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Digital Drive Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it. |
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Digital Drive Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it. |
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In Reply to: The BEST CD 'Tweak' Yet posted by hahax on May 16, 2005 at 20:49:35:
I was intregued by the GMA First Overture digital preamp, and it's innovative use of capacitors as cable risers. I was excited to try CDR's from such an engineering legend.They were delivered by a mysterious looking black van, I never saw the delivery man, they just seemed to appear at my doorstep, and the van left my circular driveway as I opened the door. There were cryptic symbols all over the plain cardboard box they came in, like some ancient, unknown sanscrit, with the standard postmark stamped over a group of symbols that looked like Egyptian heiroglyphics. Interesting...
I made a CD image using EAC of my Chesky demo CD, no errors, bit-perfect copy. I dropped in a CDR (Plextor Plexwriter Premium drive) My computer started making a funny sound, and the screen started flickering. It sounded like atonal pipe organ music coming out of my Midiland computer speakers. Fine, silvery dust started shooting out of the drive as it spun faster and faster, louder than I've ever heard it spin. The same scanscrit started scrolling down my screen, wiping out the Nero Burning ROM dialog box with a jumble of horrible, incomprehensible lettering. An inhuman voice started chanting through my headphones, smoke came out of my monitor, the keyboard was hot to the touch, and with a horrible, crashing, grinding sound, the CD ejected, complete.
I popped it in my CD player, and noticed a slight unveiling of the higher registers, but the overall sound was more compressed, with a hint of distortion in the midrange. Also, all the birds in my yard seem to have died, a horrible, hemorraging death, and my car now gets lousy gas mileage.
Has anyone else had these results? The clearer highs sure are nice, but the added distortion in the midrange, burned-out computer and dead wildlife are drawbacks.
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