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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The optimum Sampling Rate for bass. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The optimum Sampling Rate for bass. in Didital Things  3 Replies 
Since I do not do SACD and stay in PCM world I always wonder what the optimum sampling rate might be.  As I told I discard the 48X as never was necessary rate. So, we have 44.1K, 88.2K, 176K and 352K… Surely we are out of 16-bit world – a move f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The digital attenuation in the Berkeley's DAC by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reference Recordings “digital master” and Berkeley's new DAC in Didital Things  13 Replies 
[quote user="mark"] …for digital inputs they show aes,spdif,toslink and bada,which i understand is for use with the rr hrx 24/176?. [/quote] Which is just one line in, not multiple lines in. Also the have changed the 24/176 to 24/192 [quote user="...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Namely: Bidat vs. Lavry by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A littlie D-War: Bidat vs. Lavry Gold in Didital Things  14 Replies 
[quote user="TonyB"]Re: Pity[/quote] I was not looking for the card to do any buffering; quite opposite I was looking for ONLY I/O interface with no logic aboard. To use PC as the music CD server? What for? It might be a WAV files server, but only t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The Schwarz's complex reception recording by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
Here is a good Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 illustration. This is a station not truly DX but a station that is in very difficult reception environment. I never was able to get it clear from my location. Even the DX champion Yamaha T-85 in its ultra na...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Taking advantage of Multibits architecture by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Dima is keep bothering me with this idea. It is not that he keep bothers – he implanted this notion into my mind and it keep bother me with the feeling that he might be very much right. He feel that Lavry 924 is the only know to him properly implem...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The 47 labs’ ways. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Yes, I know that 47 Labs and some Audio Note I belie do it but I never knew that they are Multibits, in fact I do not think that they are. http://www.sakurasystems.com/products/47dac.html Regardless what they do I am a big fan neither nether 47 Lab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: BidaWright 2010? by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
Form email I got from John Wright “PS, In case you care, the Bidat gets better all the time with fresh updates ….I mean it will sound broken in comparison. I have made some very good changes to the power supply and the output stage that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: I am switching to Pacific, finally… by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
After all I just realized that I am due to my Moronity I did not use the full capacity of Pacific Microsonics A/D. Since I have fugue it out it just open a second round of my love to this processor and I am switching to use it as my main recoding A/D...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Inquiry on your experience with the Lavry DA-11 by scooter on 2009-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The LavryBlack DA11 Stereo DA Converter in Didital Things  10 Replies 
Hola Antonio & Hi Mats: Now that you have had some time with the Lavry DA-11, would you mind sharing any additional observations with the club? Are there any superior characteristics or blatant issues worth noting? Thanks, S ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Micro by Amir on 2013-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]Hi Amir,your english is just fine.I think that there is an additional factor that your formula needs. Sense of pitch is not determined acoustically by "Q" unless we are talking about pure sine waves. When we add the overtones foun...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: The Rohde & Schwarz’s recording by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201 Tuner in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
Tonight I recorded the Live Tanglewood broadcast with all Russian program: http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/perf_detail.jsp?pid=prod2110030 …  I decided to let the ghost out of bottle and to let the EU-6201 receiver with modified Rohde & S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #128: FM and electricity, sources and electricity by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I wonder how many cities have good FM programming and broadcasting?  Los Angeles was great, back when I lived in Venice, with interesting stuff going on around the clock.  San Diego is quite limited, and I get Bupkis f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 by Romy the Cat on 2013-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
Oh that forgotten pleasure… I am not spoiled with audio experiments nowadays. Partially because I do not have a lot of drive and have reached a definitive return in my possible audio experiments. Another partial preseason is that I kind of able to pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Re: jitter-shmiter... by Thorsten on 2006-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth of CD clocking = True/False in Didital Things  15 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I heard 4 (!!!!) complete contradictory descriptions how high level of jitter manifest itself subjectively – interesting that they all derived from the engineers whose credibility is very high (not juts the audio-tweaker...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: you juts 8 fly-hours away by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Well, I do not think that I would be able to recode it to CD witch appropriate level of quality but it would be interesting to be able to load it to hard drive and to see if FM level sound still might survive on HD. Also I would be able to writhe a f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: Computer transport by Telstar on 2009-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="scooter"]* Regarding playback, I misspoke in my original post of an "Audiophile music server." Upon further reflection, this is an oxymoron, if not a moronic phrase. I think it is highly unlikely that a dedicated audiophile CD player w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The pianist Yuja Wang … and all of them… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The pianist Yuja Wang … and all of them… in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I was laying in bed, fighting with aftermath of a nasty flue, reading. The always “on” Rohde & Schwarz tuner was getting WHRB. The Macondo was up at 3 clicks very softly filing the room with WHRB’s “Cello Challenge” and “20th Century Brass Concer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Another might be interesting option: Weiss new DACA by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
Many companies recently began to offer options for raw VAW-players – that God. I hope the CD/DVD.SACD all will die and go to hell. Playing the row files is the way to do. Even the raw 16/44 VAW is so far beyond then any crap put in disk that it is no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #120: Bypassing the DEQs DAC... by scooter on 2009-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
No question the Behringer has a ton of functionality, especially at under $300. The simple RTA is useful on the fly. I think and hope this tool will help with the MiniMe development. I always wondered why the DEQ sounded so veiled but suspected ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: About the anal retentive "kosherism".... by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there? in Didital Things  53 Replies 
There is another very good article with the simple resistors conversion network. http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html Still, I would like to make it “kosher” and have ordered the double adaptor with a transformer from RedCo: http:/...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Oppologies transports… by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Oppo DVD player as a transport. in Didital Things  10 Replies 
[quote user="Serge"]Well, I always noticed that 'universal' transports which spin the CD at 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x (faster each year) sound much muddier and grainier then the dedicated CD ones. Unfortunately nowadays there are hardly one or two commerc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Re: Digital: small steps and further update… by TonyB on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
Hi Romy[quote user="Romy the Cat"] ... I decided to listen my native feline instincts and go with them. So, decided to buy a Lavry’s Gold AD122. ....Now, the biggest problem remains what digital I/O PC interface to use after the Lavry’s digital...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: OK, I did the HDCD. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
While I, waken up by Mani’s idea to us MP as the only DAC, was playing with new Pacific I have researched deeper the HDCD subject in the BSO recordings. Mark Donahu, from AudioMirror with his slightly patronizing attitude might consider himself a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: A testimony from a site’s visitor. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Form email I got from John Wright “PS, In case you care, the Bidat gets better all the time with fresh updates ….I mean it will sound broken in comparison. I have made some very good changes to the power supply and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Re: Time to party! by jtavan on 2005-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
I'm really pleased to hear that your results were so good. This is what I expected should be possible, but I admit to being surprised that it worked so well just at 44.1/16. Wish I could afford the Lavry ADC - that sounds like a winner. Just fo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: DACs & Macs by jessie.dazzle on 2007-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analogue to digital converter comparison in Didital Things  6 Replies 
Without completely understanding the post, I listened to all the samples (which by the way, will play immediately without doing anything if you have a mac...oops!). I first ran the files through my main system (there is a laptop + DAC associated with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A playback and wrong notes. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A playback and wrong notes. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
This weekend I discover interesting phenomena on which I did not pay attention before. The Montrealian Charles Dutoit conducted this weekend Boston symphony. I was listening the broadcast, recording it as usually. It was very bad. The BSO wind sectio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: You still think in term of stupid 'Seals of Approval'. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio critique – open your mind! in Playback Listening  44 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]Romy. I understand the dilemma.  People sometimes lend things to me to listen to them. I like having the opportunity to hear these things and sometimes to broaden my understanding.  Publically available or not, I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: PC grounding. by tuga on 2009-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Telstar"] scooter wrote:* Regarding playback, I misspoke in my original post of an "Audiophile music server." Upon further reflection, this is an oxymoron, if not a moronic phrase. I think it is highly unlikely that a dedicated audioph...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: The power supply in DAWs by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] The only advantage I can see really is in the dedicated power supply... possibly. [/quote] The subject of power supply in computers that run sound is complicated subject and frankly I never heard anyone talk about it...
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