Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
April 6th 18, 08:45 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,265
Silly design of speaker.
On 06/04/2018 16:56, Brian Gaff wrote:
Now if they had made the port in the side or the bottom.... or the front
for that matter!
A port on the side or bottom of a speaker in a bookshelf...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
March 1st 18, 08:13 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 18
Views: 862
PC sound hardware need
On 01/03/2018 10:13, Jim Lesurf wrote:
Many years ago I avoided Windows because I though it was, quite simply,
lousy compared to what I'd already used. Latterly I decided that it was
best...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 26th 18, 10:00 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 18
Views: 862
PC sound hardware need
On 26/02/2018 16:52, Jim Lesurf wrote:
[1] FWIW For a good DAC I'd recommend the Benchmark DAC3 range. Again,
studio / pro grade results, but costs. USB Class 1/2, goes to 192k/24.
Unlike some...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 20th 18, 08:33 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,245
Free Book :-)
On 20/02/2018 15:52, Dave W wrote:
On 20/02/2018 09:33, Jim Lesurf wrote:
Just to let people know that I have now made freely available a PDF
version
of the book I wrote mumble years ago...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 4th 18, 10:02 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 8
Views: 711
A complimentary music CD
On 04/02/2018 08:20, Iain wrote:
The term is also shortened to "repro", and is used here in Scandinavia, as is "replication". People involved in CD mastering and manufacture are careful in their...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 4th 18, 09:59 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,064
Preferred oil for turntable bearing
On 04/02/2018 11:05, Huge wrote:
Hey, "Johnny", are you also "boltar" from the UK car groups? Only,
everything (without exception) he posts is diametrically wrong, too.
Thank you, that confirms...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 23rd 17, 08:25 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 105
Views: 2,102
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 23rd 17, 08:22 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 105
Views: 2,102
What is the point of expensive CD players?
On 22/11/2017 13:21, Don Pearce wrote:
Anyway, there's nothing to stop you keeping the sleeve notes -
and the original disc .
I've still got some gatefold LPs. They've been digitised, and the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 19th 17, 08:53 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 105
Views: 2,102
What is the point of expensive CD players?
On 17/11/2017 10:55, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Not quite, Jim. Pop type recordings are mixed by their engineers for the
very best sound they can get in their control room. To say they will...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 14th 17, 07:58 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 105
Views: 2,102
What is the point of expensive CD players?
On 14/11/2017 13:46, Bob Latham wrote:
Over several years I have ripped 2400 CDs. Two I couldn't rip because
they were protected and not red book standard.
Just for once Linux _is_ the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 14th 17, 07:56 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 105
Views: 2,102
What is the point of expensive CD players?
On 13/11/2017 02:22, Trevor Wilson wrote:
On 13/11/2017 12:39 AM, D.M. Procida wrote:
Now that the contents of a CD can be held in RAM, never mind in other
cheaper and still very fast digital...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
October 22nd 17, 08:21 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 72
Views: 1,051
Crosley's top end record player
On 21/10/2017 22:03, Iain wrote:
Many mastering facilities have a stereo Studer A80 for clients who ask for an analogue pass as a part of the premastering stage. Why do you think that might...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
August 20th 17, 08:16 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 50
Views: 568
Preowned Units
On 20/08/2017 18:37, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Mike Fleming wrote:
In article...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
May 7th 17, 08:27 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 24
Views: 385
Is the SACD format now dead ?.
On 07/05/2017 17:03, Mike Fleming wrote:
If you remember old CRT tellies which had a high-pitched whistle -
what I have is the same as that. Although it's there all the time, I'm
not normally...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
May 5th 17, 08:24 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 24
Views: 385
Is the SACD format now dead ?.
On 05/05/2017 20:23, Iain Churches wrote:
CD factories are facing hard times.
Hence the idea of a multi-fomat package -
vinyl pressings F.O.C as an incentive when
ordering CDs.
I passed a...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
May 4th 17, 08:51 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 18
Views: 354
Why?
On 04/05/2017 20:29, Johnny B Good wrote:
The innermost area is less prone
to contamination by handling
That's the one. Fewer scratches and fingerprints.
Small discs came later IIRC.
Andy
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
March 9th 17, 08:35 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 153
Views: 1,166
Baroque Musical Chairs
On 09/03/2017 05:23, Johnny B Good wrote:
Sure beats the
Hell out of being fried by induced cosmic rays trying to attain
relativistic speeds riding a Bussard Ram Jet
I though the idea was the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
March 5th 17, 08:32 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 5
Views: 176
Strange Image Reversal
On 05/03/2017 14:29, Don Pearce wrote:
On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 14:23:17 +0000, Arthur Quinn
wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone else encountered this odd effect. Listening to a flac...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
March 3rd 17, 09:52 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 153
Views: 1,166
Baroque Musical Chairs
On 03/03/2017 12:35, Don Pearce wrote:
Just did some Googling
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/mystery-of-the-vanishing-sparrow-1026319.html
Funny that, they're doing fine here....
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 18th 17, 08:30 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 52
Views: 894
Noise Shaping for high rez files and streams
On 18/02/2017 12:00, Iain Churches wrote:
Did the multiple errors affect the replay, or prevent
the disc from playing? Quite often they do not.
I only put it in the tester because I had so much...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 17th 17, 08:23 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 52
Views: 894
Noise Shaping for high rez files and streams
On 17/02/2017 09:42, Iain Churches wrote:
A bad pressing? I like that :-))
I did have one once. It so happened we had a CD tester at work, and it
showed multiple errors scattered all over the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 22nd 17, 07:28 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 110
Views: 1,124
Current trends in audio
On 22/01/2017 12:49, Ian McCall wrote:
Such as myself - iPhone output is digital these days, so you're just
looking for a decent DAC on the other end of it. Lossy at 320bps is
indistinguishable...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 22nd 17, 07:26 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 110
Views: 1,124
Current trends in audio
On 22/01/2017 12:15, Phil Allison wrote:
You fail completely to appreciate the principle.
In case you have the memory span of a demented chimpanzee - this is what I wrote a little earlier:
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 22nd 17, 07:18 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 110
Views: 1,124
Current trends in audio
On 22/01/2017 18:24, Don Pearce wrote:
snip
Digital TV
could have improved things, but the need for revenue means that
resolution has been sacrificed to quantity of channels. Even HD
...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 8th 17, 08:32 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 93
Views: 836
CHLO-E
On 08/01/2017 09:47, Jim Lesurf wrote:
What may be unknown, though, is how a given ADC operates when
outputting different rates. Some may run at a high *fixed* rate and do
their own internal...
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