Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is 24bit/44.1kHz high resolution or marketing BS?
pablolie wrote: > Based on my reading, even the best human platinum ears can not hear > beyond 20/44. And I would question the 20. Even 16 bits means hearing stuff that is way below the background noise level of your listening room while listening to music at 120 dB... "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106935 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is 24bit/44.1kHz high resolution or marketing BS?
Yes 16/44 is plenty, and we deserve more recordings that... uh... deserve it. Based on my reading, even the best human platinum ears can not hear beyond 20/44. Again, in some extreme border cases arguably the quantification error is the issue, and not the sampling frequency (Nyquist nailed that one). But I have not EVER heard of ONE scientifically conducted test that ever remotely indicates any human on the planet would benefit from anything beyond 20/44... and most stuff we get in 16/44 doesn't remotely deserve it, thanks music industry... ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine (on VMware Workstation 12) running Ubuntu 16.04 + LMS 7.9 System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- Totem Element Fire Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> NAD D7050 -> Totem DreamCatcher + Velodyne Minivee Sub Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado PS500e/Shure 1540 pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106935 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Fix for spuriously rebooting Transporter
arkadi58 wrote: > So my transporter started to reboot once or twice a day, and since > yesterday it is dead. It does reset itself when I hold down the POWER > button for several seconds. > Measured the voltages, the audio section looks fine, but that extra 5V > PS seems bad. The test point on the front panel PCB next to the power > connection drops to 3.1 V when operational, the idle voltage of the PS > is 5V. > There is another test point on the main board next to the ribbon > connector the front panel. Same thing: 3.1V instead of 5V. > > So it looks like another one of these PS. No visual clues as to which > component is bad, but I think it is worth getting a replacement and > trying it out. > > thanks for the info. A few members here had the same problem with their Transporter's. The new PSU corrected it. Fizbin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58734 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105822 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is 24bit/44.1kHz high resolution or marketing BS?
Wombat wrote: > I was there also :) > But this is how it goes. Higher DR must sound better. Higher bitrate > must sound better. Strangely people that claim to hear all kind of > things trust most in these numbers. > Lately i did read about the 24/44.1 new Metallica is said to sound > better as the cd while the RMS number is exactly -0.9dB more silent as > are the peaks. > Since the 24/44.1 is said to was created for the iTunes version it may > simply be the cd version dropped in volume to comply with the Mastered > for iTunes clipping AAC headroom. > > Edit: and there is also that chance your newly purchased 24/44.1 > download went from 16 to 24 bit from the process of adding a steady > watermark If I think about it, I can't help but smile at the naive thinking that higher DR or higher bitrate *- m u s t -* or any other technical improvement must necessarily sound better. The first and biggest problem is that for something to truely sound better, it has to at least sound different. In the modern audio world, the baseline for technical performance is often so good that we are actually pretty far into diminishing or even vanishing returns. So, sounding different is not always a given, or even possible. The second problem is that there is no uniform, generally agreed up standard for "better sound". All you have to do is look at all of the people who think vinyl or analog tape sound better, look at the actual technical performance these ancient and inherently audibly flawed media can possibly provide and once you stop retching, realize that we have yet another example of a total lack of correlation between improved technical performance and improved sound quality as perceived by some. arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106935 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Intona USB thing
foxesden wrote: > May I humbly suggest that you review this and other responses that you > have made on this forum and then consider how they may appear to other > people? I know a veiled personal attack when I see one, and so do others. I've tried to help you and your response is to insult and humiliate me in public. How does that make you look? BTW you should know that the findings of science are not determined by popularity contests. Furthermore you are trying to make it look like you speak for everybody, when in fact you can only speak for yourself. arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Fix for spuriously rebooting Transporter
So my transporter started to reboot once or twice a day, and since yesterday it is dead. It does reset itself when I hold down the POWER button for several seconds. Measured the voltages, the audio section looks fine, but that extra 5V PS seems bad. The test point on the front panel PCB next to the power connection drops to 3.1 V when operational, the idle voltage of the PS is 5V. There is another test point on the main board next to the ribbon connector the front panel. Same thing: 3.1V instead of 5V. So it looks like another one of these PS. No visual clues as to which component is bad, but I think it is worth getting a replacement and trying it out. thanks for the info. arkadi58's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21158 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105822 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
