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  1. Speakers (at least in a well set up and acoustically good room (which most are not)) do 'space' and imaging better than headphones. But my headphone system does detail retrieval better than any of the speakers I listened to at the last Capital Audiofest- some of which were well into five figures- are immune from room setup quagmires and cost (I would guess) 5% or maybe less of what an equivalent amount of 'fi' would cost in a speaker based setup. Both have their place, but for those of us on a beer budget, your 'fi' dollar goes much much farther with cans.
  2. I don't understand limiting support to only the 7 and newer. My SE will handle apple Lossless; if it has the power for that, FLAC should be NP. Already have FLAC-ready software on it, but file management is an issue to the lack of OS support. Not buying a new phone to obtain this functionality.
  3. Vox, which does the same thing IIRC, but I use VLC now and then. I keep hearing that I should try Plex, which may be a different conversation.
  4. Have a question about MIDI device settings on Mac. My main 'serious listening' setup involve USB from the Mac to a Schiit Modi Multibit DAC. 99% of the music I listen to is Redbook-origin 16/44.1 FLAC files or Tidal HiFi, although I have a smattering of 24/96, a stray 24/192or two, and a few analog rips digitized using an el cheapo Behringer A/D-D/A that sounds better than it should. Schiit suggested 24/44.1 based on the above but wondering about how that would handle the 24/96. At least one of the Softwares I play from, Fidelia, sets the Midi parameters to optimize for the file and output device (I think Vox does the same), but sometimes I use others for various reasons and I was wondering if anyone has any guidance: Do I set the parameters to the highest file spec or does that just make the CPU work harder upsampling the files? Likewise, would too-low settings reduce SQ? Of course, I can just stick to the players that control the MIDI settings, but I'm just curious. The default setting for 'system output' seems to be 16/48 btw. Sierra/MBPR late 2013 Thanks
  5. Thanks. I will continue to 'keep an eye out' on goings-on here, as a Pi build may be in my future. I'm glad this site is here to counter the common prejudice that 'real' audiophiles always favor vinyl.
  6. Are the issues cited in this thread potentially why I find 0 results for a sitewide search for any variation or combination of 'raspberry pi'?
  7. I know the OP is on Windows, but if anybody reading this is on a Mac, there's an app called Snowtape that detects the stream parameters and captures the audio with no resampling or bit rate loss. (Didn't know VLC might do this too; gotta check that out, but does VLC do timer recording?) Check it out, hasn't been updated in awhile but developer just sent out a survey about feature requests for next version. For fans of "The Beeb's" excellent 320K AAC stream, I stumbled upon another classical station with an excellent sounding 320K AAC stream: KWAX-FM in Eugene, Oregon. Listening to that more than BBC3 lately. Wish I could find a good jazz station with the same level of SQ...
  8. Found this url which works but appears not to be the 320K stream: BBC Radio 3 And it turned out that while Safari and Chrome will not play the stream from the Beeb site (BBC miniplayer says 'loading' but never does and volume slider will not budge off minimum), Firefox will. So that appears to be my only option at the moment. Just wish I knew why as I usually don't use FF. Update: Cebolla- that link does indeed seem to work; thanks! However pasting in Snowtape (a mac radio app), it displays as 56K AAC+ (but sounds way too good for that to be correct). Going to use Audio Hijack to try and A-B the stream you gave with the known 320K stream on the Beeb's webpage.
  9. Doing a little Googling, I found the following url which actually works. Does someone know how to verify the bitrate? Don't believe this is the hi bandwidth stream. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r3.asx
  10. Searching the topic on the Web, I see that in 2011 there were "outages" in BBC availability outside the UK. But all the avenues I have tried, including the BBC website, just 'hang' without providing an error message or anything like that. If all else fails, I guess I'd have to learn how to use a proxy server...
  11. Hello everyone I am a relatively new member here. I'm hoping to get some answers on a streaming problem: I like to listen to the BBC Radio Three radio stream which is 320 kb per second AAC; it sounds great (or used to until it stopped working on all my players a few days ago). iTunes won't play the stream anymore nor will any other players on my Mac. Was hoping someone here might know something or have some troubleshooting ideas. Thanks
  12. Hello, new to these forums. OK, so this thread is about analog-to-digital conversion rather than the reverse, but this seemed like the most suitable forum. Here goes: Years ago I archived my vinyl on VHS HIFI tapes using a high quality TT/phono cart/phono preamp and hi-end VCR with manual level controls (no ALC compression crap). I no longer run a TT but wanted to digitize this material from the tapes. Will be using a Macbook running Audio Hijack Pro (which allows me to record directly to Apple Lossless format) and a Behinger UCA202 sound card which gives me up to 16/48. Some of my questions: Should I use a hi pass filter to filter out rumble? These were vinyls after all; my HK TT was fairly quiet but my Dual, not so much. At this point I don't have accurate recollection of which material was done on which TT. Maybe 20Hz or so? There is no organ music in this collection so I don't need flat-to-16. There are some tapes from a favorite radio show; should I low-pass these at 15K to avoid possible 19 & 38kHz issues? Since I am no longer aiming at a Redbook CD as an end result, should I do the recordings at 48kHz and is there anything I need to set on the Mac (or the card) to do this (in addition to the audio device settings- screenshots below)? Is there anything else I haven't thought of? Here are screenshots of the audio device settings (I think these are correct for what I want): Thanks for any advice!
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