[dba-Tech] OT: A big day

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 20 14:20:51 CST 2013


Hi Gary,

A receiver that incorporates network & settop box logic is terrific. 
Firmware that doesn't support FLACs, not so much :-) .

PB

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On 2013-02-20 1:30 PM, Gary Kjos wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thanks for the input. The receiver - a Yamaha Aventege RX-A2020 - has
> built in networking and built in Airplay - so I'm using those
> capabilities with no added hardware excepting the PC acting as a
> server. I probably didn't choose the right format when i ripped all
> the CD's to WAV using Windows Media Player. While Media Player does go
> and get album art and store it along with the music tracks, not
> everything will take advantage of the separate file with the art in it
> or use the naming convention used for the individual tracks. My
> receiver uses the track names fine though and displays the track being
> played on it's front panel or on the TV connected to it if I'm not
> watching another video source. In "play from network server" mode it
> won't play random tracks from the entire library though - or at least
> I haven't figured out how to make it do that.  So that was why I went
> back to iTUNES which does a fine job of selecting random tracks as I
> want it to. I'm not really feeling caged in by Apple, I have used
> iTunes and continue to as a iPOD user although I sync my IPOD's to
> libraries on different systems than I'm using for this. The space
> isn't currently a problem for me but I suppose over time that could
> change.
>
> My neighbor is a musician, has a recording studio in his home and a
> lot of high end gear and he also has recommended the FLAC format. When
> I go to my next ripping exercise I will have to consider that as a
> better choice than what I've been messing around with I suppose.
>
>
> GK
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Peter Brawley
> <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> If you can free yourself from Apple's control, FOSS software (like
>> mediaMonkey and maqny others) losslessly compress CDs to FLAC files, approx
>> 50% of CD filesize; then a small settop box like the Kdlinks HD700 will
>> stream them all from your server to your receiver or preamp, with no
>> corporate predator restraining your choices.
>>
>> PB
>>
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>>
>>
>> On 2013-02-20 8:46 AM, Gary Kjos wrote:
>>> Congratulations!  I'm jealous. So nice to have a system that you can
>>> play at any volume level and not need to wonder about distortion or
>>> what is being left out due to sampling constraints etc. I recently
>>> bought a new receiver which has networking built in and so could
>>> listen to the music on my PC's. I hadn't bought in to the MP3s are
>>> noticeably degraded idea and so thought all would be well and good as
>>> I had enjoyed these same tunes via my iPOD and from memory stick in my
>>> vehicle without noticing significant loss of quality. When I listened
>>> to them on the Big System though I certainly noticed!  So I've since
>>> reconverted all my CD's to WAV and am in the process of doing them
>>> again another time using iTUNES Lossless format for playing via iTUNES
>>> Airplay which I like for it's random play capability and have been
>>> enjoying the music as it was intended to be heard again.
>>>
>>> Enjoy your new speakers!
>>>
>>> GK
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> More than 30 years ago when in the audio business, two of our clients -
>>>> audio-visual producers - asked for new top-notch monitor speakers for
>>>> their
>>>> studios. We toured several suppliers listening to the well-known brands,
>>>> quite expensive, and then we stopped by at Technics as they had gained
>>>> much
>>>> attention due to a major lift in quality.
>>>> That settled it. I still recall how we listened carefully to our
>>>> selection
>>>> of "difficult" music but our real test was the reproduction of
>>>> high-quality
>>>> recorded human voice which is far more difficult to reproduce than most
>>>> are
>>>> aware of. There was no doubt - the SB-7000 speakers with the
>>>> phase-correcting speaker alignment were convincing and the price couldn't
>>>> be
>>>> matched:
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SB-7000.html
>>>>
>>>> At that time I neither had the money nor the space for such speakers but
>>>> ever since I've dreamed of obtaining a set of these. By pure accident,
>>>> Saturday I browsed a local second-hand site, and there they were, right
>>>> in
>>>> front of me on the screen, at a bargain price - and I have the room.
>>>> Through
>>>> the years I have struggled with some compact wife-friendly speakers -
>>>> very
>>>> good of course, but still - nothing beats a 15" high-quality speaker
>>>> (except
>>>> an 18" but they are so rare).
>>>>
>>>> Now, this set could really be anything - burned out units or misbehaved
>>>> in
>>>> many ways. So I had to go and listen: I brought some music that can bring
>>>> down most systems and reveal any sort of misbehaviour: Chick Corea, My
>>>> Spanish Heart, and Miles Davis, Tutu, on CD:
>>>>
>>>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Spanish_Heart
>>>>
>>>> It was like coming home! They reproduced perfectly and exactly like I had
>>>> imagined with the transparent and completely neutral sound I remembered.
>>>> They've two owners only, and no disco youngster had succeeded destroying
>>>> them.
>>>> So, today I picked them up and can hardly wait to get home and power them
>>>> up. Should this day come? From time to time I thought No and resigned ...
>>>> but today: Yes.
>>>>
>>>> Through the years I've kept (some sort of intuition or instinct?) this
>>>> bright Sony amplifier to power them:
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-TA-N86B.html
>>>>
>>>> Though I have quite decent equipment to feed this, I might be looking for
>>>> the matching preamp:
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-TA-E88B.html
>>>>
>>>> But that's another story.
>>>>
>>>> /gustav
>>>>
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