[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Upgrade Advice

2007-01-27 Thread geraint smith
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[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Apple to allow music with Fairplay DRM to be streamed?

2007-01-20 Thread geraint smith
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[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Interesting article on CD loudness

2007-01-19 Thread geraint smith
way - and it was truly ghastly. The internals of the Shuffle are - I imagine - nothing like as competent as those of the top of range video iPod, but even so - well, what a complete waste to use an iPod to play iTunes Music Store crud. -- geraint smith

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Lossless Downloads

2007-01-14 Thread geraint smith
, and I've decided that I can put up with them no longer. Either I download lossless files (preferably AIFF or ALAC) or else I grit the teeth and return, wailing, to haunt Amazon again. Geraint. -- geraint smith geraint

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Need to brighten sound of new SB3 -- Transporter or DAC?

2007-01-12 Thread geraint smith
, in the mildest possible way, that he is not entirely alone, and that at least the desert rat has had the good grace (and pragmatic wisdom) to apologise. ;^) -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: AppleTV

2007-01-11 Thread geraint smith
Robin Bowes;169007 Wrote: geraint smith wrote: If only FLAC worked with iTunes (or vice versa), or else that there were another music ripping/tagging/labelling all-in-one product for Mac OSX that was as easy, and worked as well as, iTunes. But it doesn't, and there isn't

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: AppleTV

2007-01-11 Thread geraint smith
lafayette;169093 Wrote: I am an attorney, and...logic matters to me. Are you sure you're a lawyer? I've never heard one say that before. The ones I know say logic can go hang provided that they win. -- geraint smith

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: AppleTV

2007-01-11 Thread geraint smith
, Robin! -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31480

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: AppleTV

2007-01-10 Thread geraint smith
is now) is that programmes for PCs don't seem to like it much. There there, very sad, never mind. But tagging is not an issue with Aiff. You can - and I do, using iTunes - tag Aiff as easily, comprehensively and well as one can tag FLAC, and a darned site better than one can tag WAV. -- geraint

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: AppleTV

2007-01-10 Thread geraint smith
. Just think, folks, now this new improved flavour brings you drop outs at five times the speed. Unless, of course, you plug your Squeezebox into your Airport Express, when you will get none at all (saving the cordless phone next door, your honour). -- geraint smith

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: AppleTV

2007-01-10 Thread geraint smith
when you are calling home at Christmas? :-) Aaargh! Don't! Jobs has ears everywhere! It'll be in production in time for Q4! Geraint. -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: sound stage width

2006-12-31 Thread geraint smith
that even that isn't such certain advice as would have been thought a few years ago, given all we've found out in the last few years about the individuality and practiced skills inherent in birdsong). Anyway, enough of the metaphysical ramblings. A Happy and prosperous New Year to all! -- geraint smith

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: 320kbps -- too much?

2006-12-15 Thread geraint smith
next to Meatloaf, Wizzard mixed up with Warlock, and the Beach Boys jostling with Beethoven, there's always the remote - and yes, I agree about the remote. It is painfully slow. Have you solved your drop out problem? -- geraint smith

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: 320kbps -- too much?

2006-12-14 Thread geraint smith
in our case would be AIFF. In other words, I wouldn't start from here, if I were you..but as I'm not, I'd like to understand your reasoning. It may well be better than mine. Geraint. -- geraint smith geraint smith's

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: 320kbps -- too much?

2006-12-14 Thread geraint smith
! Don't you have an axe? -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30594

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: 320kbps -- too much?

2006-12-14 Thread geraint smith
!! Slightly more seriously, at that bitrate (320kbps) I'd be fairly surprised if you could hear much difference, if any. But just think of all that lovely innocent information you're consigning to eternal oblivion.sniffI'm sorrysniff.it's just too sad... -- geraint smith

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: WMA lossless vs EAC

2006-12-06 Thread geraint smith
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[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: WMA lossless vs EAC

2006-12-06 Thread geraint smith
DRM - but not always, eg if you rip the file yourself. -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30325

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Room correction products

2006-12-06 Thread geraint smith
the response corners look like diapers :-) Does anyone here know a UK supplier for this stuff, please? Looks interesting! -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: WMA lossless vs EAC

2006-12-06 Thread geraint smith
in an ordinary domestic/car CD player?) It seems silly not to have the extra versatility, even though Aiff eats iPod storage like there's no tomorrow. Which is why I use both, I suppose! -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: WMA lossless vs EAC

2006-12-06 Thread geraint smith
not convert to PCM. Stupid of me. Is it my imagination, or are senior moments coming earlier this year? -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: WMA lossless vs EAC

2006-12-06 Thread geraint smith
likely to raise the bitrate on protected AAC, perhaps charging a premium for the better quality, if they do anything - although given the phenomenal success of crappy bitrates and lossy formats, why would they bother? -- geraint smith

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: TP changes with break in

2006-11-28 Thread geraint smith
stuff. Well, wow, is all I can say. I mean, I could be 400 yards from the stage. Brilliant. Mind you, the Dowland sounds bloody awful. What? Did I say something wrong? -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: There must be a better way for this forum to operate.

2006-11-27 Thread geraint smith
I like the idea, as long as I can make jokes. :-) Back to the drawing board, then..although they did always say that the 12 step could work miracles... (I know, I know! Cheap shot. Just couldn't resist!) -- geraint smith

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Room Correction Hope for Mac?

2006-11-27 Thread geraint smith
LejfK;157737 Wrote: Vote three Make that four. -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29705

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking for advice

2006-11-16 Thread geraint smith
to!) to investigate further, but it was a nasty surprise. This is using SS 6.5 on an SB2, by the way. It's just struck me as I write that I'm not sure whether I told iTunes to switch it from 48kHz to 44.1kHz during the conversion (and haven't had time to check whether this matters). -- geraint smith

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking for advice

2006-11-16 Thread geraint smith
hurt, but it was on one track only, and stopped immediately I hit pause. More a white noise of catnap, by comparison. -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View