Re: [slim] Hi res audio?
Of course the placebo effect is significant, and I'm sure that there are more people who would pay extra for HD than there are who can hear the difference, either because they aren't particularly concentrating on the music at the time or because of limitations in their equipment, ears or listening environment. There are many of us who just like to feel that we are buying the 'best'. Nevertheless, the CD standard has always been considered by many to be tight, both in bit depth (16 bit) and in sampling frequency (44.1 kHz). Reconstructing a 20kHz sine wave from 44.1kHz samples is quite a task, and it completely keels over as the sine wave approaches 22.05kHz! It has always struck me that most of the important and interesting information in a recording is the low-level information, and it uses only a few of those 16 bits! There are many who believe (me among them) that CD is never as good as the best vinyl listing experience, but it's convenient and serviceable much of the time. I buy SACDs when they are available and I'm interested in a higher technical quality than the old CD Red Book standard, but I'm not interested in buying Red Book recordings that have been upsampled so that the vendor can put 96/24 on the label. I think 96/24 files derived from analogue recordings might be worthwhile if they are done well. -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88756 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hi res audio?
I'm sort of answering my own question here because I just came across an interesting article about high definition material:- http://itrax.com/Pages/ArticleDetails.php?aID=32 -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88756 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hi res audio?
I got irritated with HDTracks because they listed an album I wanted and I spent a bit of time registering on their site only to be told that I can't buy from them because I'm in the UK. This did set me wondering. The album I was interested in is available as a regular classical CD (Mahler's 3rd symph conducted by Boulez on DG). Would that performance have been recorded in HD as well as in regular CD format, or has there been some 'upsampling' to derive 96/24 data from a CD standard recording? IF DG recorded it in HD why is it so hard to buy it? If the HD is derived from CD is it worth having? I would be interested in if anyone could shed any light on this. -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88756 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Rumor: Microsoft to buy Logitech?!
norderney;260073 Wrote: > > It is true that there are other products in the market doing the same > thing as Slim Devices, BUT none of the ones I have seen (including > Sonos)have all the features and/or sound quality that Slim Devices > offer. I'm sticking with Slim Devices and even if Microsoft do buy > them I will still give them a try. I hope you are right. I agree that one can stay with one's hardware and current version of Slimserver, and I might do that. Microsoft has a record of being dishonest and ruthless in manipulating products to maximise its profits, and I fear that Slimserver, in a future of repidly diminishing CD sales and increasing downloading, would be a powerful tool to bring us all into the sort of digital rights management environment that the corporates dream of. -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42018 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Rumor: Microsoft to buy Logitech?!
Michael Herger;260049 Wrote: > > Thank you, Michael, but if the Squeezebox becomes Microsoft, so will > > the Transporter. > > Go out there and get yourself a stock of original Logitech > SqueezeBoxen. > They will never change the logo. > > Michael Yes, that would be a way forward for a limited time, and don't update SlimServer, which MS would be bound to f**k up, driving us all towards DRM. Think Zune. -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42018 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Rumor: Microsoft to buy Logitech?!
Michael Herger;259757 Wrote: > > If Microsoft take over Logitech I'm gone. What are the althernatives > to > > Squeezebox? > > Transporter. > > -- > > Michael Thank you, Michael, but if the Squeezebox becomes Microsoft, so will the Transporter. From long experience in IT I have an overriding policy:- Never us a Microsoft product when there is an alternative. So I was just wondering what are the non-Slimdevices alternatives for playing my music files at home if Slimdevices/Logitech becomes Microsoft. -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42018 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Rumor: Microsoft to buy Logitech?!
If Microsoft take over Logitech I'm gone. What are the althernatives to Squeezebox? -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42018 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Another Day, Another problem: My powered-off screensaver has disappeared
Thank you very much, siduhe, that fixed it. And mherger, God knows. anything can happen when I slump in front to my SB after a half a bottle of wine and a hard day. Once again, I am dazzled by the helpfulness of these forums -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35448 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Another Day, Another problem: My powered-off screensaver has disappeared
When I set up my SB3 several months ago I chose the RSS News Ticker as my powered off screensaver. It was from that that I learnt that Sadam Hussein had been executed. Now, my SB is dark. When I switch my SB on from the remote it seems to play normally, and Internet radio seems to work, but the news ticker is gone. When I decided to look into this, I selected the Date and Time Screensaver, thinking that it was bound to work as it doesn't depend on anything 'out there', but no joy, my SB is still dark when I'm not using it. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35448 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Does SB play tracks ordered by alphabetically file name or by tag track number?
Thank you, JJZolx. I still haven't seen a disknumber tag (with 'c' or 'k'). I have noticed that some people encode the disknumber in the tracknumber as, for example, a third digit. -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30751 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Does SB play tracks ordered by alphabetically file name or by tag track number?
Ah, very interesting, SnarlyDwarf, thank you for that. I'm a SB newby and I didn't know about the existence of disknumber tags, and I'll have to go off and find out what TPOS means. Is there something fundamental I'm not understanding about tags? Are they a 'blank sheet' where one can define any field names, or are there pre-defined fields? I note that MP3Tag has a predefined list of variable names (such as %artist%), but I see nothing like %disknumber% there. Any explanations gratefully received. -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30751 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Does SB play tracks ordered by alphabetically file name or by tag track number?
I went through this with my iRiver player and found that the tag track numbers are redundant, as it plays tracks alphabetically by file name, requiring track number digits on the file name to conserver the track order when playing. Maybe I did the test with the wrong tag versions, who knows? If the SB plays tracks ordered by tag track number, what does it do if the tag track number isn't present? -- DennyL DennyL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30751 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
