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Complimentary 24/176.4 HRx Downloads Courtesy of R

ecoli — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:42:13 +0800

Some believed it as the future of high end audio. With more and more hi-end manufacturers launching more and more Computer based music servers with built-in DAC, and with more and more bits and ever increasing kHz in sampling; it is not surprising that it will be a dominating force in the future. A case in point: I have heard the Bladelius Embla in action in a friend's system and I am very impressed.

Equally challenging is the sampling and decoding of music. I am no computer greek, and I was fully confused with the 16/24; 24/96 , 24/192 etc ....... notations!

Reference Recordings is promoting their very own 24/176.4 HRx recordings. 176.4? Where that number came from?

Check out their samples here:

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/...ence-Recordings

May be I just mimic the ostrich....

High End Audio or Rip-off?

ecoli — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:10:03 +0800

This is from an interview with Mark Levinson, the man himself:-

QUOTE

S+I: How has the high-end audio business changed over the years in your view?

ML: When I started there was no ‘high-end’ audio. There was McIntosh and Revox and JBL, but I never thought of it as high-end audio — to me it was just good engineering, quality parts, and the goal was just to achieve better sound. In my opinion, high-end audio started to develop originally out of a passion for better sound, and very quickly it developed into a way of taking money from wealthy music lovers who though they were getting something. And it’s turned into a gigantic fraud, a rip-off, a fiasco. It’s really tragic that people who love music are spending all this money on stuff which doesn’t really work. It’s just the most under-engineered, over-priced... well, there are some good products here and there; not everything is like that, but by and large it is. And in some cases there is actual fraud on — people should be in jail for some of the cables that cost US$27,000 a pair.

Full text here : http://www.avhub.com.au/Features.aspx?MagazineID=4

Steinway Lyngdorf

ecoli — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:39:39 +0800

I received a SMS yesterday:

"Mr. Peter Lyngdorf invites you to the grand opening of Steinway Lyngdorf Audio & Visual Show Suite at Adorn Floor, StarHill Gallery on 18th Feb wednesday 7pm"

So Lyngdorf is having and outlet here now in KL.. The Danish label is renowned by their "Digital Amp"; so I was told.

What exactly is an digital amp?