Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-01-04 Thread marcoc1712
Hi All, i'm back from a W.E. spent with my family, not flyng Kite but Hill Walking on the snow, hope is the same for you ... :-). Wow, lot of people now in this Thread! I think you are moving far too deep in techical matter for me, but is Ok, I'll keep on reading, may be I could learn

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Beatles 24 vs 16 bits...

2010-01-04 Thread cliveb
Stratmangler;499634 Wrote: I agree that the sample rate seems to be the key to improved audio - most of the music DVD's that I have are AC3 on the stereo tracks, which transcodes to 16/48 files. The audio on these discs is better than CD with no exceptions - perhaps I've been lucky in this

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-01-04 Thread Pat Farrell
marcoc1712 wrote: What sound strange to me is that we need to debate about the possibility that different transport sound different via the same DAC. They do, If not, why should we have so many company selling transports (and different models of them) on the market? Because we are a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Beatles 24 vs 16 bits...

2010-01-04 Thread ralphpnj
Throwing my 2ยข in I can tell you that I spoke with my daughter's boyfriend, who happens to be a digital mastering engineer, and he told me the following: When music is prepared for issuing on a CD all the mixing and editing is done at 24 bit and whatever sampling rate the engineer is comfortable

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-01-04 Thread DCtoDaylight
pfarrell;502588 Wrote: I think jitter is an excuse for the vendors to claim that their products are better. i.e. pure marketing hype. I think the big problem is that the term jitter has been miss-used so much, that it has lost much credibility. I've seen -speaker cables- marketed as being

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sound quality between wav and flac

2010-01-04 Thread Pat Farrell
DCtoDaylight wrote: pfarrell;502588 Wrote: I think jitter is an excuse for the vendors to claim that their products are better. i.e. pure marketing hype. I think the big problem is that the term jitter has been miss-used so much, that it has lost much credibility. I've seen -speaker

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] My Transporter makes strange noises

2010-01-04 Thread dizzysnakepilot
ah that makes more sense. so the wires are picking up wireless emissions *from* the transporter antennas. and in this case they were indeed wires from the preamp, past the transporter and to the amps which are at the bottom. thanks for the explanation! -- dizzysnakepilot