Ubuntu, nice. With all this exe-stuff I wasn't too sure ...
I'll try the installation on my 18.04 LMS :)
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004 + TMA Premium 905 + TMA Premium 901
+ Teufel Ultima 20 Mk 2 + BK Monolith+ FF + Lenovo T460 + Kodi + Pioneer
PDP-LX5090H
Workshop: iPad 32GB Wifi +
Percival Sweetwater wrote:
> "The RS-232 and IR Input allow integration with home automation systems
> as well."
>
> Hmm, RS-232. That's pretty state of the art!
In fact that does make sense. It's highly unlikely some nodding
audiophile will want to update his home automation system because
Fahzz wrote:
> My problem with the cheap PSU's is the failure rate. I went through
> three of them in a year, and I finally decided to just take the Classic
> offline and went with a Pi device.
>
> When I was looking at options, I came across this, and people who seem
> to know what they are
In any halfway decent car with a halfway decent car stereo, a good
recording will still be more enjoyable than a Loudness War victim. That
kind of treatment is actually aimed at the iPhone (or other smartphone,
just being biased anti-Apple here :p)generation, with their horrible
little earbuds
Mnyb wrote:
> I know you cant hear much distortion down at sub frequency, but
> rattling and port noises and excessive distortion
The only non-musical sound (and I use the term liberally to include
movie sounds) ever produced by my BK Monolith is the rattling of glasses
in the cupboard and one
Mnyb wrote:
> The BK monoliths looks very similar to the REL Ive already have at 1/2
> the price 14 years later .
>
> I will also consider dual subs , this is said to give smoother in room
> response .
That's because BK Electronics used to design and build the REL
subwoofers
slartibartfast wrote:
> These seem to get good reviews.
> https://www.bkelec.com
>
>
> Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk
I personally have a BK sub and wouldn't want to miss it for the world. I
have the Monolith+ FF.
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004 + TMA Premium 905 + TMA Premium
cliveb wrote:
> After everything I've seen emerge about MQA, it's becoming increasingly
> clear that it is a cynical attempt to extract more cash from punters
> through FUD.
>
> The people who have built this system almost certainly know full well
> that it's all a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
>
edwardthern wrote:
> Wrong!
>
> 1) Good cooks don't need to measure 2) Measuring to obtain "DATA" to
> justify food A tasting different than food B is not the same as
> measuring for a recipe...LOL
>
> The scenario you mention ie different amounts of ingredients is more
> equal to comparing
Mike Sargent wrote:
> Right now I'm listening to Joss Stone (sounds great) and my SPL meter
> says I'm only listening at around 75 dB. So that 96 dB (or 110 or
> whatever) dynamic range of CD (ripped to FLAC in this case) is
> unimportant because I'm never going to listen to it loud enough that
ralphpnj wrote:
The author of the article has absolutely no idea what he's writing
about, as evidenced by the following paragraph:
There are just so many things wrong that I don't even know where to
start so instead of wasting my and your time let's just say that the
article is a
Some of the more technically gifted care to chime in?
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2014/12/global-feedback-can-ethernet-cables-make-a-difference/
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004; TMA Premium 905; TMA Premium 901;
BK Monolith+ FF; HDI Dune Smart D1; Pioneer PDP-LX5090H
iPad 32GB Wifi +
andy_c wrote:
One of my favorite posts over there is '_this_one_by_Cookie_Marenco_'
(http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f13-audiophile-downloads/sound-better-uncompressed-downloaded-files-6158/#post70764),
in which she claims that sound quality of music files degrades when sent
by email, and
I won't go as far as fiddling with somebodies home setup, but whenever I
drive someone else's car I can't help but set all tone controls to
zero/neutral, deactivate sound effects and deactivate Loudness :)
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004; TMA Premium 905; TMA Premium 901;
BK Monolith+ FF;
cliveb wrote:
Let's try and be succinct:
1. You have some hi-res files.
2. You have a Receiver, which is limited to 24/48.
3. You have a low-powered server.
This combination is far from ideal.
You have three options to resolve this:
1. Get a faster server.
2. Replace the
My car (Renault Grand Scénic) only sees ± 255 files/folder in ± 255
folders, so I made Mediamonkey create 100 folders (00 - 99) into which
it randomly distributes the songs, artwork removed, converted to 192kB/S
ABR, ReplayGain hardcoded into the files. This works perfectly for my
16GB sticks and
Given the trust I have for Tom's Hardware in general, that's quite a
sobering article :)
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004; TMA Premium 905; TMA Premium 901;
BK Monolith+ FF; HDI Dune Smart D1; Pioneer PDP-LX5090H
iPad 32GB Wifi + Squeezepad (local playback activated)
Acer Iconia Tab A700 +
cliveb wrote:
IMHO he's regurgitated a number of dogmas loosely based on a distorted
understanding of the facts.
And at the end he says he doesn't know why hi-res sounds better than CD,
when he has a trivial method of finding out. All he needs to do is take
one of his beloved hi-res
A maybe oversimplified, but at least halfway decent write-up
http://www.whathifi.com/blog/high-res-audio-the-science-behind-the-numbers
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004; TMA Premium 905; TMA Premium 901;
BK Monolith+ FF; HDI Dune Smart D1; Pioneer PDP-LX5090H
iPad 32GB Wifi + Squeezepad
As I was reading 'this post on metal-fi'
(http://www.metal-fi.com/dynamics-the-numbers-game/) I came across 'this
link on Sound-on-Sound'
(http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/loudness.htm). At first
read it seems a plausible explanation, but can we really all be wrong?
jezbo wrote:
Does your amp have balance tone controls? That's the usual way to
tweak the sound according to room acoustics - something modern amp
designers often forget in the quest for a trendy minimalist design.
It's a Marantz home theater receiver so yes it does. It's got 3
different
Following up from my post
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97881-Community-Funded-Squeezebox-Replacement-Would-you-be-interestedp=745995viewfull=1#post745995)
in another thread, i'd like some advice on room acoustics, an more
specifically, acoustical treatment.
The problem:
bakker_be
Pictures taken from my listening/viewing spot, from left to right. Sorry
for the less than optimal quality, cell phone pictures. No tidying has
been done befor taking them either, as this is the natural state of
the environment ;)
This part is around 3,5m x 5m, 2,2m high, drywall ceiling directly
garym wrote:
of course. Among other reasons, I'm hoping that eventually, perceptual
codecs are good enough that I can create really tiny quality lossy
versions of all my 10,000 CDs, and they all fit on a small chip that is
implanted in my arm. This will work well when I'm in the old folks
Julf wrote:
At that point contemporary popular music will anyway be reduced to the
point where it can all be reduced to a few autotune and drum machine
parameters, so it can be regenerated from a few hundred bytes... :)
Who's talking about contemporary anyway. I don't even listen to much
Archimago wrote:
Yeah, I think the review is generally fair - no audiophile worship of
the awesome 1-bit technology :-). The DAC also looks very nice!
However, I would say that his choice of music would not lend to
demonstrate DSD's superiority at all (in fact, likely quite the
a side by side comparison of redbook DSD, with some quite valid
obsrvations IMO, especially the conclusion :)
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2013/04/auralic-vega-dsd-review/
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trott3r wrote:
Lo,
At 04:35 31/07/2012, Archimago wrote:
cliveb wrote:
Using the word fashion hits the nail on the head. Extreme
compression
and peak limiting is the currently fashionable way to master
recordings.
But as we all know, fashions come and go.
Alas, this
Mnyb wrote:
SNIP ...
The greatest problem as I see it is the market lock in in small
sub-markets with different copyrigths holders .
If one could create a global lossless download system with global
pricing etc ,the market share would be big enough for real business. The
US itself is just
As a European music lover, I mostly object to the so-called
convenience of iTunes or any other service: it's almost impossible for
me to get good music legally + lossless. Quite a lot of the stuff on
hdtracks for instance is interesting to me, but strictly speaking I'm
forbidden to buy it, as I'm
Mnyb wrote:
Sticky, sticky, sticky :P
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Pure Direct, using coaxial digital output of the Touch,
and I'm really happy with the sound I get. Only bad point is a slight
lack of attack, but I think that's mostly due to my being used to near
field listening for too long.
--
bakker_be
http://www.last.fm/user/Bakker_be
Main System: Touch
audiomuze;656348 Wrote:
SNIP your fb2k plugin. SNIP
Just FYI, it's not mine. I just thought I'd pass it along, as the first
version is expired.
--
bakker_be
http://www.last.fm/user/Bakker_be
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004; ' TMA Premium 905'
(http://tmaaudio.com/premium905.html); BK
folder.
Download here: http://www.jokhan.demon.nl/DynamicRange/index.htm
--
bakker_be
http://www.last.fm/user/Bakker_be
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004; ' TMA Premium 905'
(http://tmaaudio.com/premium905.html); BK Monolith+ FF; HDI Dune Smart
D1; Pioneer PDP-LX5090H
iPad 32GB Wifi + Squeezepad
configuration (see attachment
for screenshot), so the Touch should be doing the hard work now if I
understand correctly what was in Soundchecks explanations. I do see
however that on my server there's a FLAC process running.
--
bakker_be
http://www.last.fm/user/Bakker_be
Main System: Touch; Marantz
sample rate.
--
bakker_be
http://www.last.fm/user/Bakker_be
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004; ' TMA Premium 905'
(http://tmaaudio.com/premium905.html); BK Monolith+ FF; HDI Dune Smart
D1; Pioneer PDP-LX5090H
iPad 32GB Wifi + Squeezepad (local playback activated
as Windows
7) and the server is now quite happily woking at full autonegotiation,
allowing my three kids to watch whatever movies they want, while I'm
happily listening to my music :D
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http://www.last.fm/user/Bakker_be
Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004; ' TMA Premium 905'
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