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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Pacific just does it apparently[/quote][EDITOK, I understand that in DD, the Model Two will reinsert the LSB. But I'm really interested in what the Model Two does when in AD mode. Would it still add the HDCD flag, or can th...
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I don't know Ed Meitner so this is not a defense of his association with SACD. However, as I mentioned some time ago I strongly suspect that it was Sony who demanded the one bit SACD and nixed the 4 bit. Sony in the late 90s was obsessed with copy pr...
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Yes, the author is very accurate in most of his observations. A few mistakes he made. When he said that “I only have a few albums verified to be sourced from an original DSD recording.” Even if the recording were made in DSD then were mastered while ...
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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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I agree that that article was one of the few that I would have been happy to affix "Steverino" to. I know that Romy has minimum high regard for SACD and I am not particularly keen on it myself. But since I only have about 75 CDs/SACDs I have never se...
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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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"MET’s orchestra was more dramatic and less shallow then Boston." Well I'll give you that certainly! But the Lyric's was a truly Verdian sound, not easy to achieve. "Would you like to have the entire few gigs of raw file or do you want me to dow...
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[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...
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My first choice would be a Sony SACD recorder with storage in SACD format. Quite expensive, but I would not use an expensive Sony playback device. Their early models (still available new on ebay) were designed to show how much better than regular CD ...
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The initials post was the body of email that Kostas sent to me and considering it’s format he presumed that I will me post it on my site. So, I did it (with his permission). I ran all those tracks once (some of them just a few seconds) and below is v...
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un-compressed RAW file -> optical Disc -> Ripped File putting RAW files on optical Disc is a process (it may be lossy, I don't know, Mark claims A disc containing 74 minutes and 33 seconds of music contains 6.3 billion bits. Of all those bits...
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Paul, I think we mean different things by transients. By my definition, there is no correlation with dynamics or volume. There are transients in the softest sounds as well as the loudest. A transient is merely the onset or initiation of a musical not...
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I did not order the UnipheyeMusic. Tne only recording I was interested was the Beethoven quartet but I did not like how it was recorded. According to the UnipheyeMusic guy the artists were too “famous” to give him a lot of time for recording an...
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[quote user="Stitch"] Well, I made an interesting observation by accident. I didn't know those Emmlab unit (later I read that Mr. Terrific [Tin] made the distribution in USA, but later he switched to something else, which is even more ultra terrific....
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Paul McGowan look like will be releasing soon PS Audio new devise NuWave Phono Converter. Read the release and see what it is. http://www.psaudio.com/shop/nuwave-phono-converter/ Unquestionably it is a very proper product, or I would say a family of ...
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I’m involved now in a VERY interesting project that leads me to ask a strange question: did anyone ever research the subject of those Hi-Fi Mini Systems? What I need is a small source of FM and CD in a one small “comfy” box. I do not need that CD to ...
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[quote user="JANDL100"]Romy - A couple of years ago I was in contact with a guy in Slovenia who bought some CDs from me on eBay. We kept in contact for a while and discussed Anton Nanut. I had to send him copies of many of my Nanut C...
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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...
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To whom it might be interested. The Berkeley Audio DAC reportedly uses the Delta-Sigma Analog Devices’ DAC AD1955A. It is SACD compatible, with attenuation in the chip. I guess it might be obvious what might be the next revision of Berkeley DAC… ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Oxric, I have no idea what your “literature” was all about. If the Item’s company does not name thier read-only DAWs as “transport” it would be no conversation at all. For sure the analog PS for PS that they do is very inte...
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Romy says "I have his 8
symphony with Métropolitain and it is at time very stimulating. Now I
wonder, the symphonies 4 and 6 that Atma Classique offer as 24Bit
download, are they the dabs of master files of juts up streamed CDs?"Well ...
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[quote user="steverino"]
Romy says "I have his 8
symphony with Métropolitain and it is at time very stimulating. Now I
wonder, the symphonies 4 and 6 that Atma Classique offer as 24Bit
download, are they the dabs of master files of jut...
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Computer playback has no autobiographical value. CD, LP, tape etc have autobiographical value and sometime huge value. A location on HD has none of it. Computer playback has no unified standard and no reference in virtual world. If a person uses some...
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[quote user="outopos"]Hi Romy,I am new to your site. I have read some of your postings (including other sites) with much gusto.For the digital LP recording, I am (was) tempted to do the same, but given the fact that I have absolutely no personal ...
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Well, I did hear some very positive result when people did not make CDs form glass copies (as the “big people” do) but actually burned them in the “regular” CD writers. How they did it I have no idea. Also, I have no idea what hardware/software...
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I know, I know… It is light, it is pop, it is not serious, it is glitzy … but not when Hermann Scherchen does it! As many times I heard it I always was shocked how a magnificents of an interpretation could convert a peace into a totally new music. (A...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, there was also an interesting positive moment during this trip. The guy has three of more D/As. It was Audio Research played model 3, the newest DCS and newest Meitner’s EMM transport/DAC. The first two were quite ord...
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[quote user="Bud"]My first choice would be a Sony SACD recorder with storage in SACD format. Quite expensive, but I would not use an expensive Sony playback device. Their early models (still available new on ebay) were designed to show how much bette...
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As I said: most debates on the subject that I ever heard so far are not accurate representation of Analog vs. Digital dilemma. The same as the discussion in this thread about the “natural continuous process”, the “discrete process” and the “brain re...
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After a few deliberations I picked the Prokofiev’s Complete Symphonies box with Valery Gergiev conducting his new London Symphony Orchestra. It looks like London sound got much warmer and friendlier under Gergiev. I also heard a lot of positive b...
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