onhwy61
Responses from onhwy61
| Audiophile USB to PCM A professional caliber soundcard w/ AES/EBU output should out perform consumer oriented USB devices. I use an RME, but there are others. | |
| Digitize LPs with zero loss? Fascinating stuff, best of luck. Definitely post updates of your efforts.My final thoughts on sound quality issues. Accept digital for what it is, it sounds slightly different than vinyl. In some ways worst and in some ways better. From my perspec... | |
| Digitize LPs with zero loss? Apogee makes the best quality reasonably priced A/D converters.The digitized albums will sound like digitized albums. They can sound slightly better than equivalent commercial CD's or slightly worse. This mostly depends upon the quality of your vi... | |
| Digitize LPs with zero loss? There's nothing special about the MOTU converters. Metric Halo, Benchmark, Apogee & Mytek all make similarly priced converters that better MOTU's offerings. 192k sampling may or may not be necessary. You'll only know by experimenting. A 192k/2... | |
| Europeans vs. the U.S.A. My first brush with high end audio was hearing a high school friend dad's system. It was an AR turntable, Shure cartridge, AR 3 speakers and the AR receiver. At the time this was a very popular combo and it sounded great. However, when I got to th... | |
| What is a Low Pass Filter A filter lessens (attenuates) frequencies above or below a selected cut off frequency. Loudspeakers use filters to selectively limit the frequencies sent to individual drivers. A subwoofer input could employ a low pass filter to allow only bass fr... | |
| Europeans vs. the U.S.A. Sorry if I left out some companies (Harmon, McIntosh, Burmester, etc.). I purposely left out the large Japanese firms although a good case can be made that Sony and Pioneer offer complete high end systems.I don't know for a fact, but I suspect a l... | |
| Whatever happened to REAL "owners manuals" ??? Owner's manuals, I don't need no stinkin' owner's manual! | |
| What are "Full range speaker" The Loth looks interesting, but I notice it only goes down to 24Hz and there's no +/- qualification on that spec.I'm not saying that there aren't some very fine single driver cone speakers, but they aren't full range. | |
| What are "Full range speaker" The AV Solo is a two way system with a separate woofer and tweeter drivers. Besides, it doesn't go deep enough in the bass.I'm still trying to understand S23chang's comments. | |
| What are "Full range speaker" Name one non-electrostatic/planar/ribbon full range single driver speaker. | |
| Active speaker, the future? or another fad? Active speakers are widely used in pro audio applications. ATCs will knock your socks off. | |
| What are "Full range speaker" The standard understanding is that a full range speaker is one capable of producing the audio spectrum from 20Hz to 20kHz. | |
| House Hunting and New Listening Room Concerns Your house is the important investment you'll probably ever make. May I suggest that you purchase the best house in the best neighborhood you can afford and then tailor a stereo system around the most appropriate room in the house. In other words,... | |
| Sistrum or Neuance or...? As a direct reaction to their marketing I will not try or purchase any of the Star Tech products. I don't approve of their behavoir and I'm voting with my wallet. |