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In Reply to: RE: Slimming cPlay posted by theob on February 13, 2012 at 11:58:57
Ted,
If you are not looking for the best "polarity" of a recording I wonder how you can hear the subtleties of this cPLAY slimming.
The file is not reduced that much!
I slimmed the settings dialog to just do what I want it to do. All of the other buttons and text are gone. I got rid of the diagnostics screen since I do not need it anymore (and since I deleted its button). Same with the add disks dialog (more buttons. Personally I think this is a better way to slim.
All is a compromise but being able to switch phase should be important to you. I know I could not live without it.
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If you are not looking for the best "polarity" of a recording I wonder how you can hear the subtleties of this cPLAY slimming.
It's 4am in a sleepy suburb of Smallsburg, MO. All is quiet - not even audiophiles can hear cats prowling in the back yards. Three large cars pull up outside Theob's house; twelve officers of the Audio Enforcement Agency crowd round the front and back doors, all wearing flac jackets and carrying night-wavs.
Suddenly, all hell breaks loose as the doors are rammed. Lights ablaze, Sargeant Dwight B Test (known to colleagues as DeeBee T) barks orders, 'Officer Cable, listening room! Officer Tohnarm, basement!'
But it's for show only; they know what they're about.
A tense hour later, DeeBee asks, 'What have you got?' Cable lists six mini-ITX mobos. 'All bar one of them dead! What business has any honest citizen wrecking five of the things? He's up to something, I know it.'
Tohnarm agrees: 'Two Heathkit 60s-vintage tube amps, neither working, two two-way Miranda Wrights still with electrolytics in the crossovers and an old Quadraphonic Converter still in its box but not a phase button in the place . Never seen the like in twenty years in the AEA.'
'Arrest him. Read him his Magneplanars and take him to the station. I'll faze him soon enough. Good work, men; the lab boys will be round shortly'.
The gear you mention would probably not reveal the difference so there is no need with that set-up.
Once you hear the difference it is clearly audible.
It is not immediately obvious when you first experiment but with time and spending time with each polarity when listening it will become clear that there is a best position for each recording and sometimes for tracks within an album.
I find the difference to be, at least, as audible as many of these other mods we have used.
Plus without a remote it makes for a good excuse to get out of the sofa.
If you can't hear it, I guess, you can't hear it. But I think that is impossible ... unless you never tried!
Oh oh busted again!!! LMAO!!!
It is all a matter of compromise. Yes I do miss the phase switch. But cplay sounds way way better w/o it because of the great sonic impact of the tweak. You really have to try it. But you are right we all to individually decide which way is better.
Edits: 02/13/12
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