Robin Bowes;163345 Wrote:
ModelCitizen wrote:
It's sad to see such a cultured man leave the forums.
MCHey Simon, don't worry - you've still got me :)R. Chortley ha! May I be
the first to wish you a very merry Christmas
Robin.
I hope it was realised where my tongue was. I had a lot of
Patrick Dixon wrote:
robinbowes;163344 Wrote:
Do you throw your toys out of your pram when people have different
views to you in real life too? Or do you just save that for us? Just
wondering.
Yes, there do seem to have been a lot of personal insults from someone
who keeps telling us that
Robin Bowes wrote:
Patrick Dixon wrote:
robinbowes;163344 Wrote:
Do you throw your toys out of your pram when people have different
views to you in real life too? Or do you just save that for us? Just
wondering.
Yes, there do seem to have been a lot of personal insults from someone
who
This typically of the PMs Ive received from highdudgeon since I first
encountered him at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/regsaudioforum/
Robin Bowes;163474 Wrote:
Robin Bowes wrote:
Patrick Dixon wrote:
robinbowes;163344 Wrote:
Do you throw your toys out of your pram when people have
highdudgeon;163028 Wrote:
And, really, I mean it -- I'll be away for a long time effective four
hours from now.
Goodbye George.
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opaqueice;163143 Wrote:
Sadly, I don't know a way to do that. If you have a sound card with a
digital out you could send it to a DAC, but then you could still object
on the basis of jitter etc. I'm more likely to object to the humming computer!
MC
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Now what?
Transporter
ModelCitizen;163247 Wrote:
I'm more likely to object to the humming computer!
MC
Ah, OK - my PC is designed for silence, and it's really pretty close to
inaudible, so that's not a problem for me. Can't you use a laptop? Or
just listen with phones?
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highdudgeon;163028 Wrote:
Au contraire, mon frere...
I'd rather save the space for, say, Solti's rendition of the Requiem
(guess which one).
C'est tout.
It's sad to see such a cultured man leave the forums.
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Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s.
Music
Hey, Model Citizen,
That is an awesome music collection you have.
You ever check out:
Radio Tarifa fusion of flamenco, arabic and medieval music
Vicente Amigo flamenco guitarist
Ketama flamenco fusion/ arabic and jazz
Tom
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highdudgeon;163028 Wrote:
I'd rather save the space for, say, Solti's rendition of the Requiem
(guess which one).
I presume you mean the Verdi Requiem, 1977 version with Price, Baker,
Luchetti, and van Dam.
highdudgeon;163028 Wrote:
And, really, I mean it -- I'll be away (cheer and
ModelCitizen wrote:
It's sad to see such a cultured man leave the forums.
MC
Hey Simon, don't worry - you've still got me :)
R.
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highdudgeon;162240 Wrote:
Am I better ripping at a lower rate? Does it even matter, so long as
it is above MP3?
What is above MP3 but below lossless?
If you're a retailer for SD, using lossy files does not do the
Transporter nor the customer justice. They can't exactly bring their
own
Just a cautionary tale, but here is where this thread went in the 3rd
brane.
Patrick Sticks-em
ADH137 and
Robin Bows-to-no one
They offended Get-High-Dungeon and he had them kidnapped and put in
his dungeon where he made them listen to 64kbps MP3 files for a year.
To add insult to injury the
Au contraire, mon frere -- actually I'm not advertising anywhere or, for
that matter, representing SD products. I strongly support the company
and believe in the products and people. However, I don't have the time
for this, my schedule is slippery, audio is far from being a significant
income
Storage is very cheap so why even listen to mp3's when lossless is there
for the taking?
Raja
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rajacat;163043 Wrote:
Storage is very cheap so why even listen to mp3's when lossless is there
for the taking?
Raja
The only sensible answer to that would be that you already have ripped
to music once, and couldn't be bothered to do it again.
I also have a large collection (~1250CD's) but
Do you still rip to mp3's and at what bps? I suppose another reason to
rip to mp3 would be if the songs were downloaded from various internet
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opaqueice;162801 Wrote:
Foobar's ABX is indeed the best antidote for audiophilia. But not all
of the sick want to be cured...
I'd like to try this.
Can you tell me how you can use this Foobar2000 ABX test with a
dedicated audiophile set up (i.e. not via a computer sound card with
associated
rajacat;163053 Wrote:
Do you still rip to mp3's and at what bps? I suppose another reason to
rip to mp3 would be if the songs were downloaded from various internet
sites.
I only rip to FLAC - I only care about quality so I can't stand the
thought of what the missing bits does to my music.
ModelCitizen;163057 Wrote:
I'd like to try this.
Can you tell me how you can use this Foobar2000 ABX test with a
dedicated audiophile set up (i.e. not via a computer sound card with
associated computer electrical noise and ambient noise).
I probably couldn't tell the difference between a
ModelCitizen;163057 Wrote:
I'd like to try this.
Can you tell me how you can use this Foobar2000 ABX test with a
dedicated audiophile set up (i.e. not via a computer sound card with
associated computer electrical noise and ambient noise).
I probably couldn't tell the difference between a
Mr Dudgeon
You are very happy to dish it out, but you just can't take it can you?
So why not take your own advice?
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mkozlows;162771 Wrote:
Out of curiosity, have you done a blind test between lossless and
good-quality lossy music? I'd've sworn that I could tell 192kbps MP3
from FLAC, but using the ABX Comparator in Foobar (with MP3s encoded
with LAME v2, which is about 190kbps), I was guessing.
Foobar's
highdudgeon wrote:
Patrick Dixon;162604 Wrote:
I think you should definitely put that at the top of every post
where you say that there is no (or an insignificant) difference
between transports and DACs!
It just goes to show how differently people listen to and hear
music, and how unwise
Robin Bowes;162809 Wrote:
highdudgeon wrote:
Patrick Dixon;162604 Wrote:
I think you should definitely put that at the top of every post
where you say that there is no (or an insignificant) difference
between transports and DACs!
It just goes to show how differently people listen
Big smoochy kisses to all you guys...I swoon with the attention and,
well, you're just SO jolly and clever, and I bet you lead the most
interesting lives, too!
jhm731;162856 Wrote:
Patrick Robin,
Great posts!
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Relax. It's about the music.
highdudgeon;162526 Wrote:
I know, it is awful.
Thankfully, I keep my collection in nice boxes, alphabetized by genre.
I've be rescanning some stuff and it hit me that I can actually zero in
on some thing faster with my eyes and fingers than with a remote
control. Go figure.
At some
highdudgeon;162496 Wrote:
The majority of my collection is in Apple Lossless, not AAC -- I've just
been doing that lately, for the heck of it. Honestly, I can't tell any
difference.I think you should definitely put that at the top of every post
where
you say that there is no (or an
highdudgeon;162526 Wrote:
At some point I would like to back up my entire CD collection, in Apple
Lossless or AIFF, to DVDs.
Exactly what I did after I got through all my CDs, even though that's
only 300some. Burned them to dvd, and the dvds are now in a fire proof
fault :-) First things
Patrick,
1. That's just plain weird, but I know you don't like me, that you
resentment for whatever silly reason, and that you find that it makes
you feel good to flame me from time to time. I have over 300gb in
Apple Lossless. Apple Lossless is not a bad thing. It is, well,
lossless. It is
Patrick Dixon;162604 Wrote:
I think you should definitely put that at the top of every post where
you say that there is no (or an insignificant) difference between
transports and DACs!
It just goes to show how differently people listen to and hear music,
and how unwise it is (IMO) to take
Have you just put up your christmas decorations ?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/06/no_wifi_for_xmas/
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highdudgeon;162262 Wrote:
As far as I know, it does.snip..
What should be the ideal conversion for aac?
As far as I know, too, it does, and as a fellow Mac-head, I use iTunes
and have problems with dropouts only when 't' folk next door are using
their cordless phone or their
That's hilarious! Actually, we DID put up a 9' tree and the damned
thing is covered with shiny baubles, garlands, you name it...and it is
in line of sight.
bpa;162293 Wrote:
Have you just put up your christmas decorations ?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/06/no_wifi_for_xmas/
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highdudgeon;162411 Wrote:
My reasoning is pretty simple: space. I don't mind not being able to
fast forward and rewind, and I do like being able to fit a lot more
music on hard drives. When you have 1,500-odd CDs, this becomes an
issue.
1500 CDs, FLACed, take maybe 400gb, which will fit
highdudgeon;162411 Wrote:
I wonder if there is any way to shield from other networks???
Choose a different channel - you ideally want to be 5 channels apart,
eg 1, 6, and 11. More info here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/ps430/prod_technical_reference09186a00802846a2.html
Sean,
Thanks -- Apple support tipped me off to that one. I'm on channel 1
now. I guess 6 and 11 are the next stops.
Silly me: I imagine my airport extreme base station (in the computer
room) and airport express (sound room) should be on the same
channel...I'll experiment.
seanadams;162415
highdudgeon;162431 Wrote:
Silly me: I imagine my airport extreme base station (in the computer
room) and airport express (sound room) should be on the same
channel...I'll experiment.
The router or access point determines the channel for all the
clients... when a client starts up it looks
Got it.
Back to FLAC: I have 2 external drives, one 320gb and one 500gb.
Needless to say, I can fit a lot of music on there (and home huge
photoshop files).
Still, I've tried and tried, but I can't hear any difference between
FLAC and Apple Lossless. So, why not save the space? That's my view
highdudgeon;162445 Wrote:
Got it.
Back to FLAC: I have 2 external drives, one 320gb and one 500gb.
Needless to say, I can fit a lot of music on there (and home huge
photoshop files).
Still, I've tried and tried, but I can't hear any difference between
FLAC and Apple Lossless. So, why
highdudgeon;162445 Wrote:
Got it.
Back to FLAC: I have 2 external drives, one 320gb and one 500gb.
Needless to say, I can fit a lot of music on there (and home huge
photoshop files).
Still, I've tried and tried, but I can't hear any difference between
FLAC and Apple Lossless. So, why
Well, you would if you manage to sort out those neighbours of yours!
Don't you have an axe?
In the 3rd brane Get-High Dungeon's name is Forge. He actually has a
forge in his dungeon and thats how he cremates the neighbors. His
neighbors are the dropouts in the literal sense.
We could live in a
The majority of my collection is in Apple Lossless, not AAC -- I've just
been doing that lately, for the heck of it. Honestly, I can't tell any
difference.
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Relax. It's about the music.
highdudgeon's
highdudgeon;162496 Wrote:
The majority of my collection is in Apple Lossless, not AAC -- I've just
been doing that lately, for the heck of it. Honestly, I can't tell any
difference.
Argh! You're throwing away bits for the heck of it? On the
audiophile list?? Quick, nurse, the screens!!
I know, it is awful.
Thankfully, I keep my collection in nice boxes, alphabetized by genre.
I've be rescanning some stuff and it hit me that I can actually zero in
on some thing faster with my eyes and fingers than with a remote
control. Go figure.
At some point I would like to back up my
highdudgeon;162240 Wrote:
Hi -- I've been having some drop outs with albums ripped under AAC at
320kbps. Airport Extreme network, 802.11b/g, 100% signal strength.
Am I better ripping at a lower rate? Does it even matter, so long as
it is above MP3?
You shouldn't be having
That's what I thought -- I've played uncompressed files I don't know
how many times. Possibly a neighbor's network is interfering? I
wasn't even on the web -- I was cooking dinner with the kids when it
happened.
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Relax. It's about the music.
highdudgeon;162247 Wrote:
That's what I thought -- I've played uncompressed files I don't know
how many times. Possibly a neighbor's network is interfering? I
wasn't even on the web -- I was cooking dinner with the kids when it
happened.
With the microwave?
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highdudgeon;162247 Wrote:
That's what I thought -- I've played uncompressed files I don't know
how many times. Possibly a neighbor's network is interfering? I
wasn't even on the web -- I was cooking dinner with the kids when it
happened.
using the microwave?
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Oh: we have wireless phones (5.8ghz) but that hasn't been a problem
before. Recently we did change to Vonage, so now there's my internet
connection, cable, and phone all on the same line. ???
highdudgeon;162250 Wrote:
Nope, no microwave -- all real cooking.
Beats me. I get drop outs
5.8GHz phones won't interfere. Vonage also won't, it's bandwidth
requirements are very low and also are obviously on the outbound side
of things, not on your LAN. What is your AAC set to stream as? FLAC?
It's possible the transcoding was interrupted by something else running
on the server...the
If you're not experiencing dropouts when streaming other types of files,
then I would also suspect that the problem is with the transcoding from
AAC to (most likely) Flac. How is your server's CPU load when playing
these files?
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Maybe you have some bad rips. iTunes doesn't do bit-accurate rips, does
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As far as I know, it does. I sometimes and sometimes don't get drop
outs with the same stuff. Mind you, it is very rare...weeks or months
apart. It's just that tonight, and over the last two or three days, I
had a spate of them.
No plugins.
What should be the ideal conversion for aac?
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One thing you can do is rip to a lossless format, such as FLAC, and then
set slimserver to stream as mp3 (bitrate limiting) with whatever bitrate
is necessary to avoid dropouts. Personally I've never had drops (with a
wireless g network and strong signal strength) even when streaming WAV,
but
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