Quote: Originally Posted by JahJahBinks A long time ago a professor told us in class that 30-40% space on a CD is used for parity checks and ECC, to ensure data integrity. Unfortunatly (I believe) they decided to use some of this space for additional music! Yes, I remember that...

Are you looking for a kind of "quadrophonic sound" by running both headphones and speakers at the same time? I guess not If I'm correct, you probably want system sounds out of your speakers and audio through your E5c's. The easiest way of doing this would be to set your default...

Quote: Originally Posted by smuh Actually that could be very funny (or not ) I recently compressed pictures send them to my email at work and after decompressed them I noticed that everybody on the pics were much slimmer... blah That's funny..... I get exactly the opposite...

The terminology "lossless" can only mean you get back the original data after it's been encoded then decoded. Examples of lossless compression are ZIP, RAR etc. When was the last time you compressed a file (or a number of files) and got something different when you decompressed/decoded it...

My HFX is now up and running.... http://www.hifiatx.com (HiFi ATX - MCubed HFX)

I'm trying to get Coaxial output to my A/V Amp (Marantz 7300) from MCE using a newly purchased RME 9632. I've played about with the settings as per manual (12.2 DVD Playback) but no luck. Anyone have this working? If so, fancy doing a couple of screenshots of the settings? I'm using the...

Quote: Originally Posted by samuraisam or install linux (: Microsoft is up to 53 critical updates to far this year! Unfortunately, I spend just as much time patching Linux! https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3e...-security.html Well, not really - not even close .... but you...

OK, this is a long one.... Sorry about my last post. It was a bit of a late night rant without actually putting across my reasoning’s behind my statements. What did I mean… Firewalls and NAT (on your router): Note that I shall use the word “spyware” for both spyware and malaware to...

Quote: Originally Posted by rimmer Sorry for being sarcastic, but I pity your users Could you please clarify that? ... File&Printer Share are better tools ... NFS, UNIX Printing is more secure than File&Printer Share on Windows? Are you sure? So, when you mount an NFS share...

Quote: Originally Posted by blueworm Install Linux Sorry I missed this joke. Yep install Linux or another alternative with slightly less functionality, unplug your computer from the wall. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Linux administer but I would never have it at home! Linux...

Firewalls, firewalls, firewalls! Too be honest, Firewalls they are a waste of time (for home) for both viruses and spyware! Why? If someone is going to attack you, guess which port they are going to use? Yep, port 80 (your web traffic) so it will most probably be open. (If you were an...

The European's have also had a go.... http://www.mcubed-tech.com/eng/hfx.htm http://www.hifiatx.com http://www.pcgamma.com/showthread.php?t=7772 ... Motherboard, Processor and Graphics card cooling: http://www.mcubed-tech.com/eng/product_assessories.htm ... and to silence those...

Searching the forums, it looks like the RME 9632 drivers do bypass the kmixer. (btw - I'm not that familiar with the kmixer, ASIO drivers or the general Windows sound architecture). Am I right in thinking that there would be no improvement in sound by using an ASIO player over say Windows...

Thanks. I've just placed an oder for an HDSP9632 I saw a review of the RME DIGI96/8 here: http://archive.avsforum.com/avs-vb/s...hreadid=236215 There's a section in the text: "For this test we had two PC set-up as follows: Dan’s Windows XP based Audio PC with Delta1010 and LynxTWO...

Quote: Originally Posted by gshan some interesting notes I read about Creative's new technology on [H]: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=967936 I perfered the one on Digi Life! Once it's lost - it's lost forever!

Quote: Originally Posted by hungrych Optical is far better for PC use, the amount of electrical noise inside a computer just kills coax. Not strictly true, since it's "good old copper track" right up until it leaves the card. By the time it's optical, it's pretty much outside of...

I'm looking at replacing my DVD and CD Player with a HTPC I'm building. This will (hopefully) be my main source for all CD, WAV, DVD’s as well as acting as a PVR. Also, the other point is that as it’s going to be a “consumer device”, then it should be a setup and forget affair. I don’t want to...

Quote: Originally Posted by johto Toslink inferior to coax? And you say this why? Not sure why (jitter maybe), but coax is considered better quality that Optical SPDIF. I think Optical SPDIF is only rated up to 24bit 96Khz where as Coaxial supports 24bit 192Khz I've never...