Recent content by BillR

It all seems a bit pushy even for MS. Collusion with the silicone folk? Let the lawsuits begin....

What ever floats your boat I guess...:rolleyes:

There was a time when CES was all about Audio...Then came Video. Now it's...Well it's not what it used to be, it needs to die and go away.:(

While many consider the Nyquist calculations to be the end all be all of compression the methodology is not without it's flaws...Not saying it's all bad but it does assume a lot. Take a few moments and read this little bit of info, it explains a lot and also explains where some of the...

It's funny, the term "Audiophile" gets tossed around a lot and for as long as I was in the business I never did figure it out. That said I do know what a Hammond B-3 organ sounds like in person and I know what a Steinway Grand piano sounds like in person and I'd like my home system to...

I might as well toss this in the mix as part of the stuff you have never heard of: Saskia Reference II Turntable. This product is designed and built by a now no longer active forum member and even at that price he can't keep up with demand all 253 pounds of it. Most are sold overseas where...

You are more then welcome to read the opinions of Gene DellaSalla and Floyd Toole but can you sit down with them and actually do the listening?...I don't think so. The difference is I allowed people to make buying decisions based on what they could hear and of course budget. Why do you...

The Telarc digital master converted to vinyl was the only album to not only cause the stylus to jump out of the groove it actually broke a few as well. A totally harsh recording but it had unbelievable dynamics for the time but the rest of the sound was a bit grungy. Stan Ricker (Now passed...

No need. Only one of us learned from guys like Harmon, David Hafler, Bob Carver, Henry Kloss, John Curl, Mark Levinson etc. and I'm pretty sure it wasn't you. Only one of us had their own audio (and later audio/video) stores and actually sold the gear and got training from the guys who knew...

Well, not all DACs, not the good ones anyway. Why do you think there has been a huge resurgence in Vinyl recordings? Vinyl recordings have the ability to record up to and over 80khz...Some people want to hear all the music. Sidney Harman was the first guy to develop the high current AMP but...

Yes, there are limits to what the ear can hear but you are forgetting that almost all musical instruments and the rooms or studios they are played in are subject to harmonics. Yes, those harmonics go way beyond the ear's limits but being harmonics they bounce around and return as artifacts that...

Pretty close for sure, usually the highs are the first to go during compression. Now go back and listen to the bass lines, I think you will find a lot of missing bass as well. Next, on a good recording of course, listen to the vocals, lotta lost info from the vocals. That said a lot...

You do realize, if you know what to listen for instrument wise, repeating the test just makes it easier? After 3 tries it just got boring, but I hit it all three times 1/4 way through each piece. Compressed, the music sounds like you're listening through a curtain, many of the details are...

Yup, I agree: Never take advice from a guy worth 22.2 billion with more coming in every day, a good bit of it still from MS. Clearly there are people right here on this forum much brighter than Ballmer:rolleyes:

Why can't you import your favorites into Edge? Yes, it has it issues but that's not one of them.