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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Linx16 by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A littlie D-War: Bidat vs. Lavry Gold in Didital Things  14 Replies 
[quote user="TonyB"]What does Linx16 card do in your tuner recording set up? Do the digital A/D signals only pass through Linx16 or do they get buffered in PC RAM and then go to the Linx16 digital output? Tuner audio sounded very similar directl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #122: New York Sound on WGBH by mats on 2009-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
I am curious how the Lindberg piece came across WGBH last night.Here in Chicago WFMT had the live feed.The results in my home were poor at best.  It seemed my system was completely overwhelmed by what Magnus the Great offered.  I just don't know wher...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: 20th order by twogoodears on 2013-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamamura's 6 ways in Horn-Loaded Speakers  16 Replies 
Yes, maybe the 120 db/octave is THE trick for complex multi-ways systems of highest resolution, yet this barbaric:-) slope can ONLY be achieved by digital domain crossovering... unfortunately, as a satisfied user of TacT RCS 2.2 XP AAA room-corrector...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: Upper bass or lower mids ? by Murataltuev on 2015-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
I understand your recommendation and agree. I need to have upper bass and MF and than see how to merge fundamental channel in between.So, I better postpone experiments with compression drivers and only compare 12" Supravox in two horns: 42Hz 2m long ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Well, the thread title is ideal HORN system... by rowuk on 2019-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The IDEAL horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
I most certainly agree that the entire listening experience has far more factors than just hard and software. If we are talking about „ideal horns“, then this implies some „gear focus“. Of course the hardware is subservient to the attitude, but then ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Firewire by Vasyachkin on 2008-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"][quote user="Telstar"] I meant that the Lynx digital output may retain some noise from the computer, not that you get noise from the onboard soundcard (provided that you have one -You have onboard audio disabled in the bios...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: 10" array; how low? & SMS-1 distortion by jessie.dazzle on 2010-11-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Regarding combined driver diaphragm area for ULF:   Romy wrote:   "...I disagree that using a bunch of 10" drivers is some kind of compromised in way. The six 10” drivers give me a surface of 2.3 18” drivers..."  I recognize the relative and impo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Cats and (Rain)Dogs by Arno P on 2011-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 3.5m Tractrix Horn Project (AKA RAINDOG) in Horn-Loaded Speakers  18 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Arno, I have plenty at my site that describes in great detains why and what I do not like in idea of single driver with back-loaded horn.  Build it and hear what you will be getting. The software you are irrelevant.  There ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: Stand Alone PC for Audio Playback (AudioFile -> Lynx 16 -> Exter... by Max Shatsky on 2006-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Hi,I'm thinking to put up a PC to just play audio files (I'm not interesting in any kind of recording).From the previous  discussions  it seems that a good digital interface can be Lynx AES 16.My first question is about quality. Considering...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: It does work!!! by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
I put a couple small files form today broadcast. Generally I screed it up and I have learned later on that some of the sound cards setting might be better, the recording level at the AD was 8dB less then it should be and as it turned out that I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #121: Custom MOBO. by xandcg on 2017-02-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Now, this subject made me remember (apparently) Supermicro do custom motherboards, even just one.Would be interesting to try a very minimal motherboard with a very low clocked processor, PCIe M.2 support (or even DOM module), RDIMM, and with just a I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Re: Digital - the first dive by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Thanks, jtavan. It was educational. I made some first steps already. I made a slow 233MHz (and presumable it would have lower noise with lower speed) machine with no fans, and a large passive radiator on SPU. Formatted it and loaded Win2K Pro St4. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Higher and higher by steverino on 2011-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It is all about hard surface. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
Romy, As you have noted elsewhere, SACD was originally a multibit high sample rate format. I believe Sony went to one bit for "security" reasons to prevent copying. I didn't think the one bit idea originated with Meitner but came from Sony execs. I t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: BW Broadcast RBRX Encore Re-Broadcast Receiver by dfa2124 on 2017-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: BW Broadcast RBRX Encore Re-Broadcast Receiver in Off Air Audio  3 Replies 
As there was talk on the BW Broadcast RBRX1 receiver here, I thought this might be of interest:I have bought a new DSP-based tuner, and it is unlike any other I have used before. I had sort of distantly lusted after the BW Broadcast RBRX1, but ne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Bypass that sound card! by jessie.dazzle on 2008-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Mani wrote : "...An interesting thing that I have found is that the soundcard changes the data EVEN WITH EVERYTHING SET TO ZERO in its software mixer...I am convinced that the soundcard/interface is the main cause of the inferior performance of HDD v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: Amarra; I'll try it the day afta tomarra by jessie.dazzle on 2009-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Thanks to both of you for your responses; I didn't know of this software. Very intersting... I'm definitly going to download the demo trial and see how it compares. Probably won't get to it before the weekend; I whipped myself into an all-night OCD l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: No RIAA by outopos on 2011-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dubbing LP to digital. in Didital Things  3 Replies 
Hi Romy,I am new to your site. I have read some of your postings (including other sites) with much gusto.For the digital LP recording, I am (was) tempted to do the same, but given the fact that I have absolutely no personal experience in digital audi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Amarra : Supported Audio Formats and $ by jessie.dazzle on 2009-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
In digging through the support section of the Amarra Music Player web page, and finally ending up on the FAQ, http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/faq.html I came upon this :Supported Audio FormatsNOTE: Amarra only supports uncompressed PCM files (AIFF,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #390: I was talking about it many times… by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Petrasescu_Lucian, I perfectly understand your sentiments. There are unquestionable differences in operation between 1050 and 2000 but I do not know if it is the differences due to the topological differences or due to implantation differences...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: Multiplying by zero by N-set on 2017-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Planning my DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  186 Replies 
Anthony, irrespectively of all the extreme acrobatics you are doing with the inner damping and the structural isolation, sound wave hitting your tubescan multiply all your work by zero. As simple as that. Big tubes = big inner structure structure = l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: AardGRIB. by item on 2011-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Any computer does absolute the same level of universality by being a digital file player. My telephone does it but I do not call my telephone a “digital transport”.  Ripping CD it is not what your devise does but the fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: I'm interested by Antonio J. on 2007-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Transfer: The reel-to-reel operas wanted. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
Sure I am!!!! Just tell me where to get those free transfers hahahaha ;-) Unfortunately I don't have interesting dubs from my local broadcasts as yet to share, but hopefully there will be some soon. Maybe in a couple of months, but don't expect great...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Paul R by N-set on 2012-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Turntable speed analysis. in Analog Playback  17 Replies 
Hi Paul! I'm sorry but I simply can't make any sense of what you are asking....Anyway, all the software has been designed by Paul R, I had no contribution here(Paul has contacted me asking for sampel of my EMT when the soft was already done)and is ba...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: .w64 files by Antonio J. on 2008-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ in Didital Things  25 Replies 
Hi Romy,I've downloaded the files, which have the w64 extension. This AFAIK is a propietary Sony's Soundforge format. I've played them with that software, but it won't accept playing using the "bypass" to use only souncard's routines and uses Windows...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #61: CAD software by jessie.dazzle on 2010-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
If not for my current engagement with a race against the clock and the resulting manic situation, I'd offer to do the modeling work for you. As it is, I'm working flat out while symultaneously preparing for a very long-distance move. This situation h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #151: Design and implementation by decoud on 2012-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Here is my suggestion:1. Generate a flat template for an oblique cone, easily done using the free software here: http://www.tyharness.co.uk/cones/cones.htm2. Roll a sheet of black clay, at the required thickness, and cut out the flattened cone shape....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I want to know why! by rowuk on 2014-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 3 things that audio needs. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
I think that we need some standard interfaces on our playback gear to log operating parameters. Temperature, Gm, current, voltage. On loudspeakers maybe temperature/impedance, for digital playback I would like to see jitter, correction, transcoding e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Probably, maybe, yes by jessie.dazzle on 2008-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Romy wrote :"...Are you sure that using the USB you do not use the sound card?..."Not being a certified "Information Technologies" guy, I decided to contact the IT department while here at my day job (I work for an auto maker). Th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Bit-identity by el`Ol on 2008-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The SACD and the Windows Media Player in Didital Things  5 Replies 
Hello Romy!I suspect that Sony intentionally astablished a poor conversion algorithm, as well. I don`t think there more than a hand full SACDs that have a separately recorded/mastered PCM layer, maybe some more that use an other (non-Sony) ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Photographs alter when moved? by item on 2011-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
It's a very novel sensation for me to be arguing that 'bits are bits'! But its very simple to prove categorically that the binary data on the disc is identical to the ripped version.More importantly, where there are errors, they are punctiliar and ra...
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