Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread Julf
drmatt wrote: > If they aren't careful 4G will become the defacto replacement for wired > home broadband.. Already happening to quite some degree up in Finland. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Cables? How about a Personal Electric Service

2016-08-15 Thread Julf
"“It’s completely beyond my understanding,” says his wife, Reiko, 57. “But if I take it away from him, he will lose the motivation to live.” " "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread Archimago
ralphpnj wrote: > Finally we agree! Hang on boys. Don't be quick to agree :-) It may be "smart" in a cunningly foxy kind of way... But it's the size of poorly losslessly compressible 24/44. Not 16/44. There's at least a 50% difference. Among other contentious issues... Archimago's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Cables? How about a Personal Electric Service

2016-08-15 Thread drmatt
Genius... Surely the discerning audiophile goes straight to batteries as a power source anyway? drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread ralphpnj
drmatt wrote: > Bah, get over it. It's another smart compression algorithm that puts all > the goodies from a 24/192 files into a 16/44. What's not to like? Apart > from the license fee of course... :) > > On the other hand I can say I will probably never buy or hear an mqa > device/file, so I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread drmatt
Bah, get over it. It's another smart compression algorithm that puts all the goodies from a 24/192 files into a 16/44. What's not to like? Apart from the license fee of course... :) On the other hand I can say I will probably never buy or hear an mqa device/file, so I find myself not really

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread ralphpnj
This just leaked: MQA broadband! Using super secret proprietary techniques MQA has now developed MQA broadband. In simple terms the broadband signal is analyzed for blank or empty data packets and then these empty data packets are "filled" with data from other non-empty data packets. The

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Cables? How about a Personal Electric Service

2016-08-15 Thread Mnyb
garym wrote: > For the "audiophile" that has everything. Oh my! :rolleyes: > > *A Gift for Music Lovers Who Have It All: A Personal Utility Pole* > http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463 > > (sorry, I don't have the full

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Cables? How about a Personal Electric Service

2016-08-15 Thread garym
For the "audiophile" that has everything. Oh my! :rolleyes: *A Gift for Music Lovers Who Have It All: A Personal Utility Pole* http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463 *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New study on vinyl buyers

2016-08-15 Thread RonM
Methinks he doth protest too much. . . LMS on a dedicated server (FitPC3) Transporter (Ethernet) - main listening, Onkyo receiver, Paradigm speakers Touch (WiFi) - home theater 5.1, Sony receiver, Energy speakers Boom 1 (WiFi) - work-space Boom 2 (WiFi) - various (deck, garage, etc.) Radio

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread Julf
drmatt wrote: > On the topic of broadband.. Well I can say that there are still plenty > of parts of the UK and US, supposed to be highly developed economies, > where broadband speeds are struggling to reach the 8mbit recommended for > Netflix.. True. But then you have places like Finland,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A Look at MQA...

2016-08-15 Thread drmatt
On the topic of broadband.. Well I can say that there are still plenty of parts of the UK and US, supposed to be highly developed economies, where broadband speeds are struggling to reach the 8mbit recommended for Netflix..