[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: splitting the rca outputs of the sb
chiefersone;168919 Wrote: Has anybody used a standard splitter for the rca out cables/jacks without loss of sound quality? I have a stereo system downstairs with a rca cable running there that I want tyo connect so I can listen to sb down there too. I am using the optical out on my SB to receiver in my primary listening location. Then I've split the RCA outputs to go to another (fairly decent) Alpine receiver in the other room and a sony boom-box in my workshop in the basement. Since the two receivers on the split RCA are more for ambient listening I've never noticed any loss in audio quality at those two listening locations. Works fine for me. Whole-house synchronized audio from one SB :). -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31509 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Grado sr60, sr80 or something else
sc53;165519 Wrote: Jeff, if you want to ruin your life (and wallet) check into www.head-fi.org and read about all the options, tweaks, upgrades, and other insanity you can get into if you find you are enjoying your SR-80's. Believe me, your journey has just begun! Lalalalallaa I can't hear you lalalalalalalal :-D -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30865 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: FLAC signal levels
MeridianMan;164646 Wrote: Slightly OT, but does this remain the case on the TP? Yes ... they both use the same code to generate the display. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30898 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Grado sr60, sr80 or something else
I bought the SR80s ... but now DW is holding the line that they are a X-mass present, and has cruelly wrapped them and put them under the tree. Thanks for the advice ... looking forward to the audition. Anyone care to comment on the burn-in period I've read about here and there ... I've seen folks say there's a marked improvement after 24-48 hrs of use. Is that voodooo, or a real phenomenon? -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30865 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Best way to convert FLAC to MP3
acm;163613 Wrote: What's the easiest way to convert CDs that I've already ripped with EAC/FLAC to MP3 for IPOD portability. I've downloaded a couple programs that sure seem difficult to use compared to what I went through for the intial EAC/FLAC rip. I find foobar2000 to be about the best around for transcoding, as well as a truckload of other tasks. You can find it here: http://www.foobar2000.org/ -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30769 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Toslink cable test
Did you in any way blind this test? How can you be sure your expectation of better sound from the high-dollar cable didn't color your perception of sound quality? What factors could possibly affect signal transmission over a short run in an optical cable enough to produce an actual audible change? In cables that rely on electrical conduction (especially in the analog realm) I can see, up to a point, how a quality cable could outperform a cheapo. This is not to say I beleive that price-point translates to quality after a certain point ... there is a point at which I think people are paying for peace of mind and brand recognition, and some cable-makers boat. In optical transmission, how much signal degradation could possibly exist over a 3-6 foot run assuming that the cable is above dirt cheap quality? I'm not posting to be a wise guy ... I really want to know technical details (not back of the package marketing-speek) how a $200.00 toslink optical cable outperforms a quality cable at a more reasonable price point? -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Toslink cable test
P Floding;152328 Wrote: That could possibly be because they are identical, and the Monster label costs the additional $40. I recently purchased an HDTV, and was agape at the cost of HDMI cables that were readily available, so I started reading reviews of the various cables to see if the cost could at all be justified. I found a review that tested a range of cables from a $10.00 no-name up to the top-shelf offering from Monster costing over $100.00. In bench tests, they could find no measurable difference. In viewing tests they actually found a difference ... the cheaper cables actually ALL fared better than the Monster cable. The reason the Monster cable fared worse than the competition was due to EXACTLY the reason that Monster justifies thier extreme cost. HDMI connectors have no locking mechanism. The Monster cable turned out to be so thick and heavy, it was pulling on the connector causing signal dropout. Ironic, no? In the end, I bought a cheap cable off of eBay ... the picture is beautiful. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Toslink cable test
P Floding;152337 Wrote: Obviously! There is no need to test HDMI cables. Either they work or they don't. The whole business of testing them is stupidity. There are no timing issues with HDMI that can affect picture quality. Well, my point here was that HDMI is a digital cable ... as are toslink and coax. As long as it's capable of transparently delivering the bits from one end to the other, there should be no effect on the delivered sound. I'd be surprised if a cable could introduce any meaningful amount of jitter, as isn't that really a function of clock accuracy of the device? Anyway, you could more easily sell me on there being problems from induced currents in a coax than you ever could on an optical cable. Either the bits arrive at thier destination or they don't. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking for suggestions, newbie here
You could use a tagging app like MusicBrainz Picard to get your tags straight. MusicBrainz provides tagging information from an online database ... I find it quite useful, and you can configure it to 'rename' your files and organize them into the folder structure and filenaming convention that you like. There's also other apps that are better at guessing tagging information from directory structure and filenames such as Mp3Tag. Mp3Tag also has renaming capabilities. I typically use these two apps together. I use mp3 tag to put in basic information, and then MusicBrainz to fill out the remaining info. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28982 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Logitech
radish;148237 Wrote: They have no control over Slimserver, it's open source and they don't own it. Softsqueeze is also GPL, although the primary (only?) dev works for SD (now Logitech). But if for some reason they did stop development of it inhouse, there's nothing stopping someone else taking it and moving forward. While that's true, the part that isn't open-source and critical for interoperability is the firmware. So, if Logitech takes the software in a direction we don't agree with, we'll be left with the last version of the firmware that did what we wanted it to do. Logitech -could- change the firmware in such a way that it locked out SlimServer in favor of whatever proprietary direction they (thoretically) take the device and software. I'm not saying that Logi-Slim would do this, but the possiblity of it happening does exist. Perhaps before that happens someone will have reverse-engineered the firmware code ... but then that starts treading on shakey legal ground. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28862 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: minor problem
Using Digital It you're using digital out to a DAC or your receiver, it's important to note that SOME devices have a delay from the time they first start receiving a digital stream up until they start actually decoding that stream. Since you aren't using a native format, you aren't getting gapless playback, so the stream is stopping between tracks, invoking that delay (if it exists) in your device at the beginning of each song. There is a setting in Player Settings, where you can set a playback delay. Gp to Player Settings - Audio and scroll down to Audio Startup Time). Play around with the delay setting and see if that works for you. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28770 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Logitech
radish;148331 Wrote: Sure, I was thinking about this at lunch time. They could indeed change the slimproto implementation to lock out slimserver, but the firmware upgrade can't be forced so those of us with existing units can just stick with the existing firmware. Look at the Sony PSP - many people are running old firmware versions just so they can exploit security holes to play old NES games on it. I'd certainly run an old Transporter firmware to carry on using Slimserver. So Logitech would end up having to: * Rewrite Slimserver from scratch (no small feat in itself) * Break compatibility with all existing plugins (thus losing a lot of the appeal of the system) * Completely p*** off the dev community, ensuring that SD's best customers never buy anything from them again And then, of course, the slimproto changes would be reverse engineered and put back into the GPL slimserver fork anyway. Reverse engineering for the purposes of interoperability is specifically permitted under copyright law (in the US, anyway). All this for no obvious upside...I just can't imagine why they'd even want to do any of this. So I'm not really worried about that. What I am worried about (in the longterm, I trust Sean co as long as they're around) is lack of worthwhile new models, and lack of firmware updates pushing new features back to older models. The one thing we (as a community) can't do anything about is stagnating firmware development. Right, I wasn't saying they -WOULD- do this only that they -could.- That is the one area where the FOSS community presently doesn't have access and it is the critical link, and the only place Logitech could exercise control. If it happened tomorrow ... I'd be plenty happy with my current SS version and Firmware if I needed to be. However, I'm sure it won't and I am eagerly looking forward to the official release of 6.5.1 and then 7.0. (I hope 7.0 will be a more careful release than 6.5 was, but I know it was rushed to be ready for Transporter). -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28862 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: minor problem
bgrounds;147881 Wrote: when one song ends and another starts, the first second or so is skipped from the song that is starting. What else can I add that would help? Well ... answers to the specific questions Ceejay asked. What operating system are you running SlimServer on? What type of music file are you having problems with (mp3, flac, Apple, WMA, etc...)? What version of SqueezeBox do you have (Slimp3, SB2, SB3, Transporter)? Are you using iTunes to manage your library? Is your player wired or wireless? Another question I will ask is what are you connecting your SB to, and are you using the Analog or Digital outputs? Some audio equipment needs a delay at the start of an audio stream (this is configurable in your player settings). -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28770 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter DAC fed by DVD Issues?
ezkcdude;145301 Wrote: Yeah, but can he play back the DVD audio signal from SlimServer? This is only a guess, but I imagine that as long as he goes digital to the Transporter, then Digital to the Home Theater, then surround sound should be unaffected. I am basing this assumption on the fact that a properly encoded file on your HD can stream 5.1 through a SqueezeBox to a Surround Receiver just fine. Transporter should be just passing that digital signal unaltered from the DVD player to his Surround receiver. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28533 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: xmod :)
CardinalFang;142920 Wrote: That sound like ideal hunting grounds for a lawyer! Someone surely is going to buy one and then slap down the law suit when they don't hear all that stuff... The graph is amazing though. I've tried measuring my experience before, but the tape measure keeps snapping shut and it brings tears to my eyes. From now on I just need to read it right off the graph. See ... this is what I was saying in that other thread about published data. Creative (a reputable company ... or at least they used to be) is publishing garbage data to make thier product look like a first-class turd polisher. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28260 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Speakers without cables
tomsi42;143037 Wrote: Hello, I have a friend who has bought a squeezebox and want to use it in his living room. His problem is that both he and his wife are allergic to cables! They have a reasonably OK Yamaha amplifier they wants to use, but as the speakers are to be placed on each side of a fireplace, there isn't any sensible ways to hide one of the speaker cables. There are 220V outlets on each side of the fireplace. Are there any wireless solutions out there at all - like active speakers with a wireless interface ? The problem with any active speaker is that you sound is now only as good as the speaker's amplifier. It doesn't matter how good your receiver or any other component in your system is ... sound degradation can/will occur when the signal is modulated to RF (or IR in some cases), and then re-converted to an audio signal in whatever electronics the speakers have. Do they own thier home? Perhaps some careful drilling and running good-quality cables under the floor will be an answer they're willing to live with. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28300 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Speakers without cables
Well, if they could kill the breaker to that circuit, and if there's room inside the conduit ... they could try fishing the cable to the other speaker through there. With the circuit deactivated, it wouldn't impart any hum and since they're both 220 outlets, there's a good chance the conduit is a relatively straight run from one to the other. If they can't kill the circuit ... you might as well give it a try anyway ... it's a cheap enough solution and maybe you'll get lucky. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28300 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: The modifying crowd and the Transporter
CardinalFang;142449 Wrote: I love music, that's where the emotion is, not in the boxes that sit at the other end of the room. I don't want to measure the music, but I do want to know that my stereo is an accurate reproducer of that music and does not add to or subtract from it in any way. Deviation from accurate reproduction can be measured. Listening tests are really just confirmation of a design or a substitute for more careful measurements. If a resistor sounds better in a audioo chain for some reason, then there will be a measurable reason why. Audio is a highly complex set of interactions, but design the test rig correctly and you will be able to measure it. We wouldn't get much science done if we followed the same lines of thought as sometimes gets voiced by professional reviewers. I remember when reviews were accompanied by actual measurements and they backed up what was heard. We wouldn't apply this to any other field of engineering to do with our senses, why audio? I don't read about cameras having immeasurable or mystical properties and they convey just as much information and emotion. Paul This reminds me of when Bose sued Consumer Reports when they first introduced thier reflecting speaker technology a while back. CR had done thier testing in an anechoic chamber, and as a result reviewed the speakers very poorly. (Now, say what you will about Bose, I know they're not very popular with the Audiophile crowd..) Bose sued CR because the testing conditions weren't valid ... you can't test a speaker that RELIES on reflections in an anechoic chamber. I don't remember the outcome of the suit, but this does prove one point. If the test conditions aren't appropriate, all the fancy measurements you can make don't mean diddly. To that same end, it's pretty easy to set up a test that makes your mod or whatever look better by carefully crafting the testing conditions. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: The modifying crowd and the Transporter
That is bad science. You have to define the hypothesis first, then test, then confirm or disclaim it. I wasn't putting that forth as an example of good science. My point is that manufacturer's (or modder's) published numbers (if any exist) are suspect at best unless you carefully study thier test conditions. It's very likely that they will set up the test condition that paints thier product in the best light. Even if the test was conducted by an impartial third party (Like CR in the Bose anecdote I gave), you have to be very careful that the published results mean what you think they mean. In the end ... all this published numbers stuff is ok as a jumping off point when comparing bits of kit, but ultimately it doesn't mean a thing until it's measured by the only piece of test equipment that matters ... your ears. It's also why so much voodoo exists in the Audio industry ... such as the $485 beechwood and lacquer pot-knob. It's pretty easy to CONVINCE yourself that something sounds better ... especially after plunking down a bunch of cash. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: The modifying crowd and the Transporter
Lastly, it's not an art. It's science and engineering. It isn't evolving, electronic theory is still as valid as when it was first understood. We may have different views on sub-atomic processes, but they do not have audible effects otherwise we'd all be running around screaming about the din of electron spins being all tangled up now that we know they are probability clouds and not orbits. Well, really it is part art, and part science. The fact of the matter is that all audio equipment fails to faithfully reproduce the original sound to one degree or another. The Science is getting as close to that ideal as possible. The art is dealing with how the inacuracy 'colors' the sounds being reproduced. This is especially true with speakers. There are well known equations about cabinet dimensions, driver design, etc... But the fact is that no speaker can -accurately- reproduce a singers voice as it was originally produced by a wet throat and vibrating vocal cords. They all introduce some 'coloration' to thier sound reproduction. That's why listening to a speaker set anywhere but your own listening environment is essentially useless. Now, granted you can get a -pretty good- idea of how a speaker is going to sound by examining its specs and narrow down your choices. (Ignore price-point, because there is actually little correlation there after a certain point) But ultimately, you have to bring them home and audition them in your own room with your own equipment and see if the sum-total of imperfect reproduction is acceptable to your own wet-wear testing devices on either side of your skull. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Optimizing PC Sound
I have a SoundBlaster Extigy, which is an external version of thier Audigy card. It's been highly reviewed by most of the tech publishers. It connects via USB and also comes with a remote. It's got lots of digital and analog inputs and outputs, and even will operate in stand alone mode if you want to play a source with the computer off ... or put it to some other imaginative use. I used to used it as my computer-to-stereo interface device before I got my SqueezeBox. Now I use it for ripping LP's to digital, and my 'regular' sound card. Another nice benefit is that you can sit it on your desk ... so you don't have to crawl behind your computer every time you want to connect a different source to it. It's probably not an Audiophile device, but I think it sounds better than any installed card I've ever heard. I don't know if they're still in production, but it looks like they're fairly available on Ebay for short money. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28023 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: A photo of your Squeezebox setup (please)
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19817 Question: Should there be a new forum for photos? - yes - no - maybe Here's my setup. As they say it ain't much but it's what I got... I have to say there's some really impressive looking rigs in this thread, and some really nicely designed rooms/systems. My setup is strictly middle of the road equipment, but it works well in my room, and I've fiddled and tweaked to get it to sound nice to my ear. Some of you folks may cry with dismay if you heard it ... but maybe not. :-P It is a home-theater setup, but I only use the front pair and the sub for music ... unless I happen to listen to something recorded for DTS or Dolby. The antiquated tube TV is next on the Must Upgrade list ... softening up the wife for a 32 LCD. All music is encoded as FLAC, and I'm using the optical connection to my receiver. I honestly couldn't hear a difference between Sony's built-in DAC and the SqueezeBox's, so I figured digital transmission was the way to go to avoid any noice getting introduced via the analog interconnects. Speakers: Front Pair (and surrounds): Cambridge Soundworks New Ensemble Satellites Center Channel: Cambridge Soundworks Center Stage Sub: Cambridge Soundworks Basecube 10s Tuner: Sony STR-DE875 Turntable: Soney PS-LX100 DVD (doubles as CD) player: Sony DVP-NS725P PS: can someone clue me in on how to get my images to appear in the post instead of as attachements? +---+ |Filename: P9121340_s.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1683| +---+ -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19817 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Using Transporter with DVD-A, SACD, HD DVD, Blu-Ray, etc
adamslim;134576 Wrote: Illegal music sharing is all MP3s - people aren't going to want to share 5GB files for a single album when 99.% do not have a system that will resolve the difference between that and a 500MB CD (or even a 50MB MP3). People regularly share multi-gig files on BitTorrent. File sharing is far from limited to MP3's. Go to piratebay.com and search for FLAC, people share whole albums ... then look for virtually any movie title ... there will be 4+gig .ISO's of ripped DVD's available. I can understand why the media providers are so paranoid ... and it's unfortunate. However, it's difficult to overcome the idea of free for many people. That said ... I think that they are going about it all wrong, since they are punishing the fair use of people that shell out the money for the material. I don't claim to have the answer for how they can provide Fair Use and still protect thier investment ... just pointing out that they actually do have reason to be paranoid. I am not an advocate of DRM nor a fan of the tactics of the RIAA/MPAA, even though this post may seem as though I'm stumping for them. It's just important to understand both sides of the problem. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27136 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Using Transporter with DVD-A, SACD, HD DVD, Blu-Ray, etc
tommypeters;134719 Wrote: BTW, DVD-A is rippable digitally on a computer, SACD is rippable digitally in a rebuilt player (like a Denon 2900) connected to a computer... DVD-A is continuing as Dolby True HD in Blu-ray/HD-DVD and you can get the same quality with DTS HR Audio and better with DTS Mastering. SACD is dying. In 2005 DVD-Audio sales passed SACD sales - at a very low level. That's very true. But even if they were to devise a PERFECT digital protection scheme, there's always the analog hole which is nearly impossible to plug. Someone with a bit of know-how could very easily capture the analog signals (by tapping into the speaker-outs if need be) and simply remaster a distribution. Granted, there will be some quality loss, but if done carefully, most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference. ...and by most, I mean anybody without a golden ear and a high-priced system. Look how happy people have always been to trade cassettes of copied music from LP's or tape-to-tape in the old days. Ultimately ... this is why all this DRM crap like guarding the prison gates while the inmates are climbing over the fences. In the long run, they're penalizing the honest media user, while the bad-guys continue doing what they've always done while hardly missing a beat. AND they create a whole class of 'hackers' who go after thier DRM schemes simply to see if it can be done. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27136 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Ripping DVD Audio
See this thread. Well written tutorial: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19260highlight=dts -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27196 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
