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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Berkeley Audio by coops on 2008-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reference Recordings “digital master” and Berkeley's new DAC in Didital Things  13 Replies 
It is also ben reviewed by Robert Harley , I am supposing that you would also condsider him an 'idiot' ?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Computer CD readers were made to read data and not audio by ghpicard on 2008-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Hi Romy,   IMO, the reason for you to get that feeling is that from the beginning they were made to read data and not audio, thus some jitter was (and is) not considered an issue, as soon as it can be corrected.The internal CD drive audio o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: Amarra : Supported Audio Formats and $ by jessie.dazzle on 2009-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
In digging through the support section of the Amarra Music Player web page, and finally ending up on the FAQ, http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/faq.html I came upon this :Supported Audio FormatsNOTE: Amarra only supports uncompressed PCM files (AIFF,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Meitner Audio - Ed Meitner's new company. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Meitner Audio - Ed Meitner's new company. in Didital Things  5 Replies 
Ed Meitner after Musatex ran his celebrated EMM Lab Company.  I never liked the EMM Lab products. Although each with trash in audio loved to like EMM Lab ADCs but I found that this D/A converters were horrible. The entire Meitner parley in SACD w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The computer audio gold standard... IMHO by manisandher on 2012-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I hate computer playback. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Hi Currawong, thanks for sharing your experiences.My own computer playback journey goes back some 9-10 years ago when I started using a MOTU 896HD to interface a PC to my then Esoteric D70 DAC. And in the passing time the one thing I've learned about...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Get a clue on digital audio by Goetz on 2013-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Simple Question (or 3) About Sampling Rates in Didital Things  2 Replies 
Dear Paul,pls study these pages to get a proper understanding of digitalaudio technology  and a clue where to go to get music out of this technolgy:http://www.mother-of-tone.com/cd.htm  from Charles Altmannand some articles of Lukasz Fikus:www.lampiz...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Audio with improved exhaust by steverino on 2013-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
Two reasons that audiophile designers always harp on the analog end of the CD player: they don't have the wherewithal to develop a new ADC algorithm and they believe the word "analog" sells boxes. I thought there were already digital audio devices th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #136: Rune Audio are just tweaks. by xandcg on 2017-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
You can run RuneAudio on anything Linux. You would just basically need to get the config files and put it on the right place. To run the nice Rune interface, what basically is a php website, you would just need to install some very light  webserver ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #158: PC Audio by Amir on 2018-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
I spend my time/effort/money to get a good sound from computer or MacBook.my trial and error proved me that I could not attack CEC TL0-X by Computer Audio.I also lost my money 4500$ in ordering external PSU to Paul Hynes. Paul is not trusted and do n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: My PC Audio: the first blood :-( by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to record FM broadcasts. in Off Air Audio  125 Replies 
I brought today my Lavry’s AD122 MKII processor and decided to conduct excrement feeding the ADC with “live” feed from FM broadcast and outputting it directly into my Bidat DAC: WHRB 95.3 FM  8:00 pm San Francisco Symphony orchestra “IN CONCERT”...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: TNT Audio by guy sergeant on 2010-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  80 Replies 
Not yet, but these guys seem to have..http://www.tnt-audio.com/tours/definitive_audio_e.html...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: 515-G/Cyrille Audio by Marc HENRY on 2010-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The European Triode Festival’s horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
Of course i used the 515-G. this famous speaker suited very well to our bass horn...as any other bass horn ! the only problem with the 515-G was a upper end a bit...noisy with our 6db crossover.When we started with Cyrille-audio a project of a 15" fo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #153: Audio intern by decoud on 2012-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
The frustrating thing is that those who know "how" to do things often have too strong an idea of "what" to do...perhaps you should offer an internship to someone young and idle keen to learn...?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Oligarch Audio (tm) by N-set on 2013-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
I'm wondering how much one had to steal in the 90's to afford such a system in Russia?Fuck him and his system....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: What king horns do audio people need? by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another horn manufacturer in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
Attila from Hungary send me emails telling that he got CNC lathe, carver and the rest of gear and that he is very much willing to make horns.  He asked: “I would like to ask your opinion, what type of horns people most need”. I find it is interesting...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio vs. Musical pitch by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
There are many conversations out there about the fact that many music people do not “get” audio.  In most cases this is correct. They are many conversations, we had some of them at this site and the reasons of the phenomena that were brought are ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Audio vs. sound vs. scale by noviygera on 2013-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio vs. Musical pitch in Playback Listening  17 Replies 
I've been thinking about this matter for a while but could not find a better excuse to formulate my theory then in this topic. My simple theory is that if we reduce our concept of "music" the more fundamental concept of "sound" as point of reference ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Audio Sommelier by Paul S on 2013-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How would you handle it? in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Just to show we were paying attention and NOT digressing OT:Perhaps, then, Romy should take on the role of Amy's audio sommelier?  Sure, Amy knows music; but Romy knows music via hi-fi. He can cater to her tastes in a way that surprises and delights ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dreams about Audio by Romy the Cat on 2014-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dreams about Audio in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
I need to admit that I see a lot of dreams. Some of them interpretable, some of them are memorable and sane and some of them of course make me sorry that I use to rear too much Franz Kafka in my childhood. It is fun to make attempt to interpret the d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: More on Audio or Sound vs Music by Paul S on 2014-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
Clark, there is much about sound that delights me, including the sounds involved in Music, and I also enjoy at times the hi-fi, especially as I fancy it to be a "vehicle" for Music. Of course the audio does not necessarily render Music, and I can onl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: I think dynamics “as is” is a wrong quantification for audio. by Romy the Cat on 2014-06-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The dynamic range of our playback in Playback Listening  20 Replies 
That all interesting though but the problem is that they have no way to be absolute valid. Yes, we as a humans, have a lot of masking effect build in us that prevents up to get complexity and color of sound with dynamic range rises. Yes we do in many...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: FM Acoustics: The most important component of a quality Audio system by Romy the Cat on 2015-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: FM Acoustics: The most important component of a quality Audi... in Playback Listening  4 Replies 
FM Acoustics’s  Manuel Humber speaks about his Harmonic Linearizer device.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaG5d98zVC0   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_h1NdHzeuM   Well, Mr. Humber and the Company feel that this is the most important compon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #104: Ignore CH AUDIO ? by Paragon on 2009-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Skushino,being an avid believer of horn speakers throughout the years,I find myself questioning your findings, as you stated in your posting.Have you finally listened to these speakers? or is it like, beauty is in the eye of the beh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio-tekne's "Tone Quality Improvement technique" by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio-tekne's "Tone Quality Improvement technique" in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Reading the Stefano Bertoncello's Blog about his trip to Japan I was trying to detect any signs of interesting Sound.  It looks like he Stefano was caught by  sound of ALE installation in Audio Tekne. http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2009...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Has begun to play the hi-end audio games? by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new CES 2010 loudspeaker? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  15 Replies 
[quote user="Saturntube"]A the CES show the selling price was $ 100 thousand dollars for the speakers only and $ 200 k for the whole system with Viola Xovers and amplifiers. [/quote] The $100K for speakers only and $200K for the whole system? ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The "uncharacteristic" subject for Audio by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About destiny of “High-End Sound”. in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
Generally it is very uncharacteristic subject in audio: the destiny of audio reproduction. Destiny might be only with something that has its own lifespan. Audio reproduction is in a way an imitation and therefore should hot have own destiny because i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Audio, visual art and Cesar salad. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts) in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Reading Paul’s reply I came across to asking myself of what we call painting. Let get for instance any famous works, let I be the early Dali’s portrait of his sister “Figure at Window”. What we call as the “Figure at Window”? When we mention the “...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I would shade some light about “abstract audio” by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts) in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
[quote user="Max Shatsky"]>You might built better audio or learn to develop more sensitive perception and you end up with the same results. This why I, staring from a certain level, refuse to combine audio and music and  feel that audio resol...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Selfdenial as Audio Tower of Babble? by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts) in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] So, here we are, adrift on the great big sea of audio tomfoolery, without a metaphorical paddle. If we can on the one hand hear any and every change in our systems, then this implies that everything is worth considering. If we a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Further guidelines for Audio Neutrality... by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the Audio Neutrality. in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] Yes, we are saying the same thing.  The problem as I have found it is that transparency is easily recognized and so there is a tendency for audiophiles to focus on this when they try to improve their systems, and this can ma...
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