Re: question about sound

2022-08-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 20 Aug 2022 at 07:46:24 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:55:33PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 08:46:29 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > The attraction of a one-liner

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:55:33PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 08:46:29 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > The attraction of a one-liner is partly because of screens > > > being around four times wider than hi

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 08:46:29 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > The attraction of a one-liner is partly because of screens > > being around four times wider than high (characterwise). > > Wouldn't it be nice if bash had Perl's die ….

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread David
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 14:13, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 18 Aug 2022 at 06:58:20 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:58:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > $ type soxy > > > soxy is a function > > > soxy () > > > { > > > [ -z "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage:${FU

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > The attraction of a one-liner is partly because of screens > being around four times wider than high (characterwise). > Wouldn't it be nice if bash had Perl's die …. Some people put a die() function in their scripts, and then use it.

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 06:28:47AM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > On 2022-08-18 08:39, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > TBH you packed two questions into your original mail. Complaining that > > most people concentrate on one is kinda... well ;-) > > I don't mean to appear am complaining. No sweat

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-08-18 08:39, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:47:40PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? In the 70s friends went to this house wher

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Aug 2022 at 06:58:20 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:58:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > $ type soxy > > soxy is a function > > soxy () > > { > > [ -z "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage:${FUNCNAME[0]} > > path-to/sound-file-of-any-type [trim 20 2] > >

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, Aug 18 2022 at 09:39:23 AM, wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:47:40PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: >> On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA256 >> > >> > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? >> >> In the 70s friends wen

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:58:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > $ type soxy > soxy is a function > soxy () > { > [ -z "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} > path-to/sound-file-of-any-type [trim 20 2] > runs sox to play the file with any arguments given. > The examp

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread Siard
On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:00 +, ghe2001 wrote: > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their > infinite wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have removed Audacity from > the upcoming release, Bookworm. I heard som

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread Curt
On 2022-08-17, mick.crane wrote: > On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > In the 70s friends went to this house where there was a 14 year old > Indian mystic. > You were all suppo

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:47:40PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > In the 70s friends went to this house where there was a 14 year old Indian

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:00:17PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their infinite > wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have rem

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Aug 2022 at 20:00:17 (+), ghe2001 wrote: > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their infinite > wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have removed Audacity from the upcoming > release, Bookworm. >

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? In the 70s friends went to this house where there was a 14 year old Indian mystic. You were all supposed to wait downstairs until you were called to rec

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:37 PM Bob McGowan wrote: > The command to add a user to a group is: useradd -G > groupname[,groupname...] username > > For example: useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob > > Useradd creates a new user account. Usermod modifies an existing account. sudo usermod -a -G audio

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their infinite wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have removed Audacity from the upcoming release, Bookworm. Bad idea, IMHO. S

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:10:37PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > I'm just requesting some comprehensible, simple to understand, overview of > how the sound softwares are working. Too many layers and possibilities to give a comprehensive listing. Let's pick ONE. Plain ALSA, without Pulseaudio or anyt

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-08-17 18:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:27:25AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: The command to add a user to a group is:  useradd -G groupname[,groupname...] username For example:  useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob Debian also allows "adduser username groupname". I sort

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:27:25AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > The command to add a user to a group is:  useradd -G > groupname[,groupname...] username > > For example:  useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob Debian also allows "adduser username groupname".

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks, I almost always get useradd and groupadd mixed up when I need to use them. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, Bob McGowan wrote: > The command to a

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Bob McGowan
The command to add a user to a group is:  useradd -G groupname[,groupname...] username For example:  useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob On 8/17/22 10:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: the user that's doing this would need to be added to the audio group and maybe the pulseaudio group if that group exists.

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
the user that's doing this would need to be added to the audio group and maybe the pulseaudio group if that group exists. The groupadd command can do that for the user but groupadd has to be used by root to get that done. Before doing any of that, a user can find what groups they're already in by

question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread mick.crane
hello, Please take into account I don't know what I'm doing generally and know nothing about audio. Several years ago somebody asked me to edit a radio broadcast to separate out a few seconds. It took a couple of minutes to install Audacity, figure out the GUI thing and save the bits of audio.

Re: question about sound

2018-08-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-07 07:30, deloptes wrote: mick crane wrote: I'm not very good at sound. Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in parts is low but then there will become some sound event that is very loud. It is true that my hearing is not as it was but I don't think that is it. I'm not exactly

Re: question about sound

2018-08-06 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > I'm not very good at sound. > Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in parts is low but then > there will become some sound event that is very loud. > It is true that my hearing is not as it was but I don't think that is > it. > I'm not exactly sure what controls "volume"

Re: question about sound

2018-08-06 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-06 21:39, T BkRl wrote: It sounds like a limiter is what you need? Ah, OK seems like VLC might do it in the menu items tools - FROM: mick crane SENT: Monday, August 6, 2018 3:24 PM TO: Debian Users SUBJECT: question about sound hello, sorry is this is

Re: question about sound

2018-08-06 Thread T BkRl
It sounds like a limiter is what you need? From: mick crane Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 3:24 PM To: Debian Users Subject: question about sound hello, sorry is this is not on-topic I'm not very good at sound. Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in

question about sound

2018-08-06 Thread mick crane
hello, sorry is this is not on-topic I'm not very good at sound. Sometimes if I watch an mp4 film the volume in parts is low but then there will become some sound event that is very loud. It is true that my hearing is not as it was but I don't think that is it. I'm not exactly sure what controls

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:31:56PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > If you're going for a USB DAC, how about this one: > http://www.usbdacs.com/ > :drooling: ... I own one of those... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-12-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:52:45 -0500 Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:40:33PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > > Equipment: > > > Adcom GTP-450 Tuner > > > Adcom GCD-70

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-12-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:40:33PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > Equipment: > > Adcom GTP-450 Tuner > > Adcom GCD-700 CDcarousel/player > > Adcom GFA-5000 dual audio amp > > Vandersteen

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my > > recommendaion. > > > > What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated > > listening space or is

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have been out of touch with the high-end audio world since I bought > this system. I had never heard of Pass Labs until you mentioned them > in your email. Wikipedia puts them in the class where Adcom was when I > bought. I don't wa

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091017_071352, ghe wrote: > > On Oct 17, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Fri,16.Oct.09, 13:50:04, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >>> electronics store. I have never seen balanced output of stereo audio >>> in a single jack on a computer. (An example of RC time constant >> >> I definit

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-17 Thread ghe
On Oct 17, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,16.Oct.09, 13:50:04, Paul E Condon wrote: electronics store. I have never seen balanced output of stereo audio in a single jack on a computer. (An example of RC time constant I definitely recall reading about sound cards with balance

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,16.Oct.09, 13:50:04, Paul E Condon wrote: > electronics store. I have never seen balanced output of stereo audio > in a single jack on a computer. (An example of RC time constant I definitely recall reading about sound cards with balanced outputs. M-Audio would be a good start... Regard

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091016_151335, ghe wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. >>> >>> Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. >> >> Impedance and balance are two

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread ghe
On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. Impedance and balance are two different things. Impedance only becomes an issue wh

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091016_115141, ghe wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly >> the high freq. part of the signal. > > Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. > > Use the hardware Deutsche Grammophone,

RE: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end musicsystems

2009-10-16 Thread David Christensen
Paul E Condon wrote: > long adapter cable (>~100ft). The cable would be carrying analog signal. Unbalanced signals, such as might be found on computer sound card 1/8" TRS jacks and audio equipment RCA jacks, are susceptible to common-mode noise and ground loops. If your computer sound card line

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Glenn writes: > Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly > the high freq. part of the signal. > Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not any impedance if it is terminated. > Not at 100' anyway. Right. You can't hear 1Mhz. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread ghe
On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. Use the hardware Deutsche Grammophone, etc. use -- your recordings aren't going t

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091016_083137, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > So far the responses that I have gotten comfirm without a doubt that > > what I was told by the sales person in Best Buy is not at all the > > whole story. There is *a lot* more to the solution

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > So far the responses that I have gotten comfirm without a doubt that > what I was told by the sales person in Best Buy is not at all the > whole story. There is *a lot* more to the solution than just buying an > adapter cable. Mention

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my > recommendaion. > > What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated > listening space or is this for casual listening when doing other > things, i.e., are we talking J

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my recommendaion. What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated listening space or is this for casual listening when doing other things, i.e., are we talking JVC or Pass Labs? How important is it that the softw

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-11 Thread steef
H.S. wrote: steef wrote: <> er ... looks like your query was directed at me. The M-audio 2496, as far as I recall, worked out of the box with alsa on Ubuntu (since Gutsy, did it have 2.6.24 kernel). So I would expect it to work out of the box on any typical Debian desktop compute

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2009 13:20:14 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or > > > fixed-point), stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC. > > > > What's the differenc

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-11 Thread H.S.
steef wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> >> Not sure if this is professional grade, but I have used M-audio 2496 >> (http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496.html). It has >> worked like a charm. Used it for live music recording and also for >> playback via a mixer. The system is Ubuntu based, but

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-11 Thread steef
H.S. wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality). YMMV. I use *professional* grade sound cards, becau

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rob Owens put forth on 10/8/2009 5:28 PM: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: >> >>> When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the >>> music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of "party mode" where I

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: > > > When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the > > music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of "party mode" where I want > > the same thing playing in several r

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:53:21PM -0700, Mark wrote: > Rob wrote: > -- > Since you care about the sound quality, I'd recommend encoding with > flac. That's lossless, so there is no sound quality difference between > flac-encoded music and music straight from the CD.Forget about mp3. > It

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-07 Thread Mark
Rob wrote: -- Since you care about the sound quality, I'd recommend encoding with flac. That's lossless, so there is no sound quality difference between flac-encoded music and music straight from the CD.Forget about mp3. It sounds horrible, in my opinion. High pitch sounds like cymbals so

OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: > When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the > music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of "party mode" where I want > the same thing playing in several rooms of the house. Depends on your distance to each loudspeaker. Sound

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-07 Thread H.S.
Rob Owens wrote: > > Vorbis and mp3 are "lossy", which means that they approximate the sound > on the original recording. Kinda like zip compression that doesn't > exactly reproduce what you compressed. Flac is lossless. > > Somebody mentioned wav format. As far as I know, wav doesn't hold me

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-07 Thread H.S.
Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently >> most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality). >> YMMV. >> I use *professional* grade sound cards, because I like

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:35:05PM -0700, Mark wrote: > >I have been mulling over the same kinds of problems for some time > >also. Noone in this thread has yet mentioned the Logitech Slingbox: > >http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/wireless_music_systems/&cl=us,en

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently > most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality). > YMMV. > I use *professional* grade sound cards, because I like good sound quality.

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:18:10AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Now, it is quite feasible to store my entire CD collection on hard > disk, even without compression, and all computers have audio > output. But what is the audio quality of the analog sound signal? I > went to the local Best Buy st

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems [solved, somewhat]

2009-10-07 Thread Paul E Condon
Well, I've certainly received many useful comments from first responders. The situation is, indeed, more complicated than the guy in the electronics store claimed. I can't say my problem is 'solved'. I now know that I have a lot of research and deciding to do. But I now have a solid starting point

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-06 Thread Mark
Stan wrote: - The cheapest solution by far is to use your current PC, and have a contractor come in and run an in wall digital optical cable from the room your PC is in to the room your A/V receiver is in. Plug a Toslink patch cable from the wall to the PC, and from the wall to the A/V rec

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul E Condon put forth on 10/5/2009 12:18 PM: > Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound > system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers > are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a > really heavy power amplifier box. Because

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread Mark
>I have been mulling over the same kinds of problems for some time >also. Noone in this thread has yet mentioned the Logitech Slingbox: >http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/wireless_music_systems/&cl=us,en

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:18:10AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound > system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers > are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a > really heavy power amplif

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread David Christensen
Paul E Condon wrote: good sound system to play my CDs. store my entire CD collection on hard disk, even without compression, > and all computers have audio output. the cable run from where I have computers to where I have my hi-fi is ~100ft Have you considered building a media center/ home th

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread joe
Paul E Condon wrote: I don't want to just hook it up and listen, because the cable run from where I have computers to where I have my hi-fi is ~100ft and that distance precludes listening to different CD copies on HD in quick succession. And maybe it really is a good way to go, but my test indic

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 05 October 2009 13:20:14 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or > > fixed-point), stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC. > > What's the difference between 16-bit floating-point and 16-bit > fixed-point? I alw

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or fixed-point), > stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC. What's the difference between 16-bit floating-point and 16-bit fixed-point? I always thought those are jus

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote: > Now, it is quite feasible to store my entire CD collection on hard > disk, even without compression, and all computers have audio > output. But what is the audio quality of the analog sound signal? It depends on the quality of

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 05 October 2009 12:18:10 Paul E Condon wrote: > one's computer to one's home sound system, and showed me a short cable > that they have for sale that has a triaxial plug on one end and two > RCA jacks on the other and assured me that this was what he used at > home and that this was all t

OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread Paul E Condon
Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a really heavy power amplifier box. Because of the solid-state internals, it has worked without in

question about sound recording

2006-02-23 Thread Serena Cantor
I have sarge and use default kernel and cs4281 module. I can't record audio part of TV signals. The capture tool is producer, by real.com When I am in woody, I compile kernel 2.4, and watch TV and exit xawtv, I still can hear sound of TV, so producer can record both audio and video. Now in sarge

Re: alsaconfig question about Sound Blaster PCI 16

2001-03-26 Thread Robert Voigt
On Sunday 25 March 2001 20:40, Stan Brown wrote: > I am trying to use alsaconfig to configure my soundcard. > > I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI, and I don't seem to see that > as a choice. Which one should I choose? I think there are entries for ens1370 and ens1371. This must be right

alsaconfig question about Sound Blaster PCI 16

2001-03-25 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to use alsaconfig to configure my soundcard. I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI, and I don't seem to see that as a choice. Which one should I choose? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n.