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  • infinitevalence@discuss.online
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    6 months ago

    Sometimes there are vendors or distribution rules that require that they don’t post discounts publicly so people can’t price match or other retailers can’t demand a discount to match.

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      That’s a weird logic. If I cannot find it on price comparison sites, the offer doesn’t exist.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 months ago

        It’s not too uncommon for PC equipment. Back when Newegg was a good company, before they were bought out over a decade ago, there would be quite a few items on there that were like this.

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      This is super common with niche hobby products I buy. Doesn’t make any fucking sense. Vendors will send out an email saying “hey we have a sale but we can’t tell you the dollar amount just the percentage until you put it into your cart.” I think it’s also common with some lines of luxury goods. You’ll find a few different reasons online if you Google “luxury brands hide price.”

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      6 months ago

      That’s an odd definition of non-public if the information is available to everyone. More like annoyingly public.

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    6 months ago

    Don’t get that card. I used to have it but it would randomly output max volume static… Not a fun experience.

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    6 months ago

    On the right it has a rough shipping location (LA with zipcode), are you sure that’s not the change?

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    That is just to condition you to get accustomed to eventually having to buy it first before they let you know the price.

    Which again is just to condition you to accept the fact that next they will be able to increase the price on your existing completed purchase each month for rest of your life.

    It’s only in the best interest of the consumer, it’s not an evil tactic.

    /s

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        I’m pretty sure that’s illegal in a lot of places. I know some stores have the “if you have to ask you can’t afford it, boutique” vibe going on, but they do actually have to put the prices somewhere.

      • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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        As a hobbyist musician, the more you externalise these sorts of things, the more latency you create. A discreet, internal, soundcard is probably going to trump external DACs for a long time to come.
        External DACs totally have their place, music playback, movies/shows. But for doing audio work, internal is the way to go.

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          As a professional musician and someone who works for a prominent Japanese electronic musical instrument company, I’m going to have to disagree.

          Thunderbolt provides all the low latency of a PCIe interface with none of the drawbacks. I use an Antelope Zen Tour in my home studio and it is just amazing.

          The systems I designed for work though use RME PCIe cards, but those systems aren’t in the hobbyist space.

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          👌👍 latency 🤣

          You people just make shit up. The human eye can’t see above 60fps!

          Imagine believing you are going to notice .001 poling rate. Maybe we can get a dac that fully saturates a pciex16 lane

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    america is winning and winning and winning. so much like damn stop it. u devalue gold by being so great!america is winning and winning and winning. so much like damn stop it. u devalue gold by being so great! turbocapitalism has proven to be soooo resiliant against humanity…cant beat that. make stupid great again!