Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Questions re 24 bit audio

2009-09-21 Thread peber
DCtoDaylight;459796 Wrote: I've found a fair number of music/concert dvd's have a 24/48 PCM stereo soundtrack, which can be ripped fairly easily... Excuse the obvious question but...how? /Per -- peber peber's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Questions re 24 bit audio

2009-09-21 Thread Quad
peber;460071 Wrote: Excuse the obvious question but...how? /Per Try www.castudio.org/dvdaudioextractor/. Sometimes there are audio tracks up to 24bit/96kHz on a DVD video. -- Quad Quad's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread jaredcoe
Thank you to everyone who posted! The only reason I want to stay away from powered speakers are because I want to do an in ceiling mount. Also, I thought the price would be cheaper to buy 1 multi-channel amp and non-powered speakers rather than multiple sets of powered speakers. So, 100 foot

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread Phil Leigh
jaredcoe;460187 Wrote: Thank you to everyone who posted! The only reason I want to stay away from powered speakers are because I want to do an in ceiling mount. Also, I thought the price would be cheaper to buy 1 multi-channel amp and non-powered speakers rather than multiple sets of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread Themis
pfarrell;460027 Wrote: I would not do it that way. Don't run long RCA cable. It has zero noise immunity. There is a reason that professional studios use XLR for long runs. Perhaps with an XLR cable and the appropriate adapters each side ? -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Denon 3808

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread Keymaster
Transporter has XLR's;) Sorry...I had to...:) -- Keymaster Keymaster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30281 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68131

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread iPhone
Themis;460206 Wrote: Perhaps an XLR cable and the appropriate adapters each side would do the job ? XLR cables are not really XLR if adapters are involved to RCA (sure its an XLR cable, but the signal being carried isn't XLR). There would be no protection against noise. Transporter is the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread iPhone
Andy8421;460235 Wrote: As a general rule, I think you want to keep all leads (both speaker and signal) as short as possible. I have my power amps located close to the speakers and run balanced connections from pre amp to power amps. Given the choice of either shorter speaker leads or

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread pfarrell
Themis wrote: Perhaps with an XLR cable and the appropriate adapters each side ? No, XRL is three wire, ground and + signal and - signal. The two +/- are how it suppresses noise. Nothing with two wires is going to work for long cables. How long is long is a personal question, to me, 6 feet

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread ralphpnj
Here's another approach to the problem of the long cable runs but I'm not sure of the implications. What if the centrally located amp were an A/V receiver with a built-in DAC and multiple digital inputs. So instead of using long runs of RCA cable carrying line level analog signals, long runs of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread jaredcoe
ralphpnj, my original idea was to have duets sit next to the amp and use my ipod touch to control them. But, when I saw the SB Touch and the wall mount pics I fell in love with the look and feel of that installation. As far as long runs of fiber cable, I would be interested to see if that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Questions re 24 bit audio

2009-09-21 Thread DCtoDaylight
dvdaudioextractor is the one I use as well... If you like Neil Young, he's been releasing disc's with 24/96 dvd video tracks lately. Of course the original source material for these 35 year old concerts wasn't always state of the art, even then! -- DCtoDaylight Audiophile wish list: Zero

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread ralphpnj
jaredcoe;460294 Wrote: ralphpnj, my original idea was to have duets sit next to the amp and use my ipod touch to control them. But, when I saw the SB Touch and the wall mount pics I fell in love with the look and feel of that installation. As far as long runs of fiber cable, I would be

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread Andy8421
In principle, fibre should be able to support very long runs (20KM between repeaters on the TAT undersea cables) but that is with very pure glass and high power drivers/repeaters. The usual stuff sold for toslink cables is of very much lower quality and I believe that most toslink drivers in

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio quality of very long RCA cables...

2009-09-21 Thread konut
A poster on this forum, art, claims his proprietary coax can be used as long as 100'. See this post at AudioCircle. http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=60136.msg535663;topicseen#msg535663 -- konut konut's Profile: