larry_s
Responses from larry_s
| Taming edge from remastered CDs? Many remastered CDs are just louder. If highs are really "redone" to be emphasized and you hear them, then don't listen to the remaster, stick with the old. If a different DAC makes them go away, then it's not a very good DAC is it? At least from ... | |
| all about pc and audio thoughts ... The only reason jplay might prove beneficial is if you are doing a lot of processing on the audio prior to D->A on the computer that's under powered. Other than that there's nothing that reading the disk periodically will cause problems. In fac... | |
| Recommend DAC with optical outputs DACs are "Digital to Analog Converters". Outputting a digital signal is not possible. You mean a DAC with optical input? | |
| Does the Quality of the USB cable matter? Mt10425 - Kable Koolaid myths keep most of the cable vendors in business. Trying to speak the truth, or at least educate people how to properly do listening tests, at a forum called Cable Asylum makes it no surprise that they censored you. With th... | |
| USB cables It only makes a difference if you think it will make a difference - even for adaptive USB. 99% (or more) "audiophiles" don't understand how their brain actually works nor do they understand how to really prove if they actually can hear a differenc... | |
| HDCD FLAC FOOBAR SPDIF Cary 303/200 HDCD Bozzy, you shouldn't need the "audio manager". You need something like ASIO or WASAPI to allow Foobar to send unmolested PCM straight to the USB or S/PDIF output. | |
| HDCD FLAC FOOBAR SPDIF Cary 303/200 HDCD Kijanki, I believe what you said is true only if encoding is done with HDCD Peak Extend. Don't know if that's always done or not. The 16th signal bit and decoding hints is usually in only 1-2 percent of the data samples. | |
| HDCD FLAC FOOBAR SPDIF Cary 303/200 HDCD HDCD is a format that "magically" encodes 20bits of data into 16bits. There is a signal bit in the stream that identifies it as HDCD. If the decoder takes the HDCD data and converts it to 24/96 the player has no way of knowing that the original so... | |
| Itunes keeps stopping My friend had these issues and I think he changed to a different "channel" for the wireless - something other than default. I don't remember all the things he tried. Although, if it just started happening, it may be something new. | |
| USB cable..what do you have. Next time you want to spend 4K on cables, you may want to use it to enroll in a physics class and save yourself a lot more money in the future. :^) | |
| Mini-Mac Server as an NAS I just read the last few posts after the one I commented on. No surprise about the USB based drives showing little or no impact on performance. My original comments reflected my own experience with the drives which is not comsumer PC home use. Alt... | |
| Mini-Mac Server as an NAS Al, notice there were no performance numbers in the marketing mumbo jumbo. For audio file storage, there is really no problem because it's basically sequential write once, then sequential reads. Anything that leans more towards random reads, and e... | |
| Mini-Mac Server as an NAS Richard,You can rip DVD-A discs and get the hi-rez PCM. Also, when Herman mentioned concatinated he's probably using software that acts as a "volume manager". Multiple drives can be used to present one sum-of-the-parts big drive to the user. And u... | |
| Mini-Mac Server as an NAS 4TB: Wow, you got quite a music collection! Let us know how long it takes to rip that much music. | |
| Will a quality USB cable make a difference.... Thanks for going the extra little bit to help our economy (or your ecomony, they all need help). That's all you did unless you forgot to mention it was a blind test and you picked the correct cable 19 or 20 times out of 20 attempts to make it stat... |