Choosing a system
QUOTE With a system like that the big question is how good they are balanced when you raise the volume. Had a logitech that raised the bass more then the other speakers.That would have to be some sort...
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What we measure is what we hear
QUOTE (Kohlrabi @ Jan 3 2013, 01:13) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (Nessuno @ Jan 2 2013, 21:12) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (pdq @ Jan 2 2013, 20:28) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>However, a failed ABX test...
View ArticlePersonal Listening Test of Opus, Celt, AAC at 75-100kbps
QUOTE (IgorC @ Nov 25 2012, 21:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>In this moment I have some thoughts about it.Imagine we have two encoders. Both produce the same average score but one of them produces the...
View ArticleGeneral Audio Organization and Tagging
QUOTE (trainee @ Jan 1 2013, 23:44) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>1. Holiday Music: in general I want to exclude it from playback and searches except when I explicitly only want to search for it. Not sure the...
View ArticleAccurateRip 10 years old
Thanks spoon for all the hard work! It really is a great product.
View ArticleCUETools versions 1.9.5 through 2.1.4 (current)
QUOTE (Gregory S. Chudov @ Jan 5 2013, 05:35) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>You don't need to apply offset to be able to verify your ripWithout ARv2 cross-pressing verification, you still need it in the...
View ArticlePersonal Listening Test of Opus, Celt, AAC at 75-100kbps
QUOTE (jmvalin @ Jan 3 2013, 09:09) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Kamedo2, can you give 1.1-alpha a try? It includes post-exp_analysis changes that should address some issues exposed in your test. For...
View ArticleBatch m3u playlist creation for all folders
I had been looking for an automated way to create folder based playlists for over 4 years. Today I got lucky and came across this thread. The script kindly shared by masterofimages worked beautifully...
View ArticleHelix vs. Lame
I think I've found the reason for the mentioned poor high frequency handling, at least in some cases. It seems to be simply a bug that content at the right beginning of a file is not encoded properly....
View ArticleHearing voices in white noise
Happens to me, too. Sounds like someone has a TV talk show on somewhere in the house, but there was never any break. I used to have a noisy PC, and was hearing those voices in the fan noise. Turning...
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New lossless codec comparison (Jan '13)
Hi all,For the last few weeks I've been busy writing a new lossless audio codec comparison, after lots of talk about it here and here.The full test report can be found here (PDF), the raw data and...
View ArticleCassettes - Dobly B, C, MPX or none ?
QUOTE (ktf @ Jan 5 2013, 17:31) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Dolby B was so common that it was default on most players and could not be turned off...No deck which used the word or insignia "Dolby B", ever...
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Bit-perfect AAC/MP3/etc decoding?
Heh, I’m glad it’s not just me. Although I welcome higher precision, I still take issue with descriptions like these:QUOTE ( http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/FAQ.html )Why does Apollo sound so...
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A handy comprehensive set of command-line instructions for EAC 1.0.3
Hi to all, nice thread .For FLAC command line the new standard tags are :TOTALTRACKS ---> TRACKTOTALTOTALDISCS ---> DISCTOTAL-8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%"...
View ArticleEAC 1.0beta 3 crash upon log file creation
QUOTE (db1989 @ Jan 6 2013, 05:32) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I presume its due to the calculation utilising some newer added set of instructions (SSE, etc.) that these CPUs dont have?Yes. And Andre...
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Google Play Music now supports gapless playback
QUOTE (skamp @ Nov 13 2012, 18:20) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I confirm that Google Play Music (Android's default music player) is now indeed gapless (at least on my Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.1.1, with...
View ArticlePlease help me salvage recorded MP3 that seems to have been corrupted
... but remember to make a copy of the file first, in case you accidentally overwrite the original... Does the memo recorder itself play the file back OK? Even if the header is corrupt, the indivdual...
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