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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Audio butt plugs. Neat. Or maybe since so skinny they are intended to be Audio pee hole plugs idk I'm not a doctor

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Real audiophiles love sounding.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Phenomenal work there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That for Dolby Atmos i wonder how Dolby Atleast look like

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

dolby atleas

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

TRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS

[–] [email protected] 130 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oooohhhhh!! "Sounding", now I get it!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm currently dilating and while not the same it does involve cramming a rigid object into a sensitive area. Have to say from where I'm at I still don't understand the appeal of sounding

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Cystoscopies are great fun

[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This comment has made my day worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Ikr? I tried it & I can only hear static!!

Sounding my ass ... wait, maybe that's it! Maybe I had it all wrong ... brb

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

Audio Hertz

[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (2 children)

... so dumb ... but I desperately want to experience the tactile feel of inserting one of these bad boys into that deep tight little jack ... :|

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

tiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktak

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Omgyeesss, that last tak hits so climaxingly good!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Right that's all I can think about

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I need to hear what this connector would sound like when connected to an actual Dolby Atmos system. Do the crackles and pops get spatialized and make an impromptu symphony going around your room? The people must know!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Probably sounds like a war zone lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Same joke. Nice.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I started paying attention to this stuff back when Dolby Pro Logic was new, which was a pretty clever way to get surround effects using only left and right audio channels. Left and right channels went directly to the front left and right speakers, but it also compared wave forms coming from the left and right channels. Any wave forms that matched got sent to the center channel (like most on-screen dialog) and any that mismatched got sent to the rear surround speakers (noise, ambience, etc). It wasn't perfect by any measure, but it was a pretty clever hack.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I always thought backwards-compatible FM stereo was pretty cute


transmit L+R channels as before, so they can be picked up and played without trouble with mono equipment, and transmit L-R separately. Just add or subtract to get the L or R channels.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I knew there was some magic going on with DPL, but I never guessed quite how they did it—that was a surprisingly simple approach in the end!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait, the lines indicate the channels!?

TIL

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Its the metal connectors between the bands/lines.

2 connectors = 1 signal (mono) + 1 ground

3 connectors = 2 signals (stereo) + 1 ground

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

3 connectors = 2 signals (stereo) + 1 ground

OR, positive + negative + ground

Could be balanced mono.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

Nah the sleeves between the lines. The lines are just plastic rings meant to isolate sleeves.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Dolby Atmos is up to 12 channels this connector has 16 + ground

It's clearly for Dolby Atmos + component video with an inline microphone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, is that a real connector/jack and not photoshopped to be comically elongated?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah, you're right. The speakers get hooked up with straight wire or maybe banana connectors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Or XLR in the pro world

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The most complex Atmos system you can build is 24.1.10 so that’s 35 audio output channels. Sure the audio is packed on disc in 12-16 channels. But Atmos is object based, the Atmos receiver can calculate where the sound should play across those 35 output channels.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I was aware that there was algorithmic expansion that could be done, but I did think it was a maximum of 12 real channels (L, C, R, SL, SR, RL, RR, sub, 4x overheads)

What are the other 4? Do they add channels between the ear height and overheads?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It depends on the version of atmos.

Full fat cinema atmos can scale to (iirc) 512 channels. (Things may have changed since I last was involved!)

In that case, it's a 7.1 bed, and all the other channels are effectively coordinates in the room, and the processor steers objects between them in real time, rather than having defined tracks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In Atmos, channels going in doesn't necessarily align with channels coming out

Speaker setups are regarding channels going out, a jack like the one in the OP would be an input jack as no speaker would need more than two poles

Delete: not sure I'm actually adding anything with this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think those are purely object based channels that a TrueHD receiver can’t use. So that’s for audio sources that will be added across the other channels and subtract where necessary to remove duplicate sounds.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For the next version they are going to introduce cannon connectors for your convenience!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh jeebuz that was not what I expected

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Rip and tear until it's done

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lmao this is so dumb that I choked on my coffee.