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166  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: SPDIF Cable, longer is better! (Interesting articel) on: January 13, 2011, 08:08:07 pm
Well John, thanks!!!

The attenuator arrived today, really quick.
It's 15 dB. And now for the sound, it is totally not what I expected!
Although I started playing albums I did not hear for a long time and can not set myself to much AB-ing yet it
is clear from the start. The sound is so different that it's hard to describe what the real difference is.
For the moment it's more dynamic and loud, especially transient wake you up/ gets you excited/ grabs your attention.
Now I'm not listening to digital anymore but just electronics.
And the weird mix of Led Zep 2, reminds me of Led Zep 3 on vinyl.
No more of that strangeness of digital.
Well maybe more later.
A must have for every hiFace-owner!
167  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: SPDIF Cable, longer is better! (Interesting articel) on: January 11, 2011, 11:04:05 pm
I will!
168  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: SPDIF Cable, longer is better! (Interesting articel) on: January 11, 2011, 10:58:04 pm
Not yet, just ordered it.
Hope it will arrive this week and doesn't dissapoint me!
BTW, the VAT/BTW of 20 % has to be added, so total of € 36.......????
169  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Challenging hiend cd player/transport result on: January 11, 2011, 02:20:43 pm
Well, I hope I can make this step into the new times soon too!

Talking about photography, I've been scanning my parents 40 years old holyday colour slides lately and am very surprised at how good they look with some good scanningsoftware. Much better than was possible 40 year's ago.
Now I have a lot of respect for the Agfa and Kodak engineers that were able to make so nice looking pictures, really artistic, although not as close to reality, but a littlebit like a painting. Some Kadachrome lovers around here maybe?
170  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Challenging hiend cd player/transport result on: January 11, 2011, 01:57:47 pm
@Klinnilk,
Yeah, that's true, I miss some things from vinyl, but also from digital!
I made a digital rip of a 50's record some time ago, and playing it back on XXHE the thing I missed the most was the distortion!
With higher samplerate it was closer to the original, but that subject has been discussed before.
171  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Challenging hiend cd player/transport result on: January 11, 2011, 01:20:10 pm
@ Klinnilk,
I call this Stereotypes in Stereoland.
Distortion and resonances in speakers are a lot of times stronger than those in good vinyl recordplayers.
Nobody complaining about that?
Even on not to expensive speakers you can clearly hear the effect people here are talking about.
The funny thing is XXHE is so much better then digital replay some years ago and to a lot of people getting closer to the analogue sound.
Still I enjoy analogue better but with a mixed mood since digital has some strong points too.
At Peter's demonstration it was easy to hear that the higher sampling rates sounded closer to what I like from vinyl.
The naturalness and the true colours and timing of the sound.
In part it reminds me of the difference of analog and digital photography which is (or will be?) won by the latter..
172  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Challenging hiend cd player/transport result on: January 11, 2011, 12:13:52 pm
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I too prefer vinyl. Resolution is also higher than CD. Of course as usual this depends on the press.

Well Peter, is it not the infinite samplingrate, that's making the difference?
173  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: SPDIF Cable, longer is better! (Interesting articel) on: January 09, 2011, 03:21:50 pm
Yeah, minicircuits from UK will send an attenuator of 10 euro to the netherlands with 20 euro shipping cost.
But they are very friendly and helpfull.
174  Ultimate Audio Playback / Interesting Music / Testmaterial / Re: Why Does Some High Rez Sound So Bad? on: January 02, 2011, 01:55:21 pm
Very interesting, Pedal!

But does this mean that old recordings which have no output above 20 kHz don't need any higher samplingrate than 44 kHz?
This is not my experience/idea. If so, how to explain that?
I'm sure the 384 kHz of the NOS1 is doing more than only counteracting bad quality software of the recorders...
175  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall on: December 24, 2010, 12:31:12 am
Hey Marcin, this SP1 fell out of the sky like a christmas-star?
Where can we find this or just google?

BTW. Since you're at the front of computer-sound-experiments, would you be so kind to share your findings?
It would be nice if us NOS1-less suckers can have the best possible sound for our Christmas-songs! Wink
176  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: where to attenuate? on: December 24, 2010, 12:22:10 am
Very nice, so we can all order them!
One question, is it better to have one of 20 DB or two of 9 dB at both sides of the cable?
177  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall on: December 20, 2010, 11:38:50 pm
Pedal.
Aren't you mixing up Vista with Server 2008?
Windows Server 2008 SP2 is like Win 7 and Server 2008 SP1 like Vista.
So use of Vista SP2 is no problem.
Correct me if I'm wrong!
178  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: Phasure NOS1 DAC (1 Hour) listening Experience on: December 19, 2010, 01:33:14 am
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
 to both Peter and Gerard!
Happy Listening!

From me too!
And happy Christmas too, with a lot of happy listening!
Nice to share your experience! , but of course you have to go back to Peter and make some pictures of this immortal moment in the history of music reproduction!

Hope to be able to order this DAC too soon!

Gerard(A)
179  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: World's first NOS 24/192 filterless DAC ? on: December 13, 2010, 12:09:38 am
Well, if the SPDIF-in goes to seperate outputs then we can just use our existing DACS for that?
The A/D is not happening too then or is this a different story?

How about listening to other inputs like streaming radio/tv?
180  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: World's first NOS 24/192 filterless DAC ? on: December 12, 2010, 10:37:18 pm
Peter,

What was the intention of you to put an extra OS-output?
I think I missed something (again? Wink)
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