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| It's all local now If I remember correctly The Beatles started in 1962 but got really popular in 1964. Last concert was two years later and since then the best material was released in the studio only - no chance to listen to most of great records at the concert (st... | |
| WAV vs. FLAC vs. AIFF Steve, I don't understand why SSD could be better. Music data on HD does not contain timing information. As for transfer rate required (1.4Mb/s for 16/44.1) it is a tiny fraction of the slowest HD interface. Also, compressed files would transfer a... | |
| Can the copy sound better than the original? Ths364 - It can be also, that many ripping programs like EAC or MAX go many times over the same sector until they obtain proper checksum. CDP cannot do that, working in real time, (at least most of them) and interpolates missing samples. That way ... | |
| Best product/way to clean CD laser lens? I use ALLSOP ULTRA PROLENS CLEANER (CD with micro brushes) andMAXELL Blu-ray Lens Cleaner (Wind Funnel - touchless)Maxell has hole in CD that creates wind blowing dust off the lens without touching it. When it is not enough I use ALLSOP. | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has I'd like to make a comment about Jimmy. I do not consider him a best guitarist (many better before and after) but I admire raw power and explosiveness he delivered. I like HIS music, guitar playing, singing - whole package. Please do not classify ... | |
| Music Server- SSD drives Luc, Music stored on hard drive has no timing - only data. As long as interface is faster than required data rate it will be OK. Data rate required for standard 16/44.1 CD is 1.4Mb/s while USB 2.0 is running at about 240Mb/s (wasting about 50% of ... | |
| Are Headphone amps worth the expense? Lacee,I agree. According to John Siau (technical director of Benchmark) headphones are the only way to accurately reproduce a piano - an instrument with very complex harmonic structure. Speakers' Xover screws up this complexity thus timbre. On the... | |
| Mac Mini vs. CDP? Robbob - I tunes does not rip bit perfect - even with error correction on. Use program like MAX (free) with "do not allow to skip" option set ON. It refuses or takes very long time (reading same sector multiple times until right checksum is obtain... | |
| Jitter and 75ohm cable length Thank you Al, and thanks for the links especially the second one. I suspect that balanced cable might be superior in noise rejection simply because of common mode rejection on the receiver side but also because wires are twisted what might be supe... | |
| Jitter and 75ohm cable length Magfan, CD data stream is asynchronous. It is also jittery because of less than perfect CD printing and reading plus quality of the transport and system noise. What is needed to reduce jitter is either to create stable clock for D/A converter base... | |
| Jitter and 75ohm cable length Let me add to Al's great post. As he stated, typical transport has transition times in order of 25ns. Threshold resides most likely at the half of that - 12.5ns while impedance boundary, that causes reflection will reside on the other end of the c... | |
| Jitter and 75ohm cable length Rpg,Jitter is basically a noise in time domain. Applied to one frequency it creates sidebands at very low levels. In spite of low levels (less than -65dB) sidebands are audible being not harmonically related to root frequency. Now, take whole bunc... | |
| Jitter and 75ohm cable length "The Stereophile test showed it to be awful."Not exactly. High jitter appears on analog outputs only. Digital is about 10x better (258ps vs 2400ps) and that's what Stereophile stated:"The noise floor has dropped by 45dB, the word-clock jitter to ... | |
| external drive for mac mini My Mac Mini internal DVD drive needs laser cleaning about once a year. 10 seconds job with cleaning CD and no problems for a year. You can also replace internal drive.External "rock solid drive" might use exactly the same (or not better) drive ins... | |
| Top 10 Snafus to avoid when building a good rig Avoid not having enough money! |