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1: General Asylum, i'm the founder/ceo of mog (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2011-10-30, 23:35:42 (24.130.123.99)
yes, we do now require fb for signup. it's a test. we'll probably take it down in a few weeks. interestingly, signups are WAYYY up with facebook only login. somteimes, people prefer less choice. now o .......
2: General Asylum, Re: promotion? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2005-01-12, 23:17:23 (24.7.108.126)
it's called to much shit going on at the same time. dillution. and as a side note, if car&driver didn't review auto exotica, like ferraris and aston martins, the readership would dwindle. anybody ever .......
3: General Asylum, Re: While there is NO comparison between the two... (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2004-04-27, 02:39:37 (219.111.1.141)
i don't even think bruce would argue that dylan is someone bruce aspires to. dylan to springsteen is like nirvana to nickelback, ramones to green day, grateful dead to string cheese incident, willie n .......
4: General Asylum, best audio store in tokyo? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2004-04-27, 02:29:46 (219.111.1.141)
i'm here in town for a few days. i'm overwhelmed by electronic stores but haven't seen any catering to the high end market. know of any? .......
5: Speaker Asylum, Re: Dynaudio confidence 3 or special 25 -which is better? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2004-02-11, 21:56:43 (66.127.242.186)
i had the confidence 3's and they were fantastic. as long as you have 400 watts or more. they're incredibly inefficient. if you don't have the power, don't even think about the confidence. if you do, .......
6: General Asylum, best speaker cable, period! whaddya say? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2003-06-24, 22:30:34 (64.175.244.213)
looking for best-of-breed speaker cable. looking at yamamura,silversmiths,stage III concepts. can't afford stereovox or upper end siltechs. what else? .......
7: Speaker Asylum, anyone hear the gryphon cantata loudspeakers? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2003-05-10, 22:25:46 (64.175.244.93)
thinking about purchasing a pair. speaker connect to an external electronic device that controls Q level. takes advantage of the way rooms naturally autenuate bass. seems like an interesting way to ad .......
8: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Re: entire system stolen! - how do i spend my $25k insurance money? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2003-04-29, 01:51:48 (142.131.238.157)
i've decided to go for the new gryphon cantatas as well as their integrated amp. speakers go for about 20k and integrated amp for 9k. nice thing about buying from scratch is that i can buy into a 9k i .......
9: Amp/Preamp Asylum, entire system stolen! - how do i spend my $25k insurance money? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2003-04-20, 16:41:46 (63.120.70.237)
last monday, my entire house was robbed (including wife's car!). looking on the bright side. get to go audio shopping again. thinking about: gryphon cantanta speakers (10-15k dealer cost) lumen white .......
10: Digital Drive, Re: Using Fadel Art Powerflex 2 (nt) (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-07-25, 19:10:48 (64.175.247.37)
interesting. the web site says i should try the powerflex one for digital and two for amps. feel differently? .......
11: Digital Drive, power chord for chord dac64 (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-07-24, 08:29:07 (67.115.109.71)
thinking about replacing the powerchord. anyone out there use one with the dac64 they like? .......
12: Speaker Asylum, Re: DIY Manger or RD75/RD50? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-07-23, 23:17:28 (67.115.109.71)
don't have the manger kit but have a custom pair of manger 109's designed by manger. corian front baffles, very inert enclosure and better crossover parts. at first, they seem strange because your use .......
13: Digital Drive, Re: Best subwoofer integration, bar none. (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-04-09, 16:52:19 (63.120.70.201)
so, you can't you an outboard dac with the 2.2x if you want it to do crossovers to subs in the tact? is this correct? .......
14: Digital Drive, Re: Best subwoofer integration, bar none. (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-04-09, 08:30:43 (64.175.245.135)
i too use a chord dac64 and have my sights on tact 2.2x to replace my pathos preamp. sounds like you like the combination. -d .......
15: Digital Drive, Re: not using Chord buffer? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-04-09, 08:27:30 (64.175.245.135)
last article i read through the dac64 on the benchtest. they highly advised using the buffer because without, the jitter levels were abnormally high. .......
16: Digital Drive, Re: My unorthodox take on this... (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-04-09, 08:24:15 (64.175.245.135)
agreed. i'm feeding my dac64 from a home media server. i store about 500 cd uncompressed and feed out via lynx one sound card. my error correction is near perfect and i'm feeding dac64 with an ultra-l .......
17: Digital Drive, Re: Best sounding? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-04-01, 14:08:33 (63.120.70.201)
huge differences between rippers. the best is exact audio copy http://www.exactaudiocopy.de checks bit for bit up to 16 times until the bits are the same. winamp with cd reader is best for playback ht .......
18: Digital Drive, Digital Dilemma - Used Tact 2.0 or new Tact 2.2x (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-03-20, 12:29:33 (63.120.70.201)
any thoughts on difference between the 2.0 and the 2.2x i'll be using it for preamp functions (analog and digital inputs) digital volume control, room correction, and crossover to subs. using a sepera .......
19: Digital Drive, Re: Buffering (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-03-11, 17:56:47 (63.120.70.192)
at what level of jitter does it make more sense to buffer than to not. is there a jitter spec (ns)where they recommend not buffering because the jitter is low enough not to warrant the additional nois .......
20: Digital Drive, Re: Can anyone recommend a good AES/EBU cable (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-03-11, 09:51:54 (63.120.70.192)
thanks for the advice. i've got to choose between dhlabs and acoustic zen. budgetary contraints. ; ) .......
21: Digital Drive, Re: windows media player hdcd (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-03-07, 17:49:16 (63.120.70.192)
not surprised. microsoft bought pacific microsonics, the company that invented the codec. .......
22: Digital Drive, Can anyone recommend a good AES/EBU cable (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-03-07, 17:47:18 (63.120.70.192)
looking to run about 10 feet of AES/EBU looking to spend under $500. apogee? .......
23: Digital Drive, Building a High End Home Media Server. Advice? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-28, 19:40:50 (63.76.190.119)
my plan as of now is as follows... rme digi96 soundcard with aes/ebu to outboard chord dac 64 file server contains 4 drives: 1 - 20 gig hard drive for microsoft windows 2000 1 - 30 gig hard drive ju .......
24: Digital Drive, Re: My CDRW is not recognized by EAC, Using Nero (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-28, 19:14:48 (63.76.190.119)
unfortunately, eac does not have enough money behind it to support all the cdrw drives. does eac let you burn an image? you can use other programs to let you burn an image to disc. .......
25: Tweakers' Asylum, What is the ultimate speaker stand? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-20, 17:32:42 (63.120.70.199)
okay, i just bought a pair of extremely pricey lil' monitors to mate with my revel b15 sub. i'm not looking to build a stand but want the most inert speaker stand on the market that can be obtained at .......
26: Digital Drive, Re: if you liked the cd3.5 ... (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-20, 13:04:53 (63.120.70.242)
i had the naim cd 3.5 with outboard flat cap. i've switched to chord dac 64 and am using cheap transport until i replace next month with new 47labs transport coming out. (bummer you can't output from .......
27: Digital Drive, Re: CD-Text info contained in S/PDIF data stream? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-18, 16:34:55 (63.120.70.216)
the answer is no. my company which makes cddb (http://www.gracenote.com) and is embedded in every mp3 encoder, fixes this problem. we do cd recognition and you can find us in winamp, musicmatch, realj .......
28: Speaker Asylum, Re: manger speakers at ces (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-13, 21:11:53 (66.82.101.227)
the speakers were the "swing" which are a new model that needs to mate with a sub. the speakers are just one manger per speaker with no other drivers. they need a sub that can handle 100hz and below ( .......
29: Speaker Asylum, Re: manger speakers at ces (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-13, 17:04:44 (63.120.70.216)
i actually heard them there. i was extremeley impressed "on occassion." a percussion cd that was played was as close to "live, in the room" as i've heard. some cd's i brought along with me were great, .......
30: Cable Asylum, Re: 15ft. of aes/ebu or balanced interconnect - what's better? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-12, 14:59:15 (63.120.70.216)
pulled from the website on the chord dac64. The new chip has two major benefits - all digital data extraction and a RAM buffer (a RAM buffer sequentially takes in all the data, re-times, it then sends .......
31: Cable Asylum, Re: 15ft. of aes/ebu or balanced interconnect - what's better? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-11, 07:24:45 (66.82.103.25)
the dac does reclock. i'll most likely do the long run of aes/ebu. btw, if a dac reclocks, do you believe it makes jitter from the transport much less important? thanks for the info. .......
32: Cable Asylum, 15ft. of aes/ebu or balanced interconnect - what's better? (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-10, 18:13:09 (66.82.96.113)
i have a choice of placing my dac near my transport with a short aes/ebu and a long interconnect (15ft)to the preamp or short interconnect, long aes/ebu. i understand that a crappy cable is a crappy c .......
33: Digital Drive, Re: what about backup (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-01, 09:21:32 (63.120.70.216)
you can set up the hard drives so that when it rips to one, it makes a duplicate backup on another. fairly easy to do. pretty failsafe. .......
34: Digital Drive, Re: building audiophile grade home media server (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-02-01, 08:46:34 (63.120.70.216)
any reason you prefer the lynx or dal over the rme? .......
35: Digital Drive, building audiophile grade home media server (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-01-31, 18:12:50 (63.120.70.216)
anyone else working on such a project? i plan on getting 3 200 gig hard drives and i think, an rme digi96 sound card. they'll also be a hard drive dedicated to windows 2000 and possibly, winamp. i'll .......
36: Digital Drive, Re: Hyperbole and reality (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-01-29, 10:01:34 (63.120.70.216)
confused.. pulled this from their website: 64 Bit DAC and Filter All filters generate higher output bit data widths - for example 16-bit input multiplied by 16-bit coefficient generates a 32-bit outpu .......
37: Digital Drive, Re: Hyperbole and reality (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-01-28, 17:09:32 (63.120.70.216)
does this mean the new chord Dac64 which is 64bit would allow for digital volume control without a loss of resolution? this is what they claim. if there isn't volume control in the dac, i would i get .......
38: Inmate Systems, HiFry - The Truth (0.00)
Posted by HiFry on 2002-01-28, 16:58:43 (63.120.70.3)
Moniker: HiFry System Name: The Truth System Rev Date: 2002/04/04/06:44 System Rev IP: 63.120.70.3 Amp: Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 300 Power Amp Preamp: Pathos In-Control Speakers: Manger Zerobox 109 d .......
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