Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dan Lavry, design guru new white paper on the Optimal Sampling Rate for Audio!

2012-07-11 Thread andy_c
AndyN wrote: If I understand correctly; for the Nyquist sampling to result in a perfectly reconstructible waveform (at the receiving end) the sampled waveform must be repetitive and the waveform must be sampled for a period that is long in comparison to the waveform. The requirement for

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dan Lavry, design guru new white paper on the Optimal Sampling Rate for Audio!

2012-07-11 Thread magiccarpetride
darrenyeats wrote: Common sense at last. Funny how red book keeps on getting better as you add room treatments and better loudspeakers...16/44 is by far the smallest problem, if problem it is, in even the very best installations. Probably the biggest barrier to realism is the way music is

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dan Lavry, design guru new white paper on the Optimal Sampling Rate for Audio!

2012-07-11 Thread banned for life
magiccarpetride wrote: I would much rather listen to a well recorded, well mixed and mastered mp3 than to a shoddily recorded/mixed/mastered 24/192 FLAC. +1 Try the recently remastered Blue In Green from Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis (Of course, I'm not listening to an MP3 version)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dan Lavry, design guru new white paper on the Optimal Sampling Rate for Audio!

2012-07-11 Thread banned for life
SlimChances wrote: Yet My Golden Ears require at least 24/196 to listen to “Muskrat Love” The Captain and Tennille (1976) Love your pic. Now I know how some here hear so well. I wasn't away of a Beats version. bfl +---+

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dan Lavry, design guru new white paper on the Optimal Sampling Rate for Audio!

2012-07-11 Thread SBGK
magiccarpetride wrote: I would much rather listen to a well recorded, well mixed and mastered mp3 than to a shoddily recorded/mixed/mastered 24/192 FLAC. life's too short to listen to mp3, who records/mixes/masters in mp3 ? The amount of reviews of digital music reduces the chance of having

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dac not compatable with SBT?

2012-07-11 Thread adamdea
cfraser wrote: In the audiophile world (parallel universe...), ASRC is kin to satan. Just kin though. i.e. 88.2kHz-96kHz sample rate If somebody sold 96/24 downloads that had ASRC previously applied to them, they'd sure hear about it, and so would just about everyone else. It's not easy

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dan Lavry, design guru new white paper on the Optimal Sampling Rate for Audio!

2012-07-11 Thread andy_c
SBGK wrote: life's too short to listen to mp3, who records/mixes/masters in mp3 ? I doubt that any audiophile type would save their own personal collection to MP3. That said, when I want to discover new music (and who doesn't?), I listen to internet radio, which is almost exclusively MP3.