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In the Thread: How to record FM broadcasts.
Post Subject: Re: More digital manipulationPosted by jtavan on: 11/7/2005
I would be interested to hear your reaction to the same CD ripped
properly on a CD-ROM drive rather than recorded from SPDIF stream. If
your transport is VERY good, they should be equivalent... but on
damaged discs, or with bad transports, the error-corrected, ripped CD
should be much better. It's nice to be able to re-read
potentially-damaged sectors.
As for a small flat monitor/touchscreen, I have a Viewsonic Airpanel,
which is a Microsoft RDP client with wireless 802.11b in a 10"
touchscreen tablet. It's pretty interesting, but I don't use it as I'm
currently using the squeezebox with its IR remote control. It's not a
perfect product, but it might be what you're looking for. If you're
interested in a trade/purchase, please contact me off-thread.
That sound card sounds like a pretty basic audio device, simple cheap
coax transmitter on a card with a useless DSP. I have a MAudio
Audiophil 2496 here that is similar. As long as you can use the mixer
to bypass the processing, it's fine. But I think what you're really
looking for is more along the lines of the Lynx Studio AES16 (16
channels of AES/EBU digital I/O, wordclock I/O, nothing else).
I'm not ready to discard digital crossovers with horns quite yet - I
think that the cretins do it Wrong, and that it may well be possible to
do it Right. Still looking into that world - it's a complicated one.
All the best,
/Jeremy
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