onhwy61
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| Audiophile USB to PCM The Big Ben is design to act as a master digital clock in a recording studio environment. If you're running three or more pieces of digital equipment all sort of gremlins start to appear if you try to clock the devices in a chain-like manner. The ... | |
| Which hard drive for digital music server? I've had very good experiences with LaCie drives. I've also used Western Digital, Maxtor and Seagate with some success. All hard drives will eventually fail, so as long as you back them up I don't think it makes that much difference what you use a... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Tvad, I applaud your dedication to this hobby and I truly wish you derive an enormous degree of personal satisfaction for being a practicing audiophile, but I still strongly disagree with you on a key issue. Tapping your toes and grooving to the m... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Tvad, I find your last post preposterous. You state that you only care about closing your eyes and getting lost in the notes and about tapping your toes to the rhythm. If that's what our hobby is about then anyone with an iPod on the subway is an ... | |
| How can I get rid of a 4khz-8khz room spike? Listing your equipment and a photo of the room would be very helpful. Also describe how you measured the speaker's frequency response. | |
| What happened to the loudness control? Trelja, welcome to the dark side. Your decoder ring is in the mail. | |
| What happened to the loudness control? When properly implemented a loudness contour is a wonderful thing. It's well established that the human ear becomes less sensitive to both low and high frequency sounds as the volume level is reduced. A properly design loudness contour will counte... | |
| Room Size and Loudness Treatments help, but will they solve this particular problem? Vtl says he has to listen at high volumes for the speaker to come alive. Barry Willis in his review of the speaker says essentially the same thing but adds that they didn't work in his ... | |
| It's funny how records are still best. Robm321 you are wrong, wrong, wrong! Open reel tape is the best. There is no legitimate argument that anyone can make against that. It's not preference, but fact. The preference is if you're too lazy to deal with the inconvenience. But the sound i... | |
| Room Size and Loudness My take on Barry Willis' review of your speakers was that a small room didn't allow him the space to properly place the speaker for best best response and soundstage info. In the small room he was forced to listen in the near-field where the speak... | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? That's the beauty of a hard drive based system. Vastly greater convenience with ready access to your entire music collection without any penalty in sound quality. It worthwhile to take the time to use the rating, comment, composer and grouping fie... | |
| AAC or AppleLossless Tvad, the post is about using a computer as a music server, nobody has mentioned anything about using an iPod.Pardales, the only advantage of the AAC format is that it can compress down to smaller files sizes. Compared to non-compressed or Apple L... | |
| Why are audiophiles perceived as being wackos? I once read a study that concluded people who frequent topic specific internet chat sites tend to take more radical positions and make more extremist statements than they would in normal social interaction. Political conservatives become even bigg... | |
| Why don't kids nowadays know about Jazz and classi Why should it be surprising. The first Allman Brothers album was released in 1969, thats 36 years ago. In 1969 I was 13 and I certainly wasn't listening to music recorded in 1933. Let kids find their own way. | |
| AAC or AppleLossless Apple Loseless will cut file size by 50%, AAC can perform greater size reduction. Loseless sounds better. Unless you have a very small music collection I would strongly recommend that you obtain an external HD and store the music files on it. Depe... |