kijanki
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| Playback Designs MPS-5 - Measerments v. Sound Michael - Certain measurement such as noise or jitter are important but spects might be useless. I would not buy , for instance, an amp on specifications alone and would tend to pick for audition one that has poor measurements.SACD - is one bit PW... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Jabo - Not only they did't fall in love with Chinese people enough to sell them DVDs below cost but they admitted small profit at $1.25 Let me be generous, in spite of such admission, and agree that $3 is the price in China. What the heck - lets m... | |
| If I am buying a DAC, does my CD player matter? There are two types of DACs: asynchronous upsampling jitter rejecting and non-upsampling (oversampling and non-oversampling). In first case (Dacs like Benchmark DAC1) transport doesn't matter (huge jitter rejection) and anything will do (I use ser... | |
| airport express questions Jax2 - Itunes is not the best choice for ripping, I agree. I also agree that numbers published by Stereophile or other magazines are meaningless. I would even say that best tested devices have often the worst sound (there are reasons for that).Ste... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? No Jaybo - They sell originall DVDs for $2 there. That what regional code was for. In 2006 Time Warner was selling DVDs for 10 yuan ($1.25) while Twentieth Century Fox was planning to sell DVDs for 20-25 yuan (about $3). Both companies admitted th... | |
| airport express questions Jax2 - Stereophile tested digital output of Airptort Express and compared to original uncompressed file they sent from I tunes and they are bit for bit identical with 255ps of word jitter.APLC does not reduce quality of MP3. There is no missing bi... | |
| airport express questions "but it will always sound like mp3, those compressed/dropped out bits are gone forever." - I agree. | |
| playing cdr's You might have:- dirty lens (buy cleaning CD)- poor CD-rs (get Taiyo Yuden here: http://www.supermediastore.com/product/u/taiyo-yuden-52x-cd-r-silver-thermal-printable-value-line-100-pack?max=15&offset=0)Taiyo Yuden invented CD-R. | |
| Buy LED, LCD or Plasma I'm going to put TV over fireplace as well when current (since 2000) DLP TV dies. I don't care much for plasma. It looks worse (losing contrast) in bright light than LCD, has horrible reflections, is prone to etching a pattern (sidebars) effect an... | |
| airport express questions Rbstehno If you take Jpeg and convert it to compressed TIFF(G3) and uncompress it later you won't get jpeg anymore but much larger file. That's exactly what is happening with MP3. In order to be compressed into APLL it has to be decompressed first... | |
| pc vs mac, eac vs itunes Sufentanil Raid level 0 (stripping mode) can and is often used with two drives to increase performance. My Dell computer at work is set at this mode and I used to have home built computer that had two drives in stripping mode. Striping increases s... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Jabo - it is probably penny difference. They sell us same DVDs for $20 that they sell in China for $2. In order to protect their insane profits they forced DVD player makers to play only one region (otherwise somebody would export DVDs from China ... | |
| airport express questions Robr45 - That's what I meant, except I don't thing it goes back to MP3. If you start with MP3, for instance, Apple Lossles Compressor will uncompress it to some temporary format to compress again into APLL and then on receiving end it uncompresses... | |
| pc vs mac, eac vs itunes Acurus - If I remember correctly EAC reads offending sector up to 16 times and picks better 8. MAX (free application) uses CDParanoia error correction algorithm (reading CD as data CD) with option to specify number of attempts or set it to "no ski... | |
| airport express questions Realremo - I think that Airport Express receives files in Apple Losless format. Keeping files stored in Apple Losless makes one conversion less. |