worth spending a least a little bit of money on a decent surround sound setup.

>>212347529
Nonsense, a very good entry home theater audio system can be bought for 3k to 5k

>>212346373 (OP)
>audio anaconda eats your cat

>>212347650
This is correct. You can easily buy a 5.2.2 AVR for $500 and add speakers and subs to it piece by piece as you want. 4K discs will be the last generation of physical media so it’s worth enjoying the format on a decent system.

>>212347551
They do, but they're only good if you're watching shit on your own.
I tried to set it up so two of us could listen at the same time but it's kinda gay.

>>212346538
Cable risers. It does not get anymore placebo than that.

>>212346373 (OP)
nice setup.

>>212346538
Electronic Infeterance Neutralizers

>>212347546
>that was recorded on 1960s audio equipment
yet, still better than anything today

>>212346373 (OP)
It is, but it's very rarely done well.
A good score can elevate a mediocre movie into a classic movie. It's hard to qualify how much difference it makes but you have to wonder how many movies would never have achieved classic status without their soundtracks.

yeah

>>212347018
And what are you going to do if you buy a 5.1 speaker set in the future?
Fucking idiot, just downmix your stuff with LAV.

>>212347443
It's called noise suppressors and go for 3 bucks on amazon anon

>>212348649
What about audio rocks?

>>212346373 (OP)
this is all just boomers spitefully wasting their money on garbage so their children can't inherit it
audiophilia fucks more kids over than pedophilia

>>212348719

>>212347663
Oh, it's real. Fascinating watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw

>>212346456
>sister got vored by the bass boa again
h-hawt...

Tsuchinoko if he real

>sorry babe we can't watch kino right now I still have to finish building the subwoofer backroom

>>212350687
>>212352195
this shit is unbelievably based.

>>212347529
>>212350032
whats up with this thread and inheritance??

>>212346373 (OP)
So what's the point of these fancy power cords when they're plugged into the cheapest Home Depot electrical wiring installed by the laziest Mexican contractors?

>>212354626
You have to install purifier crystals and adapters to clean the signal before it enters.
https://www.ebay.com/usr/audiophile.rocks

>>212346373 (OP)
Audiophile is the largest grift

>>212347207
originally mixed in mono

>>212347586
Learning music theory is the worst thing you can do if you want to make listening to music more enjoyable.

>>212348013
>4K discs will be the last generation of physical media
Look I already think 4K is overkill 90% of the time but I've heard this story before. It will be the last disc because the data has to be stored on such a small surface already that tiny smudges can cause a movie to halt entirely, but I wouldn't be surprised if we got some expensive enthusiast-tier 6K or 8K movies on cartridges. They have TB SD cards already. I think the main thing going forward though won't be resolution, but higher bitrate.

>>212347192
Can pirating best quality bluray files and playing them off a home server provide the same audio quality? Apparently everyone was crazy for these bldgd players called Oppo or something because they provided the best audio output for home theater. Is it in the realm of possible to push to a great home theater system from a digital file?

>>212347586
I mean, yeah, probably, but they also can't tell the difference between FLAC and 128 kbps mp3, which is more the kind of technological fuckery their superstition is based on.