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- Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:56 pm
- Forum: Audio Technology
- Topic: pre-emphasis and archiving and cdda2wav
- Replies: 56
- Views: 82563
I ask simply because Macs are theoretically supposed to be the "easier" alternative to PCs...more user friendly, blah blah blah. Yet with the advent of OSX--pretty Unix, really--that's all taken a turn for the byzantine. I work for U of C's Residential Computing department, and the consensus seems ...
- Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:24 pm
- Forum: Audio Technology
- Topic: pre-emphasis and archiving and cdda2wav
- Replies: 56
- Views: 82563
Krabapple, I use Missing Media Burner, which is pretty much a command line port of cdda2wav (among other things) for use on Mac OSX. Now I don't have any CDs with pre-emphasis (as far as I know), but I can think of a workaround that may or may not work for you on Windows. On OSX, you can use a progr...
- Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:24 am
- Forum: General Music Discussion
- Topic: Rock & Roll Circus coming to DVD
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6279
- Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:15 am
- Forum: Audio Technology
- Topic: Compressed Audio Thread (Codecs, not bad mastering)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20682
Compressed Audio Thread (Codecs, not bad mastering)
Unless I somehow missed it, it appears that there hasn't yet been a thread here which discusses compressed audio technology -- the good, the bad, and the ugly. We've thoroughly (un)covered the "hi-rez" scam, so I'm wondering what everyone thinks about the other end of the spectrum: mp3, AAC, Ogg, ge...
- Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:15 pm
- Forum: Audio Technology
- Topic: Hugging A Dead (SACD) Horse
- Replies: 32
- Views: 28685
- Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:56 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Kelley book: Bush did coke at Camp David, Laura smoked weed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5794
And this: http://www.salon.com/ent/col/fix/2004/09/03/fri/index.html For those about to Rock, we ignore you First twins Jenna and Barbara Bush took in a Kid Rock concert Wednesday night at the New York club Avalon (housed in an old Episcopalian church and formerly the notorious club Limelight), but ...
- Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:52 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Kelley book: Bush did coke at Camp David, Laura smoked weed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5794
On a related "family values" note there's this: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/09/04/twin_tips/index.html Bush twins swill vodka, stiff the help Mayor Michael Bloomberg hailed the Republican National Convention as an economic boon to the city, but it turned out to be a bust for the poor...
- Tue Sep 07, 2004 1:20 am
- Forum: Audio Technology
- Topic: Hugging A Dead (SACD) Horse
- Replies: 32
- Views: 28685
Hugging A Dead (SACD) Horse
Why in the world are people at so many "other" forums (like Audio Asylum and SH) continuing to debate the "Is SACD (and/or DVD-A) dead?" I'm well aware that these people have less than half a brain, but it does seem obvious to me that anyone in possession of even 1/35 of a mere brain stem can tell t...
- Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Beat The Eighth Grader!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 19260
"Correct" punctuation is geographically relative. This thread inspired me to research the English punctuation rules, in order to see if I did remember my European education correctly. Consider this: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm In the United Kingdom, Canada, and islands und...
- Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:57 am
- Forum: General Music Discussion
- Topic: Time for another Who's Next thread
- Replies: 42
- Views: 28918
I haven't heard the vinyl, but I can say with absolute certainty that the STEVE HOFFMAN version of Who's Next is the best one ever. It blows all the others away. Magnificent breath of life and no compression! It sounds exactly like the master tape. Soooooo much better than Jon Ghastly's no-noised m...
- Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:01 pm
- Forum: Audio Technology
- Topic: Audio Quackwatch
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7355
Thought you'd enjoy this one, krabapple. The endless "jitter" debate continues at the Hoffman forums. Someone by the name of Evan writes: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=38254 "I think that it is jitter control in the manufacturing process. It really depends on the facility and th...
- Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:23 pm
- Forum: General Music Discussion
- Topic: Harrison remasters....
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7325
First I upsampled these Harrison CDs to 682734748383 kHz/5928282 bits. My listening tests at 110 db detected subtle but definitely recognizable watery sounds at the 28kHz range, which can only mean NR artifacts, so I plan to toss all these reissues in a bonfire this evening. If you can't hear at 28k...
- Sun Feb 15, 2004 10:05 am
- Forum: Audio Technology
- Topic: SACD Technology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 169499
- Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:52 pm
- Forum: Audio Technology
- Topic: SACD Technology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 169499
I don't own the CCR SACD but I did burn the sample to CD-R this afternoon. What I did was put the CD player in repeat mode and let the sample play continuously. Yeah, the volume difference between the two bits is readily apparent, and I agree with Krabapple that these are really two different master...
- Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:51 am
- Forum: Audio Technology
- Topic: SACD Technology
- Replies: 86
- Views: 169499
So will the SH sheep now loudly proclaim that SACD is capable of reproducing a greater quantity of echo with more “lifelike” and “three-dimensional” qualities than poor, lowly redbook does? I suppose it does indeed, particularly if the self-proclaimed Tonmeister’s hand is pushing firmly on the echo ...