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Post by Rabbit on Mar 31, 2013 16:02:12 GMT
I had an excellent one that used to be sold by Meier Audio. You could make some really useful adjustments on it and it was built really well.
Stupidly, I left it around and it got stolen.
It's the best crossfeed I've heard and now he no longer makes them which is a great pity.
I like them if they have some degree of control, but fixed ones aren't so useful for me.
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Post by covenant on Mar 31, 2013 17:29:19 GMT
I hope the forum isn't too blinkered and discusses hifi and AV. Personally I like all three and spend more time listening to speakers than headphones. Agree with Davek about file based audio, I have already had a good read of the article on Foobar!
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Post by solderdude on Mar 31, 2013 17:40:15 GMT
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Post by solderdude on Apr 4, 2013 20:05:07 GMT
I would like to see if anyone has used resistors to make an adaptor for a normal power amp in order to use a headphone socket. There is an article on ESP (Elliot Sound Products) I made a headphone OUT using the resistor values on ESP for an TDA 2030 chip amp. Sounds pretty good to me. An article on this would interest me. The first part of the article is up on the website under 'Amplifiers' the part with the resistors and how to calculate them for various power levels/amplifiers/output resistances will be added later.
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Post by Javier on Apr 4, 2013 20:11:25 GMT
A/V as in multichannel audio or as in audio & video? I like video too
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Post by Rabbit on Apr 4, 2013 20:50:59 GMT
You want a go Javier?
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Post by juke on Apr 4, 2013 22:18:10 GMT
The first part of the article is up on the website under 'Amplifiers' the part with the resistors and how to calculate them for various power levels/amplifiers/output resistances will be added later. I've read it through a couple of times Frans, it is as expected very good. I'm presently getting ready to use a Sugden A21AI as a head amp, as you know. An initial trial demonstrated how 'high geared' it is, without any resistors, into the HE-6. So I'm looking forward to the rest of the article at some point. What I'm wondering at the minute is how HifiMan can sell a converter box that seems to cope with any amp, especially for use with the HE6, they don't give much info on their site other than it contains a few resistors. Syd
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Post by Javier on Apr 4, 2013 22:22:30 GMT
em-mm...Sure If there is any interest, y'know... jack of all trades master of none. Though as video aficionado I'm a hard core objectivist on that field. PQ is ruled by industry standards and displays/players checked with tools and measurements, what doesn't show doesn't exist. There is little room left for personal taste so many may find it a bit too technical and boring even if the results can be truly "spectacular". Also, learning about PQ has a down side. Once you know what is OK and what is not you start concentrating more and more on artifacts and defects and less on the movies, a bit like audio and music but worse as our eyes are far more perfect and complex organ than our ears.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2013 11:43:32 GMT
Can I suggest (sorry Javier ) that some thought is given to a basic thread about file based audio. I know most on here will be familiar with this aspect, to a greater or lesser extent but I believe this will increase in popularity in coming years. Can I echo Dave's suggestion?I have thought for a while now about getting rid of my CD player and freeing up the wall space that around 2000 CD's are taking up. The obvious path is C.A. But like many others, I don't have a clue about media streamers/players/etc. What I think I'd like is something like a Squeezebox Touch fed from a RAID array, but to be honest, although I know the terms, the actual details are all a bit hazy. I wouldn't want to make an expensive and sound-degrading mistake, so a basic intro to file-based audio would be excellent.
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Post by Rabbit on Apr 8, 2013 11:58:18 GMT
That is a bit of a problem isn't it? Rip the original but if you lose the CD, you're stuck with whatever quality you ripped in. Leave all the CD's in the attic?
Is it perhaps safer to rip to wav and then convert to mp3 or whatever from that?
I was really surprised buying a portable hard drive. It's a terrabyte not a terrapin and it stores an enormous amount of TV. I now take all digital TV down to a hard drive that's connected to my new TV, and I watch whatever, whenever I want!! It's really very good and I can't tell any difference in quality.
The drive was incredibly cheap so with storage getting so cheap nowadays, it makes sense to rip if possible to an equal quality to CD and then convert later.
It is an attractive option since the CD's can then be packed away.
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Post by Javier on Apr 8, 2013 21:40:15 GMT
File based audio is a huge field with almost infinite choices for every single aspect of it, from source material to digital to analogue conversion. It'll be far simpler if we narrow down the scope to a more precise topic.
BTW, RAID arrays can be real ***s to rebuild when a drive fails. In these days of TB size HDDs it can take many hours depending on hardware used and such long full tilt working process place some stress on the surviving units. A dedicated hot spare is quite recommended if system allows for it, if possible auto rebuild built in.
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Post by juke on Apr 9, 2013 10:42:29 GMT
First off, happy birthday Jeff, sounds like you'll have a good one I made the change over to ripped music at a relatively early stage. The biggest advantage is the ease of turning up a chosen track in seconds. I know nothing about raid arrays, Javier doesn't seem to be advocating it! I use a little mini ITX PC, no screen, just accessed wirelessly for 'maintenance' via my main PC (music PC would need Win Professional unless Win8 is different.) I run a 500GB HDD for around 500 CD FLAC rips. That takes up 200GB so it might be OK for your bigger collection. THE ITX runs Foobar which is in the start up process so normally I just turn it on, give it a few minutes to boot up and start Foobar then access it using an iphone with Monkeymote app. That's in the 'music room', everywhere else I use Squeezeboxes, using their own iphone app as a remote. I have one of each of their offerings and the Touch is the most versatile. Bad news is the whole Squeezebox family is discontinued but if you were quick a few Touches are still for sale, often at a premium unfortunately. Its the most versatile of all the Squeezebox family, can even play from a USB stick or HDD plugged directly in, though they are all good, ideally into a separate DAC but many people are happy with the internal DAC. Syd
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 12:03:39 GMT
Thanks Syd the reason I mentioned RAID was because I had the idea of buying, say, 4 x 3Tb HDD's, filling two with music (wav and hi-res) and backing up automatically to the other two. I hear horror stories about HDD's failing and I don't want to rip 2000cd's to a HDD and then it fails and I've got to do it again I'm not even sure this is possible, but it's what I would like to try to do in the next year or so. I definately like the Squeezbox system with a small screen (and even remote control) and I would be using it's dig out to my C.A. dac. The reason I started thinking about this was an incident a few weeks ago now where i was listening to a few albums, really 'in the zone'. I finished one album, thought , I fancy listening to -can't remember the album now - and spent a genuine 15 minutes trying to find the fecking thing!! In the end I had the main lounge lights on and I was scouring my shelves looking for it, the mood was totally gone. How much easier to simply navigate to the desired album, with the possibility of listening in 24/96?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 12:15:18 GMT
A dedicated hot spare is quite recommended if system allows for it, if possible auto rebuild built in. That whooshing noise you hear is the above statement going right over my head.
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Post by juke on Apr 9, 2013 13:04:26 GMT
Ah! I thought I'd read 1,000 CDs - that's a fair collection you have Sounds like Javier may have the answer, I'd like to hear it myself, I rip and copy individually to each backup disk which can be a pain, easy to forget too. Syd
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