Re: [Sursound] Soundfield 450 Mk2

2014-03-30 Thread Dave Malham
I, too, find it really odd that a facility that was there in the very
earliest production Soundfields (and which I used as a matter of course
every time I used them) is no longer there in this model even tho' it would
cost less to add it now than back in the 70's. Still, it IS about the only
thing that there is wrong with it :-)

Dave


On 20 March 2014 12:57, Jon Honeyball j...@jonhoneyball.com wrote:


 Pity this *still* doesn¹t have a 1K tone generator at say -20dB, allowing
 you to properly calibrate the input levels and replay of your recorder,
 which almost certainly doesn¹t have ganged controls. The Sounddevices 788T
 can do this, but others can¹t. Missed opportunity.

 Jon

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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-30 Thread Dave Malham
48 kHz is pretty well the international standard sample rate for broadcast
organisation and has been since they started upgrading from the 32kHz used
(by the Beeb) for distributing audio to FM transmitters back in the late
60's.

Dave


On 19 March 2014 16:47, Aaron Heller hel...@ai.sri.com wrote:

 I downloaded the MPD file on the FAQ page with
wget http://rdmedia.bbc.co.uk/dash/ondemand/channel_test/1/5.mpd

 If I'm reading it correctly, the channel announcements are 320 kbits/sec,
 48k sample rate.


 Aaron


 On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Kees de Visser k...@galaxyclassics.com
 wrote:

  On 19 Mar 2014, at 07:33, David Pickett wrote:
   I suspect that most of the problems last night were at the originating
  end, though there were cases when there were beats missing as the stream
  caught up, which seemed more likely to be delays in the Internet.
 
  from the BBC blog:
   21. Rupert Brun, 18TH MARCH 2014 - 22:20
   I am sorry we lost the stream before the end of the concert this
  evening, this was due to a problem with the internet connection to the
  server at the Southbank.
 
  What would the bitrate be ? I'm also curious about the delay. Has anyone
  been able to compare the streamed audio to fast radio ?
 
  Kees de Visser
 
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Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

2014-03-30 Thread Richard Dobson

There is an even cheaper one (£23.70, Amazon):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003IMG3L2

Looks like a clone of ST-Lab (etc). Looks all the ones with 4 buttons on 
top are based in the same hardware. I will likely take a chance on it as 
I also could also use a cheap USB m/c card, and that is just about an 
impulse-purchase price point. If it works on the R-Pi (all 8 
channels!) that will make it extra interesting.


Richard Dobson

On 30/03/2014 02:25, Marc Lavallée wrote:

Augustine Leudar gustar...@gmail.com a écrit :

anyone know of a UK/Ireland supplier of the Sabrant USB-SND8 ?


Ebay?

Also look for the ST-Lab USB Sound Box;
it is similar, if not identical.
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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-30 Thread Andy Furniss

Dave Malham wrote:

48 kHz is pretty well the international standard sample rate for
broadcast organisation and has been since they started upgrading from
the 32kHz used (by the Beeb) for distributing audio to FM
transmitters back in the late 60's.

Dave


True I expect, but for some reason the normal 320kbit aac R3 web
stream is 44.1k.
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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-30 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 30.03.14 19:31, schrieb Sampo Syreeni:


...the sample clock was locked
to twice the horizontal scan rate of 15625Hz, i.e. 31.25kHz.


Wasn't that the rate used for PCM audio in Hi8 video recorders?

Ralf

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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-30 Thread David Pickett
According to Rupert Brun, Head of Technology for BBC Radio, the rate 
used for the 4.0 streaming frm the South Bank was 48kHz.


What I dont like is that one can record the stream at 44.1kHz and the 
sample rate conversion appears to be dont in Windows.  Is there a 
means of actually showing the sampling rate of audio data coming in 
from the internet?  It must be encoded in some way that this 
information is passed along with it, otherwise there would be a pitch 
change shortly followed by a buffer overflow when trying to record at 
48k stream at 44.1k!


Anybody know how to get access to streaming metadata?

David

At 17:37 30-03-14, Andy Furniss wrote:

Dave Malham wrote:

48 kHz is pretty well the international standard sample rate for
broadcast organisation and has been since they started upgrading from
the 32kHz used (by the Beeb) for distributing audio to FM
transmitters back in the late 60's.

Dave


True I expect, but for some reason the normal 320kbit aac R3 web
stream is 44.1k.
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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-30 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 30.03.14 20:48, schrieb David Pickett:


Anybody know how to get access to streaming metadata?


Play it back in VLC and display the stream parameters.

Ralf

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Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-30 Thread Sampo Syreeni

On 2014-03-30, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:

...the sample clock was locked to twice the horizontal scan rate of 
15625Hz, i.e. 31.25kHz.


Wasn't that the rate used for PCM audio in Hi8 video recorders?


Apparently so, and for the same precise reason. That applies to Hi8 
derived from PAL, and with PCM -- PCM sound was a later addition to the 
standard which was originally fully analog. For Hi8 over NTSC the 
corresponding frequency is 31.46853kHz. That comes from the revised 
59.94Hz field rate adopted in the color transition, divided by 525 
scanlines per field.

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