be worse depending on where
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sound good if
they insist on serving 64kbps streams.
Try Pandora or Slacker for somewhat better sound, or a local server
with some high quality rips (mp3 of at least 200kbps or better still,
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'320kbps' in the name... chose one at random and it's playing.
No clue what it is, ETR.FM... but it works fine at 320kbps.
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ERT FM is apparently in Turkey... so no clue at all what they were
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it back.
Think of it this way: if someone totally overdrives a tape and makes it
sound like poop... you can't get that dynamic range back either. The
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. It won't change the clipping at all, though.
You'll just flatline at a lower volume. The flatline will still be
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be an illusion based on the 'zoom' of
the graph.
Zoom out and see if those flatlines go away.
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to be pretty empty.
I frequently confuse my car's transmission with my interconnects.
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Ikabob;546900 Wrote:
Wow. They sure have established a good reputation.
Thanks for the advice.
Google for 'monster cable sues'.
Sad.
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in boutique hifi
shops and while I can always DAC and analog improvements, it's hard to
imagine how there could be significant differences in the digital
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the only analog medium) and you will see
distortion.
It's not even a question of is it audible, it's a question of
implying that analog sources somehow make a magical sine wave with no
distortiona at all, which is plain and simply not true.
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my answer..
This is not true.
If it were, it would be possible to run Windows on an 8008.
Eventually you hit the wall on software optimizations.
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Even my TV has an ARM processor in it (and runs Linux).
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michael123;527539 Wrote:
I see that AK4396 supports up to 192/24.
Isn't the limit of 96/24 artificial?
No, it's a limit of the speed of the CPU.
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Could someone explain to a poor Brit the meaning of the Hip Wader? We
use them primarily for fishing...
Sewer workers wear them, as do farmers with piles of cowdung.
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Unfortunately hip waders are NOT included.
Of course they are included! They are just of such fine quality that
uneducated masses may not be able to appreciate them for what they are!
Of course the Emperor has a fine set of pants!
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right now.
(The bad part of bringing the radio to work is they keep stealing it to
show off cool networking toys. I should get a commission on sales of
the damned thing, but nooo... I just have to have no music for 3
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limited to 64kbps.
that does appear (at least from the webui) to have them both at 64kbps
transcoded.
So, in the case of syncing, it seems to take the lowest common
denominator to keep them synced.
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steveinaz;491976 Wrote:
My name is Steve, been an audiophile since the ripe ol age of 11 (1973)
when I was bit by the bug.
Why does that sound like an intro at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting?
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the whole album then there would be less picking and choosing the
singles off it. CD sales may still suck but -album- sales via physical
and download would go up.
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, the digital outputs will match the encoded
bitstream. This is true to the point that if you pass it a file with
DTS encoding to a DTS-capable decoder, it will light the light to say it
is DTS and decode it properly.
That is plain not possible if the bits changed.
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cliveb;411838 Wrote:
If the placebo effect enhances one's listening pleasure, that's fine:
accept it as a benefit.
But if you can save money by having a cheaper placebo (Those 10gauge
zip cords from Home Depot work great!) then it is even better.
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ModelCitizen;411476 Wrote:
I am blind and S Club 7 sound the best wherever I am.
MC
They sound much better if you are deaf.
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to use additional circuitry at both ends of the wire or
fiber.
Removing those components will certainly affect the DACs ability to
avoid jitter. (And, yes, I know many high end dacs have
jitter-reduction circuits..)
Whether you hear it or not, well, that's another question.
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noise was zero).
There is a lot of fancy junk inside the xbox that makes for more noise
sources and any of that making it to the audio before amplification
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business without annoying others (was it 17khz?
supposedly older people couldnt hear it).. was truly annoying.
I still have reasonably good hearing at the high end, so I am not all
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. It gave me a new respect for the man.
What other 70+ yr old man can hold his own with Henry Rollins?
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marc0716;368290 Wrote:
Qsonix is
Lord, how much is Qsonix paying you to shill their products?
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approves of your
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: it is for the Squeezebox community, and
your shilling is abusing the resources of others.
If you want a state your opinion forum go start one instead of
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Themis;357699 Wrote:
A non audiophile audio enthusiast is a young audio enthusiast. :)
And therefore actuallly still have the hearing to hear subtle
differences.
I always find it amusing that Audiophilia tends to strike males just as
their hearing starts fading.
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care about reality, only the sale.
I wouldn't buy anything from him ever.
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? and using that to infer what the source material is with no
effort at all.
The brain is really scary sometimes at the signals it picks up,
processes, and uses to taint everything, all subconsciously.
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itself.
So you will either need an SBR or a wireless accesspoint/router.
The SBC should be faster than the Nokia or PSP... since it isnt using
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of
the Transporter... If you don't, then perhaps that it is RF not IR
would be a bonus.
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/archive/index.php/t-13677.html) makes
that appear to be a Windows executable.
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but.. mp3's are lossy.
They are going to have artifacts.
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haunyack;240488 Wrote:
To call any member a Nazi is untenable, no matter what the
motivation.
Audio-Nazi is the permutation to use...for those with tender
sensibilties...A.N.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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.
Again, the SB/Transporter doesn't know if something is encoded or not:
it just sends the uncompressed stream on.
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Windows Experience what it is.
They certainly wouldn't silently discard all those reports, would they.
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://packages.debian.org/etch/reportbug)! Debian has
done that since at least 1999. BFD.
I don't see any relevance to the rest of the post either: wtf does have
the right DLL's on your Windows box have to do with the firmware in a
Squeezebox?
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haunyack;224238 Wrote:
I thought (perceived subjectively) the lack of corona effect made the
beer colder.
.
Well, certainly without Corona, beer is better. But it's better
without Bud, too.
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that I could maintain
them without moving my ass from the chair, but, they aren't my doing.
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created an audible pink-noise tone on the analog out? As
a more plausible example, what if it created some EMF that affected the
jitter on the digital path? Again, I am skeptical, but I must concede
the possibility.
If that were so, then DTS etc would not pass through.
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never be more
than 30*50 nodes deep.)
But, yes, given the real world constraints throwing 1G of memory and a
1Ghz CPU and 100W of heat into a music player to solve this is silly.
In the real world, it is a hard problem.
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codes anyway.
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if they
are rotting... I probably have some with pinholes... would be
statistically probable at this point.)
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can dereverse (yes, I made that word up) phase in hardware. No
active components, pure audiophile grade mod!
If you do it on those cables, other sources won't be affected.
Or use the digital outs...
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But all this is very offtopic.
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and doesn't support things like OGG or
Squeezenetwork.
If no one reversed your phase, then ignore the silliness.
I will leave it up to you which solution you wish.
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Did someone mod your SB and reverse the phase? That is the real
question...
And if they did, just un-reverse it at the cables.
(Or use the digital output.)
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seanadams;213636 Wrote:
This is phase, or really _polarity_ he's talking about, not swapped L/R
channels.
Right, so swap red/black (not red/white).
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other than local music.
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omega;212050 Wrote:
If i listen to a hole record the good sound is there all the time.
So the fix is only needed when jumping between tracks
How have you configured ReplayGain?
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the bigger
problem.
That isn't a problem at all. Convert.conf does let you convert based
on destination device type or MAC/IP. It doesn't mention a device type
for transporter, but perhaps my copy is dated. Certainly you could do
it with the MAC ID, though a bit less pretty.
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Ron F.;210103 Wrote:
The next trick is to be able to differentiate between a Transporter and
an SB3 based on MAC filtering.
A quick look at the source makes it seem that 'transporter' as the 3rd
value will work.
(Despite what the comments in convert.conf say.)
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ever decide to compress ( I doubt it), with any format,
It will be converted with the uncompressed wave digital audio, giving
me a piece of mind, nothing would be compromised.(hopefully).
Quality was compromised when you ripped a 44.1Khz file to a 48khz.
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for the processor is not cheap.)
If you want to make up conspiracy theories, at least make up something
that has some grain of truth.
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material is 44.1khz, you are creating data out of thin
air. And even worse, you are adding in effectively rounding errors as
the clock slices change.
CDs are 44.1khz.
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tomjtx;203032 Wrote:
I WAS sleeping with the salesgirl...hm...was she
USING me?
Now there is a business model.
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Phil Leigh;201951 Wrote:
Or see if your dentist offers a Palladium upgrade...
As long as you don't mix it with platinum...
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made money for the
last 30 years.
It is hardly disasterous for smalller artists: smaller artists make
virtually all of their money from live shows.
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And thanks to TD for setting it up.
I wonder how long Sean has had that form lying around waiting for such
a nicely delivered straight line setup.
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except you has encouraged stealing music.
You are not almost everyone.
If you don't want to keep stealing music: don't. Do you really need to
rebuy all your audio hardware in order to stop?
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a painting. Just as you can copyright a
photograph.
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: sorting names and phone number by last name or even by phone
number is not creative. Organizing the same items in a creative
manner, such as denoting relations between companies, however, would be
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Or more likely it is a result of a weak dollar.
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argument little
man?
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Indeed, and the current forever term for copyright is asinine. It
means that there really is no such thing as folk music any more.
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, they will have consultants pay to get
yet-another-Britney album onto the radio.
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be retransmitted. In very very extreme
situations that could mean dropouts, but you have to try to get a cable
that bad.
(Or get a phone guy that doesnt understand twisted pair to make the
cables... gah. Never again.)
Even $8 cables from Walmart are fine.
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that as a compliment: you are too
smart for your own good and your brain is helping you. If it knows
there is a difference, then it will accentuate anything it can to make
it different.
(Sort of a brain-based room-correction thing...)
Why I am glad to be an idiot some days. :)
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likely does: the question is -why- it sounds different when the
only change made is that he knows the source format. That, again,
points to the brain being the reason for the change.)
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gregeas;184457 Wrote:
If only more bands did this...
King Crimson concerts are at http://www.dgmlive.com/ .. recording
quality can vary quite a bit (a few are audience-donated
former-bootlegs) but you can sample them and read comments about the
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there is a definite credibility problem
when the wrong type of RAM is being referred to.
(Ah, the days of Godbout EconoRAM boards... DRAM still annoys me, so
complicated... but modern chipsets make generating refresh easy).
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everything.
Not to mention some of my track names are really really long. Much
easier to mess with in a tag editor than the file system.
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captain-insano;182614 Wrote:
Please tell me I am wrong.
Okay, You Are Wrong.
Anything else you need me to tell you?
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I
I found this to be enlightening and enjoyable, hosted by none other
than Charlton Heston
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323339/
Yes, though it is interesting that it counters some of his earlier work
on evolution in
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/.
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spend $10 and have the same improvement, saving money.
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another 1/4
away from the RF of the amp it is sitting on... then rubber, pine,
plastic or whatever feet would do.
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