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    B&W Loudspeakers - Tribute to John Bowers

    Yes, please.
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    The really mess set up mix with Hi End stuff and Diy

    If I ever get divorced, this is how I plan to have my living room look.
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    My guess is that they are now well aware that the problems are a genuine concern. I hope they are able to address them in a productive way. Ideally, this would mean replacing questionable material with good material, where that possibility exists. I can't speak for everyone, but I am not out...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    Did you get any reply? They ignored me completely.
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    P. J. Harvey wins Mercury music prize for the second time

    P. J. Harvey wins Mercury music prize for the second time Singer's latest album, Let England Shake, takes prestigious award 10 years after her first triumph Article in the Guardian.
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    OK, thanks. I appreciate the summary.
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    I hope no one minds if I ask a really naive question: How does this work? I have a vague idea someone sings into a microphone and that gets recorded, either analogue or digitally. Then what happens eventually is I can purchase a digital file (either on a CD, or as a download). I really...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    I've also gotten some really good stuff from HDtracks. I think we as a community are far better off focusing our efforts at getting them to improve quality control than we are having a bitch-fest. The most helpful thing to do is get a list together of the most unambiguously problematic...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    The code exists and is open-source. It is used by electron microscopists to find resolution. Briefly, it finds the inflection point of the steepest part of the curve with negative slope (from say 15kHz to whatever the claimed upper bound is). So all you would have to do is perform an fft...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    I think the main thing is for all of us to encourage them to do quality control spot-checks. I'm sympathetic to the idea that some substandard stuff managed to slip through the cracks, but it has been a couple of years now that they have known some files are problematic. What is frustrating...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    The reference to "Lush Life" was an earlier problem I had written to them about:
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    I guess I need to learn to spend my money elsewhere:
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    Do you think there is any chance they will offer those of us who purchased it corrected files for True Stories (and maybe some of the others)?
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    Now This Is News !!!

    Then they could rename the country: iMerica
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    OSX Lion

    Normally I would suggest installing smb using fink, but I just looked, and there is no 10.7 port of smb in fink, so it looks like there might be a deeper issue with directory services or something. Is it possible to use NFS instead of smb for Sonos? If it is, I can help you with that.
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    OSX Lion

    "Save As ..." is missing in Keynote, Pages, Numbers and presumably any of the other Apple programs that are now designed to save versions automatically along the way. She and I, and most other people I know, very rarely start a document from scratch. Typically I will start with one, modify...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    Thanks for doing this. As a scientist, I often have my experiments second-guessed and my data scrutinized, so I know just how unpleasant and agonizing this can be. I sincerely apologize to Bruce if I have caused him any such grief, and please know that was not my intent. HDtracks, on the...
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    OSX Lion

    I'm running it on everything now except my 2010 mini that is my primary music server. I actually reverted to 10.6.8. Briefly, audio playback somehow became more fragile in 10.7. My wife is threatening to make me regress her laptop to 10.6.8. She had quite a tantrum about the lack of "Save...
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    A look inside OSX audio

    Well, I misread some stuff. It looked like everyone was piling on, but I re-read more carefully. My bad. So you downloaded Audirvana? It is just a compressed archive (zip) of the application. I double-clicked it to unpack it, and double-clicked again to open the application. I...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    I've managed to figure out how to generate the analogous plot in Audacity with a -144dB baseline, as shown below. As you can see, the 22kHz step function becomes even more pronounced. Is it possible HDtracks is selling something other than what you provided? I would be more than happy to...
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    A look inside OSX audio

    I'm a little bit saddened to see this reaction, as Damien is one of the "good guys" who has made this available for free (although a paid version is now on the horizon). More importantly, the code is open-source. There are several practical issues Audirvana addresses on OS X, which I will list...
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    Tools for room measurement

    I've been using AudioTools on my iPad recreationally with the iPad's internal microphone. (You can buy a $400 external attachment, which is a bit out of my price range). It works reasonably well, and I assume if I had a good mic, it would work very well. The main problem is that the iPad has...
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    diy 's amp do not look too diy

    Oddly, there are no pots to control gain on the pot amp.
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    I was just wondering if anyone knew what went wrong with this. I certainly wasn't suggesting you buy it! But it is the weirdest-looking download I ever purchased.
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    Here's another one I bought from HD Tracks (Kodama Beethoven Piano Sonatas) that I have never been able to make heads or tails of, despite long periods of reflection: I am grateful for any insights.
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    diy 's amp do not look too diy

    @Don: Yeah, I guess I broke with convention. It never occurred to me to look at how it was done. I just assumed "right" went on the "right" side, and as long as the inputs and outputs are consistent, it should be ok. If only that were the worst mistake I made. :lol:
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    diy 's amp do not look too diy

    FrontPanelExpress, not Parts Express (although I did get some of the other pieces from them).
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    diy 's amp do not look too diy

    No. Sorry. The curved wood thing I got from Peachtree -- basically an extra nova case they were kind enough to sell me. It is the top and bottom and left and right sides (all one piece of wood, or maybe a composite). Then I designed front and back panels from FrontPanelExpress.com: The...
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    diy 's amp do not look too diy

    My first attempt I tried a DIY amp kit (Class D Audio) for my first (and so far, only) DIY project. I made a case by getting front and rear panels made from FrontPanelExpress.com, and I bought a shell from Peachtree to match my Nova. Here is a picture of how it looks: I've since hid...

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