There was implication that the top scoring products have lower reliability. Since they are mostly from China, I thought I show that reliability knows no borders.Amir, was there any claims for brands in that post?
There was implication that the top scoring products have lower reliability. Since they are mostly from China, I thought I show that reliability knows no borders.Amir, was there any claims for brands in that post?
When I used Audyssey for the first time it was a very, very easy process. That was around 15 years ago. I have used it recently due to a change of gear and it was even easier. I guess Dirac, in it's most basic (no custom) form is not too different in terms of usability.
Going full in is not that easy, but getting the most basic sweap is quite easy.
And well, that should not be at odds with pushing a higher SINAD on the device.
I did not see that. However, you are completely correct that reliability issues can be all over the place, and there is no statistics that I know of that can be used.There was implication that the top scoring products have lower reliability. Since they are mostly from China, I thought I show that reliability knows no borders.
15 years ago I did not know that concentric speakers existed and I had one playing, but I still used Audyssey. It was in the manual of the Denon, so go guess...I expect EQ to be something that ASR readers would do.
However, ASR and even head-fi people are still a very, very small portion of the people that use headphones or listen to music.
If I were to ask any of my co-workers, people I know etc. what 'parametric EQ' is then all of them will say they never heard of it.
Yet all of them have either headphones or listen to music on (bluetooth) speakers.
They all could care less about EQ and parametric EQ. Well some may use it to set bass to +20 or so.
For people into 'hi-fi' this is easy. For the majorty of people... they would not even know what it is for.
Herbie Hancock last night employed plenty of distortion as a musical tool.Slayer is not the same as "rock in any variant". Distortion can be a tool. I guess you've never listened to electric guitar.
Not as easy as you think to get it right. As far as dynamics go whet we hear and what we measure can be very different. When I was a sound designer (editing sound effects for movies) part of the job was to make sounds as loud as possible with out going over 0 vu on a vu meter, or -14dbfs (for peaks.) at a -20 dbfs reference level. There are a few ways to do this. Filter out low freqs., or add some 6khz, combine similar sounds, (3 different gun shots mixed together can sound louder than one even if they both hit 0 vu.), peak limit/compress. (fast peaks are inaudable, bringing them down 6db can increase your level 6db.Not that I know of. I only know some companies like Meridian having the tool. It is probably not hard for someone to write it in Matlab or something. I just haven't spent the time doing it.
You want some real noise, just rub a cat the wrong way. Rowwwrrrrr.You lost me at cat videos. I like cats alright, but cat videos are the lowest common denominator. Yes, I know that was actually your point. It still rubs me the wrong way.
So? The purpose of a container is to be transparent to whatever one puts in it. We can do this today so I see no reason to compromise due to some specific case.The electrical dynamic range, what a device measures, is not the same as what you hear.
Or even:Herbie Hancock last night employed plenty of distortion as a musical tool.
I suspect that a careful analysis of many classical pieces might reveal use of frequencies to cancel or modify others by acoustic addition or subtraction. That's distortion.
??? Did you actually read my post? I'm talking about programs that tell you the dynamic range of music and that they don't tell you what you hear. There not accurate and can be misleading. Like the stated 70db of dynamic range in the Riki Lee album. Where they comparing the loudest part with the hiss?So? The purpose of a container is to be transparent to whatever one puts in it. We can do this today so I see no reason to compromise due to some specific case.
8 bits (dithered) should sound the same as 16 or 24 bit files in that case. (6 bits needed for 30dB range)Or with the final fade-out . Ricki-Lee Jones has something about 30 dB usable dynamic range.
There is no evidence of connection between those. My $6000 mark levinson dac failed with a bad cap. Both of my $25000 ML amps have become flakey. And I have had a non chinese DAC fail. In testing I have blown amps from Japan, France, and Canada. None from China.
So yes, it is weird to claim causation without any data.
There is no "exhibit" there. Or any indication of cost cutting, bad manufacturing, etc. Indeed, their process as described is way, way better than a ton of audio companies especially in the high-end.Exhibit A on your own site, the Topping PA5 thread. None of those amps are more than one year old.
It failed about 10 years ago. Not now.How old again is your ML DAC and amplifiers? 15 years?
They are already a pain to fix. They want me to ship the monsters to some repair shop in LA as Harman no longer services them. I am sure they just going to swap boards and charge thousands of dollars for each. I don't think they will give me the service manual but I will ask at some point.PS, you should get the amps fixed. Don't put it off, as cascading failures could be very expensive and/or unrepairable. Do you have service manuals BTW? Probably should get whatever you can documentation/parts wise before they become completely NLA.
I find this bon mot interesting (which may display my ignorance -- but, hey, at least I am still driven by curiosity!). Mind you, I don't pretend to understand too much about digitization (or whatever one would call this), but resolution in both x and y dimensions is important, isn't it? Is one more important than the other? 'cause there is no doubt (ahem that's probably too strongly worded: let's say I would opine ) that a good old LP record can sound objectively pretty good, but obviously has limited dynamic range compared to other media (and, thanks to the rec/play EQ curve used for LPs, limitations to frequency response, too).8 bits (dithered) should sound the same as 16 or 24 bit files in that case. (6 bits needed for 30dB range)