[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Q:Best BUDGET power or integrated AMP (under$1000)

2007-01-19 Thread tom permutt
slimkid;171782 Wrote: I never heard it, but there's Jolida amp with 100w/ch, with tube preamp and SS amp, which might be an interesting choice too.I have it. I like it, but if you're thinking 200 W, our tastes are enough different that my experience is probably irrelevant. -- tom permutt

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: WMA lossless vs EAC

2006-12-06 Thread tom permutt
, as you say, that's you. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30325

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Upsampling

2006-08-25 Thread tom permutt
are precisely 320 of the other. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26685

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Compact integrated amplifier

2006-06-08 Thread tom permutt
with Class D amps, I believe. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24555

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Compact integrated amplifier

2006-06-08 Thread tom permutt
mechanism, which you aren't using anyway. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24555

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: an interesting experiment with absolute polarity

2006-05-11 Thread tom permutt
a case of the pot and the kettle ... -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23759

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: an interesting experiment with absolute polarity

2006-05-10 Thread tom permutt
by summing a pure sine with another at twice the frequency. See image.This image is not in fact the sum of a sine wave with another at twice the frequency. The average over time of the sum of two functions is the sum of the averages, so that if they both have zero mean, the sum does, too. -- tom

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: an interesting experiment with absolute polarity

2006-05-10 Thread tom permutt
mean zero; I don't see any meaningful sense in which this can be called DC. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: an interesting experiment with absolute polarity

2006-05-10 Thread tom permutt
will not charge a capacitor, for example. Anyway, we understand each other now, and I think we are all agreed that whatever we call them, these shapes are the kind we very much _do_ want to see across our speaker terminals. -- tom permutt

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: an interesting experiment with absolute polarity

2006-05-10 Thread tom permutt
bells because the tones are not harmonic. Your test signal was not only asymmetrical but nonharmonic. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: an interesting experiment with absolute polarity

2006-05-09 Thread tom permutt
most people perceive a remarkable change in sound from a sine wave played by a single speaker in an ordinary room, just by turning their heads. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: anybody want to share outstanding FLACs?

2006-04-17 Thread tom permutt
that is, in fact, the point: we could have a flamewar about whether it's your analog gear or your recording gear or the gear on the sides of your head that are so hopelessly short of audiophile standards. What will you have learned, though? -- tom permutt

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Ripping Vinyl

2006-03-09 Thread tom permutt
equipment, already has enough noise in it that I, anyway, am not going to notice these additional effects. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Ripping Vinyl

2006-03-09 Thread tom permutt
and genetics are taking their toll on my hearing, anyway. Even so, at this point, my ears and equipment are still good enough that the main problem is probably my house. Standing waves ... -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Ripping Vinyl

2006-03-08 Thread tom permutt
in and find they last about a millisecond, and the listening is a little better without that millisecond than with. Now you're on the slippery slope down to the abyss of audio restoration addiction. -- tom permutt tom

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Ripping Vinyl

2006-03-08 Thread tom permutt
find the exact maximum sample and keep that within range. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21836

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Ripping Vinyl

2006-03-07 Thread tom permutt
for me is a side of an LP. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21836

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Ripping Vinyl

2006-03-07 Thread tom permutt
. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21836 ___ audiophiles

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Calling all audiophiles - Uncompressed or lossless?

2006-03-03 Thread tom permutt
or acquire errors in it. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21700

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Calling all audiophiles - Uncompressed or lossless?

2006-03-03 Thread tom permutt
. I think you missed my point. Smaller than what? You might almost equally well say that WAV is an expansion format because there is no canonical way to express numbers or sounds or voltages inside a computer. -- tom permutt

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Olive Musica

2006-02-15 Thread tom permutt
pointed out, there are advantages to not having them in the same room. -- tom permutt tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t