Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Do you use WAV or FLAC ? Pros vs Cons.....Please :-)

! -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32999 ___ audiophiles mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Do you use WAV or FLAC ? Pros vs Cons.....Please :-)

impact, the audio engineering world would be thrown into turmoil! -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32999

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Do you use WAV or FLAC ? Pros vs Cons.....Please :-)

would ever be recorded. OK - some engineers do do things like this, but you get my point ;) Then again - it's not my disk-space... Do what you will with your drives if it makes you happy :) -- Codmate Codmate's Profile

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Do you use WAV or FLAC ? Pros vs Cons.....Please :-)

to psycho-acoustic processors :o) Nah - they're not nearly so finely tuned to direction as other animals. It's really really easy to fool the human ear direction-wise, which is why stereo works. -- Codmate Codmate's Profile

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Do you use WAV or FLAC ? Pros vs Cons.....Please :-)

FLAC and WAV sound identical. FLAC takes up less space and can support useful tags. -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD Rips and Bit Accuracy

, which tend to make Windows fall back to PIO mode on the CD drive, causing problems. Now I'm using dbPowerAmp, and it seems more thorough, although slower. I never had any problems with AudioGrabber at lower speeds though. 8x seemed fine. -- Codmate

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HDTT new download store

masters tracks for commercial CDs and will only burn at 1x when writing disks for customers. -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD Treatments?

with CD players costing four times their price. You certainly don't need to spend 50k to get good computer sound. MOTU units only cost around £1000. -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audio Trends TA-10 Amp (t-amp)

that is something to think about - but otherwise I think these are very impressive little amps for the money and a perfect match for the SB3. -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] An end to A/B/X (DBT) debates? (No, but...)

if you are testing the amplifier, would you then need to get the output from the speakers. Ahhh - that makes much more sense! -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD Treatments?

will be very very surprised at the level of quality you get for a very small outlay. If you need balanced connections, grab the M-Audio Audiophile 192. There are of course, some very, very expensive high-end interfaces out there too... -- Codmate

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Best drive for highest quality CD ripping?

Anything by Plextor at 1x speed. -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32725

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Balanced output/input what is the deal ?

) claim to be, and the inputs on the monitors are definitely) - or should I be using stereo TRS - XLR jacks? -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View this thread: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Balanced output/input what is the deal ?

my mono 1/4 TRS - XLR? -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32699

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] my ripping tool of choice

I rip with AudioGrabber at 8x and then encode to FLAC with Flac Frontend. http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/ http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm I then add genre tags and fix any tag problems with MP3Tag. http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ Works well for me. -- Codmate

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] the goal of audio reproduction

Phil Leigh;177990 Wrote: Yeah - same basic idea...but you can't beat having an ACTUAL grand piano playing :0) Very very true! ...but The Grand is pretty cool nonetheless :) -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] the goal of audio reproduction

sorted! -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32374 ___ audiophiles

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC Encoder recommendations - and a Winamp impression

BTW - I rip to wav at 8x speed with AudioGrabber. I couldn't get the EAC ripper (which is often recommended) to work. I then use 'Flac Frontend', along with the regular FLAC encoder, to convert to FLAC. -- Codmate

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC Encoder recommendations - and a Winamp impression

to track. AFAIK it's not possible to introduce any lossy compression into FLAC. It would defeat the definition of the format after all! ;) -- Codmate Codmate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7154 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] the goal of audio reproduction

'recorded' and be damned for instance!) trying to maintain a tricky balancing act in representing the music as well as possible within the limitations of the chosen media, taking into account multiple scenarios for playback. -- Codmate

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Q:Quality of built-in DAC

It depends on the chipset in your soundcard. I rate the VIA Envy chipset in my Delta66 card quite highly and prefer it to the sound of my Squeezebox's RCA outs. The Squeezebox is superb for bedroom/kitchen etc use; but if you're looking for hi-fi, the Transporter is there for you. -- Codmate

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Problem with Slim Server

would be better off spending money on musical training than the hugely expensive valve mono-blocks he was about to take delivery of ;) Audiophilla may in-fact lead to WWIII if we're not careful ;) -- Codmate Codmate's

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Power for Sonic Impact Super T-Amp

Thanks for the reply, but are you sure that will work? The max output of that supply is 7V, and on the back of the Super-T is says 'DC 12v'? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/ebaypics/si5062b.jpg Cheers :) -- Codmate