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  1. Hi Barrows, finally it should be mentioned that we have now Rick Brown from http://site.rbhifi1.com/ as our representative in the US. We will ship as fast as possible TRINITY DAC & AMP to him, so that he can arrange listening sessions in his well prepared listening room in a relaxed ambiance. Dietmar
  2. Mattias he spoke with me I am the designer of TRINITY DAC & AMP and owner of the company www.gte-audio.com He mixed my company with the one which was in charge with the speaker cable. If you have any question do not hesitate to contact me. Dietmar
  3. I have no problems to play these DVD-As in my DVD-A players, but I got also problems if I try to playback DVD-As with Solo as a media player, even if I have used the same software to generate and burn the DVD-As.<br /> I asked the Solo team the following:<br /> “Does your software supports only self-made DVD-As or also commercial ones? By the way I have also problems to play 176.4kHz wave files, which I have moved in the project window. After every 6 seconds the playback stops for 1 second and than it starts again. That means, the timing counter in the window stops as well. What is wrong?“<br /> I got this answer:<br /> “DVD-Audio Solo supports only unencrypted and non MLP encoded DVD-Audio discs, i.e. DVD-Audio Solo authored DVD-Audio disc. Commercial DVD-Audio discs are encrypted and some are also MLP encoded, and DVD-Audio Solo does not support this kind of DVD-Audio discs. Regarding the play and stop problem. Could you upload one of the file in question (a fragment of the file if you can trancate the file to make a smaller one) to our FTP site for us to review the problem.”<br /> My answer<br /> “ I have created a DVD-A (176.4kHz/24bit) from the HRx recordings from http://www.referencerecordings.com/HRx1.asp , which I can playback on my DVD-A player without any problem. On my laptop I have Windows XP new with SP3 installed. Playing the DVD-A back is now no problem for the most time. But from time to time I get now the message “DVD Solo had a problem and must be switched off”. I use the E-MU1616m SoundBlaster Card in a 176.4kHz mode. But if I play the original wave files with your software I still get some interruptions on the beginning and the end of the file and the same error message, which close the program afterwards.” <br /> I bought the PowerDVD Ultra to playback DVD-As, but this does not work at all. In a phone call the guy from Cyberlink told me that the feed only down-sampled CD sound to the soundblaster cards, even if there is no copy protection on it. I mean to the analog outputs or headphones not to the SPDIF, which is never supported. The only help would be to use DVD-Audio Solo as a media player. Hopefully they can fix it.<br /> <br /> <br />
  4. Hi Chris,<br /> <br /> Today I used DVD-Audio Solo http://www.download3000.com/download-count-home-20626.html to create my own DVD-Audio on the basis of the HRX wave files. Same sampling rate and resolution.<br /> Now I can use my modified DVD-A player instead of the laptop. Even if you got the error message “not enough space on the DVD” during burning the “Crown Imperial” you can burn the disc.<br /> Normally the software should also play the wave files, but on both of my computers the music stops every 6 seconds for one second.<br /> I have asked the software guys, but did not get an answer yet.<br /> There is a website https://www.dvdupgrades.ch/product/Modification/SPDIF/Output/Six_channel_S_P_DIF_output_board/24308.html ,which offers additional SPDIF interfaces to modify DVD Players to get ot the hi-rez SPDIF. I had never contact to them or have tested the products, because I use my own modified player. <br /> Dietmar<br />
  5. Hi Chris,<br /> you are right that me. During this show I played only 192kHz/24bits from DVD-As with a modified Denon 1920 player. I had added a hi-rez SPDIF interface to this player and used the player just as a transport. <br /> Maybe it would be a good idea if we share the info about the platforms we use to play back HRx recordings, because it took a while for me just to find the right hardware. I use now an E-MU 1616m external SoundBlaster card. The only thing I have to mention is, that you have to download the newest driver from the website, because the ones on the CD are from 2005 and did not work at all at this data rate. The recommended monkey media player runs fine and shows a bit rate of 8467kbps (174600Hz x 24 x 2 = 8,467,200bits/sec). I also checked the SPDIF output of the E-MU1616m, which shows that the card feeds the digital output with the correct hi-rez data stream. Just to note, if you want the exact copy of the data stream you should not touch the volume control scroll bars in the mixer menu of the SoundBlaster card.<br /> It would be good if we could convince the guys from “creative” to write a template for just playing back HRx recordings, since the entire additional mixer set-ups they offer in the standard templates are not necessary for a pure playback system and confuse only. <br /> Do you know this record? http://www.2l.no/epost/nyheter2008mai.html <br /> I have odered this blu-ray disc, but did not got my copy. The recording format looks very promissing. Hopefully we can get the hi-rez SPDIF signal to feed external DACs otherwise I would expect it will end like DVD-A. No sells, no future.<br /> <br /> Dietmar<br />
  6. Hi Chris,<br /> I got my Discs yesterday and played them via our TRINITY DAC and I can tell you these recordings are really great. I own almost all hi-rez (192kHz/24bit)recordings ever published on this planet and can compare these recordings with other DVD-As. You are right, my first impression was the same you need at least 4dB more on the volume control, but if you look on a peak level meter you will see the most music runs between -50 and -20dBFS with some louder parts of -10dBFS, but there are some very short peaks which go up to -6dBFS. Normally the recording engineer does not go higher than -3dBFS, because you need some headroom for the digital filter. I guess they need the -6dBFS for the HDCD processor.<br /> By the way our DAC do not have any digital or analogue filter, so I can say we play back the music digit for digit as it was recorded. The recommendation to use high-end gear is necessary, because the most DACs lose the room information, if the play silent music and here we are the most time below -20dBFS. This is a real good dynamic range without any compression. I hope they publish other recordings as well and keep the high-rez music alive.<br /> <br /> Dietmar <br />
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