shadorne
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| Thiel is officially closed!! We blame the buyer of Thiel but surely they were in trouble before. The enemy of the good is better and the competition in great quality speakers has increased.For example, I was impressed to see the amount of engineering in Paradigm Persona line!... | |
| need advice for sound improvement If placement isnt helping any further then try new tubes. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Lol - Dark matter? Try Brian May lead guitarist of Queen / he is actually an astrophysicist! I know almost nothing about that. I did read Stephen Hawkings original Black Hole Radiation paper when in high school but never pursued that side of Physi... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal Another advantage of upsampling redbook is on a ladder resistor network DAC or multi-bit DAC. Upsampling with Roon or another software should shift ghosts much higher in frequency - where the ghost frequencies can act a bit like random nois... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal That would be it “The other one”. Petty played Friend of the Devil live often also. Nearly every musician is a fan of Jerry Garcia - no denying tremendous talent.@maplegrovemusic I have college degrees in engineering and physics. Don’t use ... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Check this is outChanging or adding movement to a simple rock 1/8 note pattern to the odd triplet feel (by playing on the “e” of four instead of the “&”)https://youtu.be/vl9188EPdLISimple but really effective! Often the genius things are simpl... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal Never seen the Grateful dead but I watched a movie documentary and I love their live jams. Listen to them on Tidal a lot.Tom Petty does a great live jam called Two Men Talkin’ that seems to be a tribute to Grateful Dead - do you know what i... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal Thanks for this awesome gift.I would like to hear Tower of Power live in 1975. This was their best line up ever with Lenny Williams on vocals and Chester Thompson on keyboards. They are probably the best band in the world to see or hear liv... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal The logic for upsampling Redbook is well documented and justified. Redbook requires a Nyquist filter at 22KHz to prevent aliasing or image noise from 22 to 44 KHz from being included in the analog output signal. Unfortunately a sharp filter... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal For highest fidelity and accuracy of Redbook, I would recommend to do this1) Use Roon with its default 3 dB reduction to eliminate the all too common intersample over clipping errors.2) Use Roon or another software to upsample the Redboo... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @klh007 Thank you you for the correction! I was not aware of Lyngdorf having also implemented a solution.It definitely makes a huge audible difference as Doug Shroeder points out in his review of the Benchmark DAC3 and AHB2 Amp.https://www.dagogo.... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @willemj You are correct - it will be less of an issue but still an issue. A lot of reissues of classical and jazz are boosted to clipping level too but you are correct they are often less compressed overall.The CD Homage To Duke by David Grusin... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal I did not read Archmago entire blog post but I agree with this “ideal filter is linear phase”! Always has been and always will be!Archmago states:“The key here is to remember that within a properly bandwidth limited signal where all the fre... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @willemj You are forgetting that no DAC except the Benchmark DAC2 and 3 properly handle Redbook intersample overs that are common even on high quality CD production like Steely Dan.As it stands, I am aware of only two solutions - 1) Use a Benchmar... | |
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