MistaChy
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i am curious to know what this wavelength cosecant v3 is and whats so good about it. i couldnt find too much information that made sence to me when i googled it
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yea, raid 10 or 0+1 would be nice, but i use really good western digital drives and they are very reliable, but in the event of a failure, im covered because i do routine back ups... and i also have a back up of my back up drive. i prefer raid 0 because i like to mirror manuallyI can't believe so many people are using raid 0 for music storage. File serving does not require a lot of read or write speed. If one drive goes, the entire array goes. I know RAID 1 has the issue of losing 50% of capacity, but RAID 5 is nice with n-1 capacity. If you do not have backups of your music, even just 3 seperate hard drive would be better because if one drive fails you only lose what is on that one drive, not all 3. I know if I ripped several terabytes of music, I would be slightly concerned about safegurading that time and effort.
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EAC here too, its awesome
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the wife just bought me 3TB for my new flac collection... 3 RE3 western digitals raid 0 [I built a server that has 2TB of data storage in a raid 0 configuration for about $600. That is plenty of music storage for me.
] [D]shes a keeper
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well im unaware of anything better than cd quality... enlighten me??
what source do you feel is compromised?What I want to know is fully lossless from what? An already compromised source? Is it just a way to do the same thing we all do except easier once you have it set up?
If all you are getting is lossless from an already over compressed cd then i am not impressed. Sure its convenient, just like cd's are more convenient than lp's. But listening to cd's is already bad enough. I guess flac doesn't make it any worse at least.
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FLAC files seem like they have a much stronger signal and play noticably lounder than my 320bit MP3 music
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correct, i play files through WinDVD and PowerDVD and i use virtual clone drive for my ISO files, and I get full DTS and DD surround sound... but i dont get trueHD or DTS: Master. that sucksMost excellent. I set my stuff up a few years ago and it was not 'easy'. It was fun, but not easy. Glad they are moving to supply software and hardware for the audio enthusiast. You should not have any problems playing DD and DTS files if all is well.
the only difficulty i faced in setting up the FLAC was knowing which player to use and which driver to download. ASIO didnt work, kept crashing, so i used WASAPI... and walla... brilliance
i guess the main thing was just having a really good HD HDMI video/sound card capable of playing the bitstream. it goes up to 192hGz/24bit... and all i had to do was select that as output device and connect the HDMI cable to the receiver... and get the WASABI drivers for Foobar
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Although I am not familiar with your audio card, unless you have gone to some trouble to set it up correctly it is unlikely you are getting lossless audio. The easiest way to test it is this. While playing a song, go to your control panel and have windows play any of its sounds. If you can hear the music as well as the windows .wav file (both at the same time), you are hearing the result of the windows Kmixer re-sampling ALL the audio.
no, i can not play anything. im using the wasapi driver and it restricts anything else from playing while i got a lossless audio track playing in foobar... so im good to go. and it wasnt too much trouble getting it set up, it was quite easy.
there is a secondary windows audio session API file that i had to download and use, and its working. see the previous post with the photo
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what source do you feel is compromised?What I want to know is fully lossless from what? An already compromised source? Is it just a way to do the same thing we all do except easier once you have it set up?
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what source do you feel is compromised?What I want to know is fully lossless from what? An already compromised source? Is it just a way to do the same thing we all do except easier once you have it set up?
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what source do you feel is compromised?What I want to know is fully lossless from what? An already compromised source? Is it just a way to do the same thing we all do except easier once you have it set up?
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i have the wasabi option set in foobar, then i go directly from my HD video/sound card straight to the receiver. im not sure how i would be using the lossy k-mixer... so im under the empression that im geting bit exact. look at the picture i posted above.
looks nice, but possibly unnecessary in my case if i can make sure my laptop isnt using k-mixer. i have about 400 gigs of music... im not so sure the server can hold it allOlive Music Server, FLAC
Olive offers a terabyte, which is what I use, it has plenty of capacity, but I would agree a laptop is a cheaper option, not sure what DACs you use there.
im not sure what a DAC is though.... im green when it comes to audio
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this is how i figure im getting lossless.... i have it set to 24 bit post processing. wasapi is supposed to be bit exact
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looks nice, but possibly unnecessary in my case if i can make sure my laptop isnt using k-mixer. i have about 400 gigs of music... im not so sure the server can hold it allOlive Music Server, FLAC
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i used to live in arlington off fielder road. and i got a brother that lives there. let me concider the drive.
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the receiver says 96k next to stereo... what does that mean?
that sounds like its working ?? lossless?
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thanks...HTPC = Home Theater Personal Computer
and i think i might be already bypassing the k-mixer if i have it setup in Foobar to play directly through my hidefinition audio device. that audio device goes directly to the receiver.
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the way im playing the FLAC audio right now is through my ATI hi definition Video/Soundcard via HDMI directly to the receiver from my desktop, and my SLI HD Audio out on my laptop via HDMI directly to the receiver. Will that suffice as lossless. The SLI supports up to 192kHz/24bits
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I use .flac in my HTPC. I have all my music ripped to .flac format and stored in my HTPC, which is set up to play lossless audio via JR Media Center. Makes listening to my entire collection effortless. Foobar can also provide lossless music via your pc, as long as you take the steps necessary to bypass windows' kmixer. The Kmixer will re-sample your files from their original format during playback so they will not be lossless.
someone mentioned the asio plug ins, how do i do the bypass...
and what is a HTPC
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Anyone in houston can let me ear taste how well these speakers sound and maybe how good they sound at higher volume levels?
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Any lossless audio listeners here? I'm just now hip to flac and foobar 2000...
Its sounding good, oh what treats I've been missing. Anyone has any other recommendations for lossless audio?
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I just watched Knowing lastnight.... and it rocked my socks off. It was a DTS: Master Audio delight... my klipsch side wall RS-52's were gleeming with activity. Awesome...
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try bi-wiring vs your bi-amping and see if you hear a difference. id be curious to know if u hear a difference
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i plan to breed them as well as clydesdales and game birds when i get some land
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this is how i figure im getting lossless.... i have it set to 24 bit post processing. wasapi is supposed to be bit exact
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Thanks, just bought the supplies and doing this later this week