cj1965
Responses from cj1965
| A Budget Amp Comparison Maybe Michael will start a new trend here - all the owners of " budget high end" electronics will dump their stuff on Craigslist and log on to Ebay to grab the next Sherwood RX 4105 receiver that comes along (to be "upgraded" with Michael's speci... | |
| A Budget Amp Comparison @snapsc I don't think this thread should be turned into a Parasound bashing session but I will say that the causes of failure in a variety of equipment - not just amplifiers, are not always laid out in black and white on the internet for al... | |
| A Budget Amp Comparison @michaelgreenaudioTuning blocks??? Will tuning bricks work or do they have to be "blocks"? Pine, birch, oak? Sealed and painted or au natural? Just curious what the other "tweaks" are... Isn't there a forum subsection that deals with "tweaks"? Or ... | |
| A Budget Amp Comparison More than a decade after widespread commercial acceptance, Class D amps are still widely considered to exist on the "low fi" end of the "hi fi" scale. Just about every thorough measurement exercise has confirmed that the pulse width modulation tec... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax Thanks Steve for your input. I am a little confused by what you meant to say here, though: "Pre-ringing is certainly unnatural and contrived. Whether it is audible depends on the amplitude and the quality of the system IME. Post-ringing is natur... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax @ejr1953 It's hard to say exactly what is causing perceived "glare" by some vinyl fans with respect to digital. In the early days of digital as we've acknowledged above, steep filters were used to accommodate the sampling rate that was marginally ... | |
| How much is MQA conversion? @cleeds The use of technology to completely control the channels of creative content distribution - superimposed on the traditional music industry model, is a recipe for disaster. I'm sorry you can't see this. In the end, it really doesn't matter... | |
| How much is MQA conversion? " I am not worried about MQA, or technological progress being altered or anyone losing anything in terms of music quality. I did worry or at least wonder around the years after 2000 how record companies and recording artists would continue to m... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax " In principle keeping the whole bandwith but coding it more efficiently into the "data container" *is* an intelligent idea " - pegasusOk, at least we can agree on that basic principle. The reason preserving high bandwidth (sampling rates) is mor... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax Pegasus said:' However... a few points about MQA are IMO brillant:- the "information density" in the range above 22kHz is *way* below that in the midrange or audio range. To double, quadruple or "octuple" (;-) the sampling rate for *objecively*... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax @craigl59 You can choose all of the filtering options you want. I can guarantee your DAC doesn't have any triggering circuits that detect the onset of an impulse or Dirac Delta signal and magically filter out the pre and post ripple of said sig... | |
| How much is MQA conversion? " Wouldn’t Tidal offer standard 16/44 FLAC files as an alternative to MQA? " - CAMBSure. But for how long?You have to understand that what is being attempted by a few large record companies represents and industry paradigm shift - a shift that ha... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax "Read cj1965’s original post several times and not sure I understand or agree with his central premise -- that "The impulse response ripple is not something that happens in real world sounds or in a properly designed audio reproduction chain."... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax " Of which my main point: I wonder why no real, total AD/DA loop measurements are shown anywhere.The other being the measurement with "correct impulse responses", ie. measuring a DAC not only a not existing, abstract sequence of (one) sample. ... | |
| How much is MQA conversion? The licensing agreements between the resellers (Tidal) and those who own the rights to the copyrighted material tend to be private. One thing is certain, however, you can be sure that once a full implementation of the sound "degrading system" MQA ... |