kijanki
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| When is digital going to get the soul of music? It's very strange that audio is so difficult to reproduce in digital. We are able to make beautiful real like HDTV but not the perfect audio. I suspect that in the future audio DACs will become so complicated (sound processors) only designers will... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Mapman - I looked into DCs Ring Dacs to see how they get more detail thru dithering and found out that they don't. Addition of noise in not intentional - it's just byproduct of their scheme. If I understand it correctly now, they use number of cur... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Mmakshak - Dithering is a postprocessing technique that came, as Mapman pointed out, from imaging. It ads noise on sub-LSB level just before filtering. Master tapes are recorded in 24bit and it is not needed there.Mapman - Trickery is used mostly ... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Mapman - Puccini is an oversampling player. It uses Ring-DACs - same DACs DCS sold license to ARCAM (FMJ-23). Arcam stopped making it because of DAC manufacturing yield problems (and stopped making FMJ23). Ring DAC possesses additional 4 current s... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Learsfool - everything depends on the quality of processing. It does not remove high or any other frequencies (it can be easily proved) but suffers on details of conversion. It might be, I hope, one day possible, to get perfect quality of digital ... | |
| 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... |