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  1. Sửa ipad hà nộiThiết bị này dường như là kích thước của một viên thuốc Crocin lớn, với một bề mặt phản chiếu bóng trên một mặt và một bề mặt phẳng trên khác. Phía đồng bằng dường như đã chấm nuôi nhỏ, giống như chữ nổi Braille. Nếu bạn đã đoán ra, yup, đó là những nút bấm để điều hướng.Thiết bị này mới chỉ là ở giai đoạn khái niệm như bây giờ, vì vậy nếu bạn đang tự hỏi, nơi bạn có thể chọn một trong những, folks xin lỗi, bạn sẽ phải giữ ngựa của bạn. Hãy theo dõi.Bạn chưa bao giờ mong muốn rằng điện thoại di động của bạn có thể tăng gấp đôi như Sửa điện thoại hà nộiSửa iphone hà nội
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  3. Thanks for providing the link. The article shows why I've played music over Shoutcast for the last few years. Friends and healing.
  4. I have some CDs that have outstanding sound. Some are from the 1970s. I have others that sound bad in comparision, and some of these are new. Problems vary widely: digital or analog clipping on some instruments, high distortion, a bad-sounding room, too much compression, recording that just mushes everything together, cymbals that sound like a generic crash of high frequencies. I figure these are all due to mastering problems. Most CDs sound pretty good. Classical music tends to be better mastered. Biggest problem with modern CDs is the absolutely horrendous compression ratios. Listen to one of those, and then pick up something by Paul Winter. Even though they're old, they have great atmosphere. Given that all these have been ripped, and are played, on the same system, I attribute the former problems to mastering. If the CD skips, however, that's a rip problem. If a disc has been damaged there's not much I can do. Cleaning them often helps, wiping radially with a soft cloth. If it's really dirty I use soap and water. Some skips are introduced by USB. This is rare. These sound different from ripping skips and won't repeat when the passage that skipped is played again. I may try moving the DAC to the Mac's digital output instead of using USB and see if that helps, or switch to using a Firewire hard disk instead of USB. I figure the USB is running near capacity, passing disk data in and audio out on my elderly laptop.
  5. Is your hard disk going to sleep after being inactive for a certain amount of time? My music is on an offboard drive that's set to spin down after about 5 minutes of inactivity; if I start playing a song after the drive has gone to sleep it spins back up and starts playing. Through an Airport, though, this process may not work. The Airport may not be able to get the drive to wake up again. Mine is connected directly to USB. I'll point you to another excellent Macintosh resource: http://www.macintouch.com/ You can search the site for info, or look through the list of topics. If you ask a question the chances are very good that you'll get a useful answer quickly.
  6. I've used Itunes to rip over 1600 CDs, and almost all of them sound perfect. A few have had errors. Given that the computer I'm using is a 5-year-old Powerbook I'm not too surprised. When I hear a problem, I re-rip the CD on a different computer and then copy the ALAC files to my library. A different drive used on the same computer would probably work as well. Some CDs have deeper problems, even a second copy. This has happened two or three times. Once I gave up. The other time I ripped it on a third computer and that time it was OK. The oddest problem was a CD that Itunes on the Mac wouldn't rip or play the first second or so of the first track. Neither would my home PC. The work PC with Itunes read it just fine, so I ripped it there and took the files home on flash drive. I considered switching to AIFF after reading some articles, but decided that ALAC sounds so good I'd just stay with that. My system is basically a Benchmark DAC1 and Denon AH-D7000 headphones.
  7. I decided to listen to Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Ready My Mind" album a while back. Selected it in Itunes (Apple Lossless ripped from the CD I bought in 1985) and hit "Play." What? The first second or so of "Minstrel of the Dawn" was gone. As far as I can remember the track played correctly at some point after the rip. That led to having to dig the CD out of the box it was in and attempting a re-rip. First, I played it. Got the same truncation. I moved it over to the PC and played it with Windows Media Player. There, it worked fine. So, I downloaded and installed Itunes over there, forgetting that I'd already done so. Perhaps that's why the program blew up when I tried to play the CD. The other version was still there but wasn't "installed." Being tired, I trashed that one and tried again. No go. I gave it up. On Monday I took the CD to work. Played on the PC there, in Itunes, just fine. So, I ripped it and copied the files to a flash drive and took them home. Copied "Minstrel" to my music hard disk and played it. Works fine. I don't know. Maybe it was my day for gremlins. This has gotten me to thinking about backup validity: what if something in my library gets damaged and I then keep backing up? Damaged file overwrites good one, and the only way I'll find out is when I eventually play that song. Anyway, I guess I'd recommend at least spot-checking albums after copying them to the hard disk to make sure you got a goood rip. I don't have the patience to deal with Exact Audio Copy, and failures of this kind are rare.
  8. The Mac notebooks combine the analog audio output with the optical output. Same jack, different cable. Moving your WMA Lossless files to the Mac may be more of a problem. I faced this a couple of years ago. 300GB of WMA Lossless files on an unreliable PC, so I wanted to move the whole library to the Mac. Itunes on the PC will read WMA lossless. Itunes on a Mac won't. On the PC you can, in theory, have Itunes convert to Apple Lossless. I tried this. The results were interesting. When I played one of the songs back on the Mac, after moving it there, it played normally for about 4 seconds and then there was a click, and the music slowed by about 15% or so. Noticeable. So did the other test conversions. I did a search for other conversion tools, such as dBpoweramp, but didn't have the confidence to buy them. I ended up re-ripping the whole collection. Yes, that was a pain, but it paid dividends. The database Windows Media Player contacts for CD info isn't very good, especially on classical CDs. The one used by Itunes is much better. As for speakers... if I were in the market for some, I'd probably end up buying the ADM9l.1 system, sound unheard. I like the no-hassle approach. Currently, though, for any serious listening I use headphones because my neighborhood has high ambient noise and I like hearing details. For the curious, my system is: offboard 500GB hard disk, to Mac Powerbook G4, to Benchmark DAC1 USB, to Denon AH-D7000 headphones. I have bought a Newer Technology RAID-1 unit (two 1TB drives to which data are written simultaneously in a mirror arrangement) for automatic backup, but haven't installed it yet. I'm not looking forward to the process of copying 440GB of music and tying up the computer for a day.
  9. I'll try this again. I was mostly done with an answer when the forum hiccupped and everything disappeared. Lossless compression, such as that used in programs like Stuffit and Zip for computer data files, work by replacing strings of repetitive data with a code that allows the original data to be reconstructed. Any data has repetitive elements but they do vary so the actual compression achieved will vary. Usually it's around 40% for this Lempel-Ziv type compression. What you're seeing with the 400 kilobits lacking in the data rate is the difference between the unencoded file and the encoded one; it takes 400k to send the repetitive data literally. I've not noticed any consistent variation by type of music. You could take 10 1-hour CDs and they'd all end up having different file sizes after you'd copied them to your computer. The key concept is that all data is still in the file. It's just coded differently, to take up less space. You'll run into lots of arguments about lossless being truly lossless but to my ears there is no difference between lossless and the full WAV file. With disk space being so cheap now, though, compression is less essential than it used to be.
  10. Itunes has its own way of doing things. If your way differs, there will be some arguments. In the Itunes Preferences window you can choose "Keep Itunes library organized." I recommend this. The directory structure will end up with a folder for each artist. Within that will be a folder for each album. Compilations will be handled differently: there is a Compilations folder, and within that is each album that has been designated as a compilation. If you've imported your existing library, when you choose "Keep Library Organized" Itunes will go through and set up the directory structure. Because Itunes uses a different database for CD info, there will probably be some differences but the basic information should be there. To edit the tags for a track, press command-I for "get info." If you want to edit the entire disc, press command-A for "Select All," and then command-I. This allows you to change the Artist tag for all tracks quickly, for example. Then if you need to change something for a particular track, get info on it. Compilations are a judgment call. I consider a compilation to be a collection of songs by different artists. Others consider a compilation to be a collection of different works by the same artist, such as a Greatest Hits collection. For example, to me a collection of choral works by various composers, with all performed by the same group, is not a compilation. The important thing here is to be consistent for yourself, so you can find things. So, my practice is this: 1. Load the CD. Wait for Itunes to bring up the information. 2. Select all tracks and press command-I. 3. Check the Artist track. Most of the time this is correct, but sometimes the wrong thing is here. I match it to what's printed on the CD. 4. Check the Title track. For classical works I put the composer's name first so I know where to look. 5. Check the Genre. I don't often use this field for searching, but I still try to keep it consistent, as it makes it easier to assemble playlists of a certain kind for my Shoutcast broadcasts (e.g. Christmas). 6. Check the Compilation tag. Make sure it's flagged the way you want it to be. 7. Check the Gapless playback. I'm not sure what this is about. It may be valid only for MP3. 8. Once everything is tagged as you want it, close the info window and tell Itunes to rip it. My library is currently closing in on 20,000 tracks, stored on an outboard hard disk, using a Mac Powerbook G4.
  11. Thank you for the advice. I've talked with my landlady, and she has agreed to tear down the house and rebuild it to suit my new sound system. I wish...<br /> <br /> I've thought for many years of putting some kind of sound treatments on the walls and ceiling, all of which are hard plaster over lath. The floor is hardwood but has lots of my clutter on top of it.<br /> <br /> I've been convinced of the advantages of bi-amping and tri-amping for many years, ever since a friend demonstrated a system he built from garden-variety components (remember Dynaco?). It was terrific. I've never gone beyond the thinking-about stage because of the listening room problem. And then there are the neighbors I don't want to upset, although some of them don't mind upsetting me.<br /> <br /> A further aside: I don't like shopping for audio equipment. I bought the Cambridge Soundworks speakers sound unheard because I'd liked Kloss and Advent equipment in the past. I bought the Benchmark DAC1 because their engineering principles seemed sound, and the same applies to AVI. If the time comes to buy speakers, I'll be looking into these. I really like the no-nonsense approach. Music should be mystical, but the equipment should just get out of the way.
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  13. For many years now I've been using Cambridge Soundworks Ensemble speakers (original model, bought soon after introduction). Currently they're connected to an old Sony ES-line power amp.<br /> <br /> I like the simplicity of the ADM9.1. Replace old amp and old speakers with one new system. I'd have to get the subwoofer, though, as I do like organ music and others with real bass. I like the Ensemble setup for its neutrality and the way the bass can be tuned by moving the woofer units around. Because my room is hard I have them in the corners, and the balance is pretty good.<br /> <br /> My room, however, isn't the best. Plaster walls. I'm thinking that the ADM9.1s could be located closer to me, perhaps even on the desktop, to remove some of the room's harsh echo. Is this a recommended installation for these?<br /> <br /> I'd be using a Mac Powerbook as the source, connected to a Benchmark DAC1. I'd use its analog outputs to drive the ADM9.1s not because I don't trust the DAC in the speakers, but because I use headphones a lot and the Benchmark has a good headphone amp.
  14. At first, tracking topics and finding new threads here wasn't all that hard. A scan would take only a minute or two. Now... there's a lot more activity. Threads have gotten long, and there are morre of them. Other fora that I use have a "find new posts" facility: click the button and you find everything new, and can scan the list quickly. Also, the list of forum topics shows which ones have new content, and if you click on the "new" button it takes you to the first unread post in the thread, no matter which page it's on. This forum lacks both, to my knowledge anyway, and with the increasing activity it's very had to keep track of what I've read and what I should look at. It's easy enough to find threads with new content, but then I have to manually hunt for the page I last read. Is there any way to implement such facilities here? I don't know what might be available for this forum software; the others I use are either Invision Power Board or PHPBB, both of which have similar feature sets. Forum threads can be a very strong resource, if searches lead quickly to the posts with the wanted info.
  15. You may need to select the Benchmark DAC1 in the Sound control panel. Go to System Preferences, click on Sound, and then click on the Output button. You should then see a list of available output options (on-board speakers, any other devices) and that should include the DAC1. Click on the DAC1 entry and it should work. Note that I have occasionally had Itunes stop talking to my DAC1. When that happens I just pause the music and restart it, and that seems to get Itunes back together.
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