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I agree with Phantom, I see the funny side of the cliche thread but this one is going to insult and offend some people imo. There are a plethora of things that I believe in and/or use today that I wouldn't have dreamed of a couple of years ago - because I've now heard and experienced them.

Oh geez. Here we go This will become a vehicle for everyone's pet hates unfortunately. I am staying on the sidelines and planning on watching the bloodbath

Or how about.... My amplifier, brand X is good sounding and I like it. I compared my amplifier to brand Y and it too was good. I concluded they are both good in different aspects. I liked the aspects of both amplifiers because they both emitted a good sound that was audible to me and my cat, Snappy Tom. Indeed both amplifiers sounded good with my brand X CD player and also makes my speakers sound good. This was confirmed by my neighbour, Billy Bob, who lives two doors down and had a listen while he was out the front mowing his lawn. He said if it sounds this good over here, then it must sound good in your lounge room, and he's right too, hot damn it is good! I intend to treat my room because if the system sounds good now, just imagine how good it will sound later. I also wanted to upgrade all my system's cables, not because there is a problem with them, but because I want something that will take the system to another level that I would describe as good but in a different way. I just don't want good, I want that good that money can't buy!! With so much hi-fi goodness, my girlfriend wants me to have threesomes with her and her BFF four times a week. Yes, the system is good indeed, and so is my girlfriends' BFF. Bla bla bla...

"It sounds more musical" - AKA- "I'm too lazy to explain what I really mean" " I heard one of those at.... and didn't like it as much as mine" - AKA - "There was no way of really knowing how good it was in that setting but I wanna brag about mine anyway" " Gestalt" - AKA "I am clever because I know a German word"

Tssskk Ffffffzpt Plunk Vvvrrrrr Pop Crack. Hummmmmmmmmmm. Pinggggingggg. Don't like hearing any of those.

winding down now to this wonderful album

Warner says if friggin Watson can challenge, so can I! What an idiot

That sounds interesting. Here's another one fir you mrbuzz - Rasa Duende improvisations. Bobby Singh, adrian mcneil, damian wright.Bought it yesterday but only had one listen so i dont know how good it is yet. Its a collaboration between a flamenco guitarist, a sarod player and a tabla player. These collaborations dont always work but its an interesting mix.

One of Sebadoh's best LP's Sub pop, US pressing, 1999.

Getting back to the title of this thread, I've got to say that I'm becoming increasingly impressed with the iFi usb power device (with the gemini cable). Of course technically the ifi is not a filter, as it passes through usb data and completely regenerates usb power. It does make a fundamental change in the sound - superior reproduction of space, nuance, tonal properties and musical flow (among other things). In terms of its effect, I think its one of the best value components I've added to my system and I'm currently getting excellent sound from a very modest laptop server (which wasn't the case before the iFi). Perhaps for people who have gone all the way with specialized high end music servers and linear psu etc, the effect wouldn't be so great(?). This would make sense since (hopefully) the elements that lead to noise at the usb output have been reduced. On the other hand, those with usb powered DAC's may benefit even more than me.

Ah, but what type of wire. They all sound different too don't they?

The thing that is standing out to me with this series is the shocking decisions even with the aid of technology. The Khawaja dismissal was simply unfathomable. I personally don't think Australia is doing that bad. The first test was close, we got thumped in the second but are doing fine so far in the third. I wont pass judgement until the series is over. I got the feeling it will show Australia performed pretty well and England will not find it easy at all when they come out to Aus - not easy at all. Thanks Bill

'Wire with gain' is shorthand for the perfect amplifier: it behaves just like a wire, but with (voltage, current, power) gain. +1 to whoever is sick of hearing it, BTW!

Started in 1989... All Technics components... National VCR and TV The Spare Room.... Love Technics HiFi

Damping, or dampening, describes how an oscillating system behaves once the excitation is removed. An undamped system will continue to oscillate indefinitely. An under-damped system will make numerous oscillations (crossing over the settled position) before settling. An over-damped system will slowly return to the settled position, taking numerous 'periods' to do so, without crossing the settled position. A critically damped system will settle in the minimum time without oscillating.

This album released 13 years ago today

Tube Like - To describe solid state? - Go buy tubes :blink: Analogue Like - To decribe a digital to analogue audio converter - Duh..Thats what it bloody well does Legendary - To describe any set manufactured between 1970-1980 True to Source - Well yeah there is a ******* source plugged in Rare, XRare, XXRare, XXXRare, XXXXRare, VRare, VIRare, VIIRare. etc, etc...Well done you can count rare Unobtanium - WTF? That Lovely WARM Vintage Sound..... .Is the bursting capacitors and transisitors in your beat up amp...no really And the excessive use of metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial expressions in posts really drives me nuts.......

Our first generation iPad was today replaced by a surface pro tablet. While I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet, it has shown itself to be a very slick device. Web browsing is a far superior experience over the iPad, all sites so far have displayed correctly (flash included) and I'll be able to upload photos again. Its extremely fast and windows 8 is great to use with a touch screen. The set up out the box was quick. About 15 minutes to get it up and running with Office 2013 and outlook working. Not like the good old days, I recall spending a day setting up a new pc. I will judge the success of this device by how many edits to my posts are required due to the spellchecker. Its larger, heavier and thicker than the iPad. I've used it with the touch keyboard and wedge mouse, it will definite replace my 1st gen HP i7 laptop. The display is magic, killing the original iPad. I would rate this as game changer and the beginning of the end of notebooks. Well, it hasn't improved my spelling !!!

This one is my favourite, simply because I could see myself settling down here to listen to music, while my wife could be beside me reading her favourite book. As much as listening is a singular thing, if she can't be a part of it, I don't really want to do it.

Just been playing this: Truly great - Milt Jackson is a wonder, Ed Thigpen was one of the best comping timekeepers in the business, and with Ray Brown, made up a rhythm section par excellence. And Oscar Peterson? You just have to recall the words of Keith Richards (which went along the lines of : 'the only difference between me and Oscar Peterson and those cats is that they take longer to get around to playing the same riff again'). Cheers Mick

this should be spectacular, John Adams conducting: Short Ride in a Fast Machine Violin Concerto City Noir - his jazz-based meditation on the Los Angeles of The Big Sleep and Double Indemnity, City Noir. Thursday 29 August Saturday 31 August Hamer Hall

"is it meant to sound like that?"

I'm enjoying watching the poms stress in the field!

Vinyls. Vynils. Rekkids. Heavily modded.

Debashish bhattacharya with john mclaughlin, jerry douglas, anandi bhattacharya Beyond the ragasphere This is a fantastic album

Look forward to hearing about the condition when they arrive q1 2014

My Mundorf order arrived today. I went for the 'standard' poly M-Caps for everything and also purchased some smaller value Supremes for bypassing duties for the panel. The 100uf caps aren't small! They'll still fit onto the board though with some hot melt glue and zip ties. At the recommendation of James @ Sound Labs Group, I made sure I stayed with same value parallel caps where multiples were needed to give a larger total value (eg, 2 x 22uf instead of 1 x 10uf and 1 x 33uf for the panel). My Mundorf silver solder also turned up the other day too. This is going to be fun...

some Iwata profile horn porn: IWATA 300 horn from AutoTech. It's a biggy.

Have just ordered one of these pre amps. Looking forward to its arrival.

How the fcuk was that given out!! Even when we use drs correctly, the umpires get it wrong. Is Aleem Dar The 3rd umpire?

but still thats still a great spreadsheet. typical 6.5" woofer with 4mm xmax usually reached its xmax @100hz @100db in bass reflex. i guess the 80db level at listening position sounds reasonable for a typical 2way with 4-6" midwoofer.

That's actually a Google Docs spreadsheet that I was planning on doing for that longer post that I mentioned I'm trying to write Just knocked it up in a few minutes, honestly I spend so much time in spreadsheets it's embarrassing. After I'm a bit more confident in it I will share it such that others can plug their own numbers in and use it. That ear bleeding feeling could well be the speakers struggling and not your ears The dynamic range line in the calc is to allow for the peaks in the music. 15dB felt like roughly the right number, could increase it a bit but I think it's pretty close to what I'd expect in most recorded music. I think some classical music might very well have wider dynamic range though. Chris

Chris that is above and beyond!! Cranking out Excel...wow. I have to say I've not yet heard the little Hadyn's struggle with any load I've given them and my ears feel like they will start bleeding when the iPad app shows anything near 100dB average at the listening position (too much noisy farm machinery and too little ear protection). Talking about dynamic music, I've recently downloaded some albums from a mob that transfers old classical recordings (50's, 60's) from the original master tapes. Some of that stuff is so dynamic and strikingly recorded I have near jumped out of my seat a few times when the drums kick in...startling. When I say 80db I mean average listening level so it may spread from 60dB to 100dB or more during the crescendo. I am with you Chris and Nada. This dac is so meticulously thought out and so original in its approach that it would be a waste to compromise some of its technical and sonic achievements with less than optimal amplifier choices. I have talked to the Phasure designer tonight and he feels that the balanced output is best so it would be nice to find a good balanced amp, but in truth it comes down to the sound so I will certainly not rule out those amps that do not accept Balanced. Thanks, Anthony

That's the old Focal tweeter's primary dome resonance.

Trio Of Doom.John Mclaughlin,Jaco Pastorius and Tony Williams. (Live )

My iPhone (which is my go to camera these days) has always been suspect, especially in very bright light. It fuzzes out and distorts and acts like a TV on the blink. but occasionally, it accidentally produces something cool....

Hi all, I've just had some time in Europe with my Fuji X100 which proved to be a lovely travel companion. Here's a few images. Cheers, Craig.

yes, both you and Dave took the meaning you wanted to out of those words and failed to understand it, then went on to talk about something completely different. Chris covered it rather nicely so I wont repeat. jitter is a red herring in this conversation and is something of an obsession of mine, its not something I have to worry about anymore. regarding the non-fleshy hardware: every audio bandwidth ADC uses oversampling filters for the very reasons we have been discussing and several of us have mentioned this explicitly, oversampling filters do not add noise into the audible bandwidth, they do the exact opposite, they push any aliasing artefacts above the audible bandwidth where they can be more easily and less destructively filtered. not using oversampling in sampling, playback, or before in specialised player software, increases noise in the audio bandwidth and rolls off frequency response, it does not decrease it, or make it somehow more accurate. that has nothing at all to do with distributing at higher samplerate, using a higher samplerate in the distribution and DAC may simply mean that the oversampling multiplier will be lower, this will depend on the DAC and digital filter design obviously. downsampling, as mentioned, does not involve a filter as long as its a direct division. (edited out specific, but incorrect clock multipliers, was thinking MCK, OSF may be 8-64x generally) thinking that microphones or speakers (let alone ears) are capable of such bandwidths and portraying anything but noise up there is naive… but its what some of the manufacturers want you to think (they would really prefer you didnt think about the whole system at all…). the ADC, DAC, Amplifier and speakers are all band limited. even DSD512 (the highest rate possible to playback with high end DIY, with no recordings even available) when it is played back it has a 50 or 60khz LPF hardwired as part of the digital filter after the modulator. Competently designed amps, even if capable of wide bandwidth, will have band limited inputs to stop noise infiltrating the input and using up the available loop gain. if you defeat all these mechanisms, you will lower the performance in noise, distortion, IMD and FR throughout the entire bandwidth, as well as radiating noise, possibly causing oscillation and destabilising the system. pushing 24bit earlier for DNR benefits, then pushing things that raise noise, eat up DNR and raise SNR in all parts of the system is a bit odd. its interesting you label me narrow-minded, when its pretty clear you have not considered the limiting factors of current technology that makes up the rest of the system, or possible negative side effects and are focusing on this tiny part as being meaningful. Even that little part is dubious enough already, while your tunnel-vision means you missed the fact that many of your concerns were mostly already addressed in the text you objected to, or before. its a popular insult to throw around because you cant see the forest for the trees. very ironic. a body of anecdotal 'evidence' is nothing more than that, over history you will see many examples of entire populations believing fantasy. it may give you reason to look into the cause with proper testing (after first ruling out other factors), but it does not make it any more meaningful on its own. thinking one small piece of misunderstood and pretty badly described research renders such well understood and incredibly widely applied knowledge incorrect, is completely bizarre. its advantageous to have an open mind, but you dont want your brains to spill out onto the floor :blink:

You've missunderstood his words in this case. The changes observed and discussed in the papers referenced by planet10 are not higher than physiological hearing limits. The exact issue that he's pointed out was acknowledged quiet a bit earlier in the thread and is the exact reason Jeremy (fetischizm) has been saying 96kHz sampling may be necessary for the recording of in-band sound. Every case put forward for high sample rates that holds water scientifically refers to in changes that are in-bandwidth. Whether this is a phase shift or level difference those JNDL are still within the long established listening frequency range and do not disqualify poor old Nyquist theorem as being not applicable to audio. Audio/music are a physical signal with finite bandwidth. Please re-read the part that I quoted from myself above. Distribution at high sample rates is not necessary. Chris

wow.. with a view like this while listening to music! I know some would rather cover the 'nasty' windows with bass traps. LOL

Hi all Going through the old cabinet & stumbled across the original documents the amplifier etc came with! My old man threw nothing out. Even have the original warranty card.

The late Henryk Gorecki composed an exquisitely sad and beautiful piece entitled " Symphony No3: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs". Without knowledge of the back story, the music is incredibly moving. To learn the inspiration for the text takes it to another level entirely. From a different sphere, but strangely similar in it's sonic impact, and lyrical sentiments, is the last movement of the YES epic, known as " The Gates of Delerium". It is a short piece, resolving both the text of the piece, and leaving the listener with an ascending final few notes suggesting the passing of a cycle and a sense of cautious hope- perhaps an acquiescence to some greater power. The piece is known as " Soon". If you do not know it, you could do worse than to have a listen. ZM.

Perhaps there needs to be a Tom Waits GTG? ...in Melbourne of course...

A couple of Vic Falls, from our recent Africa trip Cheers Mick

I wish it was that simple! Catalogue numbers are heavily duplicated so for instance UK, French, Australia, NZ, etc Beatles LPs have the same catalogue number across all their multitude of editions and reissues I tried to catalog 300 LPs (about 50% classical). Of those 300, 80% were either not on Discogs at all, were only there as a subtly (or substantially) different CD version, or that particular release was not on Discogs and had significant changes from the reference version. Very few Australian versions are on Discogs - practically none in the classical arena Almost no CBS Audiophile Edition ½-speed-master pressings are on Discogs Almost no RCA Red Seal .5 Series Almost no RCA Red Seal 45 RPM Audiophile Series I added some 60 brand new catalogue entries and about the same in new versions (including uploading cover images where appropriate). Then came the catalogue reviewers who shot me down in flames - I'm now on some screwy sort of probation because I got too many criticised additions. I still have maybe 3000 LPs to catalogue and I really don't think it is worth the fight.

Lenco L78 Original