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| Classification of Benz Micro cartridges They cover a wide price range - from $250 to $5,000 with 8 price points. Like the vast majority of companies with a wide product range, they change part of the line at a time. In doing so, they end up with mixed technologies across the line. Compa... | |
| Classification of Benz Micro cartridges Looking into this a little more, I think the new Wood S H, S M and S L are the new S design whereas the Ebony H/L/TR are an older design. So, I think there is more than just a wood change between the Ebony and Wood lines. But is hard to figure out... | |
| Classification of Benz Micro cartridges The Ebony H and the Wood S H have the same internal ohms and output voltage, but the internal ohms and the output voltage of the Wood S L and Wood S M are quite different than for the Ebony TR and Ebony M. Could the wood account for those differen... | |
| Simple iTunes Question Neal - there are 2 pieces that you might be moving. There is a folder (iTunes Music folder) that contains the songs, There is also a file (iTunes Library) and some other associated files that contain information about the songs and your settings. ... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Jax2 - Have you compared the same tracks from a CD player to the same DAC you are using for iTunes? I found that on my system, there is little difference. Once I got to the state of being as good as my CD player, I have sort of stopped until I can... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Last night, I finally got to compare ALAC files ripped with EAC and iTunes - used test and copy to generate the EAC wave files and used error correction with iTunes (V 8.0.2.20). I used iTunes to convert wave to ALAC. My wife(she has better ears t... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Pop Pop is a fun CD. Still need to do some critical listening. I was aware of the Norma Winstone CD since it was nominated for a Grammy, along with Karrin Allyson's Imagina and Stacey Kent's Breakfast on the Morning Train, two vocalists that I rea... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Jax2 - I have been wanting to get Pop Pop for a while so this seemed like a good time. A lot of the music I listen to (50s/60s jazz and female jazz vocalist) often does not have great sound stage, so I thought I would eliminate that variable and g... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? The process that Apple lossless uses to "compress" the file reduces the file size but not not delete any data. Think of it like a ZIP file, which reduces the size of a file but when upzipped the data is exactly the same as you started. Apples loss... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Peter_s and Steve - I would like to understand just what extra information is in an ALAC file that degrades its sound. Any explanation or references to this? I know that this is a proprietary format, but if the claim is that there is some extra da... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Steve - I do not believe a 24-bit file and a 16-bit file would compare exactly. The extra 8 bits per sample have to be stored somewhere. So I am not sure what you mean by this.Can someone do a bit compare on the Apple lossless files and see how di... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Interesting observations. Sidssp - Did you try ripping the tracks that sounded different on the burned CDs and comparing them to each other and to the original ripped tracks? It would be interesting to see if the bits are different. If so, then th... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? If those of you who think that Apple lossless and wav files sound different I would suggest the following - rip the wav file with one ripper and the Apple lossless with iTunes. Then convert the Apple lossless to wav and compare the files bit for b... | |
| SonusFaber GrandPiano Center Speakers Here is an short review of the older center. It references a previous version also. Not a lot of details but it does confirm the vintage - depending on whether it is this one or the previous one. But we are looking 2000 or before. The Home series ... | |
| SonusFaber GrandPiano Center Speakers I agre with Ryder. The Solo Home center is very musical and does well for voices. Just not very punchy. The series before the Home series was bi-wireable so I assume that the center on e-bay (which it says is bi-wireable) is part of that series. I... |