On Mon, 06 May 2019 23:35:23 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

Why is the program, in the first place, coded by Russians?

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What is your soundchip doing. . . ASUS XONAR decided they'd make a
side-project for "Hi-Fi Enthusiasts". They picked a better Cirus
Logic chip, of regard, for the 3.5mm/1/8" analogue outputs. Or, on
some Xonar boards, the TOSLINK-S/PDIF carrier is laser cable:
Whereupon you pick your own DAC [decoder, hence, at the end of the
laser cable]. I like perhaps a shrillness of CS8416 digital receiver
chip, because I can tame it with both software EQ-ing through a
hardware tube-buffered stage at the input to my amps.

Or you use whatever flavor chip is surface mounted, if promoted, comes
on your MB.

Headphones. At a minimum to actually hear anything (approaching
decent studio monitors occasionally at decent sales). I found model
close-outs on both pairs, brands of speaker monitors I have (one new
factory model closeout brand, another from stereo demo units in a
brick-&-mortar going out of business. Along with Amps, mixers, & et
al, that headphones do not require.)

Gain riding. Start by not presuming effect modules, because the good
ones are so unbelievably nifty, sound so good only to be [further]
jacked-up. Stage compression and signal levels as appropriate for the
professionals, their soundbooths and gear, as a work of potential
entitled its own right. Listen for what they are doing, not your Fx
modules (turned inordinately, usually, too high for too-hot
processing). Sweet, spacious, with presence and dynamics. Recording
studio time should not be cheap for a reason, and all mix-downs aren't
necessarily for a $1000 of crap mandatorily added to a car purchase
price.

https://vladgsound.wordpress.com/
Proof is in the pudding. Vladislav Goncharov, seems I heard he was a
Russian space rocket scientist, or something, doing sound-processing
coding for passing spare time in pleasurable pursuits. Limiter No6, in
any event, is a good example of a work of art in "gain riding". There
is the good, no doubt even better yet, to the very technical about
sound;- as there is the crap to a GUI player built around a boytoy's
candy "skins".

The forums mentioned do tell. It's actually a project, with no bottom
in sight, more or less for progressing at your own pace, as to exactly
how good you actually want, or can achieve, to make what's within that
FLAC, for a derivative capacity of sound present to accurately render.

Last, the golden mean: Can you honestly claim to have the ears of
gold?