Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] any experiences with audio expander?

2011-04-08 Thread MediaCenter
Are you referring to the audio expander plugin from astound sound? The owner was on home theater geek podcast. It looks interesting but mildly -- MediaCenter Source Device: Transporter Amplifiers: Tri-Amped NAD C272 x 3 Speakers: x-Statik Passive Crossover Removed Crossover: Active MiniDSP x 2

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] any experiences with audio expander?

2011-04-07 Thread Curt962
Do you mean something like a DBX unit that were "popular" in the early '80's? IMO they were unacceptable, and "expanded" dynamic range by making quiet passages quieter...by clamping them down to nothing.Not always a bad thing for noisy cassette tapes, and LPs, but they also had the side effec

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] any experiences with audio expander?

2011-04-07 Thread bhr1439
I'm wondering what experiences people may have had employing an audio expander on their home audio systems. To me, live music in a performance setting is immediately recognizable as such, sight unseen, for the lack of compression, I suspect. Recordings are almost always compressed to some degree