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In this exalted company its probably not up to much but I've not heard anything else demo-ed that makes me want to change. :)Front end: Vista laptop with XXHighend software (best sounding bargain in Hi Fi). Fireface 400 external soundcardDAC/Pre amp:...
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Romy,The only card that seems serious is the Creative Live Drive series. They have the capability of encoding at HDCD sample rates and also have a front panal input / output fascia with many conntrols and buttons to explore and screw up with. I have ...
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[quote user="jtavan"]It looks like you're looking at the right brands for ADC. It seems likely to me that getting proper A/D conversion is as hard as or harder than getting proper D/A conversion. I'm currently shopping for a good A/D converter for a ...
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[quote user="JLH"]Foolishness is too soft a word to describe the unspeakable garbage the Magico Ultimate is. They have mis-matched impedance drivers, improperly sized horns for the drivers, and made everything from metal. Then they go on an attempt t...
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[quote user="cv"]Allo Romy,Do you not think it is time to discuss your "evaluation criteria"? Have we not approached the entire subject backwards for too long? I have to say, on the mechanical side at least (and, particularly, on...
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My first choice would be a Sony SACD recorder with storage in SACD format. Quite expensive, but I would not use an expensive Sony playback device. Their early models (still available new on ebay) were designed to show how much better than regular CD ...
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As you know currently there are two opposite camps regarding digital sound reproduction: one is the non oversampling filterless camp, the other is the over- and upsampling + filter camp. There are as many followers of the NO as the over- and upsampli...
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....and particularly for us - the software freaks, for whom the word “Dim” has an "added value"…. Sure I will keep informing how it goes…
The Scan-Speak’s SD-1 “smartly overhang” motors are very interesting and if your 18W is made around the S...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"].....There is a danger, when talking in elaborate language about audio equipment, that the sound quality of the software, a component or a system might be perceived as being somehow beyond or better than that...
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i definitely see what you're saying there.. but i do wonder if it has more to do with the economics and the powers that be than a full on case of negligence. most sound engineers-- or at least those i've known (and not the bastard species of fa...
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Here we go. One more person got hooked on FM and “get” where the real high-end lives… If you live in Chicago then try to develop some connections and get assess to folks who have WFMT-FM sound-check tapes form the WFMT’ past. 20-35 years ago WFMT-FM ...
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[quote user="Max Shatsky"] You say that the digital read from your transport is better than the multiple reads of CD-Rom with EAC software? Thats interesting!!! [/quote]
Well, tell me dive you data and you make your own concussions. I read CDs...
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[i]"because I
"foresaw" that it would take a personally-developed 5-way system with
dedicated amps not only to optimize this approach, but it would take
about that just to overcome what I did/do not like about horns"[/i]I tend to think it's more w...
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The initials post was the body of email that Kostas sent to me and considering it’s format he presumed that I will me post it on my site. So, I did it (with his permission). I ran all those tracks once (some of them just a few seconds) and below is v...
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Ron, if I may, then as a software engineer, I would pass some criticisms regarding to what you do. It is fine that you are soliciting sponsors but I do not think that sponsors get anything for their sponsoring. The taglines that sponsors allow to...
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Hello BE,Quotes from BE in blue :A tractrix and a exponential horn was compared in a AES paper sometime 1950-1970, I dont remember when exactly.
Does anyone know where I might get a look at this paper?The two round and straight horns where mad...
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OK, now it looks like that I finally finalized my first experimental draft of FM recoding setup. The AD122, outputting the 24/96 stream, into PC’s uncompressed WAV files via Lynx 16 interface. For the time being I decide to use the DA924 as D/A. With...
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I've been searching the net looking for some music cataloguing software that allows as much as possible of the following features:- It can look for CD data online avoiding extensive typing of information. I know, there's no such thing for L...
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Ok, how to start. First of all we have to understand that out subject of attention will be a region between approximately 80Hz and 500Hz or something that shape the fundamentals of the “melody range” within your playback. Search my site I have writte...
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speaking for myself of course I am not in agreement with that. I have hundreds of records and the one mentioned seemed the outstanding example. May that be as it is, and getting back to your cooking and apples, the one example mentioned is one VERY s...
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Romy, you may recall that I observed a similar phenomenon: "What I've noticed in the past is an HF 'halo' around instruments and voices which is absent in Master mode. It's not unpleasant, but I find it distracting. As a result, Master mode certainly...
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I am sorry Bob, I do not understand it. What DVD-A has to with anything. You can’t burn “DVD-A without allowing the DVD-A creation programs to alter its audio contents”. You can copy the WAW file to DVD but as soon you use DVD-A format then the file ...
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DOT*SYSTEM,
Why you burned raw files to DVD-A? By doing this you have killed over 50% of sound. Who need any post-processing software? Come on, I am taking about only row files that come right after an A/D processor. If a file was once re-sa...
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You might check out the following website for a relatively easy to use and free RTA program for your computer. The site also has an active forum that can help get you up to speed with respect to getting the software working, mic sorted, and your init...
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Following on from my last two posts, I finally managed to try the Model Two in AD mode. With the Model Two set to 24/4fs and wordclock master, I cannot discern a difference between the source and the source passing through the Model Twos AD/DA. Furth...
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Hello , Ive just came across this site , Im an audiophile from Chile . So I decided to join and learn from here . Sorry if my future posts doesnt make sense 100% , it will be because English is not my first language, so youre warned . :-)My last audi...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]From this and from the mention of 3/4" plywood, I deduce that the "curved" walls of these horns will likely be described by a series of facets (flat planes). It is said to be okay at these frequencies; this must assume a p...
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[quote user="joaco"] Romy ; One question for you ; Does the pure power unit raise its temperature (gets hot) when youre using it ? or is it always cold ? I do not know what kind of IC they are using but I suspect they are "new generation ones??" I wa...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Lx, this is very interesting. At the initial picture I posted you do can clearly see the difference in dynamic range. When I did what you did and went to higher resolution then you are right - the difference disappears. Dos...
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What is interesting is that Bruckner harmonies impact the way how I think about Bruckner Sound.
Sometime I have an itch for some music. It is very unpredictable and in way remands the craving s of a pregnant woman. It might be anything, from a...
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