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The last post in Hi-Rez Highway was well over a month ago while Digital Drive and PC/Computer Audio are buzzing with activity. Just an observation which prompted me to post here. Yawn ;-)
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It's been three weeks since you posted this and it is still the most recent post, so I guess it is at a dead end.
"New high resolution SACD releases, players and technology."
So reads the header but...
Hi Rez is now available for streaming as well as download making SACD moot for those who can stream and have the patience to download.
As a Hi Rez music forum, again there are boards for about everything from Classical through Jazz and on to Rock or just 'Music' in general.
Digital board seems to be mostly about DACs and other equipment while Computer is mostly about storage and streaming? Certainly some overlap between Computer and Digital.
Combine Hi Rez with either Computer or Digital?
Or as 'zackster' suggested below, combine all three?
Separate board for Raspberry Pi? (just kidding!) :-)
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I remember when they decided to stop talking about DVD-A on this forum.
Yeah, I've been here a long time.
I haven't bought an SACD in many years. Ripped them all to DSD. Almost never use my Oppo any more.
Jeff
"Decaf is for cowards."
Jack Kevorkian
There's plenty of life still left in SACD. Just because it doesn't get mention on this forum doesn't makes it a "dead end".
Edits: 06/28/22
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Have a pretty decent CD/sacd collection but no players at present, just stream. So I guess for at least the present you could say physical high resolution is sorta dead for me.
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All 3 digital boards should be merged. And I wouldn't exactly call it buzzing with activity. The other two boards can be pretty slow too.
Did we ever need a Vinyl/belt drive vs Vinyl/direct drive?
It was only a few years ago that audiophiles would look down on direct drive turntables [ like the Technics SL-1200 series ]. Now we see several 'high end' audiophile TT manufacturers making direct drive models.
I've always said that anyone with some decent tools in their garage could make a nice belt drive TT. There's not a lot of technology behind it compared to the electronics needed for a good direct drive system. Just my 2-cents worth.
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There's not a lot of technology behind it compared to the electronics needed for a good direct drive system.
you employ an external power supply like the Phoenix Eagle used with my VPI Scout to finely regulate the speed.
Which also serves to obviate the need for moving belt to different sized pulleys when changing speeds.
It is for me. I would even go so far as to call it a fools errand.
multichannel/Atmos/Spatial Audio. When the forums were made for hirez in 2000, it was still the DVD-based format war between SACD and DVD-A.I do find it amusing that now the push is for file-based Atmos playback for the bleeding edge; i.e, The Computer Audiophile's latest quest. Personally, I find it much easier to just throw a bluray in the player than deal with that level of complexity. But let's face it, half of audiophools choose to do what they do just because it is more complicated and expensive... (guilty).
Edits: 07/30/22
As one engineering manager once commented to me, "Complexity is its own reward."
K.I.S.S. - or as simple as possible to get the job done.
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I often think that the "Beginning of the End" for Musical Tonality started when Les Paul started Electrifying an Instrument, that already had wonderful natural Harmonic Tonality, for the sake of greater Loudness.
I'm a follower of the old saying "If it ain't Broke; Don't Fix it"
listening to Hi-Rez just continues.
...like Digital and Hi-Rez Highway which might bring more combined eyeballs to related topics that are missed by those who hangout on one vs the other forum.Personally I think it's fine the way it is but it does appear that Hi-Rez Highway goes dark for quite a while compared to the others.
I enjoy Hi-Res too through ripped music files, downloads, and streaming services.
Edits: 06/15/22
I think it would make more sense to merge Hi Res and Digital PC. Most Hi Res is now download and streaming. Though there are some of us who do still spin SACD's and BR's, I think we can figure out that those posts might best be in regular digital.
Maybe cd/SACD/dvd-a digitalAnd
All else digital
Gsquared
Edits: 06/15/22
Couldn't resist. Try the veal and don't forget to tip your server.
Much better name
Gsquared
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