Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-21 Thread Nonreality
cliveb;408243 Wrote: This is the second instance this week I've seen of such a report. There's a dire TV show in the UK called The Gadget Show, and they did a comparison of Dark Side of the Moon from Vinyl, CD and an iPod. It was blind, but quite possibly not level-mached. No mention of the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-20 Thread cliveb
This is the second instance this week I've seen of such a report. There's a dire TV show in the UK called The Gadget Show, and they did a comparison of Dark Side of the Moon from Vinyl, CD and an iPod. It was blind, but quite possibly not level-mached. No mention of the exact format or bitrate

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-20 Thread Phil Leigh
cliveb;408243 Wrote: This is the second instance this week I've seen of such a report. There's a dire TV show in the UK called The Gadget Show, and they did a comparison of Dark Side of the Moon from Vinyl, CD and an iPod. It was blind, but quite possibly not level-mached. No mention of the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-19 Thread swhite58
servies;407722 Wrote: Question, did he ask for money directly after that? No, that's his big brother's job. -- swhite58 Clark Connect Linux file server-Various boxes with flashing lights-SB3-Zhaolu D3 DAC-NAD C320BEE-Usher S-520/Sennheiser headphones

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-18 Thread servies
swhite58;407600 Wrote: ... However, my youngest son (19) commented that my new DAC sounded better than the one in the SB3 without even being asked. Question, did he ask for money directly after that? -- servies There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-17 Thread Nonreality
ralphpnj;405165 Wrote: It's amazing to find out that I spent so much money and many years assembling what I feel is a very good sounding audio system so that I can better hear those sound artifacts of vinyl records -- the crackles. Silly me, I thought it was because the MUSIC sounded better,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-17 Thread swhite58
The empahasis among the younger people I know seems to be convenience and sheer quantity of music over sound quality. There are exceptions though. My oldest son (23) doesn't care a fig about quality, and he keeps asking ME to turn it down (and no I'm not going deaf). However, my youngest son

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-10 Thread darrenyeats
I think badly compressed recordings are softened a bit by MP3. In a previous thread I noted this was actually visible in audacity when I compared FLAC with MP3! I look at it this way. Some transient details are missed by MP3 on a good recording - but on the positive side some of the extreme

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-10 Thread ralphpnj
I remember wondering what audiophiles were up to, buying extremely expensive home audio systems to play old vinyl records. They put turntables in sand-filled enclosures with elaborate cabling schemes. I wondered what they heard in that music that I didn't. Someone explained to me that

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Sizzling Sound of Music

2009-03-09 Thread snoogly
Tragic: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music.html -- snoogly snoogly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9155 View this thread: