Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread Julf

drmatt wrote: 
> If they aren't careful 4G will become the defacto replacement for wired
> home broadband..

Already happening to quite some degree up in Finland.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Cables? How about a Personal Electric Service

2016-08-15 Thread Julf

"“It’s completely beyond my understanding,” says his wife, Reiko, 57.
“But if I take it away from him, he will lose the motivation to live.” "



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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread Archimago

ralphpnj wrote: 
> Finally we agree!

Hang on boys. Don't be quick to agree :-)

It may be "smart" in a cunningly foxy kind of way...

But it's the size of poorly losslessly compressible  24/44. Not 16/44.
There's at least a 50% difference. Among other contentious issues...



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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Cables? How about a Personal Electric Service

2016-08-15 Thread drmatt

Genius... Surely the discerning audiophile goes straight to batteries as
a power source anyway?





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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread ralphpnj

drmatt wrote: 
> Bah, get over it. It's another smart compression algorithm that puts all
> the goodies from a 24/192 files into a 16/44. What's not to like? Apart
> from the license fee of course... :)
> 
> On the other hand I can say I will probably never buy or hear an mqa
> device/file, so I find myself not really caring too much.

Finally we agree!



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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread drmatt

Bah, get over it. It's another smart compression algorithm that puts all
the goodies from a 24/192 files into a 16/44. What's not to like? Apart
from the license fee of course... :)

On the other hand I can say I will probably never buy or hear an mqa
device/file, so I find myself not really caring too much.





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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread ralphpnj

This just leaked: MQA broadband!

Using super secret proprietary techniques MQA has now developed MQA
broadband. In simple terms the broadband signal is analyzed for blank or
empty data packets and then these empty data packets are "filled" with
data from other non-empty data packets. The resulting MQA broadband can
now be streamed by even a non-dsl dial-up connection. Truly
revolutionary!



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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Cables? How about a Personal Electric Service

2016-08-15 Thread Mnyb

garym wrote: 
> For the "audiophile" that has everything.  Oh my!  :rolleyes:
> 
> *A Gift for Music Lovers Who Have It All: A Personal Utility Pole*
> http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463
> 
> (sorry, I don't have the full version, but the headline says it all!)

it's not only the pole its a private high voltage to 100V transformer
!:)

Funny thing if its a small transformer the network impedance can be much
higher than with a shared common transformer of much larger size thus
,he can can get more voltage disstorsion from his own stuff and less
peak power and higher voltage drop ?

Well OTT would a very large transformer with shield winding like what we
at my work uses for large drive systems ... but bevare of very large
large shortcicuit currents and dimension fuses et al accordingly :D :D




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[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Cables? How about a Personal Electric Service

2016-08-15 Thread garym

For the "audiophile" that has everything.  Oh my!  :rolleyes:

*A Gift for Music Lovers Who Have It All: A Personal Utility Pole*
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463



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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New study on vinyl buyers

2016-08-15 Thread RonM

Methinks he doth protest too much. . .



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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread Julf

drmatt wrote: 
> On the topic of broadband.. Well I can say that there are still plenty
> of parts of the UK and US, supposed to be highly developed economies,
> where broadband speeds are struggling to reach the 8mbit recommended for
> Netflix..

True. But then you have places like Finland, where even a cheap pre-pay
4G mobile connection is much faster than that.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread drmatt

On the topic of broadband.. Well I can say that there are still plenty
of parts of the UK and US, supposed to be highly developed economies,
where broadband speeds are struggling to reach the 8mbit recommended for
Netflix..





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