On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:31:56PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
If you're going for a USB DAC, how about this one:
http://www.usbdacs.com/
:drooling: ...
I own one of those...
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Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:40:33PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote:
Equipment:
Adcom GTP-450 Tuner
Adcom
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:40:33PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote:
Equipment:
Adcom GTP-450 Tuner
Adcom GCD-700 CDcarousel/player
Adcom GFA-5000 dual audio amp
Vandersteen Model 2
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote:
I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my
recommendaion.
What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated
listening space or is this for
On Fri,16.Oct.09, 13:50:04, Paul E Condon wrote:
electronics store. I have never seen balanced output of stereo audio
in a single jack on a computer. (An example of RC time constant
I definitely recall reading about sound cards with balanced outputs.
M-Audio would be a good start...
On Oct 17, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,16.Oct.09, 13:50:04, Paul E Condon wrote:
electronics store. I have never seen balanced output of stereo audio
in a single jack on a computer. (An example of RC time constant
I definitely recall reading about sound cards with
On 20091017_071352, ghe wrote:
On Oct 17, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,16.Oct.09, 13:50:04, Paul E Condon wrote:
electronics store. I have never seen balanced output of stereo audio
in a single jack on a computer. (An example of RC time constant
I definitely recall
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
I have been out of touch with the high-end audio world since I bought
this system. I had never heard of Pass Labs until you mentioned them
in your email. Wikipedia puts them in the class where Adcom was when I
bought. I don't want
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
So far the responses that I have gotten comfirm without a doubt that
what I was told by the sales person in Best Buy is not at all the
whole story. There is *a lot* more to the solution than just buying an
adapter cable. Mention of
On 20091016_083137, Rob Owens wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
So far the responses that I have gotten comfirm without a doubt that
what I was told by the sales person in Best Buy is not at all the
whole story. There is *a lot* more to the solution than
On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Paul E Condon wrote:
Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly
the high freq. part of the signal.
Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway.
Use the hardware Deutsche Grammophone, etc. use -- your recordings
aren't going
Glenn writes:
Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly
the high freq. part of the signal.
Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't.
Not any impedance if it is terminated.
Not at 100' anyway.
Right. You can't hear 1Mhz.
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On 20091016_115141, ghe wrote:
On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Paul E Condon wrote:
Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly
the high freq. part of the signal.
Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway.
Use the hardware Deutsche Grammophone, etc. use
On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:
Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly
the high freq. part of the signal.
Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway.
Impedance and balance are two different things. Impedance only becomes
an issue
On 20091016_151335, ghe wrote:
On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:
Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly
the high freq. part of the signal.
Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway.
Impedance and balance are two different things.
I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my
recommendaion.
What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated
listening space or is this for casual listening when doing other
things, i.e., are we talking JVC or Pass Labs?
How important is it that the
On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote:
I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my
recommendaion.
What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated
listening space or is this for casual listening when doing other
things, i.e., are we talking JVC or
H.S. wrote:
Rob Owens wrote:
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently
most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality).
YMMV.
I use *professional* grade sound cards,
steef wrote:
H.S. wrote:
Not sure if this is professional grade, but I have used M-audio 2496
(http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496.html). It has
worked like a charm. Used it for live music recording and also for
playback via a mixer. The system is Ubuntu based, but should
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Monday 05 October 2009 13:20:14 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or
fixed-point), stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC.
What's the difference between
H.S. wrote:
steef wrote:
er ... looks like your query was directed at me.
The M-audio 2496, as far as I recall, worked out of the box with alsa on
Ubuntu (since Gutsy, did it have 2.6.24 kernel). So I would expect it to
work out of the box on any typical Debian desktop computer
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:53:21PM -0700, Mark wrote:
Rob wrote:
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Since you care about the sound quality, I'd recommend encoding with
flac. That's lossless, so there is no sound quality difference between
flac-encoded music and music straight from the CD.Forget about mp3.
It
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM:
When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the
music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of party mode where I want
the same thing playing in several rooms of
Rob Owens put forth on 10/8/2009 5:28 PM:
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM:
When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the
music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of party mode where I want
the
Well, I've certainly received many useful comments from first
responders. The situation is, indeed, more complicated than the guy
in the electronics store claimed.
I can't say my problem is 'solved'. I now know that I have a lot of
research and deciding to do. But I now have a solid starting
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:18:10AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
Now, it is quite feasible to store my entire CD collection on hard
disk, even without compression, and all computers have audio
output. But what is the audio quality of the analog sound signal? I
went to the local Best Buy store
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently
most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality).
YMMV.
I use *professional* grade sound cards, because I like good sound quality.
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:35:05PM -0700, Mark wrote:
I have been mulling over the same kinds of problems for some time
also. Noone in this thread has yet mentioned the Logitech Slingbox:
Rob Owens wrote:
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently
most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality).
YMMV.
I use *professional* grade sound cards, because I like good
Rob Owens wrote:
Vorbis and mp3 are lossy, which means that they approximate the sound
on the original recording. Kinda like zip compression that doesn't
exactly reproduce what you compressed. Flac is lossless.
Somebody mentioned wav format. As far as I know, wav doesn't hold meta
Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM:
When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the
music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of party mode where I want
the same thing playing in several rooms of the house.
Depends on your distance to each loudspeaker. Sound
Rob wrote:
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Since you care about the sound quality, I'd recommend encoding with
flac. That's lossless, so there is no sound quality difference between
flac-encoded music and music straight from the CD.Forget about mp3.
It sounds horrible, in my opinion. High pitch sounds like cymbals
Stan wrote:
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The cheapest solution by far is to use your current PC, and have a
contractor come in and run an in wall digital optical cable from the
room your PC is in to the room your A/V receiver is in. Plug a Toslink
patch cable from the wall to the PC, and from the wall to the A/V
Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound
system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers
are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a
really heavy power amplifier box. Because of the solid-state
internals, it has worked without
On Monday 05 October 2009 12:18:10 Paul E Condon wrote:
one's computer to one's home sound system, and showed me a short cable
that they have for sale that has a triaxial plug on one end and two
RCA jacks on the other and assured me that this was what he used at
home and that this was all that
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Paul E Condon wrote:
Now, it is quite feasible to store my entire CD collection on hard
disk, even without compression, and all computers have audio
output. But what is the audio quality of the analog sound signal?
It depends on the quality of
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or fixed-point),
stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC.
What's the difference between 16-bit floating-point and 16-bit
fixed-point? I always thought those are just
On Monday 05 October 2009 13:20:14 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or
fixed-point), stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC.
What's the difference between 16-bit floating-point and 16-bit
fixed-point? I always
Paul E Condon wrote:
I don't want to just hook it up and listen, because the cable run from
where I have computers to where I have my hi-fi is ~100ft and that
distance precludes listening to different CD copies on HD in quick
succession. And maybe it really is a good way to go, but my test
Paul E Condon wrote:
good sound system to play my CDs.
store my entire CD collection on hard disk, even without compression,
and all computers have audio output.
the cable run from where I have computers to where I have my hi-fi is ~100ft
Have you considered building a media center/ home
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:18:10AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound
system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers
are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a
really heavy power amplifier
I have been mulling over the same kinds of problems for some time
also. Noone in this thread has yet mentioned the Logitech Slingbox:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/wireless_music_systems/cl=us,enhttp://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/wireless_music_systems/cl=us,en
Paul E Condon put forth on 10/5/2009 12:18 PM:
Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound
system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers
are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a
really heavy power amplifier box. Because of
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