Mnyb wrote:
Try a blind test seriously ?
And re volume 100% disable replay gain/smart gain it lowers the volume
in comparison !! I think this is a common cause for miss understanding
this is obvious with modern loudness war pop the volume gets -10dB
lower .
But with a good quality
Perhaps there is something in your setup causing this difference
(hardware interference?). Don't know. Could be and at least this is a
scientifically possible explanation. But I can assure you that if the
CDs are ripped to WAV (or FLAC) with DbPA and the rip returned a Secure
indication (or
What's a high end transport anyway?
The Plinius CD101 costs ~#163;4k but uses the same transport as an ASUS
52x cdr costing maybe #163;20.
Same laser getting the bits off the CD which is really all that counts
;)
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Mnyb wrote:
Yes we are discussion digital,input to the same DAC .
Well, that hasn't actually been stated by the OP, so I wanted to make
sure...
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congole wrote:
One could argue that the copies cannot be guranteed to be bit-perfect
accurate (after all, EAC does state some level of 'confidence'),
The number that AccurateRip gives for confidence is the number of
entries in the database that have _exactly_ the same CRC as the rip you
got.
And the OP is also possibly misinterpreting the percentage confidence
provided by EAC. It doesn't mean what he thinks.
And it is easy to
determine bit perfect rips. This is not likely his issue. And again, is
he using flac or other lossless, volume at 100% and replay gain use by
touch turned
garym wrote:
And the OP is also possibly misinterpreting the percentage confidence
provided by EAC. It doesn't mean what he thinks.
And it is easy to
determine bit perfect rips. This is not likely his issue. And again, is
he using flac or other lossless, volume at 100% and replay gain
I have a friend I am trying to convince that his hi-end CD player should
not be better than a good computer based music source - and so far - the
CD player wins bringing more dimensionality to the sound, whereas so
far, the ripped equivalent sound flat in comparison.
Perhaps I am ripping them
stop-spinning wrote:
I have a friend I am trying to convince that his hi-end CD player should
not be better than a good computer based music source - and so far - the
CD player wins bringing more dimensionality to the sound, whereas so
far, the ripped equivalent sound flat in comparison.
Try a blind test seriously ?
And re volume 100% disable replay gain/smart gain it lowers the volume
in comparison !! I think this is a common cause for miss understanding
this is obvious with modern loudness war pop the volume gets -10dB
lower .
But with a good quality recording replay gain
stop-spinning wrote:
I have a friend I am trying to convince that his hi-end CD player should
not be better than a good computer based music source - and so far - the
CD player wins bringing more dimensionality to the sound, whereas so
far, the ripped equivalent sound flat in comparison.
JohnB wrote:
My understanding is that if you are using the digital output from
Windows PC with the default soundcard then the sound is probably
compromised by the messing about that Windows kernel does. This is
certainly the case with Windows XP, though with Windows 7 you can set
the
stop-spinning wrote:
...and getting good if not better results?
I personally always wondered why a CD player should sound better than an
SBT, because an SBT does not have any moving parts or spinning disks to
worry about. But if you don't take the greatest of care when it comes to
ripping
congole wrote:
same amp speakers, same cables, even same input on my amp)...
But was it an analog input to the amp? So different DACs with possibly
different signal levels?
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Julf wrote:
But was it an analog input to the amp? So different DACs with possibly
different signal levels?
Yes we are discussion digital,input to the same DAC .
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...and getting good if not better results?
I ask this after reading an interesting article about the importance of
ripping your music from CDs (if you take that approach).
Picking out this particular sentence from the article: There's a huge
difference between a CD ripped by a home computer and
There is no substantiation or any data used in the article to support
the statement that Theres a huge difference between a CD ripped by a
home computer and one ripped through a professional system.
If you:
1. Rip to a lossless format, FLAC, ALAC, APE, WMA-Lossless, etc.; and
2. Use a
The trick to getting professional CD rips is to use the appropriate
pen prior to ripping. Every audiophile knows that! :)
http://www.elusivedisc.com/AUDIOPRISM-CD-STOPLIGHT-PEN/productinfo/AP-CDSL/
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Yes an EAC or dBp rip with accurate rip is as good as it gets .
But even if don't do that most CD's rip problem free in a more humble
ripper unless you used your CD's as drink coasters, in my case I'd say
that most of my disc are scratch free.
Rip to lossles flac and use a Touch as player you
I feel even the worst RIP quality could at most produce a few
milliseconds of distortions, and rarely at that. If you use the
tools and CD ripping discussed above, you will be more than fine. The
reduced jitter of the SBT compared to many CD players, coupled with
common jitter reduction
Many old high end transports is also operating in real time they
read continiusly at 1x and only once so read errors will appear more
often that on a computer any old pc can beat that with the proper
ripping .
Good ripping software re reads iffy parts and try several times to get
the data .
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