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I am not well familiar with what Berkeley. Their voyage to the beginnings unit that the company started was irrelevant to me and then thinner USB version did not attract my attention. It is not that I feel that they were bad units. I never had th...
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As I predicted, the fucking SACD keep vandalizing everything. The SF keep calming about the big efforts that took them cook their Mahler 8 but in the end the morons record everything in SACD. If would be the same if they records it in Mono!
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A few days ago I was expressing my dissatisfaction with the BS-mania that industry spread about the digital masters.
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=7147
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I generally feel that the fairy-tale about the ...
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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...
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I am not surprised this kind of bizarre affirmation coming from a guy whom aim to live of royalties from copyrighted material.WAV or WAVE (aka Audio for Windows) is owned by Microsoft and IBM, and AIFF is owned by Apple Inc.I do not know the current ...
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I do not read printed audio publications. The last one I held in hands it was a year ago or more. Today I stop by in my local Burlington Barnes and Noble and since I was there already I took 3 Stereophile and 2 issues of TAS from newsstand, bough...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]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...
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Romy,His website has a lot more information than that:Do lossless compressed audio formats all sound the same?http://archimago.blogspot.pt/2013/05/measurements-do-lossless-compressed.htmlDigital Filters and Impulse Response...http://archimago.blogspo...
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Here is another provider for digital files: the Unipheye Music from Philadelphia sunbirds.
http://www.unipheyemusic.com/SMRD.cfm
I was considering ordering the Beethoven quartets disk but they have no PayPal checkout option and I do not fill those ...
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It is not US’s Fox News and not Stereophile and there is no need to pull the fractions of "stupid" soundbytes to prove any agendas. Anyone whoever are frequent this site know in context of what the said was said. Most important that I know what ...
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There was a Reference Recordings company that did some nice
sound and sometimes, unfortunately much less frequently, some good music. The premises
behind the Reference Recordings that they were pure PCM recording, uselessly
done in 4x with Pacific...
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Hello!I hadn´t cared about the topic for years, but recently I informed myself about SACDs and DVDs at Amazon. The product range is still ridiculous, yet I find it has at least "started to start". But it seems to have happened what I expected at...
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Well, I could reverse this with some effort, but then I will be asked every time I start it. Any other tricks to boil up these awful PCM layers?...
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I wonder what this format does not get popularity. Pretend you get 88/44 of raw PCM WAW file on 2-6Gig Flash Card that was recorded for you by DG, RCA or EMI and would cost as a new CD? Would it be the perfect audio media? Thos solutions are show up ...
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Hello!The moronic idea that bad + bad can become good just drove me to playing a hybrid-SACD with the Windows Media Player. First I thought I was right, but then the non-moronic regions of my brain told me this can´t come from the PCM layer...
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I know that many of them use ADC based on Mac computers to use with Protools, while other rely on DAT's (Tascam is very well considered) built-in ADCs. Perhaps some use external ADCs from Meitner or dCS. Once you have a "decent" PCM file to tran...
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Hello Romy,An AIFF file is an uncompressed PCM file as seen by a mac (like the tracks in a CD).Best,TugaP.S.: Nice, an html toolbar that shows up on Safari.P.S.2: I was able to edit this post!...
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FWIW the only really cheap (less than $400) SACD players of any build quality I've seen are either used Sony ES series or Oppo units. I believe the Oppo units convert the DSD stream to PCM at output while the Sonys supposedly don't. Even with the S...
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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...
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It is it; I officially close my books on my Shelter as I refuse to understand what it does. 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 seri...
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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 player and the other in ...
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[quote user="cv"] I bet Yamamura is using non-causal filtering... this is all running off a music server, so could process everything offline. [/quote] Chris, there is no such a thing as “non-causal filtering”. Filtering is filtering, would it d...
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Will try to answer all questions here.Romy: I understand why you do not wish to use the term “surround sound”, but it is the accepted term for what we are discussing. You may add other terminology, but it only muddies the debate until others accept i...
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[quote user="manisandher"]
Unlike you, I've never heard 4-bit DSD. But whatever DSD/SACD format Soundmirror is using, it's pretty damn good - it sounds nothing like the 'woolly' SACD I've experienced. Could the sound quality be improved? Sure...
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[quote user="xandcg"]I am not surprised this kind of bizarre affirmation coming from a guy whom aim to live of royalties from copyrighted material.WAV or WAVE (aka Audio for Windows) is owned by Microsoft and IBM, and AIFF is owned by Apple Inc.I do ...
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I suppose you've listened to EMM Labs, dCS and all that "top" SACD converters. I wonder if the problem is not as much in the transports or DSD/A converters as in the way they produce the recordings and make the SACD discs. It would be interesting kno...
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I'll look for that CD. There are some Bychkov concert performances in the archives of the Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall that can be accessed for a modest fee. I thought the sonic quality was rather good allowing for the occasional dropout etc.As f...
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Hello Romy!I suspect that Sony intentionally astablished a poor conversion algorithm, as well. I don`t think there more than a hand full SACDs that have a separately recorded/mastered PCM layer, maybe some more that use an other (non-Sony) ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Now how much better would be if people abandon that idiotic SACD/DSD and Mark Donahue would record BSO right in PCM at 88.2 kHz/24bit or 172.2 kHz/24bit format? Then the files that we get will be as close to raw master file...
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Well, leaving aside my "grinding axes", namely my habitual love to remind people and myself that there are plenty Morons in audio I do think that Berkeley's parley to Reference DAC is interesting. It is interesting not by the DAC as a unit but rather...
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