Similar stuff over in Absolute Sound over the last 18 months. Most
recent, using exactly the same external DAC/audio system, the music was
fed better from a PC than a Mac out to USB into the DAC.
At the end of that article, the authors also decried the vicious
attacks they have been receiving in
Chrobrego wrote:
Not to deviate from the original debate but just to mention the
complexity of the HiFi sound capture and reproduction, I would avoid the
expression bit-perfect but rather call it bit-unperfect. Bit is
digital - not real - world and already translates irremediable sound
netchord wrote:
this is precisely my point. i do want good sound, and could give a fig
whether it's accurate in the engineering sense or not. I've spent
over 10 years performing real live classical music in major concert
halls in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, and the US. i know what
ralphpnj wrote:
Oops! Sorry. I think I need some kind of guide which indicates which
forum members are Kool-Aid drinking die-hard audiophiles who love all of
HP's Super-Discs and which members listen to real music.
But see, now we can not only have time clock variation jitter on
TOSLINK, we
Jeff52 wrote:
I can't tell any difference between FLAC, WAV or other lossless formats,
but I do notice a difference in all formats if the temperature in my
listening room deviates two degrees above or below 68 degrees F. or the
relative humidity levels are above or below 50%. The lower the
Particularly where computers are directly involved, don't discount the
possibility that two different applications are being used for two
different file types. Volume, tone adjustments, etc. could then be
involved, even though the same bits (after decompression in some cases)
are being used.
Mnyb wrote:
I don't get where the poor analogies fit OP is limiting himself to poor
metadata support etc , because he believes WAV sound better
if he stopped doing that he whole collection of music would be easier to
manage.
And enjoyment would increase :)
As the OP, just to be
Personally, I'm a fan of their Quantum Fuses. So, does that mean they
are both good and blown until you look at them?
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So I'm sure many of you fondly remember the series of articles in The
Absolute Sound stating, among other things, that the brand of CD-R made
an audible difference. So there is a letter to the editor in the latest
edition, where the writer states that he had been skeptical of the
findings. But
Archimago wrote:
Oi.
Speaking of those TAS computer audio articles from early 2012, does
anyone subscribe and know if there were many nasty letters to the editor
on all that craziness (or would they not even print critical letters)?
I do subscribe. I do seem to remember one letter asking
Of course, anyone want to take bets on whether he used different player
apps for the .flac, and .wav?
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Me, I'm saving up to buy a few $500/m USB cables... :-)
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concerns, and passed on printing the series.
I have a few issues left on my subscription, but if editorially they
just ignore all this, looks like I'll not be renewing after many
years.
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problem (disk is
failing, for instance) you would get silent gaps between blocks, but
not a degradation of the sound that does play.
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to the subject of this thread
- namely the TAS articles. I'd suggest you may get more response if you
start a new thread on your new topic.
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on, for instance, the
audible effects of WAV/FLAC conversions or RF noise changing the signal
while on a network.
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markets, and so I have a pretty good understanding of large
real time data issues, as well.
I understand you have people who have told you it's all a black art on
the digital side, but I think they are being taken out of context.
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, your bank has the right bank
balance and credit charge history for you, etc. it really is true in
the digital domain that what goes onto the disk or a network comes off
the same way.
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) put a damn catalog of track
information on the CDs! Of course, then we wouldn't have the
anti-jitter industry or the music tagging industry...
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with current Seagates (use several big ones for
backups), but my old 15000 RPM generation 2 SCSI Cheetahs are dying.
But, as the old IT saying goes, there are only two types of drives -
those that have failed, and those that haven't failed yet.
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mileage may vary.
If you haven't found it already, I found this site www.goodcans.com to
have some intelligent reviews.
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