richardbrand
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| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @cleeds It does if it's TCP/IP because any faulty packet is simply re-sent. That re-send isn't possible with UDP/IP, though, so an error is possible. The audibilty of that error is debatable, of course, and probably depends on the extent of the... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes So I asked the web about "ethernet packet delivery guarantee" and Google's AI overview came back with: Ethernet, at its core, is a best-effort delivery protocol, meaning it does not guarantee that every packet will be delivered or that they will... | |
| Unusual countries for audio gear @foggyus91 I was pointing out that a lot of very good stuff does come from China, or is owned by Chinese interests. One advantage of being in Australia is that we are almost equally far from everybody else, except New Zealand. Everybody wants ... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @chrisoshea My advice to all on this thread…. Buy a Rega Planar 3, a Schiit Mani 2 phono stage and some records I would say get a universal disk transport with HDMI outputs, and some SACDs, Blu-ray audio disks, 4K opera recordings and CDs. ... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @devinplombier Audio streaming presents a very, very light load in Ethernet terms, and error-free transmission is a given It is not a given, not by Ethernet. Ethernet on its own does not guarantee packet delivery, nor timing, nor error-free ... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @sns So on top of Qobuz using TCP/IP protocol I know Qobuz claims to use TCP/IP but to many people, and it seems to many here, the internet is synonymous with TCP/IP. TCP is only part of the internet. I have tried to show that UDP/IP is equa... | |
| Unusual countries for audio gear @foggyus91 Ok what 'paid' of KEFs did you own? What did you feed them with? Obviously not 'overrated' Blades and not any of the Reference series ... My Quad electrostatic ESL-2905 speakers were made in China. Are you going to claim these are n... | |
| Band/artist documentaries. And then there is classical music! The Ken Russell 1962 documentary on Elgar made for the British Broadcasting Corporation's fine arts program Monitor was voted best TV program of the decade in the UK. That is despite Monitor insisting that the ... | |
| Unusual countries for audio gear @foggyus91 They said that about Chinese cars a couple of years ago. Chinese electric cars now lead the world ... ... China owns KEF, for goodness sake and probably makes half the electronics on the planet | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @nonoise There are fundamental differences between digital video and digital audio. Digital video is always lossy because compression is used to make the bit rate manageable. 4K Blu-ray uses less aggressive compression than streaming, but there... | |
| ??? My First Classical Concert,What Can I Expect ??? @mylogic From about 10 years old I was taken to classical concerts at the White Rock Pavillion in Hastings, just east of you (’just’ as in Australian distance terms!). Mainly it was the London Philharmonic Orchestra, who seemed to use Hastings ... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes So much basic misinformation here! I beseech you to understand what the word streaming means in digital networks, and how it differs from file transfers. At its simplest, streaming prioritises getting something out (timeliness), over getting it ... | |
| ??? My First Classical Concert,What Can I Expect ??? @mylogic The article I quoted was in the post above from @horn13 https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/where-is-the-best-place-to-sit-in-the-concert-hall/ Interestingly one of the worst positions with a big orchestra (around 100 players ... | |
| ??? My First Classical Concert,What Can I Expect ??? @mylogic Agreed! Even the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall had poor acoustics until fixed recently with A$100-million upgrade! Where was the article quoted above, when discussions turned to the best place to sit in a concert hall. It is not ne... | |
| ??? My First Classical Concert,What Can I Expect ??? @mylogic The Royal Albert Hall is where l have heard all of these……it’s not the venue for great sound It was renowned for a dreadful echo - Sir Thomas Beecham remarked that at least young composers could be sure of hearing two or more perform... |