Hi Thanks for all your thoughts and advice on this issue.
What Im really talking about here is the subjective enjoyment of music, a difficult thing to quantify... To sum it up.. I want to listen to 4 or 5 albums in a row rather than the 1 or 2 at present before the dreaded digital wearyness sets in. Music stored on hard disk rather than being read from a cd is a massive move forward in the right direction. The difference in quality is totally apparent. Its probably true that I have become used to a coloured 'warmer' sound that although not as transparent as the SB was imo quite musical. It will probably take a while to 'adjust. In the meantime I may swap out my VDH Digital coax for a carbon fibre one, this should go some way to taming this high frequency sssssibilence that keeps rearing its nasty head (Thanks Deaf Cat). Im anxious from reading your post JJZolx that im making a pigs ear of my CD rips! Do you know of a good EAC setup help file for accurate rips? what is your configuration? I use a Liteon DVD/CDR/RW drive. There are always more glitches on the louder (busier) tracks whereas quiet acoustic tracks very rarely suffer from glitches??. Do people here really get no glitches?... this is my procedure, please tell me if im doing it right: First i get cd info from the remote freedb, then i choose Test and copy selected tracks from the action menu, these are written to my cd albums folder at about 8 - 10X speed on average (my drive is 48 speed). I choose uncompressed .wav files to rip to as I have a 400gb Hard Drive. When the copying finishes i select 'review tracks' and use the glitch removal option on each track. Sometimes there are no glitches at other times there are hundreds. Ive just ripped Nick Drakes Pink Moon CD (brand new remastered) there were 64 glitches on track 1, 6 on track 2, none on track 3, none on track 4, 2 on track 5, 73 on track 5, 12 on track 6 etc. BTW It sounds a lot more dynamic now that I have set volume to fixed. and theres an improvement from running the power adaptor from my mains conditioner (more refined) Its still Bright though :( Jack. -- Lyonesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lyonesse's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5496 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24613 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
