#audio-tech

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weak rapids
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It isnt just annoying

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Altho buying on amazon would completely remove tax cause i have a gift card

haughty girder
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lmao

weak rapids
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So would be total $63

molten lotus
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@weak rapids I have a noise gate configuration for a c1 btw, I can send it to you anytime you want it

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works for anything including blue switches

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not for airplanes though

weak rapids
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No wait it would be 58$

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Gc is 25

molten lotus
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well the salnotes zero do exist

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so I guess equivalent bang for the buck there is no comparison

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I need to buy those btw

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😦

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and with a name like Palpatine shouldn't you have a pair of electrostatics?

weak rapids
molten lotus
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its definitely more than what you need

weak rapids
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Still gonna have buyers remorse tho cause thats for everything with me lmao

molten lotus
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I mean it sounds directly better than sm7b and the procaster

weak rapids
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Just buying a rodecaster pro 2 rq

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Jk

wintry oasis
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Im a dumb ass how do I use my mic off of my headset
I have them plugged in (3.5mm jack) and my pc recognises the headphones but the mic dosent work, do I need a splitter ?

dawn ice
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if your pc doesnt have a combo jack then yah

sterile basin
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Can anyone recommend good over ear headphones under 8k rupees in India

dawn ice
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whats that in $

leaden cloak
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About $100 USD

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So basically AKG K361 if that’s available

dawn ice
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yup

weak rapids
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Reading reviews of c1 on amazon and a guy mentioned he got it once while 50% off, dude if i got it at that time I could’ve paid $11 for it

nova violet
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I can't get any left-channel audio. Using the latest Realtek drivers from the support page of my ASUS b550-i Gaming. Any ideas?

molten lotus
lean grove
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🤨

leaden cloak
lean grove
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400se drops down to those prices sometimes

summer flicker
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needs amp, harder to drive

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so you'd likely still end up spending more

lean grove
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Planars always need one more watt than you have to be properly powered

summer flicker
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I mean

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you could just raw dog it through a dongle

lean grove
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I beg your pardon?

summer flicker
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but is rather not

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you heard me smug

lean grove
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🥴

unique wind
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he400se were $110 for me but they need like 100mw

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most motherboards only have like 15mw at 32ohms

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idk what the apple dongle outputs

lethal hedge
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hi guys, i'm looking for a guide which explains the sound quality in term of bitrates and explains how different codecs impact sound, how adc and dac works like for for how much bitrate how storage changes etc

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can anyone help

unique wind
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i can’t link you a guide but i can give you basic help

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bitrate = how much data about the song there is, higher bitrate = cleaner/better signal

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dac = digital to analogue converter, they take the files from your computer and turn them into real life electrical signals

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an amplifier amplifies those signals and those electrical signals make your headphones vibrate

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air vibration is sound

summer flicker
unique wind
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the dongle has a very clean signal it just doesn’t have much power which can reduce the bass and dynamic range of your headphones

summer flicker
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potentially yeah. but I'm not entirely sure it's a power thing

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I couldn't really.tell you what it is to be frank, but like you said I did notice a lot of flatness out of the dongle

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much the same for some other headphones

nova violet
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Sorry, correction... my l/r balance is off. L sounds to be at 10, while right is around 90

molten lotus
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broken cable ig

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either inside or outside the headphones

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and although not very likely a possibly broken driver

nova violet
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posted on the forums about it too, turns out its the speakers themselves, but in an odd way...
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1485714-realtek-leftright-balance-is-not-working/

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my earbuds plugged into the speakers, exhibit the same issue. Earbuds plugged into the audio out on the motherboard, instead of the speakers, = no problems

molten lotus
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worst case a component

nova violet
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sigh 😦

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I had high hopes for the M-Audio speakers!

molten lotus
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they make speakers?

nova violet
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"monitors"

molten lotus
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same thing

molten lotus
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buildapc is a meme

nova violet
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:p

molten lotus
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been there

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banned because I called someone's headphones bad

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because that hurts their feelings

nova violet
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LOL

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love it

molten lotus
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can you return those?

nova violet
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nah its been years

molten lotus
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ah

nova violet
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i'll email their support and inquire about what I can do

molten lotus
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fiddle with the cable

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if you can make it sound normal by moving the cable around then you can fix it with a quick solder job

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or you can just tie the wires together with your hands if you don't have a soldering iron

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then tape over them

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wont affect audio quality or anything

nova violet
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swapped the rca Y cable, left still wouldnt output a normal decibel level

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as in swapped, I mean i switched red for white, into the back of the main speaker (which is the left speaker)

molten lotus
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oof

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yeah something bad with the internals

nova violet
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I imagine M-Audio will recommend that I just try another Y splitter cable

molten lotus
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I don't know whether they actually read their emails or not

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possible

nova violet
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my only other RCA cable is a normal 1 wire RCA cable, not a 3mm Y split to RCA red/white.. guess I cant mcguyver this in to test out

molten lotus
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if you swapped l/r and it didn't work it isn't the cable

nova violet
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ah good point

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so weird that even with earbuds plugged into the audio out on the speaker, the same issue would happen

nova violet
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sent a ticket anyways, who knows, maybe theyll send me a discount code for a future product

tulip garnet
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Koss 155524 UR40 Collapsible Over-Ear Headphones are the good ones for pc gaming

high plinth
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there isnt a way to turn off multipoint bluetooth on a device is there?

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got a bose qc45 and sony wf1000xm3, dont need multipoint

haughty girder
shut shard
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Is the mic even decent

nova wagon
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its prob just as good as most in line headphone mic: usable

dry stratus
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Probably not able to understand the moment you aren’t alone in the middle of nowhere with no wind

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Older Phone mics basically

unique wind
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i have heard earbud mics that are better than most headset microphones

molten lotus
unique wind
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lofi

dawn ice
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tru tru

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~40kg of lofi

unique wind
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what speakers are those

dawn ice
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just some edifier s350's

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i got trash acoustics so dont bother with a proper speaker setup

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even tho the top silver fucker is a speaker amp.. that i use for headphones lel

summer flicker
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hope you got that n86b revamped or else it's gonna light ur entire collection on fire sitting on top of it like that laughingfacepalm

dawn ice
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lel

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yah its in good condition

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tho using class a is still kinda spooky xD

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mostly stick to class b

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tbh sitting on top is probably optimal, since the flames would go upwards

summer flicker
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based

dawn ice
summer flicker
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no issues here

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as for me I have a 55 pound crt sitting on glass rack above my source gear waiting for it's day of reckoning

dawn ice
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lul nice

summer flicker
dawn ice
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i got an old af 55'' crt in my basement

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idk why i still got it honestly

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its stupid heavy tho so im to lazy to take it out i guess xD

molten lotus
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hate crt shills

dawn ice
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maybe someone will want to pay big money for it

summer flicker
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use it to play retro games

dawn ice
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lol

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i dont rl do retro gaming

molten lotus
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woah guise look this monitor from the 200bc looks worse than any other monitor today

dawn ice
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outside of runescape

molten lotus
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look at how realistic the colors are

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you can see the gap between the pixels

dawn ice
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lel

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the whole thing of crt is that it doesnt use pixels i think

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dont recall what makes the tech special

molten lotus
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technologically maybe

dawn ice
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either way, it aint rl my thing

molten lotus
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its mega copium

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they are fragile, hard to service

dawn ice
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nah i get the idea of playing retro games on crt's

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its a neat vibe in theory

molten lotus
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for the sake of color accuracy any half decent monitor can already establish

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you are cucking yourself out of everything else

dawn ice
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i think for most people, its just nostalgia

molten lotus
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yeah but they aren't willing to admit it lol

dawn ice
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playing there old games that they played as kids on the same sort of display

molten lotus
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they will die on the hill that crt monitors are good

dawn ice
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brings back nostalgic vibes

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i mean, id rather have an oled personally lel

molten lotus
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id rather have a cheap ass tn than a high end vintage crt

dawn ice
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man i want AW3423DW so bad

molten lotus
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hate the dumb grid lines on crt

dawn ice
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but its mega expensive and it might burn in

summer flicker
molten lotus
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that's a fine take

summer flicker
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especially when pixel art enters the equation

dawn ice
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nah it actually can be like dat

summer flicker
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which was often made with the express purpose of being seen through a crt

molten lotus
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well yeah without the grids some stuff looks incoherent

dawn ice
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ltt actually made a vid on it

summer flicker
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it'd actually amazing how much of a difference it can make in those circumstances

dawn ice
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it do be like dat

summer flicker
dry stratus
dawn ice
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it can lol

unique wind
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skill issue if you’re burning an oled in after 6 months

summer flicker
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that's definitely not the case

dawn ice
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i mean, if you can afford a top of the line monitor, then you can probablyt afford to upgrade it once the warranty is up

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thats my take on it so far

molten lotus
unique wind
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there’s many people on reddit with upwards of 3000-8000 hours on their oleds with no uniformity issues

summer flicker
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I'll take a 4 year old oled over any ips panel

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6 year too

molten lotus
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you wouldn't

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you may take them over most

molten lotus
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but all of them is an exaggeration

dry stratus
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With my 500-600 hours of usage a month (on the lower end)

summer flicker
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yes I would. I've extensive experience with oleds mate

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They're just better. objectively

molten lotus
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me onmw to reject 50000$ ips because I found a 50$ oled second hand

unique wind
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analog -> digital upscalers for retro consoles have fake scan line options

molten lotus
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pretty epic

dry stratus
summer flicker
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burn in is also massively overblown.

molten lotus
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I am not talking about burn in at all

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but a good quality ips can be better than an oled

unique wind
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yes

summer flicker
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crts can get pretty sharp

unique wind
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have fun paying $30,000 for that panel though

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movie studios use IPS displays for color work but they’re dual layer, a 4k ips color panel and a 1080p greyscale panel behind it

summer flicker
molten lotus
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is back light the only factor which defines quality to you?

unique wind
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i actually have a 1152 dimming zone monitor

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27” 4k 160hz ips

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it doesn’t compare to oled even with that many zones

molten lotus
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that's terrible ill take it off of you

summer flicker
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ips just doesn't cut it unless you're in a massive price range

molten lotus
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I don't remember disagreeing

unique wind
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using dual layer panels basically make ips monitors have the equivalent of 2 million dimming zones

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that’s the only reason studios use dual layer ips panels

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they were on oled before that

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i will say LCD looks fine in a bright room but once you’re in a dim room the difference is actually this noticeable in real life

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@summer flicker what displays do you use?

dry stratus
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Thank god my TV doesn’t have this like my previous did

unique wind
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dimming zone blooming

dry stratus
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While still more than an oled, not that noticeable

lean grove
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$600 120 inch oled

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Only downside is 60fps

summer flicker
lean grove
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Worth?

unique wind
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absolutely

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i wouldn’t game on it because gaming on 120” is exhausting anyway

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60fps covers all video media except rare cases like gemini man

molten lotus
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for tv its fine

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for games I would hard disagree

unique wind
dry stratus
lean grove
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Actually it's a 200 inch screen

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Oops

unique wind
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i use an alienware aw3423dwf and an innocn 27m2v

unique wind
lean grove
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Actually is a 0.5 inch screen

unique wind
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those are cool

lean grove
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If the next revision can do 120fps, monitors are dead

unique wind
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i hope so

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i hate using monitors

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i’m bored of keyboard mouse monitor

lean grove
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If they can do head tracker with multiple pages, then monitors are dead x2

unique wind
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some videos i took of my own display showing how backlight local dimming helps

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first video is in a bright room

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still helps

summer flicker
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that shit is hilariously accurate out of the box

lean grove
summer flicker
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something like 98% dcip p3 LOL

lean grove
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Doesn't seem worth

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Like buying a zune

unique wind
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the CX is more accurate than the C1 out of box

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and my LG A2 is more accurate than the C2

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despite being a lower model

summer flicker
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yeah to cut down on costs maybe?

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oh wait

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it got worse and then better

unique wind
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yeah it’s totally random

summer flicker
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who knows lol

unique wind
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and then older C models like 7-9 have a lot more SDR brightness than the c2

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and they dropped 120hz bfi on the c2

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they make strange decisions

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i’m excited to see how the G3 performs though with its micro lens array

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biggest w-oled brightness increase ever

summer flicker
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for like

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sane prices

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native HDR is one of the biggest picture quality improvements you can make in modern gaming

summer flicker
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you may see an ever slightly sharper picture at a comfortable sitting distance

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8k is way pas the point of diminishing returns

summer flicker
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think about actually trying to game on that, if you're being serious

dry stratus
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Could be nice

summer flicker
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maybe as a novelty

dry stratus
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Home theatre, but it’s actually just a TV

summer flicker
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any extended period would be pain

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for movies it may be nice, but then you'd have to wait till there's a substantial amount of 8k content

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have fun with that lol

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we're already basically reaching an incredible niche of people. marketing 8k is going to be a nightmare

dry stratus
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Do games with high enough texture resolution exist

summer flicker
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a modded skyrim save

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I mean text res is high enough

unique wind
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i want 24” 4k high refresh displays

summer flicker
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textures will look noticeably shittier but not by a huge margin

unique wind
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24” is my favorite size but i cope with 27

summer flicker
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for most people 4k HDR and VR are the endgame

dry stratus
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At least not in the west, with the lack of support for long term games

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Mission based/fps more popular here than games requiring 6+ hours straight

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Just don’t survive here…

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Just a few big and old ones

summer flicker
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racing and space Sims especially

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immersive Sims seem to really like VR too

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half life alyx and superhot come to mind

dry stratus
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In terms of requirements

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No moving, and controller is just a steering wheel

summer flicker
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it helps that racing sim tech has gotten so advanced as to be almost indistinguishable from the real thing to professional racing coaches

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VR just takes that leap even further

dry stratus
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And not like vrchat with different worlds and based on being social in certain groups

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An actual economy and everything
Coming across randoms instead

summer flicker
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maybe something like a star citizen type deal

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half space sim half mmorpg

haughty girder
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1440p is enough to not see pixels at "gamer" distances

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aka basically 10cm from face

unique wind
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4k no antialiasing > 1440p with antialiasing

haughty girder
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ehhh

unique wind
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and no 24” 1440p isn’t retina from an average viewing distance

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and it’d be even worse at gamer distance

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plus 4k isn’t hard to run anyway

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24” 1440p high refresh rate would be a nice combo for shooter games though

molten lotus
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its not happening

summer flicker
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there's definitely the jaggies benefit to small 4k screens

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my aya neo air's screen is so damn sharp at 1080p 5.5 for a handheld

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feels weird

unique wind
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because all edges get smoothed

summer flicker
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well it certainly doesnt look low res lol. but i get what you mean

unique wind
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yeah i mean perceived “sharpness” on edges goes away with super high resolutions

summer flicker
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anti aliasing is the devil

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"give me frames so i can blur your screen and kill your detail"

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gamers: "ok"

unique wind
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i concur

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yes game please make my game blurry on purpose

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at the expense of my performance

summer flicker
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some games have good algorithms, but most of it is bad

unique wind
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i don’t mind how roblox does antialiasing

summer flicker
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sometimes its so bad that it literally just feels like its unilaterally blurring my screen

dry stratus
unique wind
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but most games i leave it disabled

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27” 1440p with 8x MSAA looks like a 480p oil painting in most games

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yeah it’s not jagged anymore but it looks like i’m not wearing my glasses

molten lotus
unique wind
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yeah that’s not possible

dry stratus
molten lotus
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it is mediocre

unique wind
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if something like SAO did exist the servers would be extremely small

molten lotus
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it is like star wars and lotr

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it did something for the first time

unique wind
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you wouldn’t be seeing international players

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imagine trying to dodge for your life with 150ms ping

molten lotus
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bro

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you upload brain waves to the internet and receive them

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and your issue is ping

unique wind
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yeah

molten lotus
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you upload your brain onto a toaster

unique wind
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because brain wave manipulation will happen before we defeat the limitation of the speed of light

molten lotus
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but ping is the problem

summer flicker
unique wind
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there’s also the notion of network bandwidth and storage

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it’s just not realistic

molten lotus
unique wind
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linus has talked about it on wan show

molten lotus
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not isekai

summer flicker
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wait

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so what did sword art online do first

molten lotus
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full dive mmo

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basically vr but you do it with your brain

unique wind
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isekai isn’t sao anyway

molten lotus
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instead of googles and shit

summer flicker
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oh, lol whatever.

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thats so inconsequential

molten lotus
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valve is doing nerve and brain based tech fuckery for gaming

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but no news on that end

unique wind
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comparing physically transporting to a different world to going to sleep and playing a video game in your sleep

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different concepts

summer flicker
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im good on that

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i dont need valve to put my brain in a vat

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thats too much blue pill

molten lotus
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you are supposed to do it with a helmet

unique wind
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klaus wears a helmet all day anyway

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for safety

molten lotus
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true

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who knows what could jump you

dry stratus
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First big one tho

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Overrated af tho

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Give me some exercise

molten lotus
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who did it first

dry stratus
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I do not remember the name
all I know is there was one before it

weak rapids
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Xdm 100

marble verge
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whats the best headset i can get thats 150 cad or less

lean grove
ocean pulsar
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They aren't quite around the corner yet

lean grove
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not at this very moment, no

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but in 1 or 2 years?

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or 3 or 4?

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and buying a monitor right now, i'd expect it to last at least 6 years

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we have lightweight 60fps 1080p oled AR right now

dry stratus
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will they ever be around the corner honestly

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see through display won't get black

haughty girder
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I would take 1440p 240hz over 2160p120

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yes 120 and 240 are very noticeable

lean grove
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and yes it will be around the corner

unique wind
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the extra smoothness makes my eyes feel relaxed

summer flicker
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I've side by side compared.

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plus there's more than just refresh rate to make a screen look smooth

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g2g response times are a big part of thay

white gate
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Idk, 100-120 and 120-144 were very obvious to me. In fact I've got a 100 hz and 120hz right now and the difference is quite clear.
Resolution alone isn't really the thing, pixel density or resolution vs size is the more important question

summer flicker
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yeah no that I agree with.less so the second one

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I'm saying

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anything past 144 becomes really hard

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there's been some measure of testing on this too on Linus channel actually

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144 to 240 saw almost no real improvement in accuracy

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another thing to consider is a 144 fps screen with bad g2g response times can feel more sluggish than a 120fps screen with good g2g response times

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and oled often has almost no response time

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usually somewhere under 1.0

ocean pulsar
summer flicker
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yeah I have never tried it but thay sounds a little dubious to me

lean grove
summer flicker
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and I doubt it would look super realistic either

unique wind
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have you used higher refresh rate displays terro?

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as in 240-390hz

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not 144hz

ocean pulsar
unique wind
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based carmon

summer flicker
lean grove
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the technology will improve. every major company is pouring tons of cash money into this.

ocean pulsar
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But they need to at least 8x the pixel density to match even a decent 1080p scree

lean grove
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apple especially.

unique wind
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i saw you brought up the LTT refresh rate video

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and said that their testing showed there’s no accuracy benefit

ocean pulsar
unique wind
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but in that video they showed that everyone benefitted from going up to 240hz with the dust 2 doors test

summer flicker
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I said that it showed very little past 144 yes

unique wind
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and the difference was larger if you were a less skilled player

summer flicker
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not by much if I recall

unique wind
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pretty substantial

summer flicker
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I could be wrong, do you have it?

unique wind
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if i remember correctly it was like

summer flicker
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I'd love to see that

unique wind
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paul’s hardware went from hitting 4.5/10 times to 8.5/10 times

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having like 0.5/10 at 60hz

summer flicker
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alright I'll go pull that up

unique wind
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you should it’s insightful

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i’ve used basically every display type that has existed and going from 144 to 240hz is very noticeable

lean grove
summer flicker
ocean pulsar
unique wind
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that’s not an accuracy graph

summer flicker
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reaction time correct

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it's important to keep in mind though

lean grove
unique wind
ocean pulsar
unique wind
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i had the numbers wrong but the percentage differences were close

ocean pulsar
unique wind
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the less skilled you are the more you would benefit from the upgrade

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but it helps everyone

lean grove
# ocean pulsar How

theres prototype microled displays from 4 years ago that are capable of 1 million its

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that are about the size of a stamp

ocean pulsar
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But we don't have that tech in the lab yet
So its a minimum of 10 years out

summer flicker
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OK that's interesting I don't even remember this

ocean pulsar
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So each pixel is rather large

summer flicker
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it's possible I may have no actually finished the video

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it's been a while

unique wind
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having someone on my team who is using a 60hz monitor on csgo or valorant is borderline throwing/griefing

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they’re at a genuine disadvantage

summer flicker
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yeah I can see that

lean grove
summer flicker
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one thing that nay also be a factor is the actual content involved

lean grove
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640x480p

ocean pulsar
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Monochrome

lean grove
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also that

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but, again, this is 4 years ago

unique wind
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micro led is pretty cool

lean grove
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microled is still developing

unique wind
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micro led is kinda just a blanket term though

ocean pulsar
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The problem isn't the actual material of the pixels
The problem is getting the connection to each one

unique wind
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it just means each pixel is an individual inorganic led

lean grove
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how it works?

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at all?

ocean pulsar
ocean pulsar
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Much more familiar than you most likely I might add

lean grove
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then you saying "how do we get connections" when theres currently a processor with much higher resolution than a simple display

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is just you being a luddite

summer flicker
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I think it may be easier to discern differences in particular types of content when it comes to refresh rate

lean grove
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"well we cant accomplish it literally right now so it must be impossible"

ocean pulsar
lean grove
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-carmonben on emerging technologies

unique wind
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it’s definitely case dependent i agree terror

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i don’t want 120fps movies they’ll look unnatural

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and for slower third person games i don’t really mind 60fps

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but playing first person shooters at 60fps gives me a headache

summer flicker
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I mean, even in video games

rugged plover
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have you used a matrix vita screen pls lmk

ocean pulsar
summer flicker
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like I may not necessarily notice much of a difference in a slow paced experience like skyrim, but it may be more obvious in a twitch shooter

ocean pulsar
#

Now if you just want good enough?

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8k per eye in an nreal form factor is definetly possible

unique wind
#

head mounted displays need to be 8k resolution per eye at minimum to be even remotely retina

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upwards of 16k wouldn’t be unreasonable

unique wind
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yeah isn’t the human eye estimated to be like

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540mp

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per eye

ocean pulsar
#

The only way to make 16k retina is to move it with the eye and have physical foveation

lean grove
#

we dont have 8k displays right now either.

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well, not commonplace

ocean pulsar
lean grove
#

also in terms of resolution

ocean pulsar
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What we don't have is 16k single displays

unique wind
#

another issue is that self emissive displays aren’t able to be as dense as lcd panels right now

lean grove
#

so because it cant be perfect its not possible?

unique wind
#

or if they are they have poor yields at larger sizes

lean grove
#

or we shouldnt have 1080p or 4k displays because we cant do 16k?

unique wind
#

which is why rgb oled only exists on tiny displays

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and $6000 studio monitors

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the yields are shit at larger scale

lean grove
#

we have processors with tens of billions of transistors

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a 4k display is millions of pixels

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like this isnt some insurmountable goal

ocean pulsar
#

Ah but each pixel requires a minimum of 6 transistors and power delivery

summer flicker
#

that may be the downfall of the testing that I did, which was basically just picking up DOOM, basically idling, and trying it out on 3 monitors side by side. I did not notice much of a substantial difference in smoothness between 144 and 240. but maybe if I had been playing something a lot more fast paced like a rhythm game or something, it may have been a better indicator.

ocean pulsar
#

And the transistors have to be behind the pixel

lean grove
#

so now we are still in the realm of millions

ocean pulsar
#

The numbers get crazy fast

lean grove
#

instead of tens of billions

unique wind
#

there are “8k” vr headsets already

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but they’re not self emissive

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and they have strange field of view

lean grove
#

and, imagine this,

ocean pulsar
lean grove
#

maybe we can settle for 4k

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instead of 16k

summer flicker
#

8k in what sense, both retinas combined or

ocean pulsar
#

But 4k on ar is about 720p on a standard size screen

summer flicker
#

I sont really know how the math works on that one

unique wind
#

which is why vr games can be very demanding

summer flicker
#

8k per eye?

ocean pulsar
lean grove
summer flicker
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maximum I've seen is 5k per eye

unique wind
#

base resolution doesn’t really matter in most contexts

lean grove
#

that just means its an optical problem

ocean pulsar
unique wind
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most of what matters is pixel density and viewing distance

summer flicker
ocean pulsar
unique wind
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which is why for TVs going beyond 4k is pretty pointless

unique wind
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it’s also why phones have to be so high resolution

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you view them so close to your face

summer flicker
#

yeah resolution can only be taken in consideration to how close it is to your face

unique wind
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the average phone is like 450 pixels per inch but the average computer monitor is 91ppi

lean grove
#

but lets extend this out @unique wind
if we have a massive 240p display at 100 yards
that doesnt mean it resolves better than a 1080p display a few feet from your face

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how 1080p is technically 720p at closer to your face doesnt follow this trend either

summer flicker
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that's why the 4k to 8k jump is so shit for most setups outside of home theatres

lean grove
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literally it doesnt tho

ocean pulsar
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If you need to read text, it matters alot

lean grove
#

you can read text in both cases rather well

unique wind
#

you wouldn’t be able to discern pixels in that scenario nils but the resolution is so low that the picture can’t be very detailed

ocean pulsar
#

Oh the next problem is that ar displays aren't perfectly aligned

ocean pulsar
lean grove
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nope

summer flicker
#

literally the only indicator of sharpness is the ability to descern pixels, nils.

lean grove
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im planning on getting the next one if its any good

summer flicker
#

the further you are away, the harder that is

unique wind
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the only head mounted display i’ve used is a quest 2

lean grove
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1080p 60fps is not cutting it

summer flicker
#

it's that simple

unique wind
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the pixelation is gnarly

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but it’s still fun

lean grove
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the original statement is that 1080p VR is like 720p monitor

summer flicker
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or something to that effect yes

lean grove
#

and people are saying thats a problem with distance

ocean pulsar
# lean grove 1080p 60fps is not cutting it

Big problem though is that if you are not perfectly aligning the text with the pixels you have to double the resolution again to get the sampling to provide you the same data

summer flicker
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because it's right up in your face

lean grove
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which im saying is an optical problem

unique wind
#

it’s more like 4k vr is 720p monitor when both are used at recommended viewing distances

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if you’re purely talking about pixelation

summer flicker
ocean pulsar
summer flicker
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your vision affects the calculation

lean grove
summer flicker
#

its both optical and a distance problem

lean grove
#

yeah that much is obvious terro

ocean pulsar
lean grove
#

but optics, as anyone with glasses can help you, can help with distance

summer flicker
#

if you have 2020 vision, you're going to be able to discern things from a farther distance

lean grove
summer flicker
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so it's both optical and distance

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They're one in the same

lean grove
#

yes terro

ocean pulsar
lean grove
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thank you for repeating the same thing over and over again

summer flicker
#

that's the first time I said that

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lol

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well, either way

ocean pulsar
#

Terro you aren't helping I don't think you understand it either

summer flicker
#

sorry I may be confuse di haven't had my morning coffee

ocean pulsar
#

The key aspect is more the fov rather than the true distance

summer flicker
#

mind explaining it to me

unique wind
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gamers using their 27” 1440p monitors one foot from their face swearing they can’t see pixelation even though anatomy proves we can see it up to three feet away with 20/20 vision

lean grove
ocean pulsar
lean grove
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vertical is 25

summer flicker
ocean pulsar
lean grove
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i see what you're saying now carm. you're saying that by expanding the FOV, the resolution remains the same, but the pixel density decreases substantially

summer flicker
#

is this in relation to vr/at?

ocean pulsar
summer flicker
#

ar*

ocean pulsar
unique wind
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i have a weird unpopular opinion

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low frame rate bothers me less in VR than it does using a monitor

summer flicker
#

so you're saying that pixels sideways appear ,what smaller or bigger?

unique wind
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i also only play casual games though

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i’m sure reaction games would be annoying

ocean pulsar
#

2x vertical, 2x horizontal

ocean pulsar
lean grove
#

see carm you need to work on your communication skills

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because that now makes sense

unique wind
#

it’s so cold in my room that i can barely move my fingers

ocean pulsar
unique wind
#

it’s -30c real feel outside right now

lean grove
ocean pulsar
lean grove
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like you're not explaining anything you're just saying "no"

unique wind
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i lied it got even colder in the last hour

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it’s -32 now

ocean pulsar
#

The nreal gets around that by just not moving the image relative to the pixels of the screen

summer flicker
#

what precisely does that have to do with VR vs a farther screen Carmon

ocean pulsar
lean grove
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seems like thats a concession

ocean pulsar
#

So all those pixels are spread out

lean grove
#

if you want real head tracking then you'll need a proper headset with bigger displays

unique wind
#

you should also consider that for AR glasses to feel comfortable as a replacement for monitors you wont be able to use the full resolution of the display for your simulated monitors

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the fake monitors would have to be a smaller section of the full display

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you need even more pixel density

lean grove
#

but i could also see that theres just horizontal head tracking that slides and locks to separate AR displays

ocean pulsar
unique wind
#

if you could literally only see a website for example

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that would be extremely overwhelming

ocean pulsar
#

Bigger problem is the fov is awful so you can't do much either

unique wind
#

imagine only being able to see the content on your tv

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like you can’t see your surroundings at all

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that would feel weird for doing office tasks with ar glasses

summer flicker
#

makes sense I think

lean grove
ocean pulsar
lean grove
#

and then we come full circle

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1-2 years?

ocean pulsar
lean grove
#

3-4 years?

dry stratus
lean grove
#

i think, at max, something with limited density like this should do horizontal for multiple screens

unique wind
#

con pin have you been enjoying your qn90b

lean grove
#

and even that would have to be a very hand holdy horizontal tracking

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akin to switching tabs in a window

dry stratus
unique wind
#

lmao

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definitely a bright tv

ocean pulsar
lean grove
#

skill issue

dry stratus
#

it lights up the entire room

unique wind
#

lmao

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you went from like 100nits to 1500

dry stratus
#

previous wasn't the worst

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just couldn't be facing the sun

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could be in a bright room tho

unique wind
#

you should try to avoid havin any display opposite a window anyway

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unless you have curtains

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i believe the standard for outdoor advertisement displays is 4000nits lol

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the sun is bright asf

dry stratus
#

I would like 2500nits 120inch 4k240hz

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preferably some micro-led

unique wind
#

you could have that made right now by samsung if you had money

ocean pulsar
#

And I'm fine with my 2400 not 32 inch 4k240

unique wind
#

micro led displays are modular

dry stratus
#

bit too expensive

unique wind
#

and their latest micro led tvs are 240hz

ocean pulsar
dry stratus
#

I'll avoid oled as long as possible

unique wind
#

naw 120 inch 4k isn’t dense at all anymore carmon

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it’s improved a lot

ocean pulsar
#

They have better than the wall?

unique wind
#

samsung showed off a 50” 4k 240hz micro led panel at ces 2023

dry stratus
#

probably will be able to avoid oled forever

ocean pulsar
dry stratus
#

120inch 4k probs fine at 4-5 meter distance

unique wind
#

nah it’s a concept

ocean pulsar
#

Cause I've got a mini led 4k240 32 inch already

unique wind
#

but if you had millions of dollars you can have a custom installation

ocean pulsar
#

And it's capable of generating 2200 nits

unique wind
#

and 120” 4k is easy

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i have a mini led panel on my desk too but it only hits around 1200nits

ocean pulsar
#

Now it doesn't have the power to actually do that for more than 1 mini led but we'll so be it

unique wind
#

27” 4k 160hz ips with 1152 zones

ocean pulsar
#

Still sears my eyes out when it glitches out and snaps to full brightness because Samsung is incompetent at making display firmware

unique wind
#

are you using the odyssey neo g9?

ocean pulsar
#

G8

dry stratus
#

I just hope Micro led will enter sub 3k for at least 75inch 4k before my current dies

unique wind
#

the neo g8 doesn’t hit 2200nits

ocean pulsar
#

The new g9 is two of my screens stapled together

summer flicker
#

contrast ratios actually affect how noticeable peak brightness is btw

unique wind
#

it can but it won’t

ocean pulsar
unique wind
#

yeah it’s capable of it

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but that’s just samsung cheating

ocean pulsar
#

And it does do it with some sparkles in some scenes

unique wind
#

it detects a test pattern window and jacks brightness

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real life brightness is more like 1200nits in small windows

ocean pulsar
summer flicker
#

2000 nits is definitely overkill

unique wind
#

isn’t dolby vision rated up to 4000nits

ocean pulsar
#

2000 is just good enough

summer flicker
#

I'm not saying it's unrealistic

unique wind
#

2000nits full screen indoors would melt your retinas

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in most viewing environments

ocean pulsar
#

Dolby vision and hdr10+ are 10k nits

summer flicker
#

what I mean by that is there's very little content that can utilize 2k peak nit

unique wind
#

oh i thought dv was 4k

ocean pulsar
#

But the best displays we have atm hdr certified can reach 4k

dry stratus
ocean pulsar
#

So the content can't be certified for over 4k yet without lying

unique wind
#

most content is only graded up to 1000 anyway

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with dual layer 1000nit ips panels

dry stratus
#

wonder how bright displays have to be to be perfect in hospital rooms

weak rapids
#

Xdm 100 thoughts?

ocean pulsar
summer flicker
#

you're not going to get 2k peak nits out of your panel for 99% of shit

dry stratus
ocean pulsar
#

They specifically arent

summer flicker
#

it may be interesting for certain games if you're using some kind off HDRifying software

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like special k

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but that's literally it

unique wind
#

mediocre k

dry stratus
#

hospital lighting feels like I am dying

summer flicker
ocean pulsar
unique wind
#

sdr looks fine on oled imo

summer flicker
#

it does

unique wind
#

fine enough for me to not use simulated hdr shaders

ocean pulsar
summer flicker
#

you don't need to special k sdr games but it's not without its merits

unique wind
#

of course but so can hdr

ocean pulsar
#

Hdr also massively helps with dark detail

unique wind
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there’s been many cases where studios completely ruin movies by changing the tint of the film dramatically with the 4k hdr remaster

ocean pulsar
unique wind
#

a lot of people prefer the sdr harry potter versions

ocean pulsar
#

You don't have the sun the same brightness as a shadow later

unique wind
#

i’m not anti hdr by any means it’s cool

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it’s just very not standardized and wacky atm

ocean pulsar
#

Yep

unique wind
#

and hardware isn’t really there yet

ocean pulsar
#

Agreed

unique wind
#

what are your guys opinions on dynamic tone mapping and motion interpolation on tvs?

summer flicker
#

I think when it comes to games and colors and artist intent, it's not really as important, especially when you consider the vast amount of games that don't hold any cinematic weight and that people readily make massive changes to all the time

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I think it's safe to say you should care less about accuracy and more about making what you feel looks good

unique wind
#

i agree because i know the vast majority of game developers are not using calibrated displays

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only major AAA studios do

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any indie dev or small dev is not

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most of them aren’t anyway

summer flicker
#

safe to say it's not exactly very high on their order of priorities

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though often abused to an egregious extent, skyrim is a great example of a game that can benefit from color tweaking and HDRifying

unique wind
#

skyrim looks impressively bland

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but so does real life when it’s gloomy

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i don’t use srgb clamp when i game

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my computer monitor is an oled that i have running 2.6 gamma and dcip3 color mapping

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my tv has a calibrated movie mode and separate oversaturated mode for anime

lean grove
unique wind
#

bethesda on their way to make games that are insufferable to play more than once without mods

summer flicker
#

yeah i mean starfield looks like a disaster

unique wind
#

i havent seen it

summer flicker
#

god the first time i saw that i was shocked at how bad it looked

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gross textures, terrible AI, terrible gunplay, samey, robotic enemies

dry stratus
#

aka minecraft textures stretched over an entire map like some mspaint job

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pokemon textures be like

summer flicker
unique wind
#

ds and 3ds pokĂŠmon games look pretty incredible emulated at 4k

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and the animations are better than switch pokĂŠmon games lmao

haughty girder
#

other things like mouse polling rate I can tell too

summer flicker
#

its possible theres a fair amount of subjectivity to that

boreal geyser
#

I'm thinking of buying razer krakens V3, after my logitech g633 died, does anyone have better ideas with the same budget, around 150€?

summer flicker
#

either way, theres a lot of subjectivity to whether you care more about picture quality or smoothness to the extent that youd sacrifice picture quality for the difference between 144 to 240

ocean pulsar
#

The part about the perception itself is not subjective
Everyone's eyes can detect the problems
The subjective part is do those issues happen to you

summer flicker
#

right, i meant subjecitivty in the sense that, how much would those things, provided youre capable of noticing them, actually matter to your personal tastes

ocean pulsar
#

Yep

haughty girder
#

I mean for me it usually doesn't matter because genshin is framerate locked to 60 KEKW

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But for other games it depends

ocean pulsar
ocean pulsar
summer flicker
#

oh right, i was confused because you replied to the second comment

haughty girder
summer flicker
#

subjectivity in the first comment was used exactly as you meant it there

haughty girder
#

500 and lower feels jittery

ocean pulsar
#

My point is there is no "provided you are capable of noticing them"
If it happens, it can and will get noticed
It's more are you capable of ignoring it

summer flicker
#

right you meant that its not actually as subjective as it appears.

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fair enough

ocean pulsar
#

👍

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No matter how attentive you are, you'll never tell the difference between 120 and 240 on a 60hz locked game with hardware accelerated cursor disabled

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But in a game like OSU? Anyone can tell the difference between 120 and 144 given the chance

ocean pulsar
unique wind
#

i’m just gonna use 1000 for a while

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4k or 8k on a wireless mouse is just begging for your battery life to be short

haughty girder
ocean pulsar
#

Interesting

haughty girder
#

also for osu 144 and 240 is huge

ocean pulsar
#

Ye

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500hz polling on 240hz is pretty not great yea

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On 120 tho if you notice it it may be a mouse issue

haughty girder
#

I play osu for fun but I'm mid-6 digit soo

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not horrible at the game

ocean pulsar
#

As a fellow 6 digit I'd say that means you are pretty bad lel

haughty girder
#

well

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I was playing 5-6 stars when i was 7 digit...

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I don't grind pp

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I've been told by 5 digits that if i tried to grind pp i could probably be 5 as well

ocean pulsar
#

Yes

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The exact same has been said to me lol

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5 digits of grinding doesn't make you good at the game either

haughty girder
#

yee

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basically my playstyle is if I can pass a map with a C I've done good enough

ocean pulsar
#

Ye

haughty girder
#

oh also I hate va panels for osu

ocean pulsar
#

One of my proudest plays is a d lel

ocean pulsar
haughty girder
#

rly

ocean pulsar
#

The G7 and G8 neo are insane

haughty girder
#

because full bg dim means that a lot of darker approach circles (yes I use beatmap colors) become a blurry mess

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Like fringing

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purple ghosting?

ocean pulsar
#

What darker approach circles lmao

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I play nearly in black and white with my skin lol

haughty girder
#

rly

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which one?

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I use whitecat 2.0 new

ocean pulsar
#

It's an amalgamation

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But the circles are from www

haughty girder
#

Ic.

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Anyways black and white on va is good

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It's when you have some other darker color on black it becomes an issue

ocean pulsar
#

Sure
But on the other hand, that darker color is half the luminosity it would be on any other display

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You can always just set your va to limited range mode and sure the black will be more grey, but you are still ahead of where a TN or ips would be

haughty girder
#

not rly

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IPS aren't that bad in most cases

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Depends heavily on the monitor tho

ocean pulsar
#

The best ips = 1.2k:1
The worst VA = 2k:1

unique wind
#

the best va: over 8000:1

ocean pulsar
#

Most va are natively 3.5k:1 or 4k:1

unique wind
#

va is fully capable of being fast but its viewing angles are terrible natively

haughty girder
ocean pulsar
ocean pulsar
haughty girder
#

to use "black stabilizer" just defeats va imo

unique wind
#

the samsung odyssey neo g8 is one of the fastest lcd monitors and it’s a va panel

ocean pulsar
#

💃

unique wind
#

gets like 2.5ms response time

haughty girder
#

so?

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it's not motion blur

unique wind
#

across all rgb values

haughty girder
#

or I don't think it's motion blur

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like black to white is super clean

unique wind
#

i was just saying black smear isn’t an unsolvable issue with va

ocean pulsar
haughty girder
#

It's black to dark red and stuff

unique wind
#

you can’t defeat sample and hold without going to 1000hz or using black frame insertion

ocean pulsar
haughty girder
unique wind
#

sample and hold applies to all modern panels

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tn, ips, va, oled, micro led

haughty girder
#

The purple fringing?

unique wind
#

no

haughty girder
#

that's not what I'm talking abt

#

thrn

unique wind
#

purple fringing is unusual i’m not sure what you’re talking about

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but all panels have color fringing on text in some applications

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even rgb stripe subpixel panels

haughty girder
#

hm

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I won't be home for another 5 hours

unique wind
#

that might be a unit defect

haughty girder
#

but I'll try to take a picture

unique wind
#

i’ve never heard of purple fringing

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but va panels can be just as fast as ips if tuned well

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but only samsung has done it so far

haughty girder
unique wind
#

va smearing is from slow pixel response time

haughty girder
#

O it seems G9 is mostly fine apparently

unique wind
#

the g7/g8/g9 are all very fast panels

haughty girder
#

G8 isn't va tho?

unique wind
#

neo g8 is

patent frigate
#

how is this audio tech

haughty girder
#

nvm

unique wind
#

they’re faster than almost all ips panels

#

atrocious viewing angles and obnoxious curve though

haughty girder
#

this

unique wind
#

real

haughty girder
unique wind
#

there’s no display tech channel so audio tech is the closest one

haughty girder
#

They're weird

ocean pulsar
unique wind
#

meanwhile oled pulling 0.1-0.3ms across all rgb values

haughty girder
#

Sometimes I'm moving my mouse to the side and I think I was angled

haughty girder
ocean pulsar
haughty girder
#

so much smearing back when I had a oneplus 6t mclaren

unique wind
#

there’s a very small amount of overshoot with near black on most oleds

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because they jack voltage to fix the laggy black transition

haughty girder
#

on a phone it's very noticeable

patent frigate
#

we can all agree fuck tns

haughty girder
#

Agree

unique wind
#

i don’t agree with that

ocean pulsar
haughty girder
#

None of us are professional gamers

ocean pulsar
haughty girder
#

ehhhh

patent frigate
#

ehhh

unique wind
#

modern tn panels perform the same as ips panels in terms of color and contrast

patent frigate
#

theres still 360hz ips

unique wind
#

they still have terrible viewing angles though

haughty girder
unique wind
#

no just in general

ocean pulsar
#

The best LCDs are TN
Dllcd best LCDs for contrast and color
And the fastest LCDs are ofc TN refresh wise

unique wind
#

i used to use a viotek gft27db which was a 1440p144hz tn panel

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it had 1000:1 contrast and 115% srgb true 8 bit

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with no backlight glow because it’s not ips

#

narrow viewing angles tho

haughty girder
#

ltps was interesting on mobile for a while

patent frigate
#

also how is this audio tech

unique wind
#

the benq zowie xl2566k has freakishly clear motion clarity

#

it shows that tn still has a place for some people

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even without its backlight strobing it’s freakishly clear

haughty girder
#

yea, every professional gamer uses it or the 24" version

patent frigate
#

can you even buy 360hz tn panels anymore

haughty girder
#

Then puts it 10cm from their face

patent frigate
#

i haven't seen any

unique wind
#

there’s only one

#

the zowie xl2566k

ocean pulsar
haughty girder
ocean pulsar
#

Nope

#

Ltps and ltpo are just the driving layer

haughty girder
#

ah

ocean pulsar
#

They apply to LCD or OLED or microled

unique wind
ocean pulsar
#

It's the backplane

unique wind
#

freakishly clear motion clarity

patent frigate
unique wind
#

🤨

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look at the separation of the lights on the ship and the clarity of the aliens face/body

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the blue trail behind the right alien is pixel overshoot

patent frigate
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i mean it's slightly less blurry

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but i don't care

ocean pulsar
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And compare the leading edge of the ship to the trailing edge color

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They should be identical

haughty girder
unique wind
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keep in mind the two right aliens

patent frigate
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i mean they look good enough

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those are the previous top tier monitors for motion clarity

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the average ips panel is a lot worse

ocean pulsar
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Yes but if you are paying money, better is better

patent frigate
unique wind
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not if you’re tryna win at all costs

ocean pulsar
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Generally

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talking about the 360 and the 240 ones

haughty girder