While the whole article is a piece of comic fiction, complete with so
many factual misrepresentations about CD replay that it's not worth
even trying to list them, two things did strike me as interesting:
1. Thay claim that the laser angle is adjusted during re-reads. I have
no idea whether this
opaqueice;169737 Wrote:
I see... your crossovers are customized for your speakers? Sounds
pretty hard to get right otherwise - you'd have to match the phase
versus frequency curve for each driver and cancel it out, which would
mean adjusting the characteristics of the crossover depending on
In some systems, toslink is markedly superior to coax for a variety of
reasons. You can't generically say that one is better than another -
you need to try it in your system/home.
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Two of the speaker manufacturers I most like - Living Voice and Audio
Note - reckon that time alignment is crucially important. To this end
they use 2-way speakers with very simple crossovers, and spend a lot of
time matching each speaker (and each pair of speakers).
I don't know how easy to
One of the benfits of active is driver time-alignment - quite tricky
to do with passive x-overs - some complexity is
required...manufacturers often resort to physically stepping the
baffles to do this - I think BW were the first in the 1970's (was it
the DM1? - the pregnant one)
A benefit of DRC
AVI's existing small bookshelf speaker, the active Neutron IV, retails
for about £1050 in the UK. I've not heard the active versions but the
speakers themselves are stunningly transparent and seem to punch well
above their diminutive size. They need to be sited on stands to get the
best out of
lafayette:
Your observations are a little undersupported by the data. :) I doubt
that anyone else here was as upset by all of this as you were. I've
been zinging you more out of perversity than anything else.
That said, now that the gloves are off, I'll make a few observations
which I think are
opaqueice;169377 Wrote:
I'm more and more sympathetic with the school of thought that says
source + powered speakers - and as little else as possible - is the way
to go. And the amp-per-driver design with active crossover also seems
ideal.
Anyone have any experience with the Linkwitz
The AVIs look interesting, but what's with the FEET on the website?
Get those dogs off the couch, buddy!
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PhilNYC;169781 Wrote:
It's also my understanding that software such as EAC provides statistics
on each rip in terms of how many reads were necessary to get a 100%
bit-accurate read. Maybe some of you guys who use EAC can report what
you get in terms of read accuracy?
The EAC ripping window
I'm wondering what download stores are selling music in lossless
formats, ideally without DRM. I came across musicgiants.com but its
selection is pretty limited. Have any of the big vendors started this
yet? It's a nonsense to me to pay for lossy downloads.
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lafayette;169793 Wrote:
I, for one, don't get the need to whine on Internet forums.
Why not?
The OP clearly attempted to get BC to correct this oversight or blatant
cash grab, in complete privacy. They failed to do so or even bother to
answer.
They were given the opportunity to correct the
jhenderson010759;169958 Wrote:
I have built a set of Orions for my primary two channel listening rig.
These displaced some MTMs that I had built earlier (which in turn
displaced some old Dahlquist DQ10's). The Orions are fantastic
speakers - so good that I'm in the process of building
The Dussun is probably a low feedback design. Those ultra low THD
figures are usually the result of tons and tons of negative feedback.
Did you get a McIntosh amp? What model?
Skunk;169516 Wrote:
www.audioclassics.com (affiliated only as satisfied cust) sells used
Mcintosh amps that 'meet
The MP uses a Plextor PX-716AL drive with a feature called
IntelligentTilt that controls the laser in three dimensions, to ensure
high quality writing and reading if the disc surface has imperfections.
cliveb;169917 Wrote:
1. Thay claim that the laser angle is adjusted during re-reads. I have
Check http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21708 and
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27177 Watch out for
MusicGiants - see
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=164080postcount=5
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Robin Bowes;169714 Wrote:
What utter tosh.
R.
Ah, new audio term Tosh-link
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crooner;169976 Wrote:
The Dussun is probably a low feedback design. Those ultra low THD
figures are usually the result of tons and tons of negative feedback.
Did you get a McIntosh amp? What model?
Thanks for more than a curt 'specs don't tell the whole story'
response, I'll keep that in
jhm731 wrote:
The MP uses a Plextor PX-716AL drive with a feature called
IntelligentTilt that controls the laser in three dimensions, to ensure
high quality writing and reading if the disc surface has imperfections.
Hey, I've got several of those in various PC/servers!
Perhaps if I write some
opaqueice;169972 Wrote:
Thanks for the response - that's very useful information.
Do you have any thoughts on whether replacing the analogue crossover
with a DEQX would improve the performance of the Orions even more?
The Orion analog crossover (ASP) is nearly ideally suited to the task.
Mark Lanctot;169973 Wrote:
It would be about as convincing and sincere as a Mel Gibson or Michael
Richards apology
You made me snort coffee through my nose!
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adamslim;169890 Wrote:
I've kinda moved to relying on AccurateRip as much as EAC.
Adam,
Thanks for the pointer.
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totoro;170016 Wrote:
You made me snort coffee through my nose!
Sorry. :-)
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Hi guys
I have an SB3 (with the new mars bar remote). It is being served from a
Qnap TS-201 from Progressive running 6.3.1. The SB3 firmware is 55.
When running normally the SBs response is instant to the remote. I have
had no performance problems. I'm going over wireless from a LinkSys 54G
AP
totoro;170016 Wrote:
You made me snort coffee through my nose!
Is that better than red bull?
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www.magnatune.com
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Is that better than red bull?
Mark-- you should be!
Skunk-- I think yes. A sugar crust on the nose really hurts.
:)
cheers,
Michael
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jan van mourik;169889 Wrote:
I'm talking either optical or coax digital input so I can connect my
SB2...
The linn unidisk, off the top of my head, is a universal player that
does it. I know Cary,Meridian,Wadia etc have it for audio.
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On the flash wearing out issue, its not really that bad. There are
different types of flash, some can go to over 100,000 writes.
The number of writes is to a specific address, not to the chip as a
whole, thus most flash disks have an internal algorithm that spreads
the writes around so the same
Update: the Inguz room correction EQ system is now running on Linux
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31620).
Mac OSX support should be quite straightforward. But I don't have a Mac
to play on yet...
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I generally recommend www.amazon.whateverTLD. You need a little
patience (it can take days, scarcely acceptable in these days of
instant gratification and high bandwidth), but you get lossless music
with no DRM, a convenient system to store your backup in, often
includes front *and back* cover
jhm731;169984 Wrote:
The MP uses a Plextor PX-716AL drive with a feature called
IntelligentTilt that controls the laser in three dimensions, to ensure
high quality writing and reading if the disc surface has imperfections.
Thanks for the clarification - I was not aware that this was a feature
JohnSwenson;170044 Wrote:
Nobody has yet brought up my favorite piece of info from the web site,
DLLs. They say it unloads all the DLLs every clock cycle. Huh? They
don't say what clock, even if its the 44.1KHz clock thats got to be a
pretty fast procesor to find and unload all the DLLs 44
SteveEast;170074 Wrote:
They seem to be trying to avoid memory fragmentation:
DLL Unloads: Perhaps the single greatest jitter creator, DLLs (Dynamic
Link Libraries, part of all computer programs). DLLs lie
on memory as huge blocks that the purified music information must be
written
The URL is giving me an error. Is this correct? or part of the take
days feature?
adamslim;170053 Wrote:
I generally recommend www.amazon.whateverTLD. You need a little
patience (it can take days, scarcely acceptable in these days of
instant gratification and high bandwidth), but you get
I wouldn't trade with these rats if they were the only online service
around even though all my music is legal. This is from the Music
Giants Privacy Policy:
... If you have registered with us, we collect information about what
music files you possess on the PC you use to sign up with our
Cool, Skunk! That Linn Unidisk SC looks quite nice! Only problem it's
probably about 2 to 2.5 times the price I want to pay :-). Instead of
getting a Transporter I'd like to get something like this... Maybe someday
on audigon or Ebay?
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audiophiles
Maybe half of the music avaliable at allofmp3.com was recorded in a
lossless format. They allow you to choose the format for your download
(FLAC is an option) and charge by the megabyte. Be warned that the
legality of downloads from there is in question.
If an album says OE (Online Encoding)
totoro;169581 Wrote:
You don't really need an integrated. You can use the volume control of
the sb3 with a pair of attenuators as insurance.
Can you suggest a good attenuator?
Also, I am bidding on a BK ST-140, people seem to like it and some
have successfully used it with the Vandies...
crooner;170080 Wrote:
The URL is giving me an error. Is this correct? or part of the take
days feature?
I believe that the last part of the URL in www.amazon.whateverTLD
stands for whatever Top Level Domain. So that would be www.amazon.com
or www.amazon.co.uk or whatever is appropriate for
Ok, so it's just plain ol' Amazon
I thought it was some wacky amazon alternative!
Thanks for clarifying...
aubuti;170103 Wrote:
I believe that the last part of the URL in www.amazon.whateverTLD stands
for whatever Top Level Domain. So that would be www.amazon.com or
www.amazon.co.uk or
wdrazek;170087 Wrote:
I wouldn't trade with these rats if they were the only online service
around even though all my music is legal. This is from the Music
Giants Privacy Policy:
... If you have registered with us, we collect information about what
music files you possess on the PC you
What is the best way to connect a sb3 to a Derek Shek d1, coax or
optical? And which brand nodel of cable? My only experience is
connecting a dvd player to a dolby digital receiver with a coax lead
with rca phono connections. Will this lead do until I can buy something
more suitable?
Keith
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