Posts by Leporello

Quote: Originally Posted by Frank I  Early CD was very bad. i remember when Sony said perfect sound forever and released the first batch iof pure garbage  but now CD has evolved and is closer to vinyl than...

I would say no. Vinyl is a *copy* of the master tape with all the technical shortcomings of the format (which of course does not mean the it cannot sound subjectively...

Quote: Originally Posted by monoethylene  How can an increased sampling rate give higher frequencies?     A digital audio a system can reconstruct frequencies that are less...

Quote: Originally Posted by infinitesymphony    As other posters have commented, 16-bit has a ton of dynamic range if used properly, so what is the benefit of higher bit-rates? Dynamic accuracy. Less...

Then again: a famous blind test report from 1984; http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/bas_speaker/abx_testing2.htm   Regards,   L.     Quote: Originally Posted by jcx  this...

My first road bike ever, purchased two weeks ago: Regards, L.

Let's face it: high end audio is mostly a series of non-working solutions to non-existing problems. IMHO, there are two reasons why the HD800 (or any other top-of-the-line phone) is supposed to require stellar source and...

Quote: Originally Posted by jsplice Playback from an analog source gives you a continuous waveform (albeit somewhat distorted), unlike the chopped up and sampled waveform that is saved in digital PCM format. The more...

Quote: Originally Posted by nick_charles As I understand it if you have a 44.1Khz signal you cannot gain any more information by changing the sampling rate post-hoc, well you can but it is technically interpolated...

Quote: Originally Posted by chadbang Except when I A/B it with my Marantz, it pulls out more detail, has better air and transients. This could be a level matching issue . Regards, L.