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1: Digital Drive, RE: PS Audio DirectStream DAC: Further Update (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2015-05-13, 12:18:16 (50.46.156.77)
Howdy I responded to your claim on the PS Audio board when you made it. You have a misunderstanding about the causes of noise in your system. Further which DACs do you use that sound about as good and .......
2: Whiner's Woad, And sometimes people even reply :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2015-03-14, 23:01:39 (50.46.103.54)
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3: General Asylum, I don't think we look that much alike... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2015-03-11, 22:18:06 (50.46.103.54)
:) .......
4: General Asylum, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2015-01-24, 16:06:28 (50.46.103.54)
The cable mess picture and the rooted hacker are from Bob Crump who I miss. .......
5: Computer Audio Asylum, Nope (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2015-01-22, 20:57:47 (50.46.103.54)
Howdy The DSD conversion in the DirectStream isn't defeatable. The whole point of the DirectStream is that a single bit DAC has many benefits over other DACs and it enables a simple and great sounding .......
6: General Asylum, RE: Of course he did.... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-12-21, 13:51:44 (50.46.103.54)
Howdy Mike Here we are right before the show... -Ted .......
7: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: DSD [A Reprise]... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-09-17, 16:50:28 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy The block diagram is a similar formulation of a sigma delta as I like to use when explaining DSD. In so far as both have sigma delta modulators our approaches are similar - but virtually anythin .......
8: Critic's Corner, :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-09-04, 09:44:09 (50.46.154.165)
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9: Critic's Corner, RE: Can you tell us why .... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-08-20, 13:25:26 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy At first I thought it was a noise shaping anomaly, but I use the same FPGA code for both channels. An earlier test board layout also showed a noise floor difference between channels, in that cas .......
10: Critic's Corner, Yes and no (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-08-19, 16:36:44 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy After the pressure of getting the boards done, listening for days on end and then getting manufacturing going, I could sit back and listen and think. The results or that went into the new FPGA c .......
11: Critic's Corner, TAS had the old software (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-08-19, 14:44:52 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy The TAS review was done with the older version of the software. His deadline elapsed before we gave him new software. Vade has said he'll indicate so in comments when the review goes online and .......
12: Critic's Corner, Yep, We suprised them with new software (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-08-19, 14:39:52 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy All of the early reviewers got the original software. You never know when inspiration will strike and after a random thought in the shower we found ourselves with a significant increase in sound .......
13: Computer Audio Asylum, I have one (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-28, 09:43:44 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy I and a friend have one - neither of us can get ours to work in any manner. In my case I suspect the IOGEAR USB 3.0 ExpressCard adapter for my laptop much more than the 3.Optical link. If you di .......
14: Digital Drive, Yello, "The Eye" "Planet Dada (Flamboyant)" comes close (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-26, 12:01:44 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy For example at about 58.5 seconds there's 34Hz @ about -2.2dBFS -Ted .......
15: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: FYI - I have the Epic single layer stereo only disc (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-26, 11:51:14 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy I don't know but when Sony put out MC versions of some of the disks they had put out earlier I liked each one I got (both for having them in MC, but also the stereo sections were often better to .......
16: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Carole King Tapestry -- HUGE Disappointment (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-24, 14:52:00 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy I'm pretty happy with the Sony single layer MC version. Are people not hearing the doubled (or more) voices separately? -Ted .......
17: Computer Audio Asylum, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-05, 14:23:29 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Ted Downloading now. -Ted .......
18: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Sorry (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-04, 06:57:21 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Ah, I misunderstood the reference to the highs - thanks. Re burnin - I understand the sniff test. The problem here is that nothing gets hot so based on that model either the DS has very little b .......
19: Planar Speaker Asylum, Sorry (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-03, 22:19:06 (50.46.154.165)
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be contentious. Not that measurements prove anything but what I was trying to say about transformers not messing with the low frequencies is illustrated by the following. Sor .......
20: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: PS Audio Dirct Stream DAC (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-03, 17:17:18 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy I should have just said that the boards cost a lot because they use quality components :) Which is quite true. All of the contract manufactures we got quotes from bragged about how they could sa .......
21: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: PS Audio Dirct Stream DAC (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-02, 22:43:38 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy I can't resist posting :) Thanks for the mini review. As to the costs, I did all of the research and design (including laying out the boards for PS Audio's form factor) on my own nickel. My roya .......
22: Computer Audio Asylum, PaulN is right (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-06-02, 21:39:54 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy A DSD DAC is at it's heart a LPF. My first prototype was literally a passive LPF on the digital DSD lines in a Sony DVP-S9000ES. It was arguably better than the analog stage that was there, exce .......
23: General Asylum, :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-05-31, 21:57:12 (198.228.216.48)
. .......
24: General Asylum, RE: OT - Miss your posts around these parts!... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-05-31, 19:07:49 (198.228.216.35)
Howdy Thank you, being a member of the industry now I keep a lower profile... Don't want to run afoul of those moderators :) -Ted .......
25: General Asylum, RE: Passes question (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-05-31, 08:57:24 (166.137.210.21)
Howdy They were happily taking money from people off of the street yesterday :) -Ted .......
26: Digital Drive, RE: Howdy Ted (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-04-29, 16:22:01 (107.77.66.19)
Howdy Mike Nope, still up by the evil empire. My kids have their families there now so I'll probably be here a while :) I work out of my basement - I try to take Bob Crump's advice and get out into th .......
27: Digital Drive, Yep nt (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-04-26, 09:55:26 (50.46.154.165)
. .......
28: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Yep (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-23, 18:12:59 (50.46.154.165)
Nope, but I know better than to argue with you. [Edit] Did I forget to mention that I'm not going to read your response? .......
29: Computer Audio Asylum, Nope (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-23, 13:41:03 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Low level clicks at ends of tracks may be a "feature" of your DAC or playing software, they aren't inherent in DSD. Gapless works very well with no DC offsets or clicks. But foobar2000 for examp .......
30: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: these iso have been doctored (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-23, 12:21:06 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy You don't need to mount them. JRiver and foobar2000 just see them like any other files and play them, as separate tracks. I guess the closest analogy is the way they play cue sheets. When you ed .......
31: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: When playing the iso in Foobar (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-23, 12:18:05 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy I guess it depends on your DAC. There's no difference at all here between .ISOs (DST or not) and .dff's (DST or not). When playing, DST is decompressed to DSD in all cases, but I guess the extra .......
32: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: these iso have been doctored (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-23, 10:55:44 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy "It is an iso of an SACD - surprise surprise - and there is no way playing a SACD disc (or iso) on a PC (no matter which OS you are on)." I'm playing the Pentatone ISOs and PS3 ripped ISOs just .......
33: Computer Audio Asylum, WinZip and WinRar work (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-21, 01:22:37 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Hmm, WinZip and WinRAR both deal with it fine -Ted .......
34: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Thanks but free only I you buy another (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-21, 01:13:50 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Sorry about that. I didn't know - there's no way that I wasn't going to buy a disc :) -Ted .......
35: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Just downloaded the Pletnev Tchaikovsky Second... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-20, 12:01:32 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy I'm not speaking for Jim, but foobar2000 and JRiver media center both play SACD .isos well and read their onboard metadata (CD Text). foobar2000 keeps a sidecar for the metadata, JRiver doesn't, .......
36: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Thanks They also have a free disk-where? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-19, 23:18:17 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy You can see the disk at the bottom of many of the pages, in my case I went to Mari Kodama artist page and the last item was the "Creating Timeless Classics" and there was also a more explicit li .......
37: Computer Audio Asylum, Thanks They also have a free disk (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-19, 22:32:18 (50.46.154.165)
I bought some, downloads are proceeding apace. Here's the blurb for the free disk "Creating Timeless Classics" A Compilation to Please Every Palate 30 January 2014 As PENTATONE celebrates its 13th ann .......
38: Digital Drive, RE: Looking for serious reading material (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-18, 12:46:16 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Chase down the patents... I used to work with John Melanson before he went to Cirrus Logic. I think some of his patents might have the kind of detail you are interested in. I noticed that he has .......
39: Digital Drive, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-17, 22:14:36 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy I hope you enjoy it. -Ted .......
40: Digital Drive, RE: When Is Directstream Coming Out? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-17, 15:29:04 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy The first 10 units are either on their way or just about to be on their way to reviewers, etc. The first batch of 100 is sold out. You can check their community forums for more up to date info. .......
41: Digital Drive, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-16, 09:55:22 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy I've missed you and the others here. I decided to quit work when I found I was spending more time on line at the Asylum and listening to music than I could bring myself to spend at work. Then I .......
42: Digital Drive, RE: SiLabs Si570 and isolators (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-16, 09:15:42 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy The one I posted about in the PC Audio forum a while back. http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/8/80732.html -Ted .......
43: Digital Drive, RE: SiLabs Si570 and isolators (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-16, 07:28:08 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy On my prototype the jitter from the isolators wasn't a problem, but I think some systems wouldn't like having a few gigahertz pulsing radio transmitter on board :) -Ted .......
44: Digital Drive, For a few years now (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-16, 07:13:18 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Jerome I posted about my DSD DAC over on the PS Audio asylum a while back. When I started working with PS Audio, both for their sake and mine I kept things quiet until it was clear that the DAC .......
45: Digital Drive, RE: SiLabs Si570 and isolators (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-16, 02:09:16 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Well more than what? I just used the Si570 as a handy example, I don't claim that it is the best one out there, but current clock synthesizers (which use sigma delta "dither" to interpolate betw .......
46: Digital Drive, RE: I have just read this and (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-15, 23:38:01 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy A buffer and a digital clock synthesizer? e.g. SiLabs Si570? -Ted .......
47: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: A little insight (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-08, 14:54:55 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Paul Thanks. Yah, it'll take a little while to get used to following the "members of industry" rules. -Ted .......
48: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: A little insight (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-03-03, 14:22:21 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Any integer upsampling ratio is as good as any other. Some filters are easier to design or implement with a specific power of two or a small upsampling ratio, but there are plenty of filters to .......
49: News Asylum, RE: Way to go, Ted! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-02-28, 08:08:22 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy Stephæn Thanks. I'll try to look in more than once a year :) -Ted .......
50: News Asylum, RE: PS Audio DirectStream DAC (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-02-28, 06:46:38 (50.46.154.165)
Howdy theob Thanks. I do miss the place. I took a little time off from the Asylum when I got busy with the project. Then I kept a low profile around here because of the rules for the industry. I didn' .......
51: News Asylum, PS Audio DirectStream DAC (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2014-02-26, 11:26:36 (50.46.154.165)
PS Audio’s DirectStream DAC Exposes Major PCM Cover-up First, in a Field of One “It blew my mind. The PCM through DirectStream was the best I had ever heard at that point. It still is the b .......
52: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Well, then... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-19, 11:59:42 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I sure remember when our cat was responding (correctly) to a voice moving around in the sound stage: I was surprised but happy that the system had gotten to that level. On the other hand the cat .......
53: Cable Asylum, Radio Shack? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-18, 11:00:43 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Is this what you are looking for? http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2104065 http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103709 Also Radio Shack has their "gold .......
54: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Fear of impending doom... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-17, 18:25:24 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I've had a minor loss about once every two or three years. If I didn't compare my backups to my originals periodically I'd never have known about them. Once it was probably a failing drive, anot .......
55: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Like this-can you-Control Panel (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-16, 15:52:23 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy The Si5351A is $1.34 in single quantities and takes one crystal to produce up to eight independent clocks with reasonable performance (3.5ps typical RMS Phase Jitter 12kHz – 20MHz) and high accu .......
56: Digital Drive, RE: cdp vs hdd sound quality? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-16, 14:45:08 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy My experience until recently was that all consumer computer based systems sounded worse than what I heard in many of my friend's CDP based systems. So I think the answer is that it takes work to .......
57: Hi-Rez Highway, How about static electricity? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-16, 14:23:04 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I'm sure that many of you have used the "demagnetizers" (ion sprayers or whatever) for CDs and SACDs or the player or the system. They can have a profound effect (not always positive) on the pla .......
58: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Thanks for the good wishes. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-16, 14:06:21 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy The issue is how do you clock those flip flops without having the signals going into the first flip flop affecting it's clock or power supply ... and hence the clock or power supply of the final .......
59: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: SSD really better (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-15, 23:30:28 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy FWIW in my system the only difference between having my flac files on my internal SSD system drive and using an external USB powered USB drive is that I have to increase my buffering settings to .......
60: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Thanks for the good wishes. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-15, 22:56:26 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy A few minor points: a FIFO can't provide "constant jitter attenuation". It is at best a low pass jitter filter: you can talk about the slope of the attenuation and it's corner freq, etc. In my e .......
61: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-09, 19:41:51 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I agree, even tho I have aftermarket power cords on almost all of my equipment and silver interconnects and speaker wire :) For interconnects the two obvious (to me) technical things are differe .......
62: Computer Audio Asylum, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-09, 16:06:33 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Thanks. It would be nice if some of the "standard" audio interfaces were replaced with sane/well-engineered interfaces. But downward (or backward) compatibility also has many benefits - it's ano .......
63: Computer Audio Asylum, Thanks for the good wishes. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-09, 12:46:12 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Thanks for the good wishes. Here's, perhaps, a more complete explanation of my position. I didn't say that my DAC was transport independent: I said that my DAC wasn't sensitive to the transports .......
64: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Baloney (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-09, 11:26:16 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Read what I wrote: you didn't address any of my points. Metastability isn't a red hearing. I didn't say that it's a problem now, I was trying to imply that jitter is like metastability in that b .......
65: Computer Audio Asylum, Baloney (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-06, 19:45:07 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy The world isn't perfect, everything is a compromise. Even a component's power cord. Every manufacturer has to pick a compromise they can live with. You can't get rid of jitter, you can only filt .......
66: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: new to sacd (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2011-01-06, 19:15:16 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy If you haven't found it yet perhaps http://www.sa-cd.net/ would be of use. There are a lot of recommendations/reviews there. -Ted .......
67: Digital Drive, RE: on graphics engines and dacs (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-28, 18:34:29 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy In principle it is relatively easy to build some hardware that lets you change DSP algorithms on the fly for processing audio. Heck most CPUs these days have enough horsepower to do interesting .......
68: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Someboby should do a Direct comparison of a Mac-Mini and a Music PC. I Will (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-25, 22:13:06 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I've given up tilting that windmill. There seem to be a lot of people out there that think that sweeping generalizations are just what they need when looking for info on the net. When you try to .......
69: Digital Drive, RE: Media Monkey or J.River? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-25, 20:07:56 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I know that I'll not be able to surpass all of the good engineers who design analog equipment for a living and thereby have no dependencies on power cords, jitter levels, RF interference, etc. B .......
70: Digital Drive, RE: Media Monkey or J.River? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-25, 20:00:44 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy My system by design adds jitter to a ridiculous degree :) It doesn't even look for an incoming clock, it only looks for edges with an oversampled asynchronous clock (running at as little as 4 ti .......
71: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: going from computer direct to amps via dac (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-24, 23:50:44 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I implemented a digital volume control on my DAC but I can't bring myself to skip my preamp :) I've been doing digital audio for decades and I've forgotten how many times a bug caused VERY loud .......
72: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: New Developments in USB DSD DAC's and ADC's (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-23, 22:38:20 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Or one of the reasons it's done as well as it has... (Not that I like the RIAA) -Ted P.S. That's the beauty of good encryption: you can know everything about it and still not break it (or at lea .......
73: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: New Developments in USB DSD DAC's and ADC's (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-23, 15:37:48 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I never said that you couldn't send bits around: in fact I've told people that I do it. Sony doesn't care about random DSD bits, they only care about bits which are copyrighted flying around loo .......
74: Digital Drive, RE: sigh. HDCD (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-23, 00:43:49 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Boy if you think a HDCD played on a non HDCD capable device sounds good you need to listen to a SACD player: the HDCD encoding by implementation mangles the low order bits if not played with a H .......
75: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Help computer advice (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-21, 11:58:15 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy No, my gut says that you'd be better off with 32bit. It just that the last time I got a new laptop it came with 64bit installed and I gave it a whirl and I was surprised at how smoothly it went. .......
76: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Help computer advice (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-21, 10:45:12 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy You'll probably get some more concrete proposals, but I'll answer some of your direct questions: "I have decided to build my own computer. I have done this before for gaming machines but I have .......
77: Digital Drive, RE: "Voiceing" a DAC (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-21, 08:30:22 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy The caps are on order :) I'm amazed at what a difference taking a day or two off makes in looking for such problems: I've found solutions to three or four problems in the last couple of days tha .......
78: Digital Drive, RE: Media Monkey or J.River? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-21, 08:25:33 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy The point I was trying to make in my post was that differences are very DAC and/or system dependant and that since in my system there isn't much difference between different playback programs th .......
79: General Asylum, RE: Earth Does Not Mean Zero Potential (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-20, 20:04:52 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Todd Never the less a proper job of installing multiple grounds is possible and proper and further can make a big difference in the quality of the sound from your system. Instead of having a clo .......
80: Digital Drive, RE: Media Monkey or J.River? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-20, 19:18:21 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy FWIW I'm a newbee to using these software players. I'm using WinAmp (and to a lesser extent foobar) simply because I could get them to work with my M-Audio Fast Track Pro via ASIO on Windows 7 6 .......
81: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: New Developments in USB DSD DAC's and ADC's (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-20, 19:04:55 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy It's not my glass interface :) The EMM Labs equipment (both pro and consumer) use AT&T ST glass fiber e.g. http://www.frys.com/search?query_string=4706599 ) They use transceivers of the type pic .......
82: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Shaggy (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-20, 15:51:50 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy That reminds me of a visit to a Krell dealer: he was proud of his all Krell (including speakers) top of the line system. One of my favorite test discs is the DMP "Vivino Brothers Blues Band", es .......
83: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: What a list of clichéd crap! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-20, 10:53:33 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I tend to agree somewhat: One of the most useful recordings I use is Shaggy's "Hey Sexy Lady". It doesn't always show a difference, but you'd be surprised at how many times when it's played on o .......
84: Propeller Head Plaza, :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-20, 10:41:48 (108.3.18.39)
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85: Digital Drive, RE: "Voiceing" a DAC (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-19, 12:59:35 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy [Edit]OK, I just looked at the schematic with fresh eyes and I found it :) It was that a set of resistors were off by a factor of two, due mostly to having too many conditionals in the same sche .......
86: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: New Developments in USB DSD DAC's and ADC's (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-18, 22:59:25 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I've heard rumors of various "dometic" DSD USB devices, I'm not sure what the current licensing issues are with Sony tho. I have thousands of SACDs (and more CDs) so I'm not likely to rip them a .......
87: Hi-Rez Highway, http://www.2l.no/hires (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-18, 22:03:03 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy If you haven't run across them: http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html has some good free samples in lots of hirez formats including some stereo DSD files. I like most of them but that's a matter of .......
88: Digital Drive, RE: "Voiceing" a DAC (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-18, 18:30:42 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy You'll get a lot of argument here. Some people have systems that are (in my words) unbalanced and they need a colored DAC (once again in my words) to compensate. But there are other consideratio .......
89: Digital Drive, RE: "Voiceing" a DAC (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-18, 15:22:19 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy FWIW: I've just built a DAC and since my preconception is that a flat frequency response is best that's what I tried to do. I had an analog "bug" which dropped the top end down by 8dB at 20k and .......
90: Cable Asylum, RE: 4 gauge welding cable? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-17, 10:57:18 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I wouldn't say that it couldn't work, but even for longer runs I find the best balance with smaller gauges than you might expect. I'm not sure but I think I'm running 16 gauge 8 ft. FWIW I used .......
91: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: We can blame the text medium for the message. :-) nt (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-16, 10:53:18 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Sorry, I edited my previous post while you were replying to it: I wasn't trying to make the thread even more confusing... -Ted .......
92: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Linn Hi-Rez Sample Rates (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-16, 10:16:22 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Yep, we clearly have misunderstandings based on your multiple apparently contradictory posts in this thread. You probably feel the same :) For example you said "There may be 2^n terms. This come .......
93: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Linn Hi-Rez Sample Rates (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-15, 15:35:59 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy "If you want the best possible result when doing a file conversion...[use a monster sync]" I emphatically disagree: having the first sample output in a file conversion depend on the last sample .......
94: Computer Audio Asylum, Hmm (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-15, 15:16:30 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Not that I'd like to be held accountable for what the marketing departments at each one of the companies I've worked at have said, but regarding the quotes "SonicStudio was the first Digital Aud .......
95: Computer Audio Asylum, I'm not so sure (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-15, 13:33:11 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Here's the first disk I looked at: http://www.linnrecords.com/recording-gustav-mahler--symphonie-no--6.aspx The bump at 32k looks like tape bias to me. (Don't worry about the cutoff at 48k, .......
96: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Linn Hi-Rez Sample Rates (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-15, 13:11:07 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Nope, it's not 4n, for a simple fixed point dot product (a simple FIR implementation) it's [number of bits in each augend element] + [number of bits in each addend element] + [log2 number of pro .......
97: Digital Drive, RE: Optical to coax converter question (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-15, 11:46:42 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I'm sure that there are some (cheap) boxes which only pass a lower sample rate signal, but in my experience all (simple) converters which can do 24/96 do do it without sample rate converting, et .......
98: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Sterility to SACDs compared to vinyl (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-14, 19:23:25 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Sorry I tend to jump on unqualified statements and your reasonableness is ahead of where I thought you were :) Tho I haven't been as active here at the asylum recently, I've been doing SACD for .......
99: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Linn Hi-Rez Sample Rates (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-14, 19:13:00 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy It's just that apodizing (or whatever) should only be done once and we were talking about repeated SSRCs: clearly post filtering can hide many evils, but it would just as easily hide the very ph .......
100: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Which soundcard do you use and why? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-14, 13:18:37 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy FWIW: I use the M-Audio Fast Track Pro with ASIO. Why? Because it was the cheapest solution I could find at the local guitar store when I wanted some way of converting USB to 24/96 S/PDIF in a h .......
101: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Linn Hi-Rez Sample Rates (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-14, 12:43:08 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I agree with much of what you said. Here are a few thoughts: The phase effects you mention are quite probably an issue with the minimum frequency of the input or output being around 40-50k, but .......
102: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: No. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-14, 12:10:29 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy Then you haven't had the pleasure of listening to well recorded MC material. No gimmicks, just a greater sense of being there. -Ted .......
103: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Sterility to SACDs compared to vinyl (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-14, 12:09:20 (108.3.18.39)
Howdy I was just making the point that saying that someone doesn't have experience is silly. Never the less I'm a friend of Mike's and have heard his system at good times and bad over the years. He'd .......
104: Hi-Rez Highway, No. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-13, 22:06:11 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy In my experience I'd much rather listen to good surround SACDs than any two channel only vinyl system. The MC system can be much more realistic... -Ted .......
105: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Sterility to SACDs compared to vinyl (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-13, 22:03:49 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Perhaps instead you haven't heard good digital? In my experience with excellent systems essentially all characteristics of the sound are the same between vinyl, SACD and CD: it's just that after .......
106: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: realtime PC signal processing ? Suggestions? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-13, 17:18:12 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Depending on how serious you are and how much computing you want to do, you might consider using DSP plugins in WinAmp, foobar, etc. Also some of the streaming servers allow similar things but I .......
107: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Linn Hi-Rez Sample Rates (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-13, 17:04:06 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Since Linn offered SACDs it's not too much of a stretch to assume that some of their high resolution recordings are DSD sourced. It's not too evil to synchronously convert DSD to 192 or 96 (conv .......
108: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: How to protect your data against corruption?!?! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-04, 20:54:44 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I found the author of SpaceMan99 and RenameMan to be quite responsive (years ago). He added some more tagging features to RenameMan at my request and when I offered some recompense he asked me t .......
109: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: How to protect your data against corruption?!?! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-04, 17:49:04 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I once made the mistake of installing Download Accelerator Plus. The fact that it required a reboot should have tipped me off that something was amiss. Anyway I spent the next couple months chas .......
110: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: How to protect your data against corruption?!?! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-04, 17:33:57 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy [Since the asylum is running very slowly right now I'll post before I read the rest of this thread :) sorry if this is redundant.] Since it takes essentially the same amount of time to check che .......
111: Cable Asylum, RE: Audience Au24e (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-12-04, 17:13:59 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy On a few cables and on a Sim Audio I-5 integrated amp I experienced the "roller coaster" of good and bad (tho subtle) during break in. In the case of the I-5 it was about two (or was it three?) .......
112: Digital Drive, RE: Dual dacs? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-29, 13:40:44 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy The thing I'd worry about is that they don't have precisely synchronized internal clocks and hence possibly your sound stage might wander left and right slightly. Still as you noticed there coul .......
113: Computer Audio Asylum, Some thoughts on data corruption and backups [long] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-29, 12:03:35 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy In addition to Tony's points: Besides the obvious problem of software bugs corrupting our precious data, the likelihood of some other form of disk/data corruption is non-trivial. E.g. I've had .......
114: General Asylum, RE: Maybe in a few cases but... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-28, 16:06:53 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Well I'm like him: when I adjust my system to sound better my daughter and wife almost always think it sounds better too. They both have no measurable loss in the highs at this point. So I sort .......
115: General Asylum, RE: Question about less than perfect hearing vs. system characteristics (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-28, 00:12:00 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy OK let talk practicalities. Here's a simple chart with ranges of loss illustrated: (from http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000501/2749.html ) Note that mild - moderate losses may go down to -55dB. Th .......
116: General Asylum, RE: Question about less than perfect hearing vs. system characteristics (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-27, 23:33:07 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You asked "What is so complicated about that?" I explained one problem elsewhere in this thread: recruitment ( http://www.hearinglosshelp.com/articles/recruitment.htm ). There are hearing losses .......
117: Computer Audio Asylum, Thanks. [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-27, 19:53:41 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Thanks, I was using a combination of random utilities for this and mp3tag is quite useful. -Ted .......
118: General Asylum, RE: Question about less than perfect hearing vs. system characteristics (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-27, 18:14:08 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I hope that something can help you, I may well be there someday :( -Ted .......
119: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: I believe WAV is better. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-27, 18:06:08 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I certainly agree that enjoying the music is both the goal and the journey. Personally I don't have vinyl (tho it often can sound better), I don't have "knobs" on my speakers, I don't use EQ, I .......
120: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: I believe WAV is better. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-27, 17:56:20 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Yipes! Then it not lossless :) Yep, I didn't take into account that lossless isn't always lossless. I'm glad I always test whatever program I use for compression. -Ted .......
121: General Asylum, RE: Question about less than perfect hearing vs. system characteristics (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-27, 17:53:00 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Well I hear a lot of things better than my wife who undeniably has much better hearing. It's a question of experience and training. I can still hear "air" in a system, tho I clearly can't hear " .......
122: General Asylum, RE: Question about less than perfect hearing vs. system characteristics (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-27, 13:30:23 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Actually it seems like the opposite is obvious to me :) If you hear live music thru your ears unaided so why would you want to change it when you are instead listening to your system? I definite .......
123: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: I believe WAV is better. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-27, 11:16:15 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I was with you until you said "Also, I believe that taking a WAV file, converting it to a lossless format and back to WAV, does not sound as good as the original WAV file." Tho I don't argue wit .......
124: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Lot's a reason not to but any reason to keep WAV files in iTunes? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-27, 10:57:24 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You are correct in that if the DAC were perfect, nothing upstream would matter (if they delivered the right bits, which isn't too hard.) Since the DAC isn't perfect the things upstream may matte .......
125: Computer Audio Asylum, ? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-26, 09:43:42 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You are being too terse if you are trying to communicate... I have no idea what you mean by saying that I don't play material. -Ted .......
126: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Which OS sounds better at high res? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 23:38:51 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy ? What material didn't I play? -Ted .......
127: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: some recordings at 44.1, 48 and 96K, 16 and 24 bit (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 22:37:19 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'm not sure what your point is. 24 bit data sounds better than 16 bit data on a, say, 20 bit accurate or greater DAC. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. 44.1k can sound fine, but 48, etc. .......
128: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Which OS sounds better at high res? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 22:28:42 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy So? And yours don't? Essentially all sigma delta based DAC chips do too. -Ted .......
129: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: some recordings at 44.1, 48 and 96K, 16 and 24 bit (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 17:01:39 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I meant to say thanks for posting the files and tho there's too much advertising for my taste at the site you used, I still appreciate that it exists. I didn't know about it. -Ted .......
130: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Which OS sounds better at high res? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 16:59:15 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I was agreeing with you if that wasn't obvious :) As to the AES paper (not a study, nor a consensus of the AES) see my response further down on this thread. I've been listening to hi rez for yea .......
131: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: High res sounds better. No doubt about that. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 16:23:56 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy FWIW the AES paper was discussed much here and the authors defended themselves and in so doing we got more details. IMO it was bad science and had an obvious agenda: the result you state was in .......
132: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: some recordings at 44.1, 48 and 96K, 16 and 24 bit (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 16:07:45 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy First from listening: I thought that there was slightly more decay on the 24 bit versions, but I could have been fooling myself. I noticed that there wasn't much info in the higher frequencies a .......
133: Cable Asylum, RE: does switching to coax connection from aes/ebu makes things worse? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 13:35:51 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I don't have experience with the devices you mention but the relative quality of AES/EBU vs S/PDIF is quite variable device to device, you probably will just have to try them. Also FWIW tho I do .......
134: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Which OS sounds better at high res? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 11:47:58 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Every stinking detail seems to matter :( Since most interfaces can reliably get the bits there what's left is the timing of the bits. You'd think that the packetizing or the bits in USB would sw .......
135: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Which OS sounds better at high res? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 11:37:18 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Tho I understand what you are trying to say in principle, I have essentially no commercial CDs in my collection which really come close to what 16/44.1 really has to offer. But that also goes fo .......
136: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Which OS sounds better at high res? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 11:24:19 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy "So, no up-sampled material from 16/44.1kHz, but (properly) recorded, mastered and published at high(er) res." I can't believe that anyone uses upsampled 16/44.1k for any comparisons. I have a l .......
137: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: So you only assumed a difference between OS X and WIN at high res. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 11:11:23 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy For example the Telarc SACDs sourced from their 50kHz sampled Soundstream recordings sound much better than 44.1k material IMO. That little extra frequency response, extra room for anti-aliasing .......
138: Computer Audio Asylum, Second Copy (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-25, 10:52:32 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I've been using Second Copy for years, perhaps it's because they addressed essentially all of my recommendations when I was a beta tester years ago, but I still find it to be a very capable and .......
139: Digital Drive, Sorry (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-23, 22:26:18 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You are correct it is the minimum load impedance. -Ted .......
140: Digital Drive, RE: not a schematc (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-23, 09:44:56 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Except the output impedance is > 5K so there isn't too much gain/feedback :) -Ted .......
141: Digital Drive, Redbook (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-22, 18:08:50 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Gibbs is simply the maximum overshoot caused by a discontinuity, it's approx 9% for continuous Fourier series with a finite number of terms, discreet Fourier series, etc. Without the spec in han .......
142: General Asylum, RE: I hope you find the problem (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-22, 15:53:30 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Don't get him started. But I'm not denying his experience just his explanations. I've told him how it happens on some players (those with a coarse head movement as well as a fine movement.) In o .......
143: Digital Drive, Redbook (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-22, 15:40:25 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy The only spec is the Redbook spec and I don't have one, but just saying 16 bit PCM @ 44.1k goes a long way. That's enough to cover Gibbs and antialiasing. If you alias it's wrong, so don't :) It .......
144: Cable Asylum, RE: Price is not too different... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-22, 10:46:53 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy RE: "Swapping in and out gear is fun for a while only, eventually one wants to just listen." And that listening is important. This is probably old news but if you don't listen to a potential rep .......
145: Digital Drive, RE: 3 DACs and audible distortion (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-21, 18:19:25 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy In an ideal world I might agree with you but if a DAC had the headroom to deal with the peaks that are out of spec (i.e. should never occur with a valid anti-aliasing filter on it's A/D) it woul .......
146: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Advertising your listings again? [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-21, 15:08:04 (71.121.200.218)
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147: Cable Asylum, Good catch :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-21, 15:05:20 (71.121.200.218)
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148: Digital Drive, RE: 3 DACs and audible distortion (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-21, 14:08:03 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Unfortunately there are recording out there which exceed 0dB. I wonder what tools allow doing it or don't at least check for it? My old Perp Tech P-3A's SRC couldn't deal with a > 0dB input eith .......
149: Digital Drive, RE: Perhaps :-) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-21, 14:03:35 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Sorry if I was too terse. Often when reclocking a digital signal you use a flip-flop to align, say, the left and right data signals with the DAC's clock. This is a start in keeping the changing .......
150: Digital Drive, RE: Perhaps :-) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-21, 12:38:52 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'm glad this thread has become a little less contentious :) Well it's pretty easy to run controlled A/B tests to test various hypotheses. In this session all of the same equipment was running i .......
151: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Where's cplay and cmp threads? nt (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-21, 11:43:25 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/2/27041.html and http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/3/31286.html :) I don't use the classic forum view: I use the show only .......
152: Digital Drive, RE: Perhaps :-) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 16:02:05 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Whatever, I think it's clear from context that buffering beyond a second or even a significant fraction of a second is not what people are talking about when they talk about a transport. People .......
153: General Asylum, RE: True, all true however... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 12:22:15 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I guess I've met people like that too. I just love listening to great music and new music, but it is indeed a different kind of listening than I do when I'm analytically listening. I can tell yo .......
154: Cable Asylum, RE: A couple of thoughts (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 12:15:13 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I was surprised at how similar the Q-Audio interconnects are to the TGAudio high purity silver interconnects in my system... Both are satisfying to me. -Ted .......
155: Digital Drive, RE: Perhaps :-) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 11:24:24 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I know what you were trying to say: I just don't want people to read "If a FIFO buffer is used in a reclocking architecture (no ASRC) then all the effects of transport jitter can be removed." an .......
156: Computer Audio Asylum, Some thoughts (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 08:57:22 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'm just speculating here: The search DB is on a different machine than the live data. In the past they could get out of sync in the middle of the night due to backup issues. I also noticed yest .......
157: Digital Drive, RE: You still have some of your terms and concepts wrong.. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 08:27:05 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You are still missing the real point: any jitter that makes it to the DAC also causes the same sort of amplitude errors: it's unavoidable! In fact you can think of ASRC as a "perfect" DAC with a .......
158: Digital Drive, RE: Perhaps :-) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 08:21:13 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I was merely pointing out that your statements taken literally were false. E.g. "If a FIFO buffer is used in a reclocking architecture (no ASRC) then all the effects of transport jitter can be r .......
159: Digital Drive, Oops, thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 02:09:04 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy A lot of software does it. I also have programmed it into a FPGA, it doesn't use very many resources. -Ted .......
160: Digital Drive, RE: You still have some of your terms and concepts wrong.. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 02:01:40 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'm not wrong, you apparently misread what I said. To be clearer, jitter is a mistake in TIME. ASRC suppresses mistakes in TIME (they become mistakes in amplitude). The output of ASRC has smalle .......
161: General Asylum, RE: "Live" is a poor measure of a system's accuracy. After all, it's (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-20, 00:21:55 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Tho I agree with a lot of what you said I really disagree with your view about listening to other systems. By listening to other systems you can get a lot of ideas about improvements to your own .......
162: Digital Drive, Not entirely true (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-19, 23:45:32 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You can use integer conversions to cross convert 48, 96, 192, 44.1, 88.2 and 176.4 The point is that you can convert them to their least common multiple and then back to the desired output: e.g. .......
163: Digital Drive, You still have some of your terms and concepts wrong.. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-19, 23:34:04 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy ASRC does indeed reduce jitter, quite a bit in fact. It does it by calculating (with whatever algorithm the implementer chooses) the value the signal probably would have at each output sample ti .......
164: Digital Drive, RE: Perhaps :-) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-19, 20:35:37 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You are completely ignoring the simple fact that nothing gets rid of jitter, every approach merely filters it. In the case of an elastic buffer the jitter still is transmitted thru, e.g. thru th .......
165: Digital Drive, RE: Perhaps :-) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-18, 21:44:48 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I only meant to say that ASRC might be the best available compromise in particular design. Without it something else might cause more problems. The only reasonable thing to do is listen for your .......
166: Computer Audio Asylum, Here's one (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-18, 14:10:02 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy One I know of: http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html -Ted .......
167: Digital Drive, RE: Perhaps :-) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-18, 14:08:07 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy There are always compromises that need to be made in any design. ASRC allows you to concentrate on getting a single frequency working well which is simpler than allowing many output frequencies .......
168: Critic's Corner, RE: The very high end speakers (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-17, 22:20:55 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'd have to say that there are probably lots of second order things that matter between high end speakers. I'll use two I'm reasonably familiar with as an example: I like my speakers (the JMLabs .......
169: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Sort of (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-17, 15:52:37 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Perhaps you don't know what uninitialized bits in a FPGA looks like? Or the metastability issues of having more than one clock. There are non-determinisms galore in real hardware. My DSD streams .......
170: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Sort of (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-17, 14:27:47 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I wasn't addressing the Lipshitz and Vanderkooy paper because as I said it's beside the point. I'm not disputing their math I'm disputing their restrictive models of possible SDMs. My mentioning .......
171: General Asylum, RE: Two ways to kill you system sound . . . (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-17, 10:37:59 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I used to use a 200W/ch amp for my 92dB efficient speakers which was theoretically good enough but when I switched to 750W/ch there was a world of difference. Headroom is underappreciated. Once .......
172: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Sort of (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-17, 09:51:21 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Yep you missed the point: Non-standard analysis (at least the versions whose model is based on infinitesimals) assumes transfinite induction and not simply standard induction. But is also uses t .......
173: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: how goes it (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-16, 13:19:24 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy tunenut Yep, I've had my head down low for a while, but when my DAC project started sounding good I thought I'd poke it up. I haven't seen as many of your posts recently as I used to. It's good .......
174: Hi-Rez Highway, Radio Shack :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-15, 09:27:22 (71.121.200.218)
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175: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Korg MR-1000 (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-14, 19:22:50 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Spoken like someone who hasn't compared them side by side :) -Ted .......
176: General Asylum, RE: The real question is: what "kind" of system can truly do justice to Mahler? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-14, 10:56:12 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I can vouch that systems of the 2nd type (multiple drivers, big amps) can work great :) (Both stereo and with multi channel.) -Ted .......
177: Digital Drive, RE: As with any digital VC, depends on amount of attenuation I suppose. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-13, 12:26:28 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Perhaps we just listen to different kinds of music. There's quite a range of levels in my collection. My DAC is too hot for my amps and speakers, using enough attenuation to match them and use a .......
178: Digital Drive, RE: As with any digital VC, depends on amount of attenuation I suppose. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-13, 11:25:18 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy There is a hard limit on the max for DSD: +6dBFS is all ones or all zeros. But the spec is nothing above +3dBFS. The literal spec is no less than 4 zeros in 28 contiguous bits or less than 4 one .......
179: Computer Audio Asylum, Some features (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-12, 19:23:30 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Well the biggest feature I use is the throttling: you can set the number of parallel streams / file, the number of files / site, the total number of active streams, the bandwidth you want to all .......
180: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Looking for good download managers... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-12, 17:40:33 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy FDM let's you configure the minimum size as well as extensions, etc. to leave alone... You can also with a click of a button disable it for a while or you can configure it to only download when .......
181: Digital Drive, RE: As with any digital VC, depends on amount of attenuation I suppose. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-12, 17:13:47 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I agree for the reasons carcass93 states. FWIW: Tho I don't like digital volume controls in principle one of the people I was going to visit said one of his systems didn't have a preamp so I imp .......
182: Digital Drive, RE: A truly excellent DAC won't be sensitive to transports (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-12, 12:13:15 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Both? I suspect that Tony underestimates the sensitivity of a highly resolving system as well as all of the ways that a transport can affect the rest of a system (e.g. power supply interactions. .......
183: Digital Drive, RE: Don't take this one too literally (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-12, 09:48:37 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I would agree with you except for the number of people who have argued vociferously that all DACs work like that and hence can or can't do such and such around the net. There is considerable mis .......
184: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Electronic Noise and Tinnitus (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-12, 09:42:42 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy At a local audio club meeting a few years ago we were blind A/Bing various CD / CD player treatments (mats, holding up to fluorescent lights, demagnetizers, lathes, green markers, etc.) I notice .......
185: Computer Audio Asylum, Free Download Manager (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-12, 09:35:04 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I've been using Free Download Manager for a while: it works well, and is reasonably full featured. I don't use the web spider or torrent features as much but simple downloading works very well. .......
186: General Asylum, A Ferroresonant Transformer or Constant Voltage Transformer ? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-11, 19:09:19 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'm guessing that it's a ferroresonant transformer or constant voltage transformer. We used to call them Sola's: http://www.bonavolta.ch/hobby/files/sola.pdf -Ted .......
187: Computer Audio Asylum, I like the uncompressed (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-11, 17:45:52 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You can probably hear the difference at the HD Tracks when you audition them side by side: https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD00888072326170 https://www.hdtrac .......
188: Cable Asylum, RE: A miracle has occurred, I cut, soldered and connected (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-11, 17:41:22 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Yep, Bob's speaker cables were soft annealed solid silver, I forget the gauge. (16?) I sure like mine :) -Ted .......
189: Digital Drive, OK :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-11, 16:08:15 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Yep, but I wasn't talking about any of those, I was merely pointing out that no one ever bothers to builds a DAC that uses linear interpolation for it's output reconstruction filter. It's not al .......
190: General Asylum, RE: 2nt time question - how you'd rate your knowledge of musical instruments (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-11, 11:26:46 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Tho I agree with you, I have some friends with good to great systems that have little musical education and, for whatever reasons, never go to live performances. Still they manage to make their .......
191: Digital Drive, RE: Don't take this one too literally (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-11, 09:48:32 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Yep, I meant that no DAC would do that, not that it couldn't do it: certainly it's misleading to bring it up at all in an intro. FWIW on the pedantic side a first order filter isn't linear inter .......
192: Digital Drive, Don't take this one too literally (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-10, 19:44:21 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy It is a nice gentle intro, but it also is wrong in places and might cause some misconceptions. I didn't read the whole thing but its graph showing "DAC reconstructed waveform" is plain wrong. No .......
193: Computer Audio Asylum, :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-10, 17:08:19 (71.121.200.218)
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194: General Asylum, High (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-10, 12:36:31 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Having played for 7 years in band in my school days (clarinet, trombone, tenor sax), 10 years of piano, 2 of organ, 30 years of church choir, 7 years of barbershop quartet, listened to family me .......
195: Cable Asylum, RE: RCA vs. XLR for sub cable (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-10, 12:09:54 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy As with most of this stuff: it depends. In particular putting a RCA between a balanced preamp and a balanced sub probably isn't optimal and conversely a XLR connection between a single ended pre .......
196: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Sort of (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-10, 11:45:13 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy We'll have to agree to disagree on that one, I think you have mischaracterized both the content and the bona fides. There are few practical and useful papers on the subject out there. Excessive .......
197: Computer Audio Asylum, Sort of (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-09, 20:13:09 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy The paper you cite makes the assumption that you have a "standard" SDM structure. Even for single bit SDM you can get the distortion down to ridiculously low levels if you get creative. These te .......
198: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: And after all that... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-09, 18:58:30 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Ironically (a+b)/2 is about the only thing that's easy to do to two DSD streams: you just add them together bitwise and output the carry :) -Ted .......
199: Digital Drive, RE: It's a long way from New Jersey to Seattle. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-09, 17:41:46 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy It probably goes with saying but if you are building transport isolation equipment outside the DAC you are already compromised (with standard interfaces anyway), but you can take all transports .......
200: Digital Drive, Come on over :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-09, 14:31:07 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Anyone is welcome to ring me up and come on over, it's always fun for me to hear new music and get differing points of view. Some clarifications (mostly already hinted at on this thread.) I don' .......
201: Computer Audio Asylum, It doesn't look like it to me (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-09, 13:47:17 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Here's the spectrum of Band On The Run (Uncompressed) @ 2:50 Here's what it looks like limited by 44.1k sampling: Now the levels at 20kHz aren't that high, but there's no discontinuity in .......
202: Cable Asylum, Hopefully other's here have a better idea. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-08, 15:23:01 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I have a random selection of mid quality power cords laying around and for each new component I merely try them in turn. I have some cords that work well for high current, some that are better a .......
203: Computer Audio Asylum, Past tense :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-08, 13:37:18 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You didn't know what "the Borg" meant in Christine's posts? :) I've worked for a lot of startups and I came to the NW to work for Microsoft in '95 and left a month or so before the Gulf War. I'm .......
204: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: I dunno... Windows seems OK to me, actually. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-08, 13:18:48 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy "It has been my experience that most computer programmers don't understand the importance..." In case it's not obvious the choices like these aren't made by programmers at Microsoft... Program M .......
205: Cable Asylum, Your guesses seem plausible to me. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-08, 13:01:29 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Your reports sound consistent with what I might expect from their different implementations, but I'll just guessing about which exact mechanism is at the root of the differences. I think everyth .......
206: General Asylum, RE: My, my! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-07, 22:20:44 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy If you don't know, you're not paying attention. -Ted .......
207: Digital Drive, RE: Latency: Pro, HT, or Audiophile (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-07, 10:39:19 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy again I just checked and apparently I've been running WinAmp with the ASIO plugin set at 7 (whatever the heck that means, but it's a lot smaller than the max of 63) and foobar with a 16 second b .......
208: Digital Drive, RE: Latency: Pro, HT, or Audiophile (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-07, 10:06:20 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Pros use live punchin in recording for legitimate purposes besides overdubbing :) You probably know that CMOS flip-flops are almost always horrible for this purpose: transistors aren't nearly as .......
209: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Windows = Terminal Complexity (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-07, 08:58:54 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy The one "helpful" thing I hate about Windows 7 vs. all of my previous experience with windows is that even if I've been using a USB device successfully for a while, if I plug it into a new port .......
210: Digital Drive, RE: It's so much more than that: He's a manufacturer and very rude (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-07, 00:45:56 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Since I wasn't clear in my post it's good you "asked" :) Thanks for the conversation. I figured that I wanted to see how good I could do with the "normal" S/PDIF (TOSLink, whatever) interface so .......
211: General Asylum, You were right. [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-06, 23:51:01 (71.121.200.218)
he's a troll .......
212: Digital Drive, RE: It's so much more than that: He's a manufacturer and very rude (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-06, 19:03:24 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy But that was the point :) He said that his transport and dac beat any computer setup. I was trying to convey that one advantage that some computer setups (professional setups) have is that their .......
213: Digital Drive, RE: It's so much more than that: He's a manufacturer and very rude (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-06, 18:17:48 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Perhaps we do have a slight misunderstanding still: I looked at the Bel Canto CD-1 user manual direct from their site. If you were thinking of it as a transport that slaves to a DAC's clock outp .......
214: Digital Drive, RE: It's so much more than that: He's a manufacturer and very rude (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-06, 17:47:38 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I think your post was accidentally misplaced :) I think we have very similar views: In context, I was trying to make a plausibility argument that indeed computer driven DACs can have outstanding .......
215: Critic's Corner, RE: Yes, unless we can verify his bonafides, he has no credibility. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-06, 14:44:07 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy But I've not noticed a big correlation between people's systems and their character. -Ted .......
216: General Asylum, RE: Don't trust music videos! You'll get the lyrics wrong.. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-06, 14:38:48 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy That's how I've always heard it :) I really couldn't figure out how one could tell just by looking. -Ted .......
217: General Asylum, RE: It is really pathetic (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-06, 14:35:10 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I took it as a joke: blind tests vs. closing eyes... I suspect you might be right but without further info we don't know if any conclusions were drawn at all. -Ted .......
218: General Asylum, RE: You're a smart guy, Pat (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-06, 13:29:02 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'm not so sure that most of the "bits is bits" people can see some of the relevant assumptions. This thread is hilarious for the "obviousness" to both sides of the blind spots of the other side .......
219: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Did you read the material I provided? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-06, 12:53:17 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy There is no value that works, that's the point. With noise shaping as the sample rate goes up you gain flexibility, but if you try to avoid the filter the noise just becomes a bigger and bigger .......
220: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Looking for good 64 bit player (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-05, 16:47:32 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I hadn't thought of that, thanks. -Ted .......
221: Cable Asylum, RE: Not according to PS Audio (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-05, 16:44:55 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I wasn't specifically talking about any particular device and I had an "or" with the class D :) PS Audio's older models were class A/B and had efficiency issues (which may or may not be a proble .......
222: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Does anyone have experience with Windows 7, media player, and NAS? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-05, 16:28:38 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Not directly related to your query, but I've never gotten NAS to be reliable or performant. I given up and always directly mount drives (at the root :) whether I'm using WiFi or a direct wired c .......
223: Cable Asylum, RE: I can't say that it ain't so!... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-05, 15:58:05 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Well even with regeneration there's the whole UL grounding issue which basically amounts to a direct pathway for noise or at the very minimum participates in ground loops :) Also I'm not sure ho .......
224: Cable Asylum, :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-05, 15:40:13 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Thanks I didn't notice that. Tho there may be something to their argument, it has a lot of assumptions that aren't true in at least my case... Not only doesn't my DAC have a SMPS, nothing in my .......
225: Cable Asylum, RE: I can't say that it ain't so!... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-05, 13:59:38 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy "...that is generating a pure 60Hz sine wave." Ironically tho advertised as "pure sine waves" some regenerators use a stepped digital approximation to a sine wave or equally problematically a cl .......
226: Cable Asylum, RE: There is no "ideal" anything, this is the real world. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-05, 11:13:17 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'm not trying to argue with your statement (I agree with it technically) but the effect of an Equi=Tech Wall Cabinet System at a friends house when we plugged my DAC into a circuit that bypasse .......
227: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Looking for good 64 bit player (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-05, 10:54:54 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'm just curious did I answer your question or did I misunderstand it? Are you worried about whether the player proper is compiled for 64 bits instead of 32? If so, could I ask why? I can't see .......
228: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: When to use and When not to use Asio4All-64 bit (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-05, 07:59:00 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Since I haven't been reading this forum until very recently I'm not sure how much of this is old hat and I stress that I don't care about synchronized recording but in any case: I'm not quite su .......
229: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: When to use and When not to use Asio4All (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-04, 18:45:43 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy FWIW Similar to what Tony said: ASIO works in a straight forward way with all of the software and hardware I have on Windows 7 64bit and I can't get KS, DS, or even WaveOut to work at all with, .......
230: Cable Asylum, RE: Stray inductance in a transformer is parasitic. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-04, 17:06:51 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Well sort of, but you have it backwards, see below. Each part of the system acts differently: speakers are mostly inductive, the cones are coils and they want to continue what there doing (even .......
231: Cable Asylum, :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-04, 15:35:27 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Don't I know it :) -Ted .......
232: Cable Asylum, RE: Stray inductance in a transformer is parasitic. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-04, 15:34:40 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy A perfect transformer doesn't have any "extra" inductance nor capacitance and hence doesn't store energy at all. As Al and I've tried to convey, in so far as everything is imperfect a transforme .......
233: Cable Asylum, RE: Stray inductance in a transformer is parasitic. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-04, 15:07:25 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy A capacitor tries to keep a constant voltage across itself. A capacitor stores energy in it's electric field. A capacitor across a power source tends to filter out high frequency noise. An induc .......
234: Cable Asylum, :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-04, 11:40:34 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Yep, people can read posts here and see what's up. -Ted .......
235: Hi-Rez Highway, Did you read the material I provided? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-04, 07:18:09 (64.134.132.65)
Howdy After you take a little time to understand you'll see. The material I provided does a better job than I can in limited space (and time.) Anyway perhaps an analogy might help: noise shaping is si .......
236: Cable Asylum, Whatever you say :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-03, 21:24:51 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Nothing personal, but that not how inductance works and I doubt seriously that there's net capacitance in a transformer :) I didn't say there was no benefit, I just called you out on your over e .......
237: Cable Asylum, RE: Power Conditioner vs Straight connection (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-03, 20:09:00 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy "No matter how good a dedicated unbalanced AC line is, it cannot compete with the ... current delivery a high current balanced power conditioner/transformer can deliver." Say what? How can putti .......
238: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Wrong! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-03, 18:45:48 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy During the A/D process if no noise shaping were used the S/N of 1 bit across the spectrum would be (approx) 6dB. Noise shaping "pushes" the low frequency noise to the high frequencies. So the S/ .......
239: Hi-Rez Highway, Wrong! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-03, 16:54:37 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Noise shaping puts crap up there... The first FFT is from a working double rate DSD system: it's just the DSD bits in Adobe Audition you can't argue with it :) -Ted .......
240: Cable Asylum, RE: Power Conditioner vs Straight connection (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-03, 13:57:14 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Some thoughts: If the power conditioner's capacity is large enough there shouldn't be a problem. But the cord for the conditioner is still important. Still you might find that separating the dig .......
241: Cable Asylum, You are correct with one exception. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-02, 13:22:14 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy You are almost correct. But the exact timing of the bits matters in audio where as as long as you get the right bits for SONET, etc. everything is fine. You can easily look at the signal in most .......
242: General Asylum, RE: Why *don't* I get a thump in my audio system? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-11-01, 07:09:24 (64.134.132.65)
Howdy The kind of thump you are talking about may come from a quick change in voltage or a spike on the lines that some part of your system is sensitive too and/or a RFI sensitivity. Your power suppli .......
243: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: MAC VS P C Sound differences. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-31, 17:35:52 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Yep, every time I bring it up I get both the bits is bits people who think I'm nuts (or at least that I'm spreading FUD: worrying people needlessly) and also those who think it's some boogie man .......
244: Computer Audio Asylum, :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-31, 15:43:35 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Some people just don't get it. Oh, well. -Ted .......
245: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Nope (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-31, 11:06:33 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy 60K? The noise is still too high without a filter, especially around a Meg or so: No company which doesn't want a lot of complaints from their customers is going to deliver a box with that mu .......
246: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: MAC VS P C Sound differences. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-31, 09:34:52 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I'm surprised that jitter hasn't been brought up. When you get to the level of bits is bits, (i.e. bits are reliable being delivered) there's still quite a variance in when they get there and ho .......
247: Hi-Rez Highway, Nope (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-31, 09:00:47 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy That's the point: after filtering the energy is that low, not before. The filtering by spec has to reduce the energy above 20k by 40dB. If you don't filter the energy quite high across the band. .......
248: Computer Audio Asylum, I guess I misunderstood, sorry (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-30, 21:11:28 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Since you and Charles seem to understand each other, my post wasn't helpful. -Ted .......
249: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Fred, I cannot speak - But it is about usb audio (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-30, 16:30:50 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Geez, altho Charles can be impolitic (a "feature" in my book) it always seems that he's trying to be helpful. I guess I'm just lucky the first USB device I bought uses USB2, runs great with wind .......
250: Digital Drive, RE: The merits of BNC ) BNC over XLR and RCA ? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-30, 15:54:40 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I should have been more explicit. I was saying that it really depends on the length of cable and your equipment, but you shouldn't rule out BNC out of hand, it has the potential of being better. .......
251: Cable Asylum, I just followed his link. [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-30, 15:43:26 (71.121.200.218)
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252: Digital Drive, RE: The merits of BNC ) BNC over XLR and RCA ? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-30, 13:02:35 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy A BNC connection can be made that has the same impedance as the cables used. RCA connections can't be 75 Ohms so there will be an impedance discontinuity at the connectors which will cause refle .......
253: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Since you asked (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-30, 12:30:51 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy To be blunt it doesn't matter what your understanding is :) As multiple people have mentioned the filter isn't optional except if your system is linear up to any filtering that does happen to t .......
254: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: In retrospect, DSD as a whole is a misstep (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-30, 12:15:44 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Cutting the bandwidth of the "sub channel" isn't a great idea. That channel isn't the sub channel, it's the 6th channel. (Without any judgements about the advisability of having the channel use .......
255: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: In retrospect, DSD as a whole is a misstep (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-30, 12:00:59 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy The Grimm A/D converter is in prinicple like a lot of other converters: a DAC in a feedback loop. They use a particularly simple (and well designed) filter to implement the DAC: in particular it .......
256: Hi-Rez Highway, Since you asked (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-30, 11:48:52 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Since you just asked for more opinions I'll chime in. I wasn't here when this thread started and I didn't read all of the responses but there is a lot of miss-understanding going on as well as a .......
257: General Asylum, RE: there are lots of treatment options (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-29, 15:18:55 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I use my tinnitus as an indicator of my stress / water intake / salt intake :) When any of these get out of balance my ears ring a lot louder. Thank goodness I don't really feel any anxiety, pai .......
258: Cable Asylum, Don't worry about it. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-29, 12:50:28 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy IE8... doesn't report anything amiss and when I look at the HTML I certainly don't see anything untoward. It must be a false positive from Symantec and/or the page has been cleaned up since Syma .......
259: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Heck, no! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-29, 12:41:55 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Instead of concentrating on hybrid SACDs perhaps you might have a broader selection of DSD sourced or mastered CDs. I suspect that they will have more of the "SACD goodness" of the CD layer of S .......
260: Cable Asylum, RE: x 128 i.e. 96k sample rate uses 12.288 MHz [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-28, 12:56:49 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy 2 (for stereo) x 32 (bits/sample) x 2 (for biphase mark encoding) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphase_mark_code -Ted .......
261: Cable Asylum, x 128 i.e. 96k sample rate uses 12.288 MHz [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-28, 12:03:17 (71.121.200.218)
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262: General Asylum, I don't know if that's good news or bad news :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-28, 08:00:48 (71.121.200.218)
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263: Digital Drive, No problem :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-28, 07:53:38 (71.121.200.218)
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264: Digital Drive, RE: Hmmmmm . . . (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-28, 00:21:34 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy A much simpler and direct experiment is to put the transport in another room and use an optical connection... I keep my computer away from my system mostly to avoid fan noise and disk seeking no .......
265: Digital Drive, RE: Fair enough (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-27, 18:09:06 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I have to agree that most consumer computer based players I've heard leave me cold too. But I don't even bother seeking them out because I know what it takes, have done it in the past and know t .......
266: Digital Drive, RE: Hmmmmm . . . (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-27, 16:04:03 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I was poking at your blanket statement: "No computer playback comes close to this level of digital playback". Without qualification it is obviously false: the material was mastered on fine equip .......
267: Digital Drive, For that matter no-one has any "rights" here... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-27, 14:25:40 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy This is Rod's site, pure and simple. I'm glad he keeps most of the rooms unlocked in his Asylum :) -Ted .......
268: General Asylum, RE: I'll play the devil's advocate (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-27, 14:20:20 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy It is disgusting how much work it is to achieve what most people seem to think is simple "bits is bits" :) -Ted .......
269: Digital Drive, RE: Hmmmmm . . . (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-27, 13:59:18 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Nah, you just haven't heard a good computer setup :) How do you think most of what you hear is mastered? -Ted .......
270: General Asylum, I'll play the devil's advocate (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-27, 12:16:53 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Unless you are near the end of your audio equipment journey I think it's best at each point to spend as much as your budget allows on your weakest link. After a while most of us converge on a sy .......
271: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: If you are thinking of offering your DAC for sale ... I'll help you write the marketing blurb (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 18:11:50 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I've done the typical engineer thing: doing the fun part without knowing where they'll go after that... I wasn't trying to drum up business :) In fact I sort of despise some people on a few othe .......
272: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Well, I knew that I just knew enough to be dangerous.... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 17:26:23 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I wasn't sure if you were pulling my chain or not :) I have enough SACDs for now so I can afford to make them sound better :) I hope things are going well for you and yours. -Ted .......
273: Digital Drive, RE: MicroCap and FreePCB (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 16:43:39 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Andy Ah, I can see that now. I'm glad I didn't respond more sarcastically :) Yup all of that was exactly my point. MicroCap and FreePCB play pretty well together, EXCEPT if back annotation is im .......
274: Computer Audio Asylum, That's why you write English and I write code :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 16:21:48 (71.121.200.218)
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275: Computer Audio Asylum, They're full of electrons :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 16:20:12 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Rod Actually they are electrolytic caps (mostly Panasonic FK high reliability and high temp) I use them mostly for front end filtering on the power supplies and also for bulk storage near where .......
276: Computer Audio Asylum, Nope (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 15:43:38 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Norm Some external laptop power supplies use a ground and others don't. I've got both lying around (but my more recent Toshiba's do all use two wires.) But that's a red herring. It doesn't matte .......
277: Digital Drive, RE: MicroCap and FreePCB (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 15:35:32 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Andy Are you just trying to bust my chops? :) My statement was more intended to convey the convenience and value of not entering a schematic once for simulation and then again for PCB layout. Th .......
278: Computer Audio Asylum, Switch Mode Power Supply (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 15:13:27 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy As Fred hinted their implementation can involve "interesting" voltages: way more than you might expect. They often involve interesting frequencies too which one reason they have a bad reputation .......
279: General Asylum, RE: Recording orchestras (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 09:48:12 (64.134.132.3)
Howdy I'd like to complement you on your ability to stay on topic and keep your posts both useful and reasonable. I strive to do as well but often fail :) In spite of the previous paragraph I'd like t .......
280: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Oh, well (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 07:57:49 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Thanks. The company that did the physical board assembly seemed surprised that I was one guy in a basement and I was a little surprised that they didn't have many other "hobbyist" customers: the .......
281: Computer Audio Asylum, No DAC chips, it's just a filter of the DSD stream (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 07:43:02 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Thanks for asking: I was afraid I didn't make that clear :) Like most highly integrated chips DAC chips have to make some compromises, e.g.: 1) Built to a price 2) Caps are extremely expensive o .......
282: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Oh, well-everything counts (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-26, 07:24:09 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Thanks. Some of your statements are at odds with his documentation, tho I can understand why he would be conservative. I wouldn't have bothered if I wasn't going to beat the low noise LT regulat .......
283: Digital Drive, RE: Glad You Enjoy It................ (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 23:37:26 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Product cost isn't really that bad for good DSD playback, actually it can be cheaper than CD playback, especially since most DAC chips use sigma delta anyway. Ironically many good designers have .......
284: Computer Audio Asylum, Oh, well (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 22:44:53 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Unfortunately tonight at a friend's house I could hear a difference when plugging my DAC into a magic outlet on an Equi=Tech trunk vs. a generic outlet :( Using the Equi=Tech outlet revealed a t .......
285: Cable Asylum, Digikey? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 21:46:41 (71.121.200.218)
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=708-1344-ND .......
286: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 21:33:48 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy We're not too far from needing the IRAs... :) If I can't make some money with this board I can at least use it for a resume :) =Ted .......
287: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Power Supplies (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 21:31:33 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Yep, that's what I thought you meant by balance. As time goes on and my system gets better I find this to be less and less of an issue. Certainly with this DAC there isn't any balance issue with .......
288: Digital Drive, MicroCap and FreePCB (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 17:15:10 (166.129.150.32)
Howdy At first I simulated separate pieces of my design: analog filter output, power supply, clock filters... When I found I was wasting too much of my time (after all my time is worth something) I br .......
289: Computer Audio Asylum, :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 17:05:37 (166.129.150.32)
Howdy Just to be clear my retirement money (such as it is) isn't from the borg :) It's a long story but it amounts to the results of joining WaveFrame a company that I knew would fail but whose techno .......
290: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Following on from Tony's suggestion ... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 16:58:38 (166.129.150.32)
Howdy Yep we've been here before: But this time I have some specific examples which might clarify things. There is more compute power in a small FPGA than the host computer (by far) and one can precis .......
291: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Two questions... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 15:37:03 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Unfortunately the only relevant devices I have are a PicoScope 3206 ( http://www.picotech.com/computer-oscilloscope.html ) and various (relatively cheap) 24/96 or 24/192 A/Ds. The scope only has .......
292: Digital Drive, Hmmm It's been a long time but nothing has changed :) Put your money where your mouth is... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 12:58:29 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Hey Todd did you notice my DSD DAC post over on the Computer Audio Asylum ( http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/8/80732.html )? I've built a DAC from first principles using my "ig .......
293: Digital Drive, Amen (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 12:30:44 (64.134.132.67)
Howdy Thanks for taking up the mantle :) -Ted .......
294: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: My new DAC (long, but with pictures) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 12:23:20 (64.134.132.67)
Howdy Thanks, that's one of the things I mulled over staring at the wall until I was satisfied that the crystal to output flip flop path was as clean (and small) as I could get it. The other clock and .......
295: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Two questions... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 12:03:00 (64.134.132.67)
Howdy I agree about minimum phase filters: I tend to use monotonic IIR's for the obvious reasons. Tho some may argue, I can deal with their vagaries pretty easily in the FPGA. I'm using the Spartan 3E .......
296: Computer Audio Asylum, You said it :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 10:39:16 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy One of the most valuable lessons I learned at a startup a long time ago was to balance software vs. hardware: to get higher speed we treated DRAM like a disk and selected RAS and CAS separately .......
297: Computer Audio Asylum, I'll equivocate :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 10:32:04 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Well the second board's parts cost was in the $ks and in addition the physical boards weren't cheap. Also the labor to build it cost $ks. The earlier boards were a little cheaper and as you ment .......
298: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Two questions... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 10:22:09 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I first have two 2:1 upsampling filters which are optionally bypassed depending on whether the PCM rate is above 48 or 96. Then I have a 160 or 147 times upsampler depending on 44.1-88.2-176.4 v .......
299: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Thanks. [nt]-I did it too, but (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 04:20:35 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy I do like SACDs a lot, they just sound more real to me. I don't really detect any difference in the sense of balance (if I understand what you mean by balance :) But my opinion has changed quite .......
300: Computer Audio Asylum, :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-25, 00:43:16 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Yep, I still exist :) The board house did say that they were glad that they'd just upgraded their drilling equipment: the boards would have caused significant wear on their older equipment (smal .......
301: Propeller Head Plaza, RE: Thanks for digging this out. It was before my time here - who was that... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-24, 21:54:21 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy It was he, tho he usually took care to anonymize his IP address, etc. in person he was proud of his various guises. -Ted .......
302: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Long time no hear :-) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-24, 21:04:08 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy Christine It has been a while, give me a buzz if you're back in town with some extra time on your hands :) Well I haven't built a multichannel DAC yet so I'll keep the Meitner for a while :) PCM .......
303: Computer Audio Asylum, Thanks. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-24, 20:22:33 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy It's always fun learning new things :) -Ted .......
304: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: My new DAC (long, but with pictures) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-24, 20:19:13 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy again (Before I got carried away) I meant to say that the Spartan 3s are nice FPGAs: good cost / cell, free tools and available in non BGA packages (this board was already complicated enough wit .......
305: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: My new DAC (long, but with pictures) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-24, 20:02:04 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy But why use any PLL? All PLL's are, at best, low pass filters for jitter. Oversampling, say, the S/PDIF input and ignoring the timing entirely gives much better input jitter rejection :) You do .......
306: Computer Audio Asylum, Thanks. [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-24, 18:02:14 (71.121.200.218)
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307: Computer Audio Asylum, My new DAC (long, but with pictures) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2010-10-24, 16:45:50 (71.121.200.218)
Howdy all It's been a while since I posted at the Asylum so I thought I might update you all on what I've been doing: I built a DAC: My goal wasn't to build the most cost effective solution: I want .......
308: Cable Asylum, Administrivia: a reminder about the rules here (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-06-24, 18:51:30 (98.117.116.80)
Howdy I'm specifically not addressing sockpuppetry here (that may come later), but please read the rules for manufacturers: http://www.audioasylum.com/scripts/d.pl?audio/manrules.html . Perhaps you di .......
309: Propeller Head Plaza, Very good. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-05-25, 17:05:18 (98.117.116.80)
Howdy I don't read the asylum much these days, except for moderation duties, and I just stumbled into your post. You said it very well :) I do know him personally, and for those who say otherwise he c .......
310: Shady Lane, What happened? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-05-24, 22:35:21 (98.117.116.80)
Howdy Well one could guess that someone violated the rules. That is indeed the case here, but we're not going to keep rehashing things over and over. I know you know at least one party in this and can .......
311: Cable Asylum, Administrivia: a reminder (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-20, 01:49:17 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy Ted Hey, you've posted here a few times correcting some people's misstatements about your products (which we thank you for doing.) The rules specifically allow you to reference your company when .......
312: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Where is Ted Smith? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-20, 01:26:25 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy I was searching for posts mentioning another Ted and saw this one. Thanks for the complement and asking :) I've been quite busy with other endeavors for a while including my first two grand kids .......
313: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: congratulations on your new additions... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-12, 16:49:11 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy I took a fall a few years ago. I'll spare everyone the details, suffice it to say this is one of the benign pictures :) Anyway everything is fine now. I guess my attempt at humor could be refine .......
314: Hi-Rez Highway, Thanks all! [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-11, 19:05:40 (71.121.200.209)
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315: Hi-Rez Highway, New grand kids! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-10, 21:28:29 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy I posted this over on Inmate Central, but Hi-Rez has always seemed more like home here, so I'll tempt the wrath of Chris and double post :) I haven't been around much lately, but perhaps this ex .......
316: Inmate Central, RE: Congratulations on the cute little childrens, grandpa! ... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-10, 18:45:08 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy Ya, hopefully people can see around my quirky sense of humor to the joy we all feel at the moment. -Ted .......
317: Inmate Central, RE: ted, maaate! awwwwwww! ah kins still remember giving son 2 John his first bath (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-10, 18:44:08 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy I was spoiled with two girls, there are certain early dangers with boys :) -Ted .......
318: Inmate Central, :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-10, 18:43:02 (71.121.200.209)
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319: Inmate Central, Rich indeed [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-10, 18:42:31 (71.121.200.209)
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320: Inmate Central, RE: Congrats Ted (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-10, 18:41:48 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy We've had a spell or two already. The kids don't seem to remember that we've been thru it before :) -Ted .......
321: Inmate Central, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-10, 18:40:36 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy There are worse things in life than having happy kids :) Now I'm pretty sure both of them will have happy kids too. -Ted .......
322: Inmate Central, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-10, 06:15:19 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy It's probably been a year or so since I posted anything that wasn't moderator related so I'm not surprised that many newer people don't recognize me. Oops, I just looked at your profile and see .......
323: Inmate Central, I'll let her know you said that :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-09, 23:28:08 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy Yep, everyone is just fine. Both of my daughters are doing great and the fathers are doting over both my kids and their kids... -Ted .......
324: Inmate Central, :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-09, 22:06:20 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy Brian The last picture was of my foot a few years ago after I took a spill, it looks fine now: I spared you all the worst pictures :) -Ted .......
325: Inmate Central, New grand kids! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-03-09, 21:30:01 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy I haven't been around much lately, but perhaps this explains a little: First grand kid (Micheal) at about one hour: Michael and Mom at about three weeks: Micheal's cousin Julien at about o .......
326: General Asylum, Whatever: Me thinks thou doth protest too much. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-01-13, 21:13:12 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy This place is the Asylum: we value community and are suspicious of drive by posters. If you are on the level your future helpful posts will show your real character. If you are a shill we'll pro .......
327: General Asylum, Hmmm (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-01-13, 20:19:51 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy Is it a coincidence that your listed system ( http://cgi.audioasylum.com/systems/9314.html ) is essentially identical to the components you claim you sold? "I got a great price for my Wilson Lin .......
328: General Asylum, Administrivia: READ the rules, you are lying (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2009-01-10, 21:39:24 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy You are obviously hawking your own site. Your underhanded and misleading tactics demonstrate your character and that of your business. -Ted .......
329: Cable Asylum, Administrivia: Scott this is your only warning (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-12-24, 13:28:37 (71.121.200.209)
Howdy Please read and abide by the Cables Asylum Mission statement available with a link at the top of the forum. You've had posts deleted here before but apparently that isn't enough of a hint. Any m .......
330: Whiner's Woad, Don't forget Thergit, he got his start here (but you already knew that :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-11-06, 15:42:07 (98.117.123.176)
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331: Whiner's Woad, Hey, he posted most of that over on Tweakers :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-11-06, 15:08:22 (98.117.123.176)
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332: Whiner's Woad, Grow up. [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-11-05, 14:16:54 (98.117.123.176)
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333: Water Cooler, Nope, (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-11-04, 16:59:40 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy If you knew me you'd know better. It's simple: follow the rules or suffer the consequences. -Ted .......
334: Water Cooler, Administrivia: 78s' posts deleted (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-11-04, 14:33:45 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy I don't read this forum much but 78s' posts have drawn some attention. 78s' posts weren't deleted for their political content, but instead because they (more often than not) broke the rules in m .......
335: Critic's Corner, Sockpuppet: an alternative account used deceptively... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-11-03, 18:59:53 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy It's an allusion to having a sock on your hand as a puppet and talking to it as if it were a legitimate separate point of view. Sometimes a single person uses more than one account to argue with .......
336: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Diana Krall-Look of Love DVD-A vs SACD? Anybody heard both? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-29, 23:43:37 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy Tho I have both, it's hard to say without also having your exact equipment setup (and for that matter your listening preferences.) Tho I have a minimally modified Denon DVD-3930CI for DVD-A my S .......
337: Hi-Rez Highway, Not really (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-26, 17:09:50 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy I just designed and built a couple of simplistic ones for fun. I haven't looked but I'd guess that http://www.diyhifi.org or http://www.diyaudio.com will have information and ideas, but probably .......
338: Critic's Corner, RE: Huh? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-24, 16:32:42 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy The one time I put an SACD into my car changer after I hit a bump that caused the disc to skip I looked at it and it had huge concentric scratches. Now some players play the CD layer fine and ot .......
339: Critic's Corner, RE: Huh? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-24, 13:38:48 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy Thanks for the report. It matches my experience years ago when we were building a digital audio workstation. -Ted .......
340: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: DIY DSD DAC? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-24, 13:20:37 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy As an alternative to what fmak said I just bought some E-Z-Hook P713-xxx test leads at Frys ( http://shop3.frys.com/product/1820616 or http://www.e-z-hook.com/Html/MicroHookTestLeads.html ) .......
341: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: alert (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-24, 12:51:00 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy No, moderators appreciate any alerts they get. The character of each board is set by the people who use them. It really helps: sometimes I read a post in context and don't see how it might be ta .......
342: Video Asylum, Administrivia: please keep on topic (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-23, 18:13:11 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy I'm not a regular moderator on the Video Asylum, but I've been informed that the political content is leaking out of Outside :) -Ted An Asylum Moderator .......
343: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: need a small favor (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-23, 18:02:58 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy The Alert Moderator link is a better way of passing suggestions along. Especially since I'm not a moderator there, but still I'll take a quick look and use the Alert Moderator link if I see anyt .......
344: Hi-Rez Highway, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-23, 11:00:01 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy I'm not necessarily back, but I'll probably be poking my head in a little more often :) -Ted .......
345: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Back to DSD digital dacs (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-22, 23:35:11 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy I'm not sure that great DSD DACs are missing any "real" definition compared to PCM, but this has been discussed to death. -Ted .......
346: Hi-Rez Highway, Yep [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-22, 23:16:54 (98.117.123.176)
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347: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Could you please elaborate re outboard DSD DACs? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-22, 23:11:57 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy DSD DACs are quite simple in a simplistic way. One way which does work is take two power supply rails (e.g. + and - 5V), find some very fast controllable switch to pick which one of the rails ba .......
348: Critic's Corner, Administrivia: more posts deleted (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-10-22, 15:37:50 (98.117.123.176)
Howdy Lest there be more unfounded speculation about why posts are being deleted: I just deleted one subthread started by a poster who appears to be a rabble rousing sockpuppet of a rabble rousing pos .......
349: Asylum Feedback/Support, Click on the [Edit] or [Delete] link in your post :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-23, 15:34:16 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Note: you can only delete your posts if no one has responded, if you were logged in (or if you used a password to post) and if the post is less than a day old. -Ted .......
350: Whiner's Woad, RE: A wonderful opamp! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-08, 16:54:08 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Duh, I do remember that :) -Ted .......
351: Whiner's Woad, RE: A wonderful opamp! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-08, 10:37:25 (166.129.10.189)
Howdy OK, I admit that I haven't been keeping track of where in the circuit the opamps you are reporting on are, but if they are, say, the I/V op-amps you might try http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/show .......
352: Whiner's Woad, Ray? [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-06, 22:23:55 (71.164.0.82)
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353: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Still looking... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-03, 20:15:30 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy It's not a feature of the DAC6. It is a feature of most other MC players, but they implement it in PCM which sounds bad to me on every device I've heard. I'm one of the ones with a modded Switch .......
354: Tech Square, RE: where to find these MOSFETs? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-02, 17:58:28 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Just a stab in the dark, but if you search for TP0610, TN0610 or TN0610N you get a lot of hits in the usual places, e.g. http://www.mouser.com . -Ted .......
355: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Ironically enough... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-01, 22:16:11 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy It depends on what you mean by DSD upsampling. In the purest sense EMM Labs and Playback Designes (probably among others) do explicit upsampling to DSD and then use their DSD DACs. But since man .......
356: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: What do you notice most in regard to SACD vs Redbook of the same title? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-01, 17:11:19 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Random thoughts: Many (most) SACD/CD players don't present SACD and CD exactly the same. We hear a lot of people saying that SACD does this or that better than CD, but IMO it's often not as true .......
357: Whiner's Woad, Are you sure? :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-01, 16:04:28 (71.164.0.82)
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358: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: What do you notice most in regard to SACD vs Redbook of the same title? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-07-01, 15:04:29 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I think most of the differences are system specific (but not all.) The sense of ease of SACD is what remains for me. There is just more there, a more complete presentation. Compared to SACD CD's .......
359: Cable Asylum, RE: What to do about power? Chords or Conditioner? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-30, 19:34:35 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy It depends on a lot of things. I definitely recommend more dedicated lines than you think you need :) Also don't forget that quality power outlets can make a bigger difference than most people e .......
360: General Asylum, jeffreybehr ? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-30, 18:55:37 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I (as a moderator) deleted the post from jeffreybehr that you had responded to. Inmates can't delete their posts after they've been responded to. -Ted .......
361: General Asylum, Exactly, it's not necessarily a trade off... [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-30, 11:52:22 (71.164.0.82)
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362: General Asylum, Like this? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-30, 10:52:04 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Here's my old system: Here's (part of) my current system: Here's what I'm trying to avoid: Actually I do have my analog cables fairly well dressed, since mine is a MC system with three .......
363: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Any concerns about excessive heat? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-30, 00:18:45 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I know both Andrew and Brian tried all sorts of things (as I'm sure other's have.) Some of my discs were treated for quite a while with no permanent effects (positive or negative.) (Compare this .......
364: Tweakers' Asylum, Have you read MikeL's original report and follow on posts? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-30, 00:15:31 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy It seems by people's questions here that perhaps some haven't read the original post here about this treatment: http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/general/messages/51/518400.html -Ted ::: TOPIC:: .......
365: Isolation Ward, RE: After not listening to my system for two weeks...... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-29, 15:43:23 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Was your equipment left on all of the time or perhaps you were hearing something warm up? -Ted .......
366: General Asylum, RE: Since when can posts be edited after responses have been made to them?nt (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-29, 15:36:12 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy But there's still a link to the previous version of the message so you can tell if the poster is clarifying or obfuscating. (Apparently some people don't notice the link and it can be enlighteni .......
367: Tweakers' Asylum, There is more than one way to use 10 gauge in an R1 (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-29, 15:31:53 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Nope: I had no trouble with solid #10 gauge using the screws but not wrapping the 10 gauge around the screw, just using the screw to clamp the straight wires with the clamping plate. Here's a pi .......
368: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Not exactly your experiment but (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-29, 15:19:43 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I was a little more circumspect: it didn't rule out that the listener was affected, but it did indicate that something else as well was affected :) (Tho the other (limited) experiments I reporte .......
369: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Any new comments about the Xionic Gun? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-29, 09:07:21 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Tho I'm not the person you were asking the question of I can easily state that the CDs (and SACDs) we treated never sounded like they did after treating before they were treated. And further tha .......
370: Tweakers' Asylum, Not exactly your experiment but (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-29, 08:57:51 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy We did listen to a treated and untreated disc in two players, tho in the same room. One was the EMM Labs CDSD transport and DAC6e DAC the other was a modified Sony DVP-S9000ES SACD player. (Also .......
371: Hi-Rez Highway, Nope, I'm speaking for myself (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-29, 08:37:21 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy If you read the whole thread you'd see that I regretted my post and said so. -Ted .......
372: Cable Asylum, Are you referring to his tag line? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-28, 23:58:55 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy If your post is referring to "It doesn't matter how you stir the pot, Bullshit in always equals Bullshit out!!" That's his tag line not a comment on the cables in particular :) His comment on th .......
373: Hi-Rez Highway, Hiromi: "Beyond Standard" (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-28, 23:52:30 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I'm a sucker for her energetic style and tho I'm a jazz neophyte I can hear enough tributes to others in her discs that I wonder how someone as young as she is can play/arrange/compose music as .......
374: Hi-Rez Highway, Yep, I was just going to delete my post (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-28, 21:10:08 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I was just reading his old posts myself and found I couldn't delete my post :) Thanks for keeping me honest. I certainly agree that his questions are completely legitimate, I was just responding .......
375: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: I agree: old comments: (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-28, 19:02:19 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Not me, I'm not getting hares anywhere near my transport ;) -Ted .......
376: Hi-Rez Highway, Hmm, who are you? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-28, 19:00:04 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Many of us here know the service we can expect from the parties involved. They have a history. You on the other hand seem to be here just to stir up trouble. -Ted .......
377: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: I agree: old comments: (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-28, 12:46:07 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Well that doesn't explain the blind tests we did. It was easy to pick out the treated disc by ear. (Well a disc or two didn't sound that different to me, but most had a huge difference.) -Ted :: .......
378: Tweakers' Asylum, I agree: old comments: (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-28, 10:34:19 (209.183.55.42)
Howdy As I stated on MikeL's thread I was very skeptical myself and wasn't prepared for the difference. Andrew brought his drier over to my house and it made big differences there too on multiple tran .......
379: Whiner's Woad, RE: Boy, you must be angling for a new record :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-26, 11:02:15 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy There are other explanations :) -Ted .......
380: General Asylum, Here's a long one from way back when too (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-25, 21:07:54 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/whine/messages/1281.html It had 504 responses, but it was before the readout on views so I don't know if its what the OP was talking about or not. -Ted ::: TO .......
381: Whiner's Woad, Boy, you must be angling for a new record :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-24, 10:01:33 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I think you've set the Asylum all time record for responding to your own posts :) I'm glad you are enjoying your quest. (That is listening I presume, not posting :) -Ted .......
382: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Perhaps (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-23, 17:13:46 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy A long time ago I had one of the first Sony portable CD players. It was a nightmare, it used a worm drive for the course read head seek and a piezoelectric crystal for the fine seek. As it turns .......
383: Hi-Rez Highway, Perhaps (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-23, 16:15:54 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy It's quite believable that as the transport is failing that it has to work harder. Perhaps to retry and (try to) correct more errors, perhaps just to seek, but either could cause problems down s .......
384: Cable Asylum, RE: You're completely wrong.... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-23, 13:07:28 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I took it as a complement, but I could be wrong :) -Ted .......
385: Cable Asylum, RE: Cable Suggestions? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-22, 18:26:54 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Reporting your experience here on the cables asylum is fine, just don't extrapolate your experience to others :) (For example if your post http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/tweaks/messages/15/156 .......
386: General Asylum, Sorry about the worms, but they like it here :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-21, 23:28:02 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy We bought this house when we got married about 3 years ago. It had been burned and rebuilt with new electrical, new plumbing, new roof, 40% new framing, etc. We liked the idea of getting a house .......
387: Hi-Rez Highway, Did you read mine? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-21, 23:16:58 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I'm sure it'll take a little for PFO (or any other magazine) to do their review... Here's mine in case you missed it: http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/hirez/messages/24/246229.html -Ted ::: TO .......
388: Cable Asylum, RE: Cable Suggestions? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-21, 22:25:15 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy It depends a lot on the cables, the components, your power situation, etc. I used to be a skeptic, but ironically I often hear more differences with power cords than interconnects or speaker wir .......
389: General Asylum, Except for some of us :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-21, 19:14:24 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I don't have two conductors back to the power plant let alone three... Oops, you were careful and talked about just back to the utility pole transformer, yep we have three wires back to it... I .......
390: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Which capability should I go DSD or Up-sampling (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-21, 12:28:02 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy And for what it's worth I'd say exactly the same thing with my experiences auditioning the Esoteric equipment that allows you to choose either converting DSD or PCM to a PCM based DAC or to DSD .......
391: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Analog direct button on the Sony DVP-9000 (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-18, 01:45:52 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy (Assuming you are talking about the DVP-S9000ES) I don't believe so, but since the IR receiver and the switch panel with the Audio Direct button both go directly to the same control chip I can't .......
392: General Asylum, RE: Any good ways to target the NW audio community? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-17, 12:17:37 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy The Pacific Northwest Audio Society (Seattle area) might be one such: http://audiosociety.org/ You can check the contacts page and perhaps Joe (the newsletter editor) might be a reasonable pers .......
393: Hi-Rez Highway, Hopefully Kal (or others) will chip in, but (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-16, 19:08:14 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I admit to being out of the picture as far as recent MC SACD players, but (probably except for price) the EMM Labs DAC6 w/ CDSD fit the bill. Since some people are moving from either the older D .......
394: Digital Drive, That's for sure... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-16, 01:07:07 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I liked the "Original waves of a 16-bit AIFF sample of a store bought CD extracted at 128-times oversampling" then the "Same waves after SA3 re-mastering"... Also on one page they brag that they .......
395: Whiner's Woad, RE: A wonderful opamp! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-13, 20:24:43 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Well some of us have read most of your posts, but I doubt that most have. Personally I'm avoiding opamps like the plague :) -Ted .......
396: Digital Drive, Not necessarily (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-13, 20:13:32 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Redbook is no more bright than vinyl, etc. It is true that there are plenty of systems where noise from cheap redbook players (or the players themselves) cause the system to sound bright, but th .......
397: Cable Asylum, RE: Carbon? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-11, 18:46:38 (209.183.55.42)
Howdy Some carbon shields may work (I don't know), but some certainly take the dynamics out of the music. -Ted .......
398: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Very thoughful comments (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-11, 10:49:24 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy That's one of the reasons I like the Audio Asylum. You get to know various posters, their taste and their systems. If you are here long enough you also get to see people's paths as these change. .......
399: Cable Asylum, Certain banned people like to re-register and stir the pot... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-10, 16:39:44 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy The moderators try to nuke their posts before too many people take time to answer them, but sometimes it's not obvious that a given post is from a past pest. -Ted .......
400: Whiner's Woad, RE: I find it more interesting when a post is taken back to the top with new. . (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-09, 14:31:24 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Well people can sort the posts by last update if they want. It's the only way I read this board. -Ted .......
401: General Asylum, RE: My new listening room (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-09, 14:29:21 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Your room is surely a lot more comfortable for guests than mine :) Congratulations and enjoy! -Ted .......
402: Tweakers' Asylum, Cool, thanks [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-06, 12:14:42 (71.164.0.82)
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403: General Asylum, RE: But it can't go on "as is" without revealing IPs (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-04, 21:38:23 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Be careful there, AOL gives out a new IP address every time you log in. There is a heck of a lot of IP address sharing with them... Some other's have ISP's that hardly every change their user's .......
404: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: (strong)REVIEW: Playback Designs MPS-5 SACD Player(/strong) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-04, 11:04:07 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I'm pretty sure the answer is no. The additional licensing fees are non-trivial for a small concern. (Let alone the more obvious that a stereo only DVD-A player must even be a smaller market tha .......
405: Cable Asylum, RE: Spendor's Philip Swift on biwiring (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-02, 22:33:06 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I never intended to imply that it's always a bad idea. (Just as it's not always a good idea.) I was just pointing out (contrary to the implication of the post I responded to) that some speaker m .......
406: Cable Asylum, RE: Speaker A/B selector dilemma (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-02, 11:02:24 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Many Mid-fi stores have switches like you want to demo speakers. In our local area I'd go to Magnolia and simply ask the sales fellows what they use and see if it's available for a reasonable pr .......
407: Cable Asylum, RE: Spendor's Philip Swift on biwiring (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-02, 09:46:03 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy There's another explanation: they were bowing to marketing pressure and decided that the extra cost of providing for bi-wiring was less than the lost revenue by not providing for it. Precious fe .......
408: Cable Asylum, RE: Properly-built shielded cables for audio (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-02, 09:36:23 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Ah.. Well I'd like your personal assessment here sometime, but I know that's impractical. Still presuming I'm still subject to some degree of RFI, my experience is clear that any shielding whats .......
409: Cable Asylum, RE: Are shielded cables declasse? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-01, 23:36:59 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Playing the devil's advocate: You said "if you can hear an ic's difference in one position in the system ie between pre and power there seems to me absolutly no reason why it could not be heard .......
410: Cable Asylum, :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-01, 22:47:22 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy That's what I thought you meant. And to beat a dead horse I disagree at least in the context of some systems. In fact I really don't think you can improve my system with any kind of cable shield .......
411: Hi-Rez Highway, Thanks. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-01, 21:41:21 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Crap, I thought I edited that post: Hopefully you can read beyond the awkward sentences and the misspelt and missing words... If I reedit it every time I see another typo I'll probably start int .......
412: Tweakers' Asylum, To alert moderators use the "Alert Moderator" link :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-01, 21:24:41 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy When your post was on the General asylum you got what one might expect from the people who frequent the general asylum: a little less tweaky, a little more humor, perhaps more snarky people. In .......
413: Cable Asylum, RE: The distinction is between RF noise and audio band noise. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-01, 20:14:00 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Perhaps I misunderstood you post. I saw: "To extract every bit of detail (pun intended) from a well-recorded Redbook CD, you need cables that are both shielded and damped." which seemed pretty u .......
414: Hi-Rez Highway, Long addendum: my impressions of a very enjoyable visit to Mike's (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-01, 19:34:52 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I’ve known Jonathan Tinn almost as long as I’ve known Mike (i.e. since about SACD’s start) I met Andreas Koch in another life years ago and talk to the phone with him now and then (especially re .......
415: Hi-Rez Highway, Realism and balance? I think you are missing something in your analysis (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-06-01, 00:29:53 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Have you looked at the rest of Mike's equipment prices? There is a degree of realism and balance there (especially considering the size of his vinyl, CD and SACD collections and I'm sure his tap .......
416: Cable Asylum, Hmmm, since you implicitly called my system a lower resolution system :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-31, 13:19:09 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Pardon my ramble, but bear with me: I have way too much gain in my system in that I can turn it up about 30dB louder than too loud, however this allows me to hear the noise earlier in my system .......
417: Cable Asylum, RE: Are shielded cables declasse? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-31, 10:24:49 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Most people would look at my system and think it was a prime setup for shielded cables. In my sound room (let alone the rest of the house) I have Tivos, a rack of CD jukeboxes, video jukeboxes, .......
418: Tweakers' Asylum, Try this link... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-30, 01:32:40 (71.164.0.82)
[A period was missing in your link.] .......
419: Digital Drive, Hi-Rez (or the AudioBahn) is a better place for questions like these (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-30, 01:21:04 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Here are a few posts that came up on the Hi-Rez asylum when I did a search, (be sure to read the responses too): http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/hirez/messages/15/155820.html http://www.audi .......
420: General Asylum, Tell me what tweaks Mike has and hasn't tried... [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-28, 13:56:21 (71.164.0.82)
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421: General Asylum, You show your ignorance here. [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-26, 17:16:40 (72.174.192.185)
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422: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: Moniker change doesn't show on posts (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-26, 17:13:43 (72.174.192.185)
Howdy If no one has responded you may delete your own posts for the first day. After that you can use the comment button and ask a moderator to delete the post for you. -Ted .......
423: Cable Asylum, ? [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-24, 09:35:16 (209.183.34.44)
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424: General Asylum, Perhaps, perhaps not. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-21, 17:50:59 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I certainly don't know the mechanism involved, but if the whole point is to have a uniform charge, it doesn't really matter if it's positive, negative or zero. (Tho personally I'd prefer zero in .......
425: Cable Asylum, Playing the devil's advocate: (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-21, 17:44:34 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy If equipment drew current in a perfect sine wave at 60Hz you'd be right. You'd get the most efficient power transfer with a pure sine wave input. On the other hand very little equipment has a pe .......
426: Cable Asylum, There are rules for the manufacturer to follow. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-20, 22:32:29 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy In particular they are precluded from volunteering info, unless to correct a mis-statement or to answer a direct question. On the other hand you are free to ask a manufacturer a direct question .......
427: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Administrivia: Stop posting with multiple monikers (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-20, 11:27:36 (71.164.0.82)
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428: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Administrivia: Stop posting with multiple monikers and stop pretending that you aren't Teresonic... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-20, 11:25:36 (71.164.0.82)
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429: Speaker Asylum, Administrivia: Stop posting with multiple monikers and stop pretending that you aren't Teresonic... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-20, 11:14:02 (71.164.0.82)
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430: Tweakers' Asylum, Cool, thanks [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-19, 15:39:16 (71.164.0.82)
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431: Speaker Asylum, Hmm, what's your association with Teresonic? [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-19, 11:50:34 (71.164.0.82)
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432: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Hmm, what's your association with Teresonic? [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-19, 11:49:42 (71.164.0.82)
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433: Cable Asylum, RE: Balanced I/C Recommendations (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-19, 11:44:42 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Hmm, balanced cables do allow a lower noise floor than unbalanced (with proper drivers and receivers) but I'm not sure that translates to negating the "sound of the wire". I could hear differenc .......
434: DVD-Audiobahn, Sure. [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-19, 09:49:33 (71.164.0.82)
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435: DVD-Audiobahn, Hey, I'm just trying to help (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-19, 09:46:50 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I find your posts quite ambiguous and I'm sorry if I don't interpret them the way you intend. I'm not a regular MAC user so I won't recommend any particular torrent client. I did a google search .......
436: DVD-Audiobahn, The link was the .torrent file (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-19, 09:24:56 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy a .torrent file is (in essence) the instructions on how to download the real files. It's what you want BUT you need to have installed a torrent client first and if downloading the .torrent file .......
437: DVD-Audiobahn, Links aren't OS specific... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-18, 22:58:06 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Links aren't OS specific... I didn't understand from your first post that you already had a link that you had had for days. If you only had it for a day or so I know from experience you can stil .......
438: DVD-Audiobahn, RE: Was anyone with MAC OS-X 10.5.2 "Leopard" able to download the 24/96 high rez? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-18, 18:19:12 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Just get another torrent file by clicking on the email link again. If you don't have to reenter your token (or at least hit enter) perhaps your browser has cached the old page. I used the link i .......
439: DVD-Audiobahn, Did you read this (or that) thread? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-18, 18:05:34 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Here DUI asked the same thing... There the second post has a link to the torrent. It worked for me. -Ted .......
440: General Asylum, :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-18, 13:40:20 (71.164.0.82)
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441: General Asylum, I should have been more specific (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-18, 11:23:12 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy To me there is a fundamental difference between tweaks that people have a desire to optimize (e.g. moving the resonator around their systems) and tweaks that cause you to just want to listen to .......
442: General Asylum, RE: Have either of you (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-17, 22:42:07 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Nope, and no-ones descriptions of them come anywhere near what I heard from this tweak. -Ted .......
443: General Asylum, I'm one of the people Mike had over (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-17, 22:22:58 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I was quite skeptical of the tweak but it's always great to visit Mike's place... After a while you run out of adjectives to describe such tweaks, the descriptions all sound the same but for me .......
444: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Toslink chassis mount receptacle.... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-17, 12:16:12 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I'm sure you can find what you want at the usual places. I did a search at Mouser ( http://www.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?Ntt=*toslink* ) and got some probable hits, but I don't know if you j .......
445: Digital Drive, RE: AC regenerator use with a CD player (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-14, 09:35:27 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy You may need to ask the manufacturer, but Some AC regenerators don't have a Sine wave shaped output: they have, say, a stepped approximation of a sine or a triangle, etc. This is common with com .......
446: Amp/Preamp Asylum, OK folks it's over as far as the Asylum is concerned (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-12, 18:32:11 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I'll not repeat my platitudes buried deeper in the thread. I'll not editorialize. I will however delete (or move to WW, etc.) posts that attempt to stir the pot further. Both parties have had ti .......
447: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Aberdeen Components' response (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-12, 18:22:22 (71.164.0.82)
I appreciate the efforts of Ted in trying to make this happen. Unfortunately due to Gerry's sick behavior, there is no way I am going to risk $4k. TacT delivered Gerry's Amp overnight next Biz day to .......
448: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Administrivia: I asked folks to not pile on... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-12, 14:42:47 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy You've been warned. If people keep trying to stir the pot more posts will go away including these. Note that I'm talking about both sides. -Ted .......
449: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Gerry has been gracious to me (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-12, 14:21:34 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I suppose I wasn't clear. I had good phone conversations both with Anthony and with Gerry. They both expressed their relative issues and I was hoping this might work. I've also been in email con .......
450: DVD-Audiobahn, RE: NIN: Another free high res album (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-12, 11:15:23 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy There was a direct link to the .torrent file in the message referred to. I successfully used it. -Ted .......
451: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Or is it "Anthony offered to mod the amp but never sent it"? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-12, 10:36:58 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy How do we know exactly which it is? (Or which combination of both.) As I said there's plenty of weirdness to go around. I'd hoped Anthony's offer would work, but there apparently is a complete l .......
452: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Well, we have our answer. A REQUEST FOR ALL (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-12, 07:17:29 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Gerry has had enough (and I'm sure Anthony has as well.) It seems that Gerry and Anthony aren't going to swap amps (at least not thru me at this time.) I've locked most of the arms of this threa .......
453: Amp/Preamp Asylum, New developments (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-11, 20:46:16 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Anthony called me up on the phone and we had a good conversation. He proposes that I act like an escrow between him and Gerry receiving the amps from each before shipping them on. He also stated .......
454: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: If I can explain in a bit more detail the problem which GL referred you to ... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-11, 16:26:38 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy FWIW I also got the exact feeling you describe when I borrowed some Valhalla interconnects for my system :) Having worked at a DSP based hearing aid company and having done extended range tests .......
455: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Notes (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-11, 08:39:37 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Just so it would be clear, I edited out Gerry's address but otherwise the text is a copy/paste from the original post from Aberdeen Components. Also just to be clear that was the last thing you' .......
456: Amp/Preamp Asylum, FWIW here's the body of the original post in question (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-11, 08:34:56 (71.164.0.82)
Sounds good Anthony, ]Gerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony Padilla To: 'Gerry Geisler' Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:42 PM Subject: WE GOT THE AMP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .......
457: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Well (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-11, 08:22:15 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy We'd all like to have a clearer picture of what is going on, but also we'd like to have it from TacT not people who claim no relationship with TacT :) Yep, there were deletions involved. When An .......
458: Amp/Preamp Asylum, "Why not just let Padilla on the site?" (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-11, 00:00:48 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy When an inmate has more than, say, 50% of their posts deleted for cause we just get tired of following them around. As of my post Aberdeen Components has 38 undeleted posts and 74 deleted posts .......
459: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Cool, just making sure :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-10, 16:19:27 (71.164.0.82)
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460: Amp/Preamp Asylum, No offence meant.... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-10, 15:35:30 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy No offence meant. I simply was trying to point out that merely asking them for more info would probably result in a torrent of vile email and personal threats... -Ted .......
461: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Administrivia: Aberdeen Components has been banned (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-10, 13:04:08 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy If you want his side of the story feel free to email him, but I wouldn't recommend it since he sends unsavory email back and is threatening to go to my employer for asking him to follow the rule .......
462: Tech Square, Too much capacitance? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-09, 15:43:40 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy You might try propheads (if you haven’t already) or directly email inmate jneutron ( http://cgi.audioasylum.com/cgi/mail.mpl?user_ID=15149 ). He’s great with the math. My gut guess is that you a .......
463: General Asylum, RE: Who's Postings do you Hold in "VERY", High Reguard (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-08, 11:44:31 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I wouldn't be here if there weren't a significant number of people worth reading... When I first bought a SACD player I looked around on the net for more info and found (at the time) that the As .......
464: General Asylum, RE: newbie questions - transformer (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-05, 19:51:02 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Unless I'm mistaken using a Jensen PB-2RX with a 1:2 is what you want: you want to step up the voltage as much as possible (in this case a factor of two and you'll loose a little drive, but sinc .......
465: General Asylum, RE: What goeth on? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-04, 03:26:02 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Perhaps they are different views and/or sorted differently (I always use the sort by last update and only show me threads with posts I haven't seen view :) The view settings are in cookies that .......
466: Hi-Rez Highway, Exactly (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-05-02, 13:49:05 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy He shows up and asks a "random" question, usually on General but more and more around the asylum. Sometimes he engages the respondents, but usually just asks a question and disappears. Since he .......
467: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: I agree that synergy *is* important and not always explainable. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-28, 15:11:31 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Robert I admit up front that I haven't read this subthread all that carefully, but perhaps this is relevant: The high quality paths in my system are all balanced: my DAC is balanced at the sourc .......
468: Digital Drive, So RUR is "hackery"? Yes, THEIR RUR is hackery (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-28, 13:39:17 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy It's trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. I'm not saying that reading a CD over and over to get the right bits is wrong: I'm saying that their explanations of their process and their ra .......
469: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: For video, hmmm.... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-28, 00:19:11 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy The Monster HTS-5100 is a middle of the line AV filter: http://www.monstercable.com/productdisplay.asp?pin=3260 I suspect the APS 1050 helps video too, but I already have a pretty clean syste .......
470: Digital Drive, As you alluded to in your earlier post (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-27, 21:42:54 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I think it's symptomatic of the company as a whole. They don't get help when they are in over their heads. Based on their own words I have 0 confidence in their software or digital design skills .......
471: Digital Drive, Well, when you click on "The Complete Technical Analysis Report" link... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-27, 21:36:42 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I was going to quote exactly their "not ready yet/coming soon" message which is for the more technically oriented among us but the site is just giving me a blank screen on the entry page so it's .......
472: Tweakers' Asylum, For video, hmmm.... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-27, 21:16:37 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy FWIW I have the Pioneer PureVision PRO-1140HD (50" HD Plasma) and with my SimAudio W-10s already plugged into the APS 1050 and going at a pretty good clip (Shaggy) I plugged in the Pioneer too a .......
473: Cable Asylum, Nor from what I remember or see... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-23, 22:38:05 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I don't know what you are referring to. If I had edited my post you would see the "Edits: 04/23/08" or whatever in it like I do in yours, you'd be able to click on that link and see my original .......
474: Cable Asylum, Hmm, the first time he asked I invited him over to visit (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-23, 17:11:46 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Was I rude then? He never responded and asked again with a different moniker... Probably to stir the pot, but who knows. Anyway I'll try to be a little more careful how I word "RTFM" the next ti .......
475: Cable Asylum, Do a search or go listen for yourself. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-21, 17:48:37 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Also see my response to your similar post yesterday ( http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/cables/messages/13/135889.html ) i.e. "I see you are in the Pacific NW: Come visit and we can listen to som .......
476: General Asylum, RE: did some cleaning, got a better shot (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-20, 16:11:13 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Definitely a better picture. I hope the NAD works well for you. Want to do some more cleaning and take some more shots? You're always welcome to visit :) -Ted .......
477: Cable Asylum, I see you are in the Pacific NW (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-20, 12:33:30 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Come visit and we can listen to some different wires if you want :) -Ted .......
478: Cable Asylum, RE: In Wall Cables (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-18, 22:21:07 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Some people are a little paranoid about PVC too close to their cables but obviously I'm not :) -Ted .......
479: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: NAD M5 "issue" some thoughts on this - warm up upon first use??? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-18, 19:55:08 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Yep, if it was cold (e.g. you just brought it in from the car and it's anything there like here) when you first applied power you might have had some condensation. Since it's just about freezing .......
480: Cable Asylum, Surprise of the day: Tao Analogue Interconnect (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-18, 15:47:53 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy You all know I have way too much "stuff" in my system ( System description , Image gallery ) Recently I have more: I've been fiddling around a little with a soldering iron and have been trying o .......
481: General Asylum, Administrivia: Stop using multiple monikers. [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-18, 13:22:08 (71.164.0.82)
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482: General Asylum, RE: The Plot Thickens! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-17, 20:44:01 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy As I suspected, hence my reluctance to suggest it :) Any chance you have some other utility messing with your cookies or history files? -Ted .......
483: Tweakers' Asylum, Check out Pure Power APS if you haven't already (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-17, 20:40:13 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy It works as advertised. If you are drawing a lot of current depending on your situation you may well be able to draw gobs of current for a little straight from the wall (especially with, say, 10 .......
484: General Asylum, RE: The Plot Thickens! (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-17, 17:17:27 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Hate to ask, but have you rebooted recently? I get symptoms similar to yours about every 5 or 6 months and a reboot fixes them... In my case some Norton Internet Security DLL wedges with an IE i .......
485: General Asylum, Look for the "Eat Me" link (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-16, 10:37:12 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Next to the "Remember my Moniker & Password" check box you'll find the " Eat Me " link. -Ted .......
486: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: I usually meticulously avoid using the word "all"....... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-16, 10:33:10 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I agree and will go a little further: some of my friends who love vinyl explicitly don't go to live performances... -Ted .......
487: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: mechanical problems (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-16, 10:28:25 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Well they explicitly made SACDs as a DVD but with PWM for security. I.e. essentially the same physical parameters. DVD drives were already built to read CDs and to deal with multiple layers so i .......
488: Digital Drive, RE: From personal experience, what CDP you've owned has NEVER had a mechanical or software (read) failure? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-15, 20:05:56 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Except for known bad discs: An '88 Technics "discman" style player: it's SLA battery died long ago but it still worked the last time I tried. SACD players: Denon DVD-3930CI (a year) Sony SCD-C55 .......
489: Hi-Rez Highway, I sort of expected problems when I bought one :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-15, 19:43:27 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I hope it works out for you. I sure think they are worth repairing. I bought one on eBay but had second thoughts immediately after I pulled the trigger. Sure enough the "Original box" had holes .......
490: Critic's Corner, "I ordered a power trip" :) (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-14, 11:58:15 (71.164.0.82)
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491: Critic's Corner, I'm not fond of it either, but sometimes Karma... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-14, 11:30:44 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Perhaps you'll note that my first post on this thread was to chastise someone for piling on? -Ted .......
492: Critic's Corner, Are you saying he makes no money from anyone? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-14, 11:13:49 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I take a dim view of people that make money from other people's work. If he took no advertising, didn't get into other people's faces about things he himself does and wasn't such self promoter I .......
493: General Asylum, RE: Arc fault interrupters have any affect on audio? (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-14, 10:11:09 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Yipes they were horrible for me, not only that: they tripped way too often when I had workers using power tools (on different circuits!) outside my house or using the vacuum cleaner plugged into .......
494: Tweakers' Asylum, No :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-14, 09:33:12 (71.164.0.82)
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495: Critic's Corner, RE: Sleaze as part of the corporate culture... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-14, 09:28:18 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I'm a literal minded cuss :) -Ted .......
496: Critic's Corner, Perhaps this will help; (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-13, 19:31:58 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Note the position of the street sign over the buildings. Note the right building occluding the dome on the cathedral... Heck zoom in a little below the street light and look at the traffic. C .......
497: Critic's Corner, Yep, I know and agree but it's all to easy to say things too quickly around here as we all know all too well.. (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-13, 18:59:17 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy I trust the motives of most inmates here implicitly and I know that honest mistakes are made. Some others make creative 'mistakes' all too often. I think most of us know the difference. It's sti .......
498: Critic's Corner, RE: Sleaze as part of the corporate culture... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-13, 18:28:29 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Well, the two cathedral in the snow pictures are taken from similar locations, but not the same. I'm not sure how two people taking similar pictures figures into this whole thing. There are othe .......
499: Critic's Corner, RE: i do notice one thing around here, ted... (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-13, 16:02:41 (71.164.0.82)
Howdy Well that's one reason I stopped reading Prop Heads and Iso (and never go Outside.) I like the other fora I visit (and moderate), but some places here sure take the fun out of it for me :) -Ted .......
500: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Boy I was composing a rant before I read your post... Don't scare me like that :) [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Ted Smith on 2008-04-13, 15:50:33 (71.164.0.82)
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