Re: [AFMUG] OT - autotune

2018-10-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
I remember being told that G.729 sounds just as good as G.711 for VoIP, which I found out was a total crock. From: AF On Behalf Of castarritt Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 2:54 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - autotune The source material is definitely key. Some of the

Re: [AFMUG] Solar system rough cost

2018-10-05 Thread chuck
But your relay site is drawing what? 50 watts maybe. Big difference between 50 and 250 when it is a constant load. From: Timothy Steele Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 3:11 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Solar system rough cost Up in the NC Foot Hills x3 220 Watt

Re: [AFMUG] Solar system rough cost

2018-10-05 Thread Timothy Steele
Up in the NC Foot Hills x3 220 Watt Panels x4 Golf Cart Batteries keep Relay sites powered up nicely the pricey part is the charge controller Golf Cart batteries save you a lot in cost, but you will need to keep an eye on the water level inside the batteries On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 4:58 PM Bill

Re: [AFMUG] Solar system rough cost

2018-10-05 Thread Bill Prince
We do about half the solar panels as Chuck, and we only really need 10 days on the batteries. We have sometimes done less on both of those and depending on the exact location. We are on the 37° parallel, and get no snow, and no really hot weather, so we are in

Re: [AFMUG] OT - autotune

2018-10-05 Thread Mathew Howard
It also depends what you're listening to it on... it's a lot easier to hear the difference between an MP3 and good HD audio on some high end headphones than it is on the earbuds that came free with your phone. And it seems to me that with 8K video, you're going to either need a pretty enormous scr

Re: [AFMUG] Solar system rough cost

2018-10-05 Thread chuck
Is this Florida? In Utah, off grid, snow on the panels, worst case. No sun for two weeks this is what I have used that has been field proven. 20X load worth of panels 2 weeks of autonomy worth of batts. I would say if you went 200 watts * 20 is 4000 watts of panel. So $2K for the panels. 20

[AFMUG] Solar system rough cost

2018-10-05 Thread Paul McCall
We have not done solar systems before, but am looking at it for a customer. Need 150watt sustained, so figure about 250 to cover ourselves. Looks like we get about 5.5hours per day of “peak sun”. Any rough idea on how much it would cost for a system to do this? Paul, PDMNet -- AF mailing list

Re: [AFMUG] OT - autotune

2018-10-05 Thread castarritt
The source material is definitely key. Some of the HD offerings are better mastered than the original (more dynamic range for example), but when those HD tracks are (properly) converted down to 16-bit 44.1 khz, double blind tests have shown they sound just as good. Here is a good article on the s

Re: [AFMUG] OT - autotune

2018-10-05 Thread Jaime Solorza
Yes sir Chuck Jaime Solorza On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 9:20 AM wrote: > There ain’t quite nothing like an electric guitar plugged into a hot tube > amp. Even the silence has that tiny bit of hum and reverb in it. I like > how tubes color the music. It seems more “live” for some reason. > > *From:*

Re: [AFMUG] OT - autotune

2018-10-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
Interesting, I’m 68 (and people my age are reputed to have ruined our ears at concerts) so my hearing should be shot. But I can definitely hear the difference between Red Book CD and HD FLAC. It all depends on the source material though. The best CDs sound better than the worst or even the

Re: [AFMUG] OT - autotune

2018-10-05 Thread chuck
There ain’t quite nothing like an electric guitar plugged into a hot tube amp. Even the silence has that tiny bit of hum and reverb in it. I like how tubes color the music. It seems more “live” for some reason. From: castarritt Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 9:13 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Sub

Re: [AFMUG] OT - autotune

2018-10-05 Thread castarritt
To be fair, I can see the difference between 1080p/4k/8k with a big enough screen viewed from a close enough difference. I can't hear any difference between 16bit PCM and "high res" audio. Hell, I can't even claim that I'm able to perceive a difference between 16bit lossless and a well-encoded MP