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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: World Cup in Brasil
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on: July 06, 2014, 10:19:36 am
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What I said over here is that Van Persie even would manage to be off side at performing his penalty.
Or in his own half...haha. I saw a guy today in a Man U jersey ??? with Van Persie across the back of it and he was arguing with his wife...he was offside too. Seriously, I did, in Australia at a theme park with my young kids...spooky coincidence...but although I suppressed the urge to go up to him and tell him to take off the shirt to make everything alright I could not suppress a chuckle to myself. Life's great. Anthony |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: New Filter request(s)
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on: July 05, 2014, 03:13:44 pm
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Okay, three things: I'm really surprised that more NOS1 owners, standard and upgraded, haven't posted 186i impressions. The sound on my system is the best ever, again.  I can't find where to download it (must be blind). I suppose I could send Peter an email. Anthony |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: World Cup in Brasil
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on: June 19, 2014, 09:47:35 am
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This time I wanted to refrain from all kind of blahblah, but I can't hold myself of adding this :
After the match, in the airport, the Australians partied and celebrated like they had won or went through. But they did not and are out now. I heard audience tell that eveybody was so proud on the performance.
Good attitude, but I gues there is truth in it as well.
This is our fourth World Cup (including one in 1974)...we are pretty much happy just to qualify. The Australian sporting way is play hard and with plenty of heart so if we do that can hold our heads high regardless of where we end up. From memory we have progressed from the group rounds only once where we narrowly lost to Italy who went on to win the whole shebang that year. Cheers, Anthony |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: World Cup in Brasil
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on: June 18, 2014, 11:30:28 pm
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Netherlands 3 Australia 2.
Not too bad a result for us Aussies, and pretty close in the end. Still a minor sport in my part of the world and I doubt the World Cup will see the back page of any newspaper over here with three other football codes to compete with and "State Of Origin" Rugby League in full swing at the moment.
I played soccer competitively for 9 years in my youth and quite enjoyed the game...I wish I was still that fit now!!
Hey Joachim, I reckon Australia did better against the Dutch than we did against Chile...what is it with Spain that can't win a game this year?? That is quite surprising!
Anthony
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Orelino / Orelo MKII Loudspeakers / Re: Active Speakers - Why ?
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on: June 09, 2014, 08:01:39 am
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Impressive and versatile as allways. At least that was one of the ideas behind the fourth amplifier in there.
Ok four amplifiers for a three way system? That might be one driving the entire system, one after the fm correction with digital eq for the bass, one after the fm eq an bp for the mid and one with fm an hp for the high frequencies? Another one of the riddles?! Regards, Coen Peter mentions bridged amps for the woofers...maybe that accounts for the fourth amplifier? |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd PC / Re: Investigating a full linear PSU for the XXHE PC and NOS1
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on: May 19, 2014, 11:20:58 am
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So this is my reasoning about the 50Hz (or 60Hz, won't matter) with of course my remark that this is all fairly new and no idiot should be looking for such low noise in the first place. As I told earlier - when the noise would be all over at -120dB to begin with, you wouldn't see 50Hz either.
Of course I still wonder (or am challenged/intrigued) what would happen when the whole AC to DC business would be at several meters distance. Just to be 100% sure it is not pickup.
Yes, this was one of the things that I thought could be important in the ATX LPS project. The design had matured to a stage where all the AC to DC stuff was to be done in an external box along with pre-regulation (in DC of course) and then inside the computer the final regulation was to occur so that the antennae effect of the longer DC wires could be reduced and so that the final regulation occurred right at the load. Anthony |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd PC / Re: XXHighEnd Eliminated ?
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on: May 12, 2014, 08:49:07 am
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I think it's probably worth noting that what Peter seems to have done is eliminate the influence of the USB interface. The NOS1 will still be heavily influenced by both platform and airborne vibrations. Maybe electrical noise via the AC mains will still play a part? If so, isolating the PC's SMPS from the NOS1's AC power supply may still be beneficial.
Mani.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHighEnd Eliminated ?
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on: May 11, 2014, 11:45:39 pm
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Peter,
As a sort of side topic, what are you considering as the future for XXHE? Is the way now clear to develop a driver for the NOS1 that includes the digital filters and upsampling so that other playback software can be used (eg. JRiver)? Maybe even make it Mac compliant (I understand the 384KHz USB limit on macs).
Your thoughts here?
Anthony
PS: I posted this earlier in the wrong topic, please excuse me moving it just now
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: Jitter
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on: May 11, 2014, 02:27:12 pm
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Peter,
This is revolutionary stuff...congratulations...these new mods make the NOS1 _IMMUNE_ to the computer.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Not only that but there are several parts of this that I am going to have to re-read to fully comprehend but I believe you just showed a mechanism by which a solid state device is susceptible to vibration. Again wow!
It's too late here now, but I will re-read this in the morning.
Super stuff!
Regards,
Anthony
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