CD Quality Is Not High-Res Audio
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I'm sorry to hear that. Don't worry, though, as there's always the dictionary. Those of us who inhabit the worlds of hardware and software and maths blur our boundaries a little more than people with only one string to their bow. Sort of thing.
It's great. I'm one of very few people here who actually knows how compression, as opposed to compression, works (as demonstrated in my earlier post) and possibly the only person here who could actually write you the code from scratch to perform either type of compression i.e. create either type of "compressor". And all you can do is snipe about whether it's the conventional use of the word.
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garylkoh
WBF Technical Expert (Speakers & Audio Equipment)
Bruce B
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I know you did, Bruce and I appreciate it. But I can't seem to find the adapter that gets optical out of the MacBook and into the DAC in my speakers. I put it through the headphone system the other day. Switched back and forth and thought I heard something. They I remembered that my USB converter only passes through 16/44.1, which is only marginally more embarrassing than not being able to find my adapter. FWIW, I believe there can be an audible difference. What is it is another question, another death match.
Tim
Ok, now I see; Gary was waiting for Tim's own listening test. ...Then I agree with you Gary, as I now understand. :b
garylkoh
WBF Technical Expert (Speakers & Audio Equipment)
Que?
Meaning that if you are the sort of person who can actually do things, and understand how they work - maths and all that geeky stuff - you are not even worthy of travelling on the Underground (as we might say in the UK) without raising a couple of dollars first.
But if you're the sort of person who doesn't know diddly squat about maths and electronics and audio, you are qualified to pontificate about which DAC is "grade A+", based on your own fantasies about your Golden Ears. It's laughable really.
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Well, maths, electronics and all that geeky stuff would only matter if audio gear was based on science and engineering. We all know it isn't. Music is Art, so any box reproducing that Art must be based on Art too, where Emotions and Impressions rule, not science...
Kinda like van gogh /Gaudi designing a cd player
The audiophile world is full of Art ; cable art , cd player art ,what stops me from buying [among other things]is the depriciation of price ,instead of real art increasing in price.
Long live solid /smart enginering , which is also an Art
The audiophile world is full of Art ; cable art , cd player art ,what stops me from buying [among other things]is the depriciation of price ,instead of real art increasing in price.
Long live solid /smart enginering , which is also an Art
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Kinda like van gogh /Gaudi designing a cd player
That's it, you got it! ...Looks good, sounds good, can play hi-res audio files, and costs a lot of money, ...or very little.
Unfortunately it seems a lot of "designer" gear sounds good only because it would take real effort to make them sound bad.
Interesting; the title says CD quality is not high-res audio. ...But then, not all high-res audio is high CD quality (from those best CD recordings).
I guess the consensus is that "high-res" implies a format, but doesn't guarantee anything about the content...
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