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ellinokon

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ellinokon··on The Yamaha NS10 Story (2008)
Right! I feel you have been heavily implying it isn't a trait worth considering, which it obviously is. Transients do matter, and any mixer worth his salt will recognise when the speaker is fighting against them in this regard.

I personally think the tight transient response coupled with the mid forward character is what makes it a solid tool worth considering. Remove either trait and the speaker would lose its usefulness. My suspicion would be that the transient handling plays an important part of why people like working with these speakers.

As to why they are popular: I'm totally on board with calling it hype reaching critical mass. The NS10s sounds terrible, but they are pretty consistent between rooms given their sealed nature. If you can count on it being everywhere it is worth learning as a tool. The speaker also being revealing of transients and a critical band of frequencies is the icing on the cake here.

ellinokon··on The Yamaha NS10 Story (2008)
I can see how you would read it as such, but I'm mostly saying: Transients are a huge part of how we perceive sound. A speaker with properly timed transient response allows the speaker to reproduce sound more accurately. The importance of this attribute naturally follows.

The unique characteristics of certain sounds will be lost when the speaker is unable to translate its wavelengths properly in the analogue space within the required period.

ellinokon··on The Yamaha NS10 Story (2008)
The benefits of having a speaker with tighter transients is audible in any room, though more so in treated rooms. The ability to properly perceive transients and handle them appropriately is majorly enhanced by a speaker with proper transient response across the whole frequency spectrum. When handling sounds it's imperative that the audio engineer is able to manage these parts of a sound source. The NS10 definitely contributes to making this task easier to handle, as can be attested to by most (all?) audio engineers who have used these speakers. Dismissing analysis of transient response as a wrongfully isolated metric sounds ignorant of the audio engineering process to me.

Now, does this benefit outweigh the negatives of this speaker? Maybe it once did, but today I definitely wouldn't accept the way this speakers characteristics make it a mid forward screaming demon that shatters your ears before a full working day is over.

ellinokon··on Launch HN: Theneo (YC W22) – Generate Stripe-Style API Docs
Almost the same for me using Brave, but the website pops in after ~30 seconds.
ellinokon··on No RailsConf
I think the point is badly presented, but I conclude that there will be no Rails Conf for _him_.
ellinokon··on Joe Rogan episodes disappeared from Spotify today
Yeh, I didn't notice before I commented that only some of these peoples appearances were removed. Definitely points to some content moderation then, imo.
ellinokon··on Joe Rogan episodes disappeared from Spotify today
Given the list of newly missing episodes, this looks more like comedians escaping association than Spotify removing anything they don't want on the platform.
ellinokon··on Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?
You make some excellent points! Anecdotally I find getting out of ruts to be more of a muscle you train, rather than a skill you learn. Picking up on when your mind drifts, and figuring out how to get it going again, will take a lot of practise and experience. Exploring life in between our scholarly/work duties seems to me like best way of figuring this out.
ellinokon··on Toddlers are harsh judges of moral character
Can confirm. My son was definitely born with most of his behavioural patterns already formed. It appears to me that we as parents can only guide what is already there, and not completely reshape our children into whatever suits us.

I expect parents expectations of how much they can shape their children has caused more broken adults than anything else.

ellinokon··on The benefits of staying off social media
Nothing more than complacency, maybe? A mistake I think the newer batch of Big Tech is eager not to make.
ellinokon··on Pricing Low-Touch SaaS
Minor nitpick: The popup says "site for", because the linked article is under `en-in`.
ellinokon··on Uber to quit Colombia after judge says it doesn’t compete fairly
It's probably a sign that whatever reason the taxi driver used to get you to lock the door, it isn't really the actual issue. Nobody would leave the doors closer to themselves open if they had legitimate concerns.
ellinokon··on LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity
And they talked about why in more detail here: https://rework.fm/venture-capital-and-control-with-david-tea...

Edit: Fixed typo. Would also like to add that their use of VC money appears less risky than one could assume.

ellinokon··on Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
Doesn't several services like this exist already? Siteleaf should somewhat fit the bill. Webhook, now defunct, also did something similar.
ellinokon··on Mobile phone cancer warning as malignant brain tumours double
My father sought to answer the same questions after he started to fear what transmitters might be doing to him/us. As far as I understand his findings, the "strength" of the signal could potentially be as high with blutooth as with 3G/4G, for use with his devices in his environment. His recommendation is therefore to avoid all transmitters close to your body, and prefer wires at all times.

All anecdotal ofc, and I have not in any way verified the instruments he used for his tests.