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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: My view over Analog vs. Digital... without BS. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog vs. Digital... without BS. in Didital Things  23 Replies 
As I said: most debates on the subject that I ever heard so far are not accurate representation of Analog vs. Digital dilemma.  The same as the discussion in this thread about the “natural continuous process”, the “discrete process” and the “brain re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Digital by Amir on 2009-04-21 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, the result of direct conversion of analog into digital is practically NEVER exposed to audio people.[/quote]I never heard direct conversion of analog to digital and i should agree that i can not be sure that digita...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: My view over Analog vs. Digital... without BS. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-21 
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As I said: most debates on the subject that I ever heard so far are not accurate representation of Analog vs. Digital dilemma.  The same as the discussion in this thread about the “natural continuous process”, the “discrete process” and the “brain re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Analog vs. Digital... without BS. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-15 
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The title of this thread would appear laughable for anyone who practices audio more than a week. This is as beaten subject as Tubes vs. SS or Mosfet vs. Bipoloar. However, with all my awareness about the popular Analog vs. Digital debate I with a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: In analog domain by Amir on 2009-09-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Preamplifiers: keys to mystery. (Lamm L1, L2) in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
Is it possible to change phase response in analog domain very easily?I think it's not easy and if it's possible it need complex circuit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Analog FM on a PCI cards? by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-18 
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OK, no one argue that FM is good BUT the cost and complexity to record doe FM is quite high. It look like that it might not be more simple – to turn your tuner, to turn your A/D, to tune your DAW and to record whatever you wish. Well, l it is surpris...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Digital can’t attenuate, analog can’t delay. by Romy the Cat on 2012-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
[quote user="Markus"] Do you have a link to an explanation of this statement? Given the proliferation of digital volume controls, I'd like to understand more.[/quote]The proliferation of digital volume controls is not an evidence of anything. Digital...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: DSP can delay, Analog can filter, by rowuk on 2014-05-15 
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[quote user="noviygera"]I have been thinking about how nice it would be to have have a good sounding DSP for crossover and delay functionality. I know this subject was covered here before but what was talked about is this DSP is not that good, and th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A[nother] Cautionary Tale of analog maintenance by Paul S on 2008-03-02 
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You might think I'd learn by now, but over the last two days I have traced sonic problems to the following:  Dirty pins on one of the tubes in my phono stage; Loose counterweight set screw/too-heavy VTF; Loose cartridge mounting screw/...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: My analog setup update. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Analog Playback: the fat lady has sung in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
With the recent changes on my configuration changes and employing the “End of the Live Phonostage”, in duty I re-thinked my analog playback. I got rid to arms and one deck, changed the mapping between the arms and phonostages and ended up with quite ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Chicken vs. eggs in analog… by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro Seiki, tonearm,cartridge in Analog Playback  2 Replies 
[quote user="analog10"]Hello, this is my first post here - this is a wonderful web site, critical and fair  - a lot of knowledge here and i consider you real connoiseurs - that's why  i'm hoping to resolve my problem here. I have a Micro Seik...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Analog Playback CD Recording by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-05 
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[quote user="George"]Have you tried recording and playing vinyl with your computer and the Lavrys? Even though the source is completely different than FM perhaps you might get acceptable results for some recordings?? Any success would be a great...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: It is NOT FM is Analog Signal Processing vs DSP by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-19 
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[quote user="steverino"]FM is Analog Signal Processing vs DSP. The compression aspect is only really intrusive on orchestral works. Pop and jazz are already compressed and chamber music presents a more limited dynamic range if not limited contrast. B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Re: It slices, it dices, it converts multichannel analog to digital... by jtavan on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
If you're sure you're not going to do the DA or AD conversion in the card, then the AES16 is all you need. However, if you might want to try just using the AD conversion on the cards (which might be just fine, hard to say without trying), then you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Re: About analog broadcasts by cv on 2005-11-15 
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Allo Antonio, I think for the UK it's 2012. Also, hHere in London the only classical station worth listening to if you ask me is BBC Radio 3. So a TU-X1 and Lavry would be something of an enormous investment all things considered. I'm fairly sure we...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Analog: a reduction of surface noise. by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-16 
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I bought today a fresh copy of “The Absolute Sound” #151. Did not really meant o read but rather meant as usually to glide among the pictures and to learn which audio whore drool about a “new” bogus products. I seldom read the articles more the a few...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: The Foolishness of Analog People by tokyo john on 2006-01-30 
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I am very jealous of people who buy a decently designed turntable that does not cost an arm an a leg, and can be satisfied with it for life. That first step they took, going from direct-driven, plastic tonearm and throw away cart TT, to a belt d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Colorful" dynamic.. and analog? by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."]Dear Romy, thanks for your comment. I actually don't want the mat to do "something" for me sonically, but to teach me how far I'm I of my ideal. Knowing your goals and taking for granted that the 8000's platter must be rather...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Recording: My Analog Playback by George on 2006-04-05 
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Hello Romy,Have you tried recording and playing vinyl with your computer and the Lavrys? Even though the source is completely different than FM perhaps you might get acceptable results for some recordings?? Any success would be a great plus.List...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Analog is Back 2011: Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable by Stitch on 2011-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog is Back 2011: Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable in Analog Playback  4 Replies 
There is new hope for the discriminated analog Audiophile: The Importer wrote in a Forum about that Table that " it measures at a level no other turntable we did comparisons with can come close to... "And some readers rate it as a great unit even wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Injection of analog dither? by drdna on 2008-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I personally more inclined to have “accurate” sound and word accuracy is more implies to a playback accurately and fatefully render the essence of musical events. Pay attention – not accurately play the input signal, not ac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: BS about analog vs. digital by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-16 
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Actually, Eduardo, I disagree.   Although I do concur with many of your proposals but I insist that the mistakes that people make in their analog vs. digital thinking are purely methodological and those mistakes that disqualify their conclusi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Analog Transfer: the second draft by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog Transfer: the first draft. in Didital Things  19 Replies 
Here is my second attempt to make ad-hog analog transfers. The file is 280 Meg in 167kH and 24 bit. Do not download it if you can’t not play 167kH. The file is 0.5dB hotter then it shall be and has some clipping. I wonder if somebody would be able to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The Part of Analog, and Program by Paul S on 2013-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
Interesting discussion.  I am now thinking of John Wright, the guy who mods the (old...) Museatex DACs to get the best sound overall that I've heard from digital sources. Sure, he has his patent approach to deciphering digital, but John has always sa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: … a few analog groups by Romy the Cat on 2012-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fidelity Research FR-7 in Analog Playback  42 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]In Germany are a few analog groups, some build their turntable with a piece of wood and a knife and think it is great, some prefer old Linn, Garrads, Thorens as the only, real solution to listen to and others refuse to listen to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: The Analog Manifest by Stitch on 2013-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Epigraph"…just buy a used Micro Seiki and don’t worry about turntables anymore; built like a tank and sounds better than TTs costing over 30K USD.” Mr. Ikeda, of Ikeda / Fidelity Research The Main bitching It amasses me how...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Analog Transfer: the first draft. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog Transfer: the first draft. in Didital Things  19 Replies 
People asked me: Romy why don’t you try to transfer some analog to digital and see what happen. I was queries myself and I decided to try tonight. Whatever I did was in a way half-ass but I was interested in “as is” result. Although the attem...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: It was too sharp analog transfer.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog Transfer: the first draft. in Didital Things  19 Replies 
[quote user="DOT*SYSTEM"]I created a DVD-A using your track and also some upsampled CD tracks. Is easy to hear the superior sound of your track versus the upsampled redbook tracks.I hear a bit more noise in the right channel of your track and the ove...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Analog Enhancement by Paul S on 2021-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
Romy, during my own quest for a center channel I met (the late) James Bongiorno, all of which I've written about before at GSC. James was a passionate proponent of the center channel, and to that end he developed the Trinaural Processor, which is ana...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Foolishness of Analog People by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-30 
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Epigraph "…just buy a used Micro Seiki and don’t worry about turntables anymore; built like a tank and sounds better than TTs costing over 30K USD.” Mr. Ikeda, of Ikeda / Fidelity Research The Main bitching It amasses me how the preoccupation...
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