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Since it's always hard to guage situational significance by the presence or absence of fanfare, and since I know squat about digital, I was wondering if anyone better educated than I (ie, anyone) happened to see the iPOD "dock" review in the Oct...
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Since it's always hard to guage situational significance by the presence or absence of fanfare, and since I know squat about digital, I was wondering if anyone better educated than I (ie, anyone) happened to see the iPOD "dock" review in the Oct...
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I am not sure I grasped the main question -- I am myself challenged -- but to the following is impossible: [quote]if, as the reviewer says, there is no drop in quality from redbook CD, (...) the files in question are MP3...[/quote]Your reviewer is au...
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Well, this is a very interesting matter. It looks like after all we cannot speak about how reproduced music should sound without going back into the "audiophile jargon". I suppose it's a so personal matter that it cannot be explained, and also depend...
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Best of luck to you both. Enjoy your honeymoon and the holidays on the islands. Maybe that was poor Anton's problem. He could never play any of his music on the IPOD to his prospective lady friends,...
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Hi Chirag, I don't know if you read this terrific post by Romy: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=254 but perhaps you went from level one to level two in his classification. I don't know where the hell I am, but I think th...
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What a great story! And great setting. Congratulations, old man!"Maybe that was poor Anton's problem. He could never play any of his music on the IPOD to his prospective lady friends." Very funny, mats!clark-->
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I see that apple has added a FM tuner to its new iPod nano
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/features/fm-radio.htmlI would bet that the tuner is medicore, but it has the potential to boost FM listenership considerably given the massive market penetratio...
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Romy said: He was an individual who come to this absurd meeting after his work and spent 3 hours of his life,
with being paid.
Is there someone on this forum who has Not gone to an absurd...
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Thanks, Greg.The reviewer (Wes Phillips) gave me the impression that Wadia had finally vaulted the main obstacle to "CD-quality" sound by providing an outboard DAC for the largest capacity, license-keyed iPODs. It is quite likely that I, i...
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[quote user="steverino"]But the prospective Magico owner needs to know whether the Magicos reproduce the real Taiko drum closely enough to scare and demoralize all the JDs in the neighborhood. It's like those recorded barking dogs that homeowners use...
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When I was a teenager in the 80's and The Absolute Sound was my favorite hifi magazine, I always thought the Japanese were crazy because they did not believe in an "absolute" sound but were trying to create their "own sound".They also seemed craz...
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It is one of those curious facts that Golden Ages generally occur quite early in the process of some domain of activity and then things slowly go downhill. In other words the Golden Age is followed by the Silver Age then the Bronze Age then the Slag ...
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[quote user="scooter"]I see that apple has added a FM tuner to its new iPod nano
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/features/fm-radio.htmlI would bet that the tuner is medicore, but it has the potential to boost FM listenership considerably given the mas...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] What however I fell is shameful in the images above, besides bad taste, is that fact that a president of a country and prime-minister of a county did not find own country audio to make the pictures. Presidents do not plug ...
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There of course is a ton of garbage on the net about the sound quality of a DAW with WLAN vs gigabit ethernet, analog or digital power supplies, memory, manufacturer of hard drive, active ports.I have primarily only really invested in lowest noise an...
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Hi Antonio, I just realized I glanced over that thread assuming its relationship to the 6 levels of benefits. Its quite interesting, but I do not know where I fall in that spectrum (no, it can't be discrete stages as its far to "big" to really ...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"] I'd agree with that. I wouldn't mind seeing the British PM being seen to support the manufacturers here (such as Avid & Naim!) in such a public way. However, such conspicuous consumption wouldn't be well received here ...
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I had a little flash a few days ago thinking about potential.I've been following more high tech gadgets lately, things like the iPhone. And pondering ideal audio setups from the erspective of design and ergonomics. This had me thinking about solidsta...
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[quote user="Paul S"]it seems like a miracle that two people familiar with the score could recognize "it" and agree on it, via any sort of playback whatsoever ... we tend to focus (more or less) on the parts we recognize as Music. [/quote][quote user...
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[quote user="Stitch"]Sometimes we have luck when we listen to a System and we can have the illusion of - more or less - pure music realism, but the majority of Systems are sophisticated hi-fi.Well, but let's be honest, can it be so difficult to creat...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]I am past fetishishizing on gear and detailed quasi-scientific evaluation programs. I am a music listener again. All I care about, really, is my individual enjoyment. I am not comparing live vs. memorex. I am criticizing t...
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Post #116:
BBB
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by
Amir
on
2017-01-25
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[quote user="nycparamedic"]After living with my current custom Linux music server does not leave me wanting anything much when it comes to playing music:A PC Engines ALIX single board computer in a small aluminum enclosure and running Voyage Linux. T...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Even though I do understand that advantages to run dedicated operation system but it do not automatically implies that the result will be better.[/quote]No, not automatically. But I believe using a minimalist open source op...
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[quote user="scooter"]Gentlemen:
...*Regarding playback, I misspoke in my original post of an "Audiophile music server." Upon further reflection, this is an oxymoron, if not a moronic phrase. I think it is highly unlikely that a dedicated audiop...
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I admit I haven't statistically substantiated this to any great extent with commercial speakers (only with a pair of non-ribbon Genesis).[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
drdna wrote:
Lately, Romy, you have been saying again how ...
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"I may be wrong to continue here with M4 ideas, Romy, feel free to move this where you want, thanks".
In my very audio eccentric strange mind, there is two concepts for M4 that pop to the surface, and that merit some explorations. Se...
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Hi Romy and Company:
My CD player has seen better days so I did some research and though you might be interested in my experience with the "Music server" concept. Punchline: fun, sounds great and is very convenient!
You can create your own aud...
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Post #83:
Bias
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by
G
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2018-04-03
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Hi Romy
I have built a Melq prototype and need some help with the bias.
This is my first tube amp build so my understanding is not great.
All parts values were used as per the 4.4 schematics. Rectifier bridges were built with Infineon SD...
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[quote user="G"]Should
the grid bias voltage change when I adjust VR1? In my case it does – if I keep
increasing dc on inputs I can get to -1.5v on the grid and around 60v on B+.[/quote]
Nope, it should not, well it is and it is not.
Are you s...
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