Michael Lavorgna strikes back.......

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What a pathetic little whiner.

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2 minutes ago, YashN said:

Chris has to worry about people like you. He should have banned you from CA a long time ago.

Shut up already. You're not funny.

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6 minutes ago, YashN said:

That's because I was being serious.

That's just tragic.

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7 minutes ago, plissken said:

It's so rare that I'm incorrect

I made a mistake once. I thought I'd made mistake, but it turned out that I hadn't.

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8 hours ago, fas42 said:

Ummm ... I thought I'd made (a) mistake ...

How ironic. Bloody phone keyboards.

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Just now, wgscott said:

W.T.F. is D.O.M?

Domineering Old Male?

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2 hours ago, Speed Racer said:

I can understand vinyl....but tapes offer nothing. At least not unless you have access to 2" tape and a 2" machine. 

And calibration tapes and enough time, skill, and patience to make use of them.

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28 minutes ago, Speed Racer said:

It’s called an observation, Mr. Snippy......

 

If you don’t want people making observations on your posts, don’t post. 

But until observed, he will be in a state of superposition, simultaneously happy and unhappy.

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4 minutes ago, Madra said:

Hehehehe.

I studied Architecture and for a weird reason, we and Engineers were part of the same Faculty. 

They sure were accused to be as per your description!

I studied EE at KTH in Stockholm. They offer degrees in engineering and architecture, nothing else. Ironically, the building housing the architecture faculty was voted the ugliest in the city. It later burned down.

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32 minutes ago, adamdea said:

While we are on that subject. No one in the hifi press or the industry ever wants to discuss what digital is all about namely that, once digitised, the information content of a signal can be transmitted without any loss whatsoever. It's enormous. And even spdif can accomplish this task easily. So easily that no one even bothers testing it most of the time. But you can with an mdac (sung a handy test facility) or suing the old dts passthrough test. 

Now really, the weird thing is that everyone is told to recite some crap about jitter (usually with no verification whatsoever) without pausing to consider the enormity of that the entire information content has been successfully transmitted. Now consider that any wire/transport/noise effect is entirely beside the fact that there is nothing which the receiving device needs to decode this information which it does not have (and that includes the requisite conversion clock rate, which is known).

S/PDIF does require that the receiver somehow synchronises its clock with the sender. The standard simple solution is a PLL, which necessarily passes through jitter below its cut-off frequency, and even if the source is perfect, the PLL output will never be as stable as a good crystal oscillator. Adaptive interfaces like USB obviously have no such issues since they place the master clock at the DAC, where it belongs. It is still conceivable, however, that some kind of noise is carried by the data cable makes its way into the DAC output. In fact, this can be readily demonstrated in a deliberately pathological setup.

 

13 minutes ago, adamdea said:

Now it isn't actually impossible that somehow the way the information was transmitted might to some extent affect the output. But shouldn't we have a sense of proportion? If you are hearing more bass, well isn't that a little surprising. There really really really isn't more bass in the signal. Is it possible that the effect is down to something else other than the electrical signal itself?

Yes, this is where it gets ridiculous. I can't fathom any mechanism by which random noise could affect the sound in such specific ways.

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1 minute ago, plissken said:

Ad Revenue! Jesus wept.

And a steady stream of nice stuff to play with.

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3 minutes ago, Indydan said:

the only impact has been increased traffic to my site from CA

I suggest not visiting his site. If you must, be sure to use an ad/tracking blocker.

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21 minutes ago, Mercman said:

If you are referring to the Synergistic Research Atmosphere, there is no snake-oil here. Many products have been sold employing the Schumann Resonance to enhance audio systems.

That doesn't mean they're not snake oil. Why would Schumann resonances have anything whatsoever to do with audio?

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1 minute ago, Spacehound said:

It leads me to suspect that the MQA licences are paid  for  'pro rata' on release of  MQA tracks and a 'pay per play' basis when streamingrather than an all encompassing fee in advance.

I've been told MQA has been giving steep discounts to early adopters on the hardware side. Perhaps they have/had an introductory pricing for labels too.

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5 minutes ago, John_Atkinson said:

Not quite. I said that I was told by my Russian-speaking daughter that while the phrase GFYM can indeed be meant as a literal exhortation, it is also in use as a general exclamation. A quick Google search retrieves this: "ёб твою́ мать which literally means '(I) fucked your mother', but . . . may also be used as an exclamation in which it can mean 'I’ll be damned!'" As in ""CA sure has a lot of posts about MQA - GFYM!"

A closer English equivalent is probably "fuck me."

 

5 minutes ago, John_Atkinson said:

Perhaps Michael Lavorgna has Russian ancestry :-)

Even if he does, it is no excuse. His grasp of the English language is clearly sufficient that he should be capable of choosing profanities appropriate to the situation and audience.

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50 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

You don't have to have a cathedral to be a city, not in the UK.

I live in a city of 250,000. The nearest cathedral city is much smaller.

 

50 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

London:

Two small adjacent cities, one with a cathedral, one without.

Westminster has a traditional Christian cathedral. The City of London has (or is) a cathedral of Mammon.

 

50 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

And 'England'  is part of a 'federation' called the UK but unlike the other parts 'England' doesn't have a government.

If only it were that simple.

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9 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

I live in in the UK in  a 'village' close to a town of about 350,000 separated by a  broad river.  I haven' been there for years, as the  parking charges are very high but  parking is still close to impossible.  It's effectively a 'sales' tax' as I can think of zero reasons why anyone would  go there for 'pleasure' other than to get away from it in one of these:

 

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I can see that ship from my window when she's in town.

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10 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

I can if I walk a mile or so. Totton. Which isn't 'pretty' either.

I'm near the city centre. This means I don't need a car, so parking isn't an issue.

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9 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

If only we didn’t switch software platforms in March 2017. That big dip is frustrating. Google penalized us heavily. 

 

Oh well. It will come back up. 

The new interface is much better.

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28 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

What's wrong with you and Don Hills?

It was an 'off the cuff' comment about something about 30 years ago.

Make that 20 years.

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14 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

MQA isn't DRM

Actually, it is. Due to its closed nature, it very much Manages what Rights you have to the Digital content. This is particularly obvious if you believe in the necessity of the "render" stage as the output of this is only allowed to be accessed in analogue form.

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5 minutes ago, skikirkwood said:

That's correct, and the founders/execs of AltaVista were so out of touch with reality, combined with being incredibly arrogant, I'm glad the IPO fell apart in 2000.  If AltaVista did go public, the exec team would probably be buying $1000 ethernet cables today and enjoying the superior sound of MQA.

AltaVista was well dead by 2000, Google having trounced them.

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10 minutes ago, Spacehound said:

Up to a point. I can access and alter an MQA file and unaltered it will play, if not fully, on anything.  and there is no 'serious' encryption.

The Rights to the full Digital resolution are still Managed.

 

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And of course they claim it isn't. Maybe just another lie, but they are very insistent on it.

It doesn't matter whether or not the "folded" part is encrypted as such. As long as you don't know the decoding algorithm, it may as well be. You can't access it either way.

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6 minutes ago, skikirkwood said:

Not quite.  I don't recall the exact date that Google's traffic exceeded that of AltaVista but think it was more like mid to late 2001.  That said, the insular, arrogant nature of the AltaVista search team combined with a non-technical, hands-off exec team meant that AltaVista was a dead man walking from the very founding of Google.

I wasn't talking about traffic volume. Google delivered better search results almost immediately, and it was only a matter of time before the general public realised this.

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56 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

hp Tech Basic had APL built in (plug in ROM on some systems)

 

Best programming environment I ever used...

The need for a special font and keyboard is somewhat off-putting. What were they smoking?