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post #91 of 242
12/4/06 at 5:53pm
thanks for hosting. i'm going to try this out when i get home after work on my aria and hd595's.
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post #92 of 242
12/4/06 at 6:22pm
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Originally Posted by cvince View Post
doesn't itunes resample audio from all inputs anyways?

itunes basically kills the benefits of using ALAC
only in windodws - in OSX it is bit-perfect
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post #93 of 242
12/4/06 at 6:55pm
Thanks guys! I'm downloading with my craptastic DSL. ~ 40-50kb/s from the pointstone link that was posted. I can't wait till its done (~2hrs ) so i can hear it ony my foobar > emu1212m > toslink > zhaolu d2c> HD555. I just got my zhaulo d2 today so i'm a bit excited (a little too excited, sorry). Thanks again!
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post #94 of 242
12/4/06 at 7:18pm
waiting...for about 45 mins more. I wonder if this will make any difference on my eH150's? lol. craptastic.
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post #95 of 242
12/4/06 at 9:45pm
Wow! This CD is insane!! Thats all i can say about it. My face was literally like this =O during the whole first track.
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post #96 of 242
12/5/06 at 4:20am
WOW, and thank you! This is unbelievable! The waves and the fireworks are unreal!... I can't wait until I can crank this up in the morning, blumming open headphones!
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post #97 of 242
12/5/06 at 5:19am
Does anybody know where to get more of the stuff that Track 1 comes from? I could listen to this kind of stuff all day when its recorded this well. Its amazing. Anybody know what cd it might have come from or anything like that? A whole cd of it would be great.
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post #98 of 242
12/5/06 at 8:02am
Isn't it amazing the results you can get when a recording is designed for headphones!

Some awesome stuff here, but what are the 'noises' on track 5 (the beethoven? piano track) Is that noise from the piano, or the pianist? strange

Track one is amazingly recorded, if not my sort of thing. The binaural ambient recordings (the water! the fireworks) are breathtaking.

Heard through my laptop and my 565 this is great, I really need to burn the CD and get it through my home system!

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to share this!
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post #99 of 242
12/5/06 at 8:30am
That's the guy breathing
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post #100 of 242
12/5/06 at 8:44am
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Originally Posted by jdimitri View Post
That's the guy breathing
Yeah, thought so. You don't often hear that on a recording (not that I listen to much Piano, other than my other half playing)
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post #101 of 242
12/5/06 at 7:34pm
^ +1. You can even hear the audience coughing and moving.
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post #102 of 242
12/5/06 at 7:38pm
Yeah, I was totally not expecting the clarinet to sound like that. I was expecting some exquisite quality, but to have it sound like its coming from across my room, thats just nuts. And the ambient noise is so sweet
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post #103 of 242
12/15/06 at 2:24am
Oh my god the nature sounds were surreal. The 20th track was breath-taking.
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post #104 of 242
12/15/06 at 2:47am
Any news on that stax cd?
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post #105 of 242
12/15/06 at 9:53am
artifacts with lossless high compression and not with lossless low compression?
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