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In Reply to: RE: Why donīt they all get it ? posted by play-mate on May 02, 2011 at 09:42:05
I agree with Bibo01 for the most part.
Audiophiles IME are more into looks than sound these days. You see that on the Planar asylum. Sad but it seems to be true. And they tend to want to throw money at the project. Cmp2 doesnt offer any of that...no bling, no easy gratification. Add to that the fact that some of its ideas are so advanced that the mainstream audio and computer people dont get some of its concepts that it easy for an audiophile to be daunted and just buy a lappy and a usb device and think it is the cats meow. And pretty picts too.
In addition it is easy to reach bad conclusions with the cmp2 website. Many people download cplay and it ends there because they hate the gui. They miss the part about cmp being the gui, and that cplay is not supposed to be stand alone. (Audio Pharaoh comes to mind)
And some buy the juli@ card and make conclusions with doing none of the cmp2 tweaks and using all the wrong hardware (Barondalla comes to mind).
IMHO the best way to get converts (which honestly Leif I dont know why you would care) is to just bring one over and let them listen with their dac. Or invite a local club to come by and listen. Or if you know some audiophiles get some of their cds and rip them into your cmp2 box and bring it over. Once they HEAR the benefits and see how easy it is to use then they will find a way to get past the diy stuff.
And here is a conspiratorial thought. With minlog wouldnt it be totally possible to just have a site with an image file of a cmp2 build? People could download and viola instant cmp2 box. If the hardware is right shouldnt that work....sure it is totally illegal and I wouldnt do anything like that (you know first hand I am a goody goody) but I can THINK it right?
Arent there some countries where this kind of thing could be hosted legally??
Or couldnt there be a way to make the changes on an existing OS. Isnt there such a thing for Windows 7...the Fidelizer or something. You download it and run it and it tweaks things. Cics might be able to create a program that does most of the heavy lifting.
No one here remembers the bending of our minds
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People could download and viola instant cmp2 box.Without commenting on Win OS licencing issues (they were covered in this case), it is quite feasible to do what you say. A month or two back, I sent another AA inmate a CD containing an imagefile of an XP-SP2, cMP^2 build with minlogon, AWE etc pre-configured but, because his motherboard and soundcard were different from mine, no bespoke drivers loaded.
The recipient copied the imagefile onto his boot partition, loaded the chipset and soundcard drivers, performed the Autoruns thingies and, after testing, disabled one or two inessential services. It all went pretty smoothly.
He did of course have to buy a copy of my imaging utility but I believe there are freeware equivalents. In any case, attempting a cMP^2 build without a decent imaging utility (and preferably a docking station as well) is asking for trouble.
No, I'm not planning to offer this as a service.
Edits: 05/03/11
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