Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] free upgrade for linux LMS users

2016-11-03 Thread Mnyb
tingtong5 wrote: > After noticiting that playing a track for the second time sounds better > then the first time, I did some research You have noticed a known psychoacoustic phenomen . Indeed playing the same thing again can sometimes sound different ,some one else did the reasearch too , but

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] free upgrade for linux LMS users

2016-11-03 Thread DJanGo
tingtong5 wrote: > > > Code: > > > cp $FILE$ /dev/null > > > > > Search for the differences ;D > > Maybe someone else likes to try this as well :-) Hmmm All linux systems that i am aware of didnt allow a user to use /dev/null. That means

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] free upgrade for linux LMS users

2016-11-03 Thread badboygolf16v
tingtong5 wrote: > Maybe someone else likes to try this as well :-) Thanks, but, no thanks... :-) badboygolf16v's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19486 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] free upgrade for linux LMS users

2016-11-03 Thread Apesbrain
Yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and call bullshit on this. Apesbrain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=738 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106375

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] free upgrade for linux LMS users

2016-11-03 Thread Wombat
How can it sound even remotely good when you don't upsample with the use of the latest ULTRA (-u) setting with SoX? VHQ is MidFi at best. Transporter (modded) -> RG142 -> Avantgarde Acoustic based 500VA monoblocks -> Sommer SPK240 -> self-made speakers

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] free upgrade for linux LMS users

2016-11-03 Thread drmatt
You would have to check the system call activity behind this command. You might find that the cp command recognises that its output is invalid and never does the reads from the source file. Secondly note that the kernel will read-ahead when the first byte is read from a file, to the tune of quite

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] free upgrade for linux LMS users

2016-11-03 Thread tingtong5
After noticiting that playing a track for the second time it sounds better then the first time, I did some research. The second time a track plays, its read from the linux OS disk cache instead from disk. This means the track is played from RAM memory instead of from the hard drive that containt