Devonavar , I think you bring up some good points. Ones that have possibly been touched on here, but certainly not at such length. This could be an interesting experiment. To throw in my experience on this subject.....I once had to make a study where we were testing if people could respond to any s...

A) I'm into overclocking

B) I'm not bashing it at all, I'm just making fun of the name and look of it--there's a difference.



-Ed

lenny wrote:

m0002a wrote:Looks like price is about $130 plus $20 shipping from http://www.shopblt.com.

OK you guys, own up. Who ordered one already?

I'm waiting for the review first.

I haven't ordered yet but I'll probably end up getting at least two.

-Ed

jermaink wrote:Now, the important question. How much longer will we have to wait unitl this thing is out?

If you Froogle it, some of the resulting vendors have estimated ETAs on stock for preorders/notifications guesstimation.

-Ed

alleycat wrote:

...but I'm still missing something from those recordings

So lossless isn't really lossless?

He's not talking about a losslesss codec; I think he made a typo there.

-Ed

not all ripping methods are created equal, it's good that you've heard of eac :) this thread and included links would be a good introduction to why eac (or plextools, should it support your drive) is a better choice, and why just limiting drive reading speed can potentially make no difference at al...

elec999 wrote:How does it compare to the Zalman external cooler. And this may be offending, it looks kind of....
Thanks

...like a...

Since designing a product involves engineering, an engineer must somehow measure what he is doing. If he is doing something that is not measurable, then his design is based on a hunch .... I guess the design now depends how good their hunch is. I am willing to be convinced that at least some of the...

Mockery wrote:Do any of you hard-core silencers hear the hairs on your head rustling in the breeze?

What?!? You mean you don't?

Why this Thread is Going Nowhere This is addressed primarily at BobDog, so the rest of you are free to reject this mumbo-jumbo. I will continue using the term rationalist to describe those on the side of "science". It's not that I think you're irrational BobDog — far from it — but "rationalist" was...

EAC is known also as Exact Audio Copy; it's a piece of software popular with people who want to rip audio in highest fidelity (supposedly better; I can't say I am convinced that's true, but it definitely can't hurt). FLAC is Free Lossless Audio Codec, and is an open-source lossless compression code...

we used this as a source in comparison against my dad's Rega Planet one time on his system and he prefers this over his own Planet Humm, I think that the planets are really great players too. How do you get 32 bits... and what can decode a 32-bit word? I currently rip with EAC and then encode with ...

I only use 32-bits because that's the bitrate that I must use when sending data to Mia MIDI via kernel streaming; otherwise, I'd just use 16-bit. I believe the soundcard's DSP will read the 32-bit word length and translate it down to whatever the attached device can accept (or simply output it in 24...

A MUCH SHORTER POST THAN MY LAST.... Here's that picture of my setup I promised. -Ed What do you think of the PS Audio? I have heard mixed, but mostly good things about them. Also, what are you using for front end software, player? I am planning on X-Lobby, have you any suggestions? I feel this amp...

Here's that picture of my setup I promised.

-Ed

Do you prefer electro-static speakers, or is there something else out there I haven't heard of? I think the electro-static towers are pretty freakin' cool myself, but I can't afford them ATM... :cry: You should try giving Magneplanar's planar magnetic ribbon and quasiribbon speakers a try; my dad h...

sthayashi wrote:I get carried away with how the drummer's snare sounds or how clever a bass line was played, or how tight the band was.

Nothing wrong with that at all, bro.

yeha wrote:ah well, back to my luddite low-end-equipment existence.

I wouldn't call it that; if you're happy with what you've got, there's nothing wrong with it whatsoever. You're better off for it, really.

-Ed

As far as the Benchmark goes, I have heard nothing but great things about this little DAC and I would love to get a chance to hear one—I have not yet. What are your thoughts? Also, does it offer R232 support for the gain and source switching? If so, one could make a KILLER AV pre/pro out of three o...

Getting back on topic, I recommend that you just take any ol' power cord you have laying around that you feel like selling the PSU along with, plug the Antec PSU into the wall outlet with it, and use the paper clip trick to power up the PSU; if the PSU spins up and is capable of powering some spare...

KorruptioN wrote:...18dBA...

Off by several orders of magnitude. I owned an MCX-159 and that Sunon fan is really noisy at 12V.

-Ed

Wouldn't the hundreds of meters of wall cabling from the transformer supplying the house dominate any effects on the last couple of meters of the power cord? It would seem obviously so, no? Which is why I am hardly convinced that it's in any way worth it to replace the oem cables that come with goo...

Green Shoes wrote:Bias or Discrimination, on the other hand, is the act of judging a single person based on the actions of other similar people, which is what this thread is possibly rampant with.

Possibly? Possibly?!? Where's your doubt coming from?!?

But still, I like my sound, and I like it to be very good; I won't lie, my sound system cost me around $4-6K, but you know what? I'm totally satisfied with it, and see no reason to spend any more on it. Then do not spend a dollar more :D ! You have already reached that zen point we are all seeking,...

I personally voted, "could go either way." My dad has his speaker cables, interconnects and power cables balance on top of hand-rigged take-out chopstick tents in his setup--there's no way in bloody hell I would ever admit to being able to hear the difference from him doing that (but I just nod when...

Geez even I just stick to the power cables that came with my equipment, and I have a few hundred dollars' worth of balanced XLR between my DAC and my control amp and speaker cables. It seems ludicrous to me to spend thousands of dollars on cables; the difference is too small to be worth the cost. I...

I am afraid that I live in Santa Barbara, Ca. … I already did a double-blind test with a friend/skeptic (see my above post on friend/engineer/skeptic) but we didn’t really follow all the way through. After the first time he switched the cables to see if I’d really been listening, HE found the diffe...

I own a 6800GT and a 6600GT that I modded with a VM-101; I personally wouldn't try to run the 6800GT with a VM-101 without at least a ~650rpm 120mm fan blowing right through it.

-Ed

I just sent a mail to asetek, asking them to send you a review sample of their new Vapochill Micro CPU cooler. http://www.asetek.com/default.asp?showPage=nyhederPro/visnyhed.asp¶m=databaseid,nyhedid&myvalue=1,390&contentSection=1&menuID=-1 Wow, cool! That link (and even the root link) gives me ...

Hey, Ed. Long time, no talk! I've ordered a pair of CSP-MAG pumps. While my guess is they won't create as much flow in my system as the DDC does, I'm hoping I can develop a lower noise floor with them. Initial reports at Procooling imply that Mags are incredibly quiet. CSP-750 owners, remember that...