kijanki
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| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Albertporter - you are probably right - I would pay more than $30 if for many recordings but not for some of the popular music - classical and jazz hits last longer. It takes marketing campain and often break-even prices to establish and populariz... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Learsfool - could you clarify how do you know that digital processing cuts frequencies around 20kHz? I run test frequencies at different levels from standard CD and 20kHz is present at about 0dB (in relation to 1kHz level). | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Albertporter - I'm sorry for my sharp response and my words toward you. We both feel the same dissapointment.Maybe lack of better digital media is related to quite large number of audiophiles claiming that they will never buy digital or the greed ... | |
| Your fast is your amp f rom 0-60 .? Philjolet - it depends what kind of semiconductor is limiting slew rate of an amp. If it's bipolar transistor it will gest faster with temperarture - opposite for MOS. | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Newbee - I did say that 44kHz sampling, and not a CD, is a joke. I still enjoy the music on CD and practicallity of it. I remember seeing similar threads on SS amps lacking the soul compare to tube gear. | |
| 20 bit players vs. 24 bit players Ehider - All 24-bit DAC are sigma-delta. Traditional architecture reaches only 18 maybe 20 bit. There are many reasons for that and one of them is immunity of sigma-delta converters to power supply noise. Sound of these converters is quite differe... | |
| Help -- need Idiot's Guide to music server system Martykl - I ended up with Benchmark as well. A little unforgiving with class D amp and inexpensive speakers (that I intend to replace). New releases are often better and some of them have surprisingly rounded sound. Sadly many recording engineers ... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Albertporter - "You're missing the point completely" - I'm not sure what point it is since you use a lot of words with just one conclusion that current CD format is not as good as LP. I never said it is, and there is no need to jump at me such unp... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Mapman - Good question. I don't think they know how to handle it yet. They shot themselfs in the foot keeping high prices and poor recording quality of CDs and sales are down (empty stores). They also loose a lot of money on stuff being illegally ... | |
| Need recommendation for new CD/SACD player Jlc76 - Sounds good. SACD players reviewed by Stereophile had pretty poor redbook performance. There are other formats on the horizon. Some artists (Neil Young, Mellencap) are pushing new format CODE. It is 24bit/96kHz 2 channel recording on DVD m... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Albertporter - I agree. CD sampling rate of 44kHz is a joke but it has nothing to do with being analog or digital. Imagine fast internet downloads in true 24bits/192kHz (around the corner). Would analog made from this material still be better? Som... | |
| Need recommendation for new CD/SACD player Jlc76 - using external DAC for SACD doesn't sound like a good plan. You will loose quality on translation to PCM, but if you decide to go that route anyway remember that for some DACs like Benchmark DAC1 quality of the transport does not make any ... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? And the LPs are made from digital master - that's funny... | |
| Help -- need Idiot's Guide to music server system Slikric - Wav is not lossless (much less lessloss) . It is not compressed format. Try to run coax to DAC instead of pre and sound might be a little better.Jhold - music server doesn't do anything different from CD player. Music is stored on hard d... | |
| Your fast is your amp f rom 0-60 .? Aball - my class D amp (Rowland 102) does not even have heatsink, just small dissipation pads on PCB. Very low heat and very low mass = very short time to equilibrium. Mosfet is not so senistive to temperature but like every Mos structure it gets ... |