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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Computer CD readers were made to read data and not audio by ghpicard on 2008-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Hi Romy,   IMO, the reason for you to get that feeling is that from the beginning they were made to read data and not audio, thus some jitter was (and is) not considered an issue, as soon as it can be corrected.The internal CD drive audio o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Amarra : Supported Audio Formats and $ by jessie.dazzle on 2009-06-17 
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In digging through the support section of the Amarra Music Player web page, and finally ending up on the FAQ, http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/faq.html I came upon this :Supported Audio FormatsNOTE: Amarra only supports uncompressed PCM files (AIFF,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Meitner Audio - Ed Meitner's new company. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-16 
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Ed Meitner after Musatex ran his celebrated EMM Lab Company.  I never liked the EMM Lab products. Although each with trash in audio loved to like EMM Lab ADCs but I found that this D/A converters were horrible. The entire Meitner parley in SACD w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to make a music person to “get” Audio? by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-25 
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It is know that many music people do not get audio. The subject was zillion times discussed among all imaginary people and different people offer different explanation of the phenomena. I do not find that any “phenomena” exists in all but  you do not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Where high-end audio starts? by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-19 
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I spoke recently with an audio guy who gourmet himself as advanced audio fellow and I was stricken how in fact banal and dull his audio interests are. I asked him: what in your view the high-end audio starts? He suggested that it starts with ability ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Wine, women, song.. and audio by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-03 
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Split of the folowing thread:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=18471 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Making musical instruments by audio person? by Romy the Cat on 2014-03-07 
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Amy the wife has that notion that I have to make violins. Being with me, listening my constant comments how different technical aspens of audio impacts expressive signatures of sound she developed a feeling that I could be a good violin maker. I do u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About audio Crashes. by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-20 
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I think it was Wagner who first incorporated in his composition the concept of masking. He felt that during loud sounds people are losing ability to recognize the instrumental complexity. Later on during the stupid mp3 times or digital compression, o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to train respect audio listening? by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-22 
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This is very interesting subject. As many times I went to live concerts with somebody I never remember that a person was listening problem.  There were people who underdressed or over-dress, the people who over-used perfume, the damp people who read ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: A Piano good for Audio guy? by Romy the Cat on 2014-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Shopping vs. Piano Shopping. in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
It is kind of unexpected to me but over the last 2 weeks I have developed a great interest in our new piano. Nope, I still do not play peas and have no interest to learn but I do find a lot of pleasure to make our piano to sound in the way I want. I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio clubs in London, Tokyo feature high-end listening by clarkjohnsen on 2016-10-31 
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While there is some idiocy reported in this article, the founders are clearly of good heart. Only, no one seems to be listening to classical music.  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Classification is not related to audio components by Amir on 2018-12-24 
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I do not classify audiophiles by their components. I 100% agree most horn owners may be in first group or many tube lovers be in the first group.Audio components are just our tools and those classification (i do not look at it as classification) refe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Why audio if not music? by rowuk on 2018-12-25 
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My audio IS a musical event. If we remove the musical appreciation, what are we playing back? Why is playback even important? To feed our ego?The relation of the recorded event to the playback is different, but the relation to my senses share many of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About the undeveloped audio installations. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-28 
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I wonder why audio people do not WORK with their playbacks. This subject always annoyed me.  Let pretend an audio person build up some kind of playback installation. It is irrelevant what would it be: a huge vintage Bell Labs system, a contempora...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Conductors and Audio Sound by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-07 
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I always felt that my demands for quality of Audio Sound might be to degree be moderated by conducting efforts. The true enigma for me is this aspect is John Barbirolli. Barbirolli is one of my the most admired conductors of mine and he is one ve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: About Timbre and Audio #2 by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-05 
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Continuing my observation about the Timbres and Audio.From what I said above it is very important to understand that Timbres in Audio are not the photographic density of the colors themselves but rather an ability of a photograph to differentiate...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Timbres and Audio by Amir on 2011-05-08 
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Power SS amplifiers = 15%Power Tube amplifiers = 20%I think speaker amplifier matching is as important as other sections. amp/speaker matching need a separate number. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Do not search nonsense in my Audio interests. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An unexplored way to deal with the sound/music perception in Playback Listening  39 Replies 
Ah, eventual a good reply! So, you feel that your powerful SET project is good because it can be “build in reality, test and draw some conclusions”. Being a pragmatic Jew I am very much on the same page. However, the moment that you are missing in my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Tweeters and the size of the audio window by haralanov on 2011-07-29 
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Normal 0 21 false false false BG X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: The *---* Levels of Audio Awareness by Paul S on 2011-08-03 
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If to compose oneself, the Reality is a restless, moving awareness that does not stay satisfied.  How much is "improvement" and how much is change-for-itself is not so easy to judge at any given time.  Horns or direct drivers, we want to create and r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Milan Top Audio by Telstar on 2008-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lavry vs Stahl -Tek in Didital Things  22 Replies 
[quote user="coops"]Romy Hi, I just mean that instruments sound more real, through the Stahl-tek whether is is the decay of a high hat or the weight of a piano, 'presence' is the same I guess when the instrment just sounds more real, re the selling p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Milan Top Audio by coops on 2008-09-26 
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Telstar, sadly i couldn't make it ti the show, did you attend, it must have been more interesting than the Heathrow, london show, 'Six moons' have posted some photographs.http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/industryfeatures.html...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Berkeley Audio DAC Review by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reference Recordings “digital master” and Berkeley's new DAC in Didital Things  13 Replies 
Here is for whoever interested a write up about Berkeley DAC http://www.computeraudiophile.com/Berkeley-Audio-Design-Alpha-DAC-Review I have to inform that the guy who wrote it kind of peculiar- he is one of those “industry dusk s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The Berkeley Audio DAC’s processor. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-13 
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To whom it might be interested. The Berkeley Audio DAC reportedly uses the Delta-Sigma Analog Devices’ DAC AD1955A. It is SACD compatible, with attenuation in the chip. I guess it might be obvious what might be the next revision of Berkeley DAC… ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Andrew Rose’s “Pristine Audio” and the XR Mastering by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-24 
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Andrew Rose runs his operation for a while. I like what he is trying to do, he has a good sense for “better” music and look like a native interest in those things. http://pristineclassical.com/index2.html I am not familiar with A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A CD playing audio person must have 2 DACs by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-23 
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People argue out there if a DAC need to do upsampling.  I usually do not like the upsampling DAC and always prefer, or even insist to play in whatever format the source is.  Some DACs do not ask you and upsample the incoming stream to 2x  and higher ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Meitner audio by Canuck on 2012-03-27 
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  I think a lot of it had to do with Playback designs( there was a legal battle between them and the not so honourable Tinn man) and therefore to under cut on the price to take sales away from them.  I found this accidentally while researching Playba...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Computer Audio - like everything else - Keep it ultra thin optimized t... by wlowes on 2012-11-18 
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My journey with computer audio offers me reason to be optimistic. I think it is like everything else in the audio chain. Everything counts. Keep it as simple as possible. The power for every consumer is important. Keep the number of parts and transfo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Computer Audio by skushino on 2014-01-06 
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Recently I tested the waters of computer audio.  I've been using a Sony SCD-1 transport / Museatex Bidat DAC combo for digital playback.  It has been a source of enjoyment for years.  My goals for trying network-based music files were:- reduce physic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #102: Computer Audio by Amir on 2016-07-31 
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https://www.audialonline.com/topics/ http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/wavelength2/brick_2.html both J Gordon Rankin and Pedja RogicBelieve the properly implemented USB is better than SPDIF. ...
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