exlibris
Responses from exlibris
| A new analog medium I see your point but I didn't want to turn this into another digital vs. analog discussion.I do happen to think that a properly implemented optical analog format would be superior to any optical digital format, however. | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue That is one of the 'frustrations' that I alluded to.I remember dropping $30 to $50 on a few "audiophile" LPs only to find that they sounded awful. | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue I like the sound of LPs but there are just too many things about the format that frustrate me.It is disappointing that Laserdisc didn't catch on. It was certainly the most user-friendly analogue medium and I really think it had the potential to so... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue What many want to argue is that the difference between a good sounding digital front end and a bad sounding one essentially comes down to jitter (jitter in the time domain). In other words, its easy to get all the information off a disc, CD player... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Shadorne,Currently, I do not find differences in DACs to be subtle. I find many DACs to be un-listenable and others to be quite good. Some DACs sound 'confused' while other sound 'right.' When it comes to transports, some sound threadbare and anem... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue I'm just trying to figure out why there is such a huge difference in the sound of various transports. | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue It's odd that something so perfect usually sounds so bad. | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue From the wiki link:"In the same sense that one can correct a curve by interpolating past a gap, a Reed-Solomon code can bridge a series of errors in a block of data to recover the coefficients of the polynomial that drew the original curve." | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Put your CD player on top of your speaker and listen to how wonderful error correction sounds. Using a mathematical algorithm to fill in gaps and help plot a wave by taking 'best guesses' sounds exactly how you'd expect it sound.http://www.iar-80.... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue One of things that I was refering to is the "analog eye pattern". Contrary to popular opinion, tranports take analog information from a CD and 'build' a digital signal. Only then is the digital signal sent to the DAC for conversion back to analog.... | |
| Vinyl to DVD-A 24/96 vs. Redbook Thanks to everyone for their responses. | |
| Vinyl to DVD-A 24/96 vs. Redbook Vegasears,Do you know if the Esoteric DV-50 is capable of outputting a 24/192 digital signal? As I mentioned in an earlier post, I don't want to use the internal DAC of the DVD-A player that is reading the disc. | |
| Vinyl to DVD-A 24/96 vs. Redbook "How do you propose to play a burned DVD-A in a typical car stereo installation or portable radio?"I plan to play the DVD-A through the DAC in my audio system. It can accept a 24/192 signal. I'm currently looking for a 'transport' that can read a ... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Elberoth2,I too am surprised that we don't hear more about MBL.When I started a "reference transport" thread and I assumed that someone would mention the mbl 1621A or 1521A. | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective David,Have you heard a hard drive-based system that sounds as good as a reference-level transport?With all the high frequency switching going on inside a computer and the type of cabling used at the output of the computer, I can't imagine that the... |