Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
June 3rd 14, 09:49 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,402
FLAC v WAV
Brian Gaff wrote:
Often of course if the hardware is working hard then one might find
some issues with the extra processing needed to record and play
sounds.
Apparently this was a hardware...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
June 2nd 14, 10:35 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,402
FLAC v WAV
A well-known hi-fi magazine recently ran an article about how apparently
an uncompressed WAV file sounds better than FLAC.
Ummmm...
*facepalm*
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
June 12th 13, 01:17 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,757
Spindle idler for Technics RS-BX606
Glenn Richards wrote:
Any ideas where I'd be able to a. find out what the part number is, and
b. source one for a reasonable cost? (Our local repair shop closed down
many years ago sadly, as...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
June 12th 13, 01:09 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 8
Views: 802
Freecycle
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
It's amazing what some people 'throw out'. I put together a very nice
sound system for a local charity drop in centre from Freecycle.
A few years back a friend of...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
June 12th 13, 01:05 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,757
Spindle idler for Technics RS-BX606
RJH wrote:
You sure there's no service manual available - I've old Sony and Denon
tape decks and they are freely available.
There is a service manual, but I don't have one. I have seen it as...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
June 5th 13, 01:20 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,757
Spindle idler for Technics RS-BX606
As subject line, I have one of these cassette decks sitting around with
a broken tooth on the spindle idler. (It's 20 years old so has probably
gone a bit brittle). This causes a jolt every...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 26th 09, 09:21 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 124
Views: 5,113
Decent cheap mic for vocal studio use
Right... I have some backing tracks that I need to record vocals on
using Audition. At the moment I have an el-cheapo cardioid mic from
Maplin (kind of like a poor man's SM58) that I've had since I...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 4th 09, 08:10 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,357
Fostex
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
There weren't any. Could be my news feed converts HTML to text and removes
any attachments.
Pluto doesn't support HTML in messages (as far as I know - and why would...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
October 29th 08, 03:26 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 6
Views: 783
PC to Wharfdales
Woody wrote:
Most PC sound cards are designed to work with poor quality inefficient
desktop speakers. As such the designers don't worry too much about noise
levels. With a good amp and half...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
October 20th 08, 07:33 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,088
Testing capacitors
Phil Allison wrote:
True, but with modern equipment the vast majority of faulty capacitors...
** So ****ing what ?
The OP never alluded to what sort of caps he wanted to test.
So your...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
October 13th 08, 09:07 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 12
Views: 862
Dolby Digital Decoders
David Looser wrote:
What surround delay range does it have?
0-15ms - standard range for AC-3 I believe.
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
October 8th 08, 03:27 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 12
Views: 862
Dolby Digital Decoders
David Looser wrote:
Does anyone know of a "black-box" DD decoder that is commercially
available?
If you can track one down Yamaha used to make something called the
DDP-2. This was designed to...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
September 18th 08, 08:52 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,292
Is there a 'grown-up' iPod device out there yet?
Meehan Mydog wrote:
What I am thinking of would be a sort of non-portable 'grown-up' iPod,
which would have all the convenience of the iPod combined with the sound
quality of a genuine hi-fi...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
August 8th 08, 11:31 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 56
Views: 2,125
Cool Edit Pro licensing
Malcolm H wrote:
Thank you for the suggestion Iain. I have had a phone conversation with
the nice people in Adobe but unfortunately they are unable to give (or
sell) me a key for...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
August 6th 08, 08:48 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 63
Views: 3,210
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 28th 08, 01:40 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 63
Views: 3,210
No wonder people can't hear the difference...
Eiron wrote:
We are still waiting for you to publish a couple of short wav files to
demonstrate the difference between interconnects.
And I shall do, when I have an hour or so spare to delve...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 28th 08, 01:33 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 63
Views: 3,210
No wonder people can't hear the difference...
Adrian C wrote:
Nutters, the lot of them :-)
Rabid frothings at the mouth!
OT:/
Which 'Bit-Perfect' soundcard did you end up with?
The USB one that Maplin are doing for £16. At that price I...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 21st 08, 09:41 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 63
Views: 3,210
No wonder people can't hear the difference...
Something struck me the other day whilst reading this group.
All these "do they/don't they" arguments about speaker cables and
interconnects... if there is a difference then the likes of Pinkerton,...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 14th 08, 11:49 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 7
Views: 686
Sound card with bit-perfect SPDIF output
James Perrett wrote:
Be careful with the Creative cards - many of them resample everything
to 48kHz internally. The cards from their semi-professional arm, EMU
are fine.
The MP3+ (external...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 14th 08, 11:04 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 118
Views: 7,335
TCI Cobra interconnects against Chord Chameleon
Eeyore wrote:
Does you car stereo sound better when you fill the tank with Shell ?
Actually... yes.
No, seriously. Bear with me.
When I fill up at Shell with V-Power diesel the engine runs...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 9th 08, 06:45 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 60
Views: 3,177
New amp and speakers
Eeyore wrote:
My friend's response? "Oh, you're using those fancy Chord interconnects
on the Arcam, you're using a £10 Cambridge Atlantic on the Technics."
He's not a City Banker ...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 4th 08, 05:58 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,460
HDCD revisited.
Don Pearce wrote:
If you master it 6dB lower then it'll be 6dB quieter than everyone
else's CD. And that would never do.
But an HDCD disc doesn't play back correctly on a conventional...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 4th 08, 03:59 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,460
HDCD revisited.
Don Pearce wrote:
That is a big difference, but why would they bother to do it that way?
Far easier just to master the whole thing 6dB lower - it certainly won't
be running out of dynamic...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 4th 08, 02:35 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,460
HDCD revisited.
Eiron wrote:
Someone has managed to reverse-engineer HDCD encoding:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cjk32/hdcd
Yup, saw this - decent guy that wrote it, also sent me the source code
so I could build...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 3rd 08, 03:54 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 7
Views: 686
Sound card with bit-perfect SPDIF output
Serge Auckland wrote:
I just bought a MAudio Audiophile 192, and am quite impressed. For
£85, it has balanced analogue I/O and S-PDIF digital I/O. As to it
being bit-perfect, I don't know of...
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