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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: One more try: 192K PCM scewed by SACD vs the naked 192K PCM by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
I decided today to try more files from Linn.  My rational was that if they were less lucky with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their recording avenues them I might be luckier with Duisburg Philharmonic or I Barocchisti. So, I bought a 3 more of L...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
I do not regularly buy High Resolution files and most of my High Resolution files are my own FM recordings or something that was given to me by other people. I bought no more two dozens of Hi-Res files in past and it was about it. I do not active...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The LPCM vs. PCM, why this 'debate' even necessary? by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
[quote user="perrew"] Romy, from my understanding, this disc called HDAD, contains on one side a DVD-Video resolution, 96/24 and on the other side a DVD-A i.e 192/24 resolution. So the disc on one side can be played in your regular DVD pla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Is PCM rawer than wav? by perrew on 2009-10-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
I have no clear understanding either, but I always thought that .wav was a wrapper to the PCM file. That a raw .wav that you speak about then is a PCM file with a header? Also from my understanding the DVD-A sometimes have a "lossless"(whateve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: DSD converted to PCM really has poor objective performance by manisandher on 2009-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The UnipheyeMusic and Studio Master Reference... in Didital Things  5 Replies 
[quote user="Andy Simpson"]What was the RMS loudness of the music itself?Andy[/quote]The RMS A-weighted is around -38dB (see attached).I just don't understand why they use the 1bit DSD system or indeed why anyone else does either... Perhaps they...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Living Stereo SACDs PCM layer by tuga on 2009-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Do not buy CDs mastered at higher sampling rate. in Audio For Dummies ™  1 Replies 
Hi, Does anyone know if the PCM 44.1Khz layer in the Living Stereo SACD discs was down-converted from higher rates? These discs are currently selling for lower prices (amazonUK) than the CD versions and I am tempted to get myself a couple of reco...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: DSD vs PCM debate by Romy the Cat on 2014-12-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shopping for DSD Converters? Here's One From the Lampizator.... in Audio News  18 Replies 
What I find interesting about this Lampizator is that he does not take sides over DSD vs PCM debate. Some folks do not touch the DSD and stay strictly in PCM word. Some go all the way along with DSD, x- DSD or whatever was sold for them annually. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Denon pcm what was different about it? by steverino on 2016-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I pulled today from my shelf my collection of earliest Denon PCM recordings on LP the Denon record in end of the 78s. I generally do not like this entire series but the first releases where OK, not as good as then might be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Denon pcm what was different about it? by steverino on 2016-08-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I pulled today from my shelf my collection of earliest Denon PCM recordings on LP the Denon record in end of the 78s. I generally do not like this entire series but the first releases where OK, not as good as then might be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About the audio Sources. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the audio Sources. in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
Recently an audio guy visited me. I played to him some music as, as I uselessly do - from all possible sources and we ended up to have a conservation which sources is able to produce more interesting result. The people who hear my playback know t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
I do not regularly buy High Resolution files and most of my High Resolution files are my own FM recordings or something that was given to me by other people. I bought no more two dozens of Hi-Res files in past and it was about it. I do not active...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Downloadable DSD. by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-08 
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There is a good article in Positive Feedback by David Robinson about Downloadable DSD. http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue60/dsd.htm I know very little about DSD and absolutely nothing about the downloadable DSD. However if they...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Paul McGowan cries about SACD by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today’s SACD - music for oscilloscopes. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
Paul McGowan, the head of PS Audio send his newsletter with his comments about SACD. The comments are childish and in many way absolutely ignorant. I hate what the industry professionals twist the facts and go into pure falsification in order to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Soft-washing by el`Ol on 2012-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To buy an SACD Player? in Didital Things  7 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]All that I am looking to play the DSD layer of the SACD disks as the idiots mostly vandalize the CD layers of the SACD disks. I clearly understand that the DSD layer of the SACD disks is the same PCM stream that was multipl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #110: Audio CD -> Rip PCM (AIFF) -> Roon Player -> Apple Core ->... by Amir on 2016-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I might be not “getting” what you are doing but it looks to me that it is not near close to “CEC TL0X vs Berkeley Alpha”. The Berkeley Alpha is just an interface to get stream of DAW but CEC TL0X is digital transport.  We...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: I'm interested by Antonio J. on 2007-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Transfer: The reel-to-reel operas wanted. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
Sure I am!!!! Just tell me where to get those free transfers hahahaha ;-) Unfortunately I don't have interesting dubs from my local broadcasts as yet to share, but hopefully there will be some soon. Maybe in a couple of months, but don't expect great...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: About the Soundmirror comments. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="Mark Donahue"]Mani, Yes, the files were created using the HDCD Model 1 AD converter and you will actually get improved audio if your DA converter properly decodes the HDCD (Even at 88.2 kHz /24 bit!) There is information about the filter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: To buy an SACD Player? by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-02 
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My contra-SACD position is well known but unfortunately as I predicted mode and more SACD recording are being realized and they have already vandalized by SACD format. It look like no one record nowadays on PCM if companies even want to release 2...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I still have a real aversion to SACD players, but... by manisandher on 2012-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To buy an SACD Player? in Didital Things  7 Replies 
... am intrigued with DSD DACs. And for three main reasons:1) If you look at the attached jpeg (taken from http://www.korg.com/services/products/mr/Future_Proof_Recording_Explaine...), DSD recording appears to have a simpler path than most modern PCM...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: How to redeem the intentionally degraded CD layer. by Romy the Cat on 2012-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To buy an SACD Player? in Didital Things  7 Replies 
I do not have any special animosity against DSD beside that fact that it is a fundamentally compromised format to be “final” format.  My presumption that I might comply one day with a need to buy a SACD player comes from the fact that the industry in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: SACD one bit processing due to Sony marketing? by steverino on 2009-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
I"m not an expert on SACD either but my recollection from the late 90s is that Sony went to 1 bit out of a desire for copy protection of the digital encoding. One bit is not editable in DSD and would have to be processed in PCM or analogue. D...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The idiotic 1-bit DSD format vandalizes everything. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The UnipheyeMusic and Studio Master Reference... in Didital Things  5 Replies 
That is so much pisses me. A few days back I posited this like and was laughing that this guy record in DSD (which is in fact not DSD but SACD, I do not think he has access to DSD) in order to sell his recording in PCM 2X and 4X? Why do those people ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: One more try: 192K PCM scewed by SACD vs the naked 192K PCM by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
I decided today to try more files from Linn.  My rational was that if they were less lucky with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their recording avenues them I might be luckier with Duisburg Philharmonic or I Barocchisti. So, I bought a 3 more of L...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: 176/24 Track by DOT*SYSTEM on 2010-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog Transfer: the first draft. in Didital Things  19 Replies 
Romy Your file was burned in wave format you provided as-is. It was never processed by the Korg. I conducted my test to evaluate the sound of 176/24 files on my system. These files came from you, Reference Recording and my Korg and all can coexist un...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: It is all about hard surface. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It is all about hard surface. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
I think 11 years after High-Resolution formats hit wide public it is possible to make some generalizations.  I can not comment on SACD. I do not use it and consider it being an fraudulent crap. I do not do DVD-A as I do not like it and consider it ga...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: DSD vs PCM debate by Romy the Cat on 2014-12-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shopping for DSD Converters? Here's One From the Lampizator.... in Audio News  18 Replies 
What I find interesting about this Lampizator is that he does not take sides over DSD vs PCM debate. Some folks do not touch the DSD and stay strictly in PCM word. Some go all the way along with DSD, x- DSD or whatever was sold for them annually. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Sandisk Sansa Clip + by unicon on 2010-12-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sandisk Sansa Clip + in Didital Things  0 Replies 
I was really amazed to see my pal mp3 player is far more better than my playback yes MUCH better ...It is the model Sansa Clip + and the original headphone on it really deserve to be mentioned .It plays all PCM Flac Ape ... ,. and costing only 45 $ ?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Teresa Goodwin and her girly things. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Today’s SACD - music for oscilloscopes. in Didital Things  8 Replies 
Among many idiotic audio publications the Positive-Feedback strikes me as less idiotic – once in 2-3 issues they do have a good article. I still find it idiotic, as any product -centric audio publication might be but the people who run the game i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #142: Flac is not bit-perfect by Amir on 2017-03-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
designer of spectral audio and inventor of HDCD claims:"Keith Johnson, inventor of HDCD, claims that only WAV files guarantee perfect sound reproduction which can’t be achieved with any compression, even lossless compression. He says that any file pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #110: Audio CD -> Rip PCM (AIFF) -> Roon Player -> Apple Core ->... by Amir on 2016-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I might be not “getting” what you are doing but it looks to me that it is not near close to “CEC TL0X vs Berkeley Alpha”. The Berkeley Alpha is just an interface to get stream of DAW but CEC TL0X is digital transport.  We...
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