Recent content by 2ndHarm

That's awesome. But I would imagine there are cheaper options. However, even at that price - a cartridge costs $100-200 for 18-45 TB and would enable a way to securely store huge amounts of data for a reasonable price.

I think we find in the real world here that people have little understanding about how music is digitized then streamed to and from digital media. Our modern drives can move gigabits/sec. and there are still people who think there would be differences streaming music that requires 1/1000 of that...

I'm still trying to divine your thought processes here. Are you saying that there may be differences in the way data bits and bytes are stored on SSDs vs. HD drives that would make a difference in the sound when streamed to a DAC and converted to analog? Further to your comment - comparing DACs...

We used to do that all the time. They were called tape backup drives and were the only way to store large amounts of data offline or near offline storage. I had a Sony Datcorder that saved music in digital form to tape that I used for years. The benefit of digital .wav files is that I could make...

S'true. My NAS which is in another room elsewhere in the house makes a bit of noise while seeking which you can only hear when it's quiet. But, yes - the SSDs are silent. The best thing for music or video streaming from any kind of storage device is a good sized RAM buffer.

I stream music all the time from SSDs or even over WIFI to my NAS which uses commercial quality rotating hard drives without issue. Honestly, the requirements for audio PCM transfer is so low compared to things like streaming video, that this shouldn't ever be an issue. Now, a slow computer will...

Your friend might be used to listening with headphones, or his system has an exaggerated high end that he's become used to so he measures all systems based on his personal experience. Likely has little to do with reality as others have said here. Many people don't realize that the quality of...

People who are red/green colorblind cannot tell the difference between red/greens of equal intensity. I have relatives I have to help in some situations LOL. Going with Red/white overcomes this issue. I also like the "red is right" mnemonic. Red/black combinations are also useful. Again with...

I noticed noise like that when using the output from my PC to drive my DACs. There was light background noise from the power supply - you could hear it going up and down as the computer consumed power, first for battery charging and then to run the CPU and other peripherals like memory, etc...

I agree - which is one of the reasons I buy Astell & Kern equipment. I've bought used for years because of the cost new and been very pleased with the neutral sound and dead quiet background. There are manufacturers who make claims as we all know that aren't substantiated with measurable facts...

Agreed. Engineers have great incentive to create equipment that has better SINAD than the competition - not because it's audible, but because it's a measurable improvement that can be exploited by marketing to justify price increases and/or greater sales. In that sense, you get what you pay for...

That's very interesting. So, do people not notice that as they age (or that their hearing is slowing degraded by factory noises or loud music) their perception of the range of music becomes compromised? Would they not try to mitigate this to some extent - even unconsciously? I knew many older...

I recognize those problems you're talking about. My computers are extremely unreliable at playing music - the processor interrupts playback as it does other things at the same time - causing stutter (you call it jitter, but that's another thing altogether) during playback. You don't need to...

An interesting discussion might be the difference in fidelity between one speaker and the next when compared by different people. As we get older, most of us suffer from a loss of high frequency sensitivity. Our ability to hear sounds above 10-12 KHz pretty much drops off as we enter our autumn...

There are a lot of anti-science people out there who are annoyed that measurements would un-settle their preformed notions about what they hear so they fight like heck to prove that their opinion somehow trumps any real information you throw at them. I am disappointed like you that someone...