Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple Lossless a compromise?

2008-07-04 Thread GuyDebord
jgs;316821 Wrote: > What were your settings before (that weren't so good)? ALAC -> FLAC -- GuyDebord Verity Audio Tamino X2 wired with v/d Hul Inspiration, REL Strata5. AMPS: Pathos Classic One MKIII's in mono config. ANALOGUE: Clearaudio Ambient CMB, Satisfy Carbon & Lyra Helikon SL, ASR Ba

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread moley6knipe
m1abrams;317316 Wrote: > Well I not sure about insecure rippers handling those CDs well. I have > a CD that has this attempt at DRM in place and I did rip it with iTunes > and it ripped very quickly however when I played it back it was full of > pops and clicks. Ran it through EAC and it took

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread Mark Lanctot
m1abrams;317316 Wrote: > Well I not sure about insecure rippers handling those CDs well. I have > a CD that has this attempt at DRM in place and I did rip it with iTunes > and it ripped very quickly however when I played it back it was full of > pops and clicks. Ran it through EAC and it took

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread Mark Lanctot
esbrewer;317310 Wrote: > I'm not sure I follow the reasoning here. > > If iTunes and other less secure rippers popular with the general public > do not get hung up on such purposeful errors - where is the deterrent > value in their inclusion? Well, record companies aren't the sharpest knives

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread m1abrams
esbrewer;317310 Wrote: > I'm not sure I follow the reasoning here. > > If iTunes and other less secure rippers popular with the general public > do not get hung up on such purposeful errors - where is the deterrent > value in their inclusion? Or are the record companies trying to deter > the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread esbrewer
I'm not sure I follow the reasoning here. If iTunes and other less secure rippers popular with the general public do not get hung up on such purposeful errors - where is the deterrent value in their inclusion? Or are the record companies trying to deter the admittedly small percentage of peopl

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread Mark Lanctot
sc53;317065 Wrote: > But if it takes 20 mins per disc (Apple Lossless takes about 5 mins per > disk) or requires tons of initial setup etc. I'd use iTunes and not > worry about that one track out of thousands that may contain an audible > error. There are two separate processes here - ripping an

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread Phil Leigh
darrenyeats;317288 Wrote: > Well I did say IME. :) > > Perhaps I'm spoiled with cdparanoia on Linux...the following sums up my > view. http://folk.uio.no/hpv/linuxtoons/dilbert-unix.png > Darren That made me laugh - thanks Darren! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread m1abrams
david_a_woodward;317191 Wrote: > Wow, thanks for all the help, very active forum!! thought a question > about iTunes v open standards might provoke some debate! > Ah now see you posted in the Audiophile forums. If you wanted some debate you should ask if a $10,000 power cord for your refriger

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread darrenyeats
Phil Leigh;317064 Wrote: > There are some discs with flawed copy protection schemas that need many > many sector re-reads to get the data off acurately... > > For example, I have The Beatles Let it Be Naked that takes 2 hours to > rip with EAC and the disc is in physically mint condition! Well I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What DAC to use?

2008-07-04 Thread Pascal Hibon
Robin Bowes;317136 Wrote: > > Pascal, > > These are PA speakers, designed for high-volume sound-reinforcement. > > Sure, yours will be great for a party in a big room, but I'll be > extremely surprised if they can reproduce sound as accurately as a pair > > of hifi speakers. > > R. One of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What DAC to use?

2008-07-04 Thread Pat Farrell
Robin Bowes wrote: > These are PA speakers, designed for high-volume sound-reinforcement. > > Sure, yours will be great for a party in a big room, but I'll be > extremely surprised if they can reproduce sound as accurately as a pair > of hifi speakers. Big room? Some PA speakers can fill footba

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What DAC to use?

2008-07-04 Thread sebp
Robin Bowes;317207 Wrote: > Conversely, hifi speakers wouldn't be all that good at a stadium gig > [3]. Notwithstanding the audience would probably not appreciate Martin Logan's spoiling their sight ... :D -- sebp System : Mac Mini for ripping to FLAC (Max) > SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 running on a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Question for Sean

2008-07-04 Thread gsawdy
Thanks all for the replies, I think SuperQ's idea makes good sense. That's what I'll do--use both. George -- gsawdy gsawdy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14330 View this thread: http://forums

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hi-frequency content of 24/96 files?

2008-07-04 Thread Patrick Dixon
The first sweep looks very much like aliasing caused by initial sampling at 44.1KHz, with a 96KHz anti-aliasing filter applied on top. The 22.05KHz to 30KHz-ish region, looks quite like a mirror image of 22.05KHz-14.1KHz-ish. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What DAC to use?

2008-07-04 Thread Robin Bowes
sebp wrote: > Robin Bowes;317136 Wrote: >> Sure, yours will be great for a party in a big room, but I'll be >> extremely surprised if they can reproduce sound as accurately as a pair >> of hifi speakers.R. > Audiophiles really have no mercy. > Hope you enjoyed the trip, Pascal. ;-) I'm no audioph

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What DAC to use?

2008-07-04 Thread Saughassy
I can only repeat myself, but now i ve actual prices. An Old Audio Analogue (1.1, 1.2 DDE) can be buy from 110-130 USD. Real bargain, so if you would like to upgrade but haven't much money, hear one of these old stuffs. Improvement will be signifcant if D/A was the bottleneck of system. -- Saug

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What DAC to use?

2008-07-04 Thread BigTony
There is nothing so fierce as an audiophile rattled. I bought got an SB3 15 months ago, and after 2 months of excitement and ripping cd's I started to realise that there was something missing in the output compared to my CD player (Musical Fidelity A3). Of course, the functionality of the SB3

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC or ALAC that is the question!?

2008-07-04 Thread david_a_woodward
Wow, thanks for all the help, very active forum!! thought a question about iTunes v open standards might provoke some debate! I have downloaded dbpoweramp and am very impressed, seen enough to decide this is the way to go, and rip to FLAC and also MP3 for iPod. Just need to figure out how I get th