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by krabapple
Mon May 21, 2007 12:02 am
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: Tommy SACD vs. DVD-A
Replies: 19
Views: 20394

I have both discs but won't be set up to listen to them again until this weekend.
by krabapple
Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:42 am
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: Led Zeppelin Remasters Boxes to Original Albums via Replayga
Replies: 2
Views: 4351

They're somewhat different. Why not just scan the replaygain values in yourself?
by krabapple
Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:34 am
Forum: Audio Technology
Topic: Audio DiffMaker : difference signal extraction software
Replies: 0
Views: 7993

Audio DiffMaker : difference signal extraction software

I got twigged to this new app via one of rec.audio.high-end's endless debates on ABX. It purports to automate the process of level-matching, aligning, and subtracting two recordings, allowing relatively easy 'difference signal' extraction (what Cool Edit/Audition users have long called 'invert/mixpa...
by krabapple
Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:20 pm
Forum: Audio Technology
Topic: Dither...OK, I give up...
Replies: 14
Views: 26085

Found some more info on the comparison -- on Hydrogenaudio, natch. Bold emphasis is mine. http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9192& KikeG wrote Here you can download examples of different dither types available at proffesional industry. The samples are amplified so that the d...
by krabapple
Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:35 am
Forum: Audio Technology
Topic: Dither...OK, I give up...
Replies: 14
Views: 26085

Well, I can't get the 'original 24-bit recording' to play -- and when I download it and open it with Audition, it shows as a 16-bit/44 kHz recording of silence. So I don't know what the recording is supposed to sound like. The other two reference files have music (also at 16/44). They should explain...
by krabapple
Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:23 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Barack Obama- FLO Member Views on?
Replies: 10
Views: 16448

Meh.
by krabapple
Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:23 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Merry Fitzmas, everyone!
Replies: 42
Views: 34824

Expect a Presidential pardon, probably as Shrub leaves office.
by krabapple
Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: One Man's Crusade against Pedro's
Replies: 32
Views: 43141

How did this all turn out?
by krabapple
Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:04 am
Forum: Audio Technology
Topic: Dither...OK, I give up...
Replies: 14
Views: 26085

Have those guys done any security checking, to make sure people weren't voting multiple times?
by krabapple
Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:00 am
Forum: Audio Technology
Topic: the listening cure!
Replies: 0
Views: 7948

the listening cure!

This belongs here, I guess. Or maybe the 'religion' subforum?

http://www.purehealingsound.com/

"Created by Dr. Steven Kavitky and Steve Hoffman"


Pathetic.
by krabapple
Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:59 pm
Forum: Audio Technology
Topic: Power cable blind test results
Replies: 5
Views: 12365

digital wrote:.
Probably old news round' here, but just in case:

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_1 ... -2004.html

Andrew D.
cdnav.com
.


I give you... Jason Victor Serinus, golden eared whistling healer

http://www.planeteria.net/home/whistler/
by krabapple
Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:37 pm
Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: CDDB and WAV editors expose classical music fraud
Replies: 3
Views: 5484

What's going to be fun is when people start dredging up both reviews by the same reviewer, of the same performance, presented under different guises.
by krabapple
Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:46 am
Forum: Technology
Topic: damn, that didn't take long
Replies: 2
Views: 7143

damn, that didn't take long

http://slashdot.org/articles/07/02/13/1724238.shtml HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, @01:12PM gEvil (beta) writes "According to an article at BoingBoing, the processing keys for the AACS encryption scheme used by both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray video di...
by krabapple
Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:07 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Mallard Fillmore
Replies: 726
Views: 584717

Rspaight wrote:
"Reagan was genuinely conservative, take it or leave it. And it worked."


Hoo boy.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/featur ... green.html


Indeed. Williams is either ignorant, lying, or exhibiting Reagan-like incipient Alzheimer's.
by krabapple
Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:53 pm
Forum: Going Underground
Topic: Frank Zappa titles look interesting........
Replies: 3
Views: 9050

There’s an infamous moment in the middle of the Coneheads sketch when Frank breaks character and asks, live and on camera: "So what, am I just supposed to read off those cue cards?"...much to the dismay of the SNL regulars! And no wonder. That was FZ at his most unsufferable. He really wa...