On Windows:
AudioGrabber and LAME if you're doing MP3. Future versions will
probably support FLAC if it doesn't yet. AudioGrabber does digital
extraction and checksums so you know you get your data. I'm
re-ripping my entire library to MP3 for compatibility with all music
devices. Too much stuff
The review is right though, the sound quality is only up to mid-range CD
players at best. No complaints at the price, but given the benefits of
a PC based music machine, it would be good to have the option of a high
specification SB3. Now while I accept that the standard SB2/3 have
reasonable
first I should say that the CUESHEET metadata block is the only place
that the preemphasis flag should (and does) go, since it's the only
part of FLAC that is specific to redbook CDs and nothing else.
if a CD is ripped to tracks and you want to keep the preemphasis flag
in the metadata, best to
seanadams Wrote:
Personally I lean towards optical - if you think timing and signal
integrity are important in hi-fi, imagine high-capacity
inter-continental telecom - there's a reason it's all fiber. :)
Of course coax lends itself to more impressive looking cables, but
really over short
Jim Wrote:
1 out of 3!
Before everyone switches to WAV, that's 1 out of 3 hard drives I had
failing
There is a difference. Going to the trouble/time/expense of keeping a
lossless collection and not using EAC is like drinking Johnnie Walker
Blue Label and mixing it with coke.
Wow,
The following is a quote from RME (digital audio company), www.rme-audio.com:We also recommend the use of optical cables. Thus the ADI-1 is the perfect, complete ground isolated front end for RME's digital in/out cards. At no time recordings and playbacks using the PC sounded better! And if anyone
The Elpac WM1005-760 is a linear regulated power supply 5V/2.0A and is
$25.68 at Allied. It appears to be plug play.
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PhilNYC Wrote:
Coincidentially, one of the arguments that says a hard drive is better
than a CD is that the conversion from magnetic to electrical is far
simpler than optical to electrical...
*Snorts milk out of nose* HA! That's great. Guess whoever came up with
that thinks a lightbulb is
Josh Coalson Wrote:
deemphasis would be yet another non-lossless option in a
supposed-to-be-lossless decoder.
Thanks for replying Josh. Thinking about it I guess you are right
about the above - it never occured to me that replaygain shouldn't
really belong in FLAC!
Just have to hope someone
PhilNYC Wrote:
The reason I've heard from some engineers is that the conversion process
from one medium to another (eg. optical to electrical) is where there is
the greatest probability of adding jitter. With coax, everything stays
electrical, but with toslink, the signal must be converted
pfarrell Wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 16:10 -0800, LavaJoe wrote:
seanadams Wrote:
Personally I lean towards optical - if you think timing and signal
integrity are important in hi-fi, imagine high-capacity
inter-continental telecom - there's a reason it's all fiber. :)
Back in
ianjohnson_nz Wrote:
I recently bought a JVC EX-A1 micro system.
That's got JVC's hybrid digital amp in it. I'm running a JVC 201 which
has the same amp design in a 100wpc receiver. It sounds fine as well
and is under 200 bucks now.
General consensus is the Panasonic class D amps sound
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