Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread rkeeney
kkitts;209013 Wrote: > I'll likely listen the 16 bit recordings and do just a few select > favorites over... I know most audiophiles would cringe to read this butthe quality of the source material (the LP and the transfer to digital) matters a whole lot more than whether it's in 16 or 24 bit

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread kkitts
Very interesting discussion. I hadn't thought about recording in 24 bit. I will give that a try. However, like others - a secondary purpose of converting the albums was to get them into CD format as well - for playback in a car. Hm... my Acura TL has DVD-Audio playback as well - I bet I could play

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread rkeeney
krochat;209007 Wrote: > Wave Corrector looks really good, but according to the FAQ only supports > 16-bit recordings. I prefer 24-bit recording for LPs. > ( http://www.wavecor.co.uk/faq.html#BM24_bit ) > > Kim Correct. Since many of my LPs are then converted to standard CDs, 16 bit is all I ca

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread krochat
rkeeney;209000 Wrote: > I have used Wave Corrector for several years and versions... Wave Corrector looks really good, but according to the FAQ only supports 16-bit recordings. I prefer 24-bit recording for LPs. ( http://www.wavecor.co.uk/faq.html#BM24_bit ) Kim -- krochat

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread rkeeney
kkitts;208633 Wrote: > Hi All, > I have a collection of LPs from college (over 20 years ago) and some > of these don't seem to be available on CD. The LPs are in surprisingly > good shape and I've perfected a method of recording each LP to wav on a > computer. I'm pretty happy with the results.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Headless music server

2007-06-14 Thread Kiwi
You may want to consider running WHS. Your machine needs 512 MB of RAM to run it but I found it to be very useful for running SS as a headless setup. I am able to locate it where I don't have to listen to any noise from it and I have filled it with 7 disks for a total of 1.3 TB. All of these disks

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread Pale Blue Ego
You might want to think about capturing your LPs in a 24-bit WAV format before splitting and converting to FLAC. The Squeezebox will handle 24-bit/48kHz FLACs, and they should sould better than 16/44.1. Also, think about the future. Most likely at some point, ALL digital music playback systems

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread btcompute
You might want to take a look at whatever cd writer software you may already have on your PC. Most versions of Roxio's CD Creator software come with track splitting routines. I suspect Nero might do it also. -- btcompute

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Word clock specifications?

2007-06-14 Thread seanadams
I should add that there is a newly discovered bug that the word clock input will not activate until you disconnect and reconnect to the server, or do a soft reset by pressing and holding the power button. -- seanadams sea

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Word clock specifications?

2007-06-14 Thread fred1322
Work fine for me with a Rosendhal Nanoclock -- fred1322 fred1322's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8994 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36044 _

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Stax "Earspeakers"

2007-06-14 Thread Phil Leigh
Thanks - these are very interesting experiences. Sadly my phones have not yet arrived (hopefully tomorrow). If they do indeed sound like ESL's on your ears I will be very happy! I'm not a fan of Grado's (heresy I know but I find them rather tiresome) - and Sennheiser 650's left me rather "cold". I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread Heuer
Spin It Again software http://www.acoustica.com/spinitagain/ will capture the wav and do track splitting into whatever bit depth (16 or 24) and sampe rate (44.1, 48, 96, 192k) you want. Very easy to use with voice guidance and it is free to try. FLACfrontend will convert the wav to the lossless F

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread Timothy Stockman
I second haunyack's suggestion of the FLAC frontend GUI program. There's also a similar GUI program called the TAG frontend that allows one to add/edit/replace the tags without re-encoding the file. I've also got a few little programs I wrote to, in a similar way, generate a bat file of metaflac

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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread kkitts
Cool... Thanks... I will take a look. Kevin -- kkitts kkitts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36082

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] DAC comparison

2007-06-14 Thread Videodrome
That would be a good point to start to learn more about the DAC. On a general level, I can personally vouch for CJ products. I have owned one of their preamps (PV-8) and we used to sell their entire product line when I worked retail back in the 80s. Their customer service is very good. You may

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sb4 ?

2007-06-14 Thread Balthazar_B
soupdragon;208815 Wrote: > > the sb3 size/shape/style is fine - just make it 24/96 compat with state > of art DAC and clean psu, ie performance of transporter in the sb3 size > ! > > shouldnt be too uch of a tall order what with miniturization etc ! > I don't know about state-of-the-art DAC

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sb4 ?

2007-06-14 Thread soupdragon
cant swallow the transporter jnr idea. the sb3 size/shape/style is fine - just make it 24/96 compat with state of art DAC and clean psu, ie performance of transporter in the sb3 size ! shouldnt be too uch of a tall order what with miniturization etc ! Liam -- soupdragon SB3 + Cyrus CD6 + J

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Wav -> Flac? / Tools

2007-06-14 Thread cliveb
kkitts;208633 Wrote: > Are there other tools that might "cut" tracks out of a wav file. So far you've had plenty of replies concerning the conversion to FLAC part of your enquiry, but not much about the track-splitting requirement. The program you should take a look at is called CD Wave (www.cdwa