Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 22nd 18, 11:18 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 57
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Free Book :-)
Jim Lesurf wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:
nice to see something obviously RISC OS generated. ;-)
You noticed the thanks to Mike and Bob. :-)
And at only 5kB/page the PDF viewer doesn't...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 21st 18, 03:41 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,245
Free Book :-)
Jim Lesurf wrote:
I've just put up an alternative layout of the book
This makes more use of an A4 page's area.
That's a nicer layout, thanks ...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 21st 18, 01:57 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,245
Free Book :-)
Scott wrote:
it seems ungrateful to criticise layouts and pagination.
It's honest feedback, it's not as though anyone's asking for money back!
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 21st 18, 09:49 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,245
Free Book :-)
Jim Lesurf wrote:
I could have another go sometime, but decided that these problems were
cosmetic, so wouldn't prevent people from reading the books OK.
Indexes and page number glitches are...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 29th 18, 06:57 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,211
Question about ultrasound
Phil Allison wrote:
Listeners wear lightweight, battery powered headphones fitted with a
sensitive IR detector, FM demodulator and audio amplifier. Sennheiser
made and still make systems like...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 8th 18, 11:20 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 72
Views: 1,051
Crosley's top end record player
Jim Lesurf wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9113-mqa_-_a_clever_stealth_drm-trojan
Interesting. Not tried the video yet as it would be a 300MB download. But
the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 7th 18, 05:42 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 72
Views: 1,051
Crosley's top end record player
Jim Lesurf wrote:
Iain wrote:
Much of what we call popular music has little to do with
faithfulness to the sound hitting the mics.
That's what I've thought. :-)
It also throws a...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 24th 17, 10:18 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 14
Views: 533
Replacing speaker grille foam
Woody wrote:
get the foam from Wilmslow Audio (who are in Hinckley or
Nuneaton or somewhere like that )
Broughton Astley
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 14th 17, 07:05 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 105
Views: 2,102
What is the point of expensive CD players?
Dave Plowman wrote:
You wouldn't want the average CDROM drive in a CD player. Too noisy.
Only because they're doing 48x speed or whatever, there used to be ways
of fixing them to 1x speed by...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 2nd 17, 12:52 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 56
Views: 708
A phase question
Iain wrote:
Does the misspelling of a composers name now pass as humour inn the UK ?
What if you can't see the words and have to listen to them via a screen
reader?
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
October 18th 17, 10:16 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 22
Views: 442
Convert FLAC to ALAC
Bob Latham wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
Bob Latham wrote:
RJH wrote:
I'd like to convert about 4000 FLAC files to 16/44 ALAC.
I'd would love to know...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
October 18th 17, 07:57 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 22
Views: 442
Convert FLAC to ALAC
Bob Latham wrote:
RJH wrote:
I'd like to convert about 4000 FLAC files to 16/44 ALAC.
https://www.mediahuman.com/howto/convert-flac-to-alac.html
I'd would love...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
September 21st 17, 04:00 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 11
Views: 273
Have we all lost our way..
Dave Plowman wrote:
Not having such a device, presumably they introduce a delay? So if you can
hear the same prog from another room, a PITA?
Depends where the source is, tends to be for online...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
September 21st 17, 01:41 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 11
Views: 273
Have we all lost our way..
Brian Gaff wrote:
its not really hi fi
I think that's the point of most of these portable speakers, they sound
better than tinny little radios etc; you stick one in the kitchen, the
bedroom or...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
August 21st 17, 10:39 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 50
Views: 568
Preowned Units
Dave Plowman wrote:
If you go across two phases in the UK, you don't get double the single
phase voltage.
Because our phases are 120° apart (all the way from generator to
premises that have...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 15th 17, 09:24 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 46
Views: 472
Radio 3 flac tests
Jim Lesurf wrote:
I seem to have been able to use ffmpeg to capture this year's 'First
Night' flac stream OK.
Only caught the encore of tonight's prom, listening on a different
machine. I was...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
July 14th 17, 05:46 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 46
Views: 472
Radio 3 flac tests
wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:
https://vs-dash-ww-rd-live.bbcfmt.hs.llnwd.net/al/lossless/client_manifest.mpd
stream still only plays for a few seconds, then quits. Am I the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
May 7th 17, 11:33 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 10
Views: 200
This Sunday morning for insomniacs on R4
Don Pearce wrote:
Andrew wrote:
the BBC are transmitting the dawn chorus from all over Europe
I have enough of the *******s bellowing outside my bedroom window,
thanks.
Eh, birds are...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
May 7th 17, 10:40 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 10
Views: 200
This Sunday morning for insomniacs on R4
Dave Plowman wrote:
Brian Gaff wrote:
Is this instead of world service then?
Yes. And would really have annoyed me if I couldn't get WS direct. As I
always drift off listening to that....
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
April 27th 17, 06:57 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 19
Views: 225
Radio 3 test FLAC stream
Arthur Quinn wrote:
Firefox 53.0 (installed as an update) on Linux Mint xfce (virtualized
on Mac) fails with the message "this content doesn't seem to be working"
Not on the FLAC test page, but...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
April 8th 17, 07:32 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 46
Views: 472
Radio 3 flac tests
Jim Lesurf wrote:
I'll keep puzzling.
I tried streaming the .mpd URL with VLC 3.0 nightly as it's supposed to
support DASH, it knew enough to get some metadata such as the name
"radio 3...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
April 8th 17, 10:36 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 46
Views: 472
Radio 3 flac tests
Jim Lesurf wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
https://vs-dash-ww-rd-live.bbcfmt.hs.llnwd.net/al/lossless/A1/388436087.m4s
How do you find the first 'time chunk' value when starting the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
April 7th 17, 07:59 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 46
Views: 472
Radio 3 flac tests
Jim Lesurf wrote:
Eiron wrote:
Is there any way to record the stream?
There probably will be various ways to do so. In fact, that's what I'm
trying to sort out at tghe moment! :-) The...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
March 5th 17, 05:13 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 153
Views: 1,166
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 22nd 17, 11:31 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 52
Views: 894
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