Reply to: FLAC v MP3

[Sysman]

These look like the speakers.

http://www.eminent-tech.com/history/eminenthistory.htm

These were large 30" by 60" by 1" flat speakers using ceramic 8 permanent magnets and stretched polyester diaphragms

I don't think I could have got those into the living room in my Paris apartment.

And I'm still glad I never built those concrete filled "Hi-Fi Answers" speakers, for I would have had to lug them around for the rest of my life.

[threaded]

20Hz? Isn't that the frequency at which your arse cheeks clap when having a good fart?

Frequencies below the hearing threshold would qualify as 'silent but deadly'

'Good ones' are normally quite audible, but directionally indeterminate, until you spot the big grin on the perp.

[Churchill]

20Hz? Isn't that the frequency at which your arse cheeks clap when having a good fart?

[HairyArsedBloke]

These look like the speakers.

http://www.eminent-tech.com/history/eminenthistory.htm

In 2006 a new type of sound reproducer, the worlds first rotary woofer was introduced. It has specifications and performance capability like no other woofer on the market. It can reproduce sound from 0Hz to 20hz and is designed to fill in below the frequency range of existing subwoofers. Eminent Technology now faces the challenge of convincing the general public and engineers that we can hear below 20Hz and content exist that can be reproduced.

FFS!

[zeitghost]

I knew of someone who was getting seriously manic about not being able to find a property that had a suitable 'media' room.

I knew a chap was supposedly one of the golden eared fraternity.

That's golden eared, not pointy eared, so don't get confused with Vulcans.

Anyway, he had a room that he'd designed with a most curious wooden ceiling, those gigantic Heil(?) dynamic speakers, a valve amplifier (natch), and a turntable with an airbearing arm.

Rough cost of about £20k in 1990(ish).

I was appalled to see that the valve amp (which had a mere 9 KT88s* in its line up) ran the outputs in pentode mode, rather than the superior UltraLinear mode.

Fecking amateurs.


*for the curious, it was 4 KT88s per channel. The 9th KT88 was used to regulate the screen grid supply.

[NotAllThere]

I mostly listen to music in the car. MP3 is fine for that, given all the extraneous noise.

[the_rangdo]

I can (or at least could) tell the difference between CD and MP3

Whilst we're on the subject though, anyone got a decent flac to mp3 converter?

DBPoweramp is a good 'swiss army knife' app, everything from CD ripping to converting from just about any file type to just about any file type.

FLAC is the way forward, I can hear the difference FWIW but it's also a great way of archiving - from FLAC I can convert to whatever I want without losing any data, so my main library is held in FLAC then if I want to have stuff in my car I can easily drop to MP3 (320kbps of course )

[HairyArsedBloke]

One year my bruvver spent more on hi-fi than I earned.

I'm glad that I got over the urge myself. At its silliest you end up turning down perfectly good houses because they don't have a room suitable for your system(s).

I knew of someone who was getting seriously manic about not being able to find a property that had a suitable 'media' room.

[Sysman]

Elitist bastards one and all!

Come the revolution you're up against the wall!"

Lyrics from Billy Braggs latest record! Available now from HMV! Don't play it on anything that cost less than £35k!

[Churchill]

Elitist bastards one and all!

Come the revolution you're up against the wall!"

Lyrics from Billy Braggs latest record! Available now from HMV! Don't play it on anything that cost less than £35k!

[Sysman]

flip.

Why did I read this thread.

It's re-energized the hifi bug I thought had died.

Linn LP12.

Hadcock arm.

Ho hum.

Then it was an afternoon looking at sites with the Technics SL110, the Yamaha CT7000, the Pioneer TX9100, the Shure V15, the SME 3009 II Improved.

Dear dead days beyond recall.

I had to lie down in a darkened room until the desire to spend tens of K on electronic junk went away.

One year my bruvver spent more on hi-fi than I earned.

I'm glad that I got over the urge myself. At its silliest you end up turning down perfectly good houses because they don't have a room suitable for your system(s).

[Spacecadet]

I can (or at least could) tell the difference between CD and MP3

Whilst we're on the subject though, anyone got a decent flac to mp3 converter?

[HairyArsedBloke]

If you can't tell the difference between mp3 and flac then you've got serious hearing problems.

That is the least of my worries.

Maybe if I was not trying to compare using an old-ish PC & cheap-o speakers I could despite the tinnitus and decrepitude that old age brings.

[threaded]

Pardon.......... igmc

Good un.

On a serious note, just look at the people with mp3 players, and notice that you don't see too many ginners with them. Reason being people with red-hair tend to have better quality hearing and find the format 'painful'.

[Drewster]

If you can't tell the difference between mp3 and flac then you've got serious hearing problems.

Pardon.......... igmc