philchillbill wrote:
> Are your Word documents any different if you load them from a Samsung
> SSD vs a SanDisk USB Stick? :rolleyes:
I don't care enough to find it right now, but somewhere out there is A
Very Serious Article wherein someone claims audible differences
depending on the brand
Apesbrain wrote:
> If you've seen the inside of the NAD, you'd know it's more than a RPi in
> a box.
For some reason, I find that weirdly comforting. I guess I'm happy that
that they aren't quite THAT dishonest.
Apesbrain wrote:
> What they were thinking offering -any- gear at that price
http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=NAM502
"The hardware of the M50.2 includes the latest generation of low power,
super high performance ARM processors. These have more computing power
than a PC from just a few years ago, yet rthey un cool and do not
require noisy fans."
Would I
Mnyb wrote:
> That's solvable for RG tags simply don't have them in these files that
> fixes it for LMS where you can turn of this completely.
Yes, in LMS it's not a problem at all. I use RG on PCM and not on DTS or
AC-3 and life is good. I was just commenting that I'd be irked if Roon
Julf wrote:
> Considering DSD might have been a good idea in the 90's, we might now
> let it rest in peace...
I don't really care one way or the other about DSD, I just like discrete
surround music and much of that is only available as DSD. It's on my
mind more at the moment because I'm ripping
ralphpnj wrote:
> 1) is the replaygain defeatable since I don't use it nor do I intend to
> use it any time soon.
It would be a disaster for those of us with lots of DTS and AC-3 in our
libraries, too.
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pablolie wrote:
> ... Let me also state, I would so hope that, over the next years,
> someone picks up a next gen SB development... In my dreams, I envision
> an SB OLED Touch v2 that offers...
>
> - HDMI output to send liner notes to TV
And HDMI to output gapless 5.1 FLAC and DSD!
ralphpnj wrote:
> About the worst effect that audiophile silliness has had in the consumer
> audio marketplace is the sales of Monster cables (all the other high end
> audio cable manufacturers have no presence in the consumer audio
> marketplace) and surge protectors.
I used to have my doubts
ralphpnj wrote:
>
> If I sound overly pessimistic it's because the history mankind has shown
> mankind to be really, really good at two things:
>
> 1) killing each other
>
> 2) turning abundance into scarcity
3) Making babies at a rate that provides fuel for 1) and exacerbates 2).
Archimago wrote:
The Sony PS-X series with Biotracer arms are nice machines! I was
looking for one locally last year but couldn't find any in good shape
:(.
I was a KID when I bought that thing...it's got to be 35 years ago now.
It spent significant time in the shop after a few years but
Pascal Hibon wrote:
I can only say that my vinyl rips (recorded with my TC interface and
Ableton) sound exactly the same as the vinyl. That is, as long as I
didn't run it through 'clickrepair' (http://www.clickrepair.net/), which
I only use when the record has a lot of pops and clicks. But I
d6jg wrote:
I must have started in about 2009. The initial results were indeed iffy.
Largely due to the PCs onboard soundcard. When I moved to USB soundcard
the results improved massively.
I've noticed noise at the analog output even on a relatively new
computer. I solved that with a cheap
I'm curious if anyone has compared recordings made via their computers
with something along the lines of a Roland R-05. My first attempts at
digitizing were done in 1998 using a computer and were disastrous...too
many dropped samples. I know that things have improved dramatically
since then,
ralphpnj wrote:
Gary I believe that you are correct and that is my understanding of the
label pre-FM in that it was a live recording made for FM broadcast but
the pre-FM version is one that is taken from the broadcast source
(either a direct soundboard feed or a tape made from the
Gandhi wrote:
DETECTION
dBpoweramp
CueTools can also detect pre-emphasis.
Just to make it more confusing, the flag can be (IIRC) in either the TOC
or subcode. dBpoweramp and EAC detect one but not the other.
I've got a Japanese black label pressing of The Dark Side of the Moon
(one of
Wombat wrote:
Unfortunately using higher compression adds slightly more stress on the
Transporter that was imho false advertised. On a PC the small increase
in decoding is hardly measurable but for the CPU and its decoder code
with the Transporter it is on the edge.
This was also an issue
pablolie wrote:
i wonder if it's legal to start a public library of art cover and
booklets, or if music companies would come after it.
http://www.albumartexchange.com - just covers and no booklets, though.
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I've got a dedicated computer in the living room that I turn on when I
want to play multichannel DVD-A rips. Since I'm running Windows, I also
have to keep the monitor on. Definitely not optimal, but I have yet to
hear of any other way to do it that works as reliably.
As for encapsulating DTS
ralphpnj wrote:
I believe that in my previous post (#10 above) I outlined why I don't
think that multi-channel audio (and to a lesser extent, video) is at the
present time basically useless.
And that's fine, you don't have to like multichannel music (or anything
else, for that matter). But
ralphpnj wrote:
Look I'm not trying to start some kind of flame war but I really, really
think that you should actually read my entire post before you reply.
It was not and is not my intent to single you out. I'm simply
expressing consternation that a relatively straightforward question
Mnyb wrote:
I really loved the underestimated feature of discrete 6ch uncompressed
music . That was the real deal with SACD or DVDA 2ch of the same master
would sound exactly the same as 16/44.1 or 24/192 but the multichannel
was something else .
Totally agree. It's the only feature I
pablolie wrote:
Integrity is relative. There are always corner cases where checksums
will not be able to ensure it entirely (sorry to worry you). best
practice, as always - early backups, ongoing integrity checks. ripping
is such a brutal process... never ever want to do it again.
Yes,
pablolie wrote:
example: waltz for debby by bill evans. brilliant. one of favorite
albums of all time. no way i can tell the difference between my original
CD, which i ripped to both 320k MP3 and FLAC (and both sound the same),
and the new remastered 24bit 192k version, which is just a bit
probedb wrote:
For example, try and get any 'audiophile' to accept that a FiiO D03K
could possibly be any good because it's so cheap :) They'd rather pay
£1k on something that does the same job.
I just learned about that a couple weeks ago! Have built a Wandboard
player/LMS for a friend
desertrat58 wrote:
$1049. Logitech has balls. After what they did with SD, I will never buy
another Logitech product. Although I hope the ones I currently own last
forever...
Actually, with an extra 10% off offer, the SE would be about $945. Still
about 2x too much for consideration...
as a Squeezebox would be most welcome, partly
for the reliability and partly for the ability to maintain a single
library with both standard and multichannel music.
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, would respect the channel mapping tag so 4.0 and 4.1 material
would output properly.
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anything, that's being done by
your processor. A multichannel FLAC will require more thought on the
part of the HDX-1000. Still, you've got me curious...
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it. (Currently thinking of
Zanz Kant Dance and tons of censored Disney material.)
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a better job of compressing data that's the
same in both channels.
Or at least this was true when I was doing some quick 'n' dirty tests a
year or so back.
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that would decode the
quad from a line-level input.
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paranoid?
7.3.2 plays DTS and AC-3 files without trouble in my setup, which tells
me it's serving up the bits accurately and unchanged.
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OK, maybe this is a dumb question, but wouldn't attempting to play back
a DTS track be a pretty good test of whether or not the signal is being
degraded or fussed with somewhere along the line?
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, it's not doing *anything* to the sound.
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of the Rolling Stones titles when they first
appeared...I popped in Let it Bleed and was amazed at how great it
sounded...then switched to the redbook layer and thought it sounded
just as good. Even fully *expecting* the SACD to sound dramatically
better, it just didn't to my ears.
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was just one of several things I [re]moved. The Windows
box is happier, SqueezeCenter (and the two Squeezeboxes) are happier,
and I'm happier.
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