Recent content by juxter1

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    CD/Record Comparison

    No, afraid not. There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary and those who don't. That's the only one I know
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    CD/Record Comparison

    Until we reach a level where sampling rate is actually real time and not a fraction of it there can always be the possibility that some of the audio frequencies are being fudged or guessed at. We need to move away from the old methods of sampling rates and bit depth, I'm sure that modern...
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    CD/Record Comparison

    The human hearing is an analogue system. The human brain is an analogue/digital hybrid system that we still don't know enough about to say for certain as to how it really works. Digital sampling is a flawed system and will always be for as long as the standards set out when CD's were first...
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    CD/Record Comparison

    All sound as percieved by the human ear is analogue. It is a variable pressure wave, it has no steps in it's waveform, therefore it is analogue and cannot ever be concieved as digital. This is basic high school learning, any biology or physics teacher could tell you that. Come to that, so...
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    CD/Record Comparison

    Of course human voices and most musical instruments are analogue. They produce perfect sine waves not digital representations of them. This is a true and undisputable fact, there is no disputing it whatsoever. Hundreds of years of research has gone into that fact unless you are now calling...
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    CD/Record Comparison

    Musical instruments are mainly analogue, human voice is only analogue. In recording studio's the majority of master tapes were analogue. In creating a CD the music had to be digitised (one possible step in creating errors in the sound). When playing back a CD or an audio file ripped from a CD...
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    Ripping classical CDs! OMG!

    I use Mediamonkey and Mp3tag, both freeware for windows. I get album art from Amazon, save it to the folder then add the artwork and change all the tags. I have been doing this for over a year now and I still haven't finished to my satisfaction. But when it's done it will be done for life and...
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    Hi-Fi that has not met the initial expectation placed upon it.

    Any of the iPod range, just not good enough. Hell, I bought a cheap mp3 player from Dixons back in 2006, a Matsui with only 512Kb memory that sounded better than the iPod that they were trying to foist on me and 5 times the price.
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    Brands you dislike-The hi-fi hate thread

    This would have been an easier question back in the 80's, try Amstrad, Bush, Goodmans, Pye, Philips (the lower end equipment only), JVC (lower end equipment again). Now it seems that most companies seem to have a better understanding of electronics so put a bit more thought into designing...
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    Do amps sound the same?

    How about changing the title of this thread to "Do all Trolls sound the same?"
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    Competition winners ?

    Has there been an update on this? I haven't seen one.
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    24/192 a good thing?

    I did actually read the article, that's why I said it was pseudo science. People can, and it has been proven, hear both below and above the limits of human hearing as stated as fact by that article. Just because bats are supposed to be supersonic to human hearing doesn't mean that some people...
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    24/192 a good thing?

    Think about the whole argument you are trying to pass off as fact. Sampling. If you use a higher bitrate from a source that is analogue then you are definately going to end uwith something close to the original. Drop that rate down and no matter what you think you hear there WILL be a drop in...
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    24/192 a good thing?

    Ah but I am better informed than you think. You see I use a rarely seen thing in this day and age. Common sense. You see, I have actually done the ABX thing, ripped a cd to flac, wav, mp3 320 and mp3 256. Guess what? I heard a difference. The Wav and the flac actually sounded better and...
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    24/192 a good thing?

    I am becoming increasingly disturbed by these forums. Why do people have to try and use pseudo science to attempt to prove that only certain manufacturers have got things right. I am begining to think that Apple and Bose fanboys are trying to take over these forums and that few, if any of the...