[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking for advice on sound quality
seanadams Wrote: Also, any opinions as to whether plextor drives are really that much better than the others these days? They earned a good reputation early on, but AFAICT all CD drives are now equally good at ripping. Here's one anecdotal bit of evidence: I have a Plextor PX712A, and have always felt it was really good at ripping. I particularly like all the facilities in Plextools. However, the other day my daughter asked me to rip one of her CDs, and it was in really terrible condition. There was a scratch on *both sides* of the disc (must have got snagged between something), and I could see that the actual data layer had been damaged. In attempting to rip it in the Plextor, it failed on the last track (where the worst damage was). Even switching off error detection didn't help. The Plextor always ended up reporting read error, whether I used Plextools or EAC. I then put it in the LG4521 drive (a DVD-ROM/CDRW combo) in my wife's PC, and EAC managed to read that one track (in secure mode). It took about 95 minutes to rip just the one track, and there were lots of sync errors and suspicious positions reported, but at least we got a usable rip in the end. -- cliveb ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: External DAC?
pfarrell Wrote: Would software make the proper glow? More importantly, can you spend a ton of money on NOS software? :-) -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: External DAC?
2005-10-04-22:57:26 Pat Farrell: What about just adding a tube preamp stage out of the SB2? Yeah, if Sean doesn't manage to implement tube-ness in software :-), it'd be interesting to see what one of the modified post-DAC-opamp-removed SB2s feeding one of these http://www.musicalfidelity.com/mf/en/Products/SmallX/SX10V3 would sound like. Pretty swell, I betcha. Better? Who knows. ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Stuttering Tracks
I know that this might not be the right forum for the following question, but I'll throw it out here because you all seem so knowledgeable. Songs from my SB2 are now stuttering or slowing down during just about every other song. The task manager does not indicate that it is occurring during high level cpu use. Any ideas on how to prevent the slowing down or stuttering of songs? Thanks, Rob ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Another fun test? Vibration damping
It might be interesting to know if any measurable difference was found on either the analog or digital outputs when the -- Yannzola ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
