justin Posted April 5, 2014 Report Posted April 5, 2014 Meet photos Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The Monkey Posted April 5, 2014 Report Posted April 5, 2014 Had unexpected early morning little league duties, which made for one very tired monkey.
justin Posted April 5, 2014 Report Posted April 5, 2014 My photography made it look like Ari was talking to himself instead of running the auction Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Grand Enigma Posted April 6, 2014 Report Posted April 6, 2014 ^ I prefer to imagine Ari was lecturing an empty room of the benefits of riding clown bikes. Did you at least bring hi-res this time Justin?
bozebuttons Posted April 7, 2014 Author Report Posted April 7, 2014 Nice pics Justin ,Ari did a great job on the auction Sorry you guys didn't make it.
skullguise Posted April 7, 2014 Report Posted April 7, 2014 Justin, you captured the essence of the meet so well.... 1
agile_one Posted April 7, 2014 Report Posted April 7, 2014 Wish I were there, and I love all of ya's (but won't admit it in the morning). Ari wedding toast ftw.
bozebuttons Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Posted April 8, 2014 http://www.head-fi.org/t/713209/official-new-york-spring-meet-sat-april-5-2014-impressions-thread Link to meet impression thread for those interested.
justin Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 ^ I prefer to imagine Ari was lecturing an empty room of the benefits of riding clown bikes. Did you at least bring hi-res this time Justin? nope. i did get a lot of.. "Is this DSD?" nope "Oh, just 24/192?" no, they're CD rips "oh..."
spritzer Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 My reply would have been: "DSD? That's so last year, now everybody is for retro red book. Aren't you keeping up?"
skullguise Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 I had a varied mix of DSD, 24-bit, and 16-bit on my Sony player at the meet. There was a complete mix of quality totally unrelated to format, in that some things "only" 16 bit sounded a heck of a lot better than something else 24/192 or DSD. As we've discussed in other threads, it's more about the recording itself than the technology used to digitize. To act/feel disappointed that something isn't hi-rez PCM or DSD is just kind of ignorant, especially without listening.
Grahame Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 Justin, maybe you need to come up a DAC with a laser engraved front panel, with blinkenlights, showing PCB (Placebo / Conformation Bias) Status, and locked Sampling Rate / Bit depth. It could go all the way to FOTM or ludicrous values (a la Spaceballs)
Salt Peanuts Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 I wish I could've made it, especially since we didn't end up going to our nephew's birthday party. Instead, I did yard work.
nopants Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 Having put significant funding towards redbook playback (spectral + ar-t legato), I've been noticing that a lot more of the music I've been scooping up is 24/96...some multi-disc albums are being re-released in BD format. Running them in foobar through the resampling seems to make everything sound like garbage as well. Is there a meaningful amount of hi-res to warrant support these days? The internet would have you believe that the only stuff available in DSD is snooty classical albums.
justin Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 (edited) Is there a meaningful amount of hi-res to warrant support these days? The internet would have you believe that the only stuff available in DSD is snooty classical albums. i doubt it. the additional frequency range on downloads that are not just transcodes is probably garbage anyway. i cant hear above 22khz, my equipment probably doesn't want to reproduce those frequencies, and no one is listening loud enough or has the signal to noise ratio for more than 16-bits. it's possible the market could grow but i think for the most part it's going to stay limited to stuff you don't actually want to listen to. Maybe every once in a while some band will start touting their new 24/192 album and then it will actually be complete garbage...especially if they start trying to prove that they contain more information than a 16/44.1 disc. "hey, look at all this extra crap we left on here for you" Edited April 9, 2014 by justin
nikongod Posted April 10, 2014 Report Posted April 10, 2014 Having put significant funding towards redbook playback (spectral + ar-t legato), I've been noticing that a lot more of the music I've been scooping up is 24/96...some multi-disc albums are being re-released in BD format. Running them in foobar through the resampling seems to make everything sound like garbage as well. Something to note - When you downsample (high sample rate) to 1644, you *must* apply a ~20Khz brickwall filter or you will get aliasing problems. Inaudible ultrasonic crap turns into even worse audible crap when you have aliasing issues. I have no idea how Foobar does this, but it may be worth looking into. You may also like the results from setting the filter a bit lower than 20Khz, if you have the option.
Dreadhead Posted April 10, 2014 Report Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) You can get nice resamplers (eg. SoX, or Secret Rabid Code SRC) for Foobar. Also you will likely want to get a resampler that will do the dithering too. Edited April 10, 2014 by Dreadhead
nopants Posted April 10, 2014 Report Posted April 10, 2014 Thanks for the leads guys, I'll probably give this a shot over the weekend... as soon as I get my music server back up and running.
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