Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-07 Thread Mnyb
Julf wrote: 'iZotope vinyl' (https://www.izotope.com/en/products/effects-instruments/vinyl/) Does it simulate the other things like frequency dependent channel separation ,phase variations and a slight acoustic feedback :) The background noise has an interesting feature it has something akin

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-07 Thread Julf
Mike Sargent wrote: I think I'm off to the patent office. 'iZotope vinyl' (https://www.izotope.com/en/products/effects-instruments/vinyl/) To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bob Dylan's Shadows In The Night - when 24-bit HRA isn't!

2015-02-07 Thread Julf
Archimago wrote: It'll be interesting how this gets addressed since it's such a flagrant deficit! I mean, taking the 16-bit file, amplify by 0.1dB in a 24-bit container to make it sound a little louder and better!? Add a little temporal misalignment to we can't directly compare without a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bob Dylan's Shadows In The Night - when 24-bit HRA isn't!

2015-02-07 Thread ralphpnj
Thanks Archimago! Another excellent blog post. I love this comment by Rafael Lino: Your friend should send an email to Qobuz, they will answer or at least see in to that problem. From what I'm told they work with what the sources give to them. The second sentence is exactly the response that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] KEF X300A's and the Squeezebox Radio's output - A good fit?

2015-02-07 Thread Man in a van
Scott Crawford wrote: Hi All, Thanks so much for GREAT suggestions. I really appreciate them. I have been doing as much listening as I can here in Spokane, WA but really I'm limited to a Huppins HiFi store, which also runs OneCall.com and a Guitar Center store. Huppins is the only

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-07 Thread Mike Sargent
Julf wrote: 'iZotope vinyl' (https://www.izotope.com/en/products/effects-instruments/vinyl/) That's what I get for trying to be clever. Build a better mousetrap and nature will build better mice. Mike Mike Sargent's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-07 Thread Archimago
ralphpnj wrote: ... This post got me to thinking about an area where digital audio continues to fall way short of it's vast potential. I'm referring to the lack of hyper-linking within a digital audio music library. For example by this I mean the ability to be listening to Miles Davis'

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-07 Thread pablolie
i still have my turntable in storage, because i have about 10 LPs i didn't digitize yet. i wonder if that procrastination was an excuse to simply keep it. ah the old days. mixing friends a tape would take over the hours, from pristinely played LP to compact cassette. it meant something. but