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    High Definition Vinyl

    http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/03/15/high-definition-vinyl-will-soon-become-a-reality/
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    What is DSD

    If this is DSD then double rate must be laughing loud. Don't try quad rate!
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    Playing digital audio on your turntable

    Take a Bluetooth audio receiver. Connect it to a transducer that modulates the needle. You play digital audio on your turntable! The universal record by Jesse England
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    Galvanic isolation

    Often galvanic isolation is recommended Shield your computer from the noise generated by the PC Lots of claims about improvement when using some kind of isolator but very few measurements. Exasound measured the noise level with and without galvanic isolation of the USB According to...
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    The ghost in the MP3

    Ryan Maguire did a fascinating experiment. He compared lossless with MP3 Not in the usual way, a listening test but by making audible the information that is thrown away in the lossy compression! Indeed, the ghost in the MP3. Enjoy
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    MusicScope

    A nice little program analyzing your audio. Supports WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC, DSF, DFF from 1Bit to 24Bit with sampling rates between 44.1 and 384 kHz and DSD64 / DSD128 (resampled to PCM). Features: TPM: True Peak Meter RMS: (Root Mean Square) 400 ms averaged RMS CREST: Indicates the...
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    Acoustical amplification

    Take a LP, press it into a horn and you have an acoustic amplifier. Good use of vinyl btw http://paulcocksedgeshop.com/
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    Levitating speakers

    What about some self levitating speakers, no wires, no spikes! Really crazy babe http://crazybaby.com/
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    Composers

    I pity those who listen to pop music only. Whatever we take as the starting point, the Harlem R&B or the Rock&Roll, it is only 60 years of composing. We, lover of classical music can choose from 400 years of composing! (no, I don’t think the music from the middle ages belong to classical...
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    Number of posts

    Looks like there is a little problem with the counter. Exactly the same number of posts (2171) in both the 12:00 and 12:06
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    Universal remote control

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    30 meter USB cable

    USB is limited to 5 m. There are products on the market using Cat5 or optical to extend this range. Most of the them are a bit expensive. Corning announces a USB3 over optical cable starting at $109.99 (10m). Beside extending the range, it looks like a nice solution to shield your DAC from the...
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    Motherboard for audio

    Gigabyte is the first company known to me selling a mobo with audio quality as a sales argument. It features a dedicated USB port with clean power. The onboard audio has socketed op-amps and adjustable gain. They also claim to shield the analog components from noise at PCB level. Gigabytes...
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    New flavor of the month DAC

    In case of small portable USB DACs there is the flavor of the month DAC There is the Audioquest DragonFly doing 24/96. This was pretty soon surpassed by the Meridian Explorer doing 24/192 Now there is the Herus supporting PCM up to 24/352.8, DXD and DS64/128
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    MusiCHI 3.7.03 released

    A nice new feature in the new release is Composition Mapping It allows you to store elements of a composition in a custom tag. I use it for year and opus. Gives you a nice chronological overview. http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Players/CHI/CHI_Composition.htm
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    Classical music on Android. Can you read the title?

    Compositions in case of classical are in general descriptive e.g. "Nonet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello & double bass in F major, Op. 31". Even media players on the PC often struggle to render this completely. What happens if you use the small screen of your...
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    Listening impression Auralic Vega

    Had the Auralic Vega DAC and Taurus headphone amp on loan from the French distributor. As the whole story is a bit longish and I’m a bit lazy to copy/paste all of it, I invited you to read it here: http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/HW/Auralic/Vega.htm
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    Generation loss

    Well known in the analog world, make a copy of a copy of copy and with each pass you lose some quality. The same applies to lossy compression. Berndhold encoded/decoded audio using various lossy compression codecs. He used 100 passes. Results after 100 passes with VBR ~96 kbps It demonstrates...
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    Lmgtfy

    A newby on a forum asked "what is FLAC" This he got for an answer: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=FLAC :)
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    Jitter test

    There is a strong tendency in the audiophile community to minimize processing on a dedicated audio PC as much as possible. There is a rationale, any process not running cannot kick in and causes a dropout. However, the claims are much bolder. Killing system services, disabling network drivers...
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    KnobFeel

    Reviews based purely on the feel of the knob! :D:D:D:D:D Enjoy http://www.knobfeel.co.uk/
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    Tagging classical with MusiCHI

    Tagging classical is most of all a lot of work. The internet databases in general recognize the CD but the results are often an incoherent mess. Don't be surprised if you get Sonate für Klavier und Violine F-dur Opus 24 [Frühling] Sonata No. 5 "Frühlings - Sonate" The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F...
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    The earphones you buy because of the packaging

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    Parrot Zik

    What happens if an ace designer and a Bluetooth car kit manufacturer joins forces? The Parrot Zik designed by Philippe Starck. Design is often about minimalism. Those elementary shapes like a cylinder, a cube, etc. Starck is one of the few who can create beauty using organic shapes...
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    Rip your digital audio to analogue!

    Want your digital audio sounding truly analog? Using a 3D printer, Amanda Ghassaei made a record from a digital audio file! http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Printed-Record/
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    Bitdepth Simulator

    A new toy added to JRiver 18. It allows you to change the bit depth. Play a 24 bit recording and lower the bit depth until you hear an audible degradation. A nice toy to learn what bit depth does on your system.
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    Playing the file from a deeply embedded folder instead of from top of directory

    If you read this on a website What would you do: Run to your PC to move all audio to the root and shorten the file names as much as possible Run to the bathroom to get a pair of fresh underpants
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    Hires on a portable

    Iriver AK100 is a portable media player supporting lossless formats like WAV and FLAC up to 24 bits / 192 kHz Price: € 799,- MODEL AK100 Specifications: Display 2.4” QVGA(320X240) IPS Touch Screen Audio Format WAV, FLAC, WMA, MP3, OGG, APE Sample rate FLAC, WAV: 8KHz ~ 192KHz(8/16/24bits...
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    Audio Video Bridging

    Had a look at the Lyra AD/DA converter by Prismsound. Two things struck me. First another company switching from Firewire to USB Second support for AVB (Audio Video Bridging) A protocol new to me. AVB (IEEE 802.1BA) is part of the open standard IEEE 802.1 standard. It allows for...
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    Me and my perception

    Got some music in a M4A format containing Apple Lossless. JRiver, MusicBee, WMP, none of my media players would play them. Even dbPoweramp wasn’t able to convert them to FLAC (well it did but the content was static). Obvious the files where corrupted. Then I found a player (MusiCHI) able to...

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