AAC for ipods ? anyone ?
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From: D.M. Procida on 12 Jan 2010 08:33 Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > pristine vinyl, Denon direct drive turntable, Ortofon moving coil > cartridge, an outrageously expensive arm, the same Yamaha Class A/B amp I > mentioned yesterday and a pair of ears that were 27 years younger than > they are today. > > I watched all that expensive kit How much did you have to pay for the ears? Daniele
From: whisky-dave on 12 Jan 2010 08:38 "Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote in message news:1jc6n3w.9zakscrq1q9pN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid... > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > >> Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: >> >> > I have been looking at a change to AAC for quality purposes... >> > >> > Anyone already moved over to AAC for use on their iPod or in the home >> > or >> > car ? What do you think ? >> >> The de-facto standard for lossless audio is .flac > > What does that mean, exactly? I'll tell you what you mean. > > What you really means is this: it's the only free lossless audio file > format that's had any significant takeup. But the available software > support is very poor on Macs at least. I use audacity for listening to FLAC then I use audacity LAME plugin to export to MP3 if I need to. I've noticed that FLAC seems to be more 'standard' form of lossless than Quicktimes lossless, although a friends band recodring studio seems to prefer sending/receiving wav files for audio as they don;t like FLAC (on a PC)for some reason.
From: Elliott Roper on 12 Jan 2010 08:43 In article <pPudnUOOtZ-Zg9HWnZ2dnUVZ8kti4p2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > Elliott Roper wrote: > Are you going to add .flac into the mix? Nah. I see no reason not to believe it really is lossless. Besides ..flac is a royal pain in the bum on OS X. The only tools that play it directly that I have are of dubious provenance, so all it would prove is that the tool might be ok or that I'm bullshitting again. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: Phil Taylor on 12 Jan 2010 09:02 In article <1jc7gh9.yjh4tqxaxmy7N%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>, D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > Distortion is anything that makes the output different - except in > volume - from the input. Yes. > > Clipping will produce non-harmonic distortion, which is generally > extremely unpleasant to listen to. Non-harmonic distortion is unrelated > to the signal. Clipping certainly does produce harmonic distortion. Specifically, it adds odd-numbered harmonics to the signal and subtracts some of the even numbered ones. The higher numbered odd harmonics (particularly the 7th, 11th and 13th) are "false harmonics", i.e. they are out of tune with the fundamental, which is very undesirable. It also produces intermodulation distortion (if the signal contains more than one frequency) which is equally horrid (think of a Dalek's voice). Phil Taylor
From: Elliott Roper on 12 Jan 2010 09:38
In article <1jc7kao.lw821jg6uohvN%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>, D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > > > pristine vinyl, Denon direct drive turntable, Ortofon moving coil > > cartridge, an outrageously expensive arm, the same Yamaha Class A/B amp I > > mentioned yesterday and a pair of ears that were 27 years younger than > > they are today. > > > > I watched all that expensive kit > > How much did you have to pay for the ears? They were integral with the OEM head assembly. I shudder to think how expensive the downgrade has been to current standards. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |