Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-11-23 Thread Phil Leigh
iPhone;244111 Wrote: Hi Phil, Nickel's worth of free advice, don't buy the inventory of a used CD store that is going out of business! And some of them, I would not even call sound. It has taken over two years just to get all the dups sold off and get a good start on ripping to FLAC. I am a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-11-22 Thread servies
Phil Leigh;244102 Wrote: Wow! - are you the National Sound Archive? I thought that 2,500 was a large collection... Be assured... it is a large collection... -- servies There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-11-20 Thread iPhone
Phil Leigh;244102 Wrote: Wow! - are you the National Sound Archive? I thought that 2,500 was a large collection... Hi Phil, Nickel's worth of free advice, don't buy the inventory of a used CD store that is going out of business! And some of them, I would not even call sound. It has taken over

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-11-20 Thread tomjtx
Iphone, make sure you have a good internist who will keep you healthy. Then maybe you will live long enough after ripping all those cd's to actually listen to them :-) -- tomjtx tomjtx's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-11-19 Thread iPhone
ianr;238296 Wrote: Not sure if I'm just being a niche customer, but does anyone else feel that Slim/Logitech should consider a Transporter that would handle multichannel audio (DVD-A etc)? The benefit would extend also to those who have integrated their home theatre with their listening

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-29 Thread servies
Mark Lanctot;238537 Wrote: The problem is, strictly speaking, it is illegal under the DMCA to extract audio from DVD-A or SACD onto your PC. Much more so than CD, and there are significant technological barriers in place to prevent this (particularly for SACD). CD extraction fits into the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Lanctot
Mark Lanctot;238537 Wrote: The problem is, strictly speaking, it is illegal under the DMCA to extract audio from DVD-A or SACD onto your PC. Much more so than CD, and there are significant technological barriers in place to prevent this (particularly for SACD). CD extraction fits into the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-29 Thread servies
Mark Lanctot;238668 Wrote: Hmm...if you did bother to read this thread you'd see I'm Canadian. Now I know we're seen internationally as the USA's retarded little brother but we are still a separate country and we do have separate laws. Well, I don't: I see the USA as the retarded loudmouth

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-28 Thread Mark Lanctot
ianr;238296 Wrote: Not sure if I'm just being a niche customer, but does anyone else feel that Slim/Logitech should consider a Transporter that would handle multichannel audio (DVD-A etc)? The problem is, strictly speaking, it is illegal under the DMCA to extract audio from DVD-A or SACD

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-28 Thread Pat Farrell
Mark Lanctot wrote: The problem is, strictly speaking, it is illegal under the DMCA to extract audio from DVD-A or SACD onto your PC. Strictly speaking, it is illegal under the DMCA to write/talk about how you could extract audio from a protected source. and there are significant

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-28 Thread inguz
Mark Lanctot;238537 Wrote: So to provide a player for illegal formats is not only a bad idea, it may be illegal in and of itself. Multichannel audio is better than stereo, period. This has been known since 1934. My preferred format (B-format) has nothing to do with legality of ripping

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-28 Thread Pat Farrell
inguz wrote: Mark Lanctot;238537 Wrote: So to provide a player for illegal formats is not only a bad idea, it may be illegal in and of itself. Multichannel audio is better than stereo, period. This has been known since 1934. Your response to Mark's comment is a non-sequitur. He did not

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-28 Thread inguz
The suggestion that a player for multichannel formats might be illegal, though, is just silly. There are some formats that would need a licensed decoder - but they don't encompass the whole world of desirable functionality. And I'd hate to see Slim hardware forever tied to two-channel... since

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-28 Thread Mark Lanctot
inguz;238623 Wrote: The suggestion that a player for multichannel formats might be illegal, though, is just silly. It's just that the grand majority of multichannel material is on DVD-A and SACD, and it is not only illegal to rip this material, it is illegal to even -talk- about ripping this

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-28 Thread Pat Farrell
inguz wrote: The suggestion that a player for multichannel formats might be illegal, though, is just silly. There are some formats that would need a licensed decoder - but they don't encompass the whole world of desirable functionality. And I'd hate to see Slim hardware forever tied to

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-27 Thread ianr
Not sure if I'm just being a niche customer, but does anyone else feel that Slim/Logitech should consider a Transporter that would handle multichannel audio (DVD-A etc)? The benefit would extend also to those who have integrated their home theatre with their listening system as I could use the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-27 Thread S2K
ianr;238296 Wrote: Not sure if I'm just being a niche customer, but does anyone else feel that Slim/Logitech should consider a Transporter that would handle multichannel audio (DVD-A etc)? The benefit would extend also to those who have integrated their home theatre with their listening

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-27 Thread cliveb
S2K;238306 Wrote: If you feed the Transporter with a digital signal from your DVD nothing happens. It will not decode AC3 or DTS. You can feed it a PCM stream though available on some music DVD´s. Don't know if my DVD player is peculiar (it's a cheap Cambridge Audio model), but it is set up

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-27 Thread inguz
ianr;238296 Wrote: Not sure if I'm just being a niche customer, but does anyone else feel that Slim/Logitech should consider a Transporter that would handle multichannel audio (DVD-A etc)? Cozy niche, I like it. If I want lossless multichannel output from PC-based sources (and I do), the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-27 Thread ianr
inguz;238321 Wrote: Cozy niche, I like it. If I want lossless multichannel output from PC-based sources (and I do), the SB/Tranporter hardware is no use. If I want multi-amplification with PC-based active crossovers (and I do), the SB/Transporter hardware is no use... So I want an

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Multichannel audio on Transporter?

2007-10-27 Thread Pat Farrell
ianr wrote: Suggestions anyone for how to accomplish this on a reasonable (2k) budget? Is it hopeless? The pro audio world has a lot of 6 and 8 channel I/O adapters that are in your price range. I've got a couple of M-Audio Delta 1010 devices in my studio. They can drive 8 channels