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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2011 22:46:44 GMT
Shhhh ! Frans and Valter might read this. The 1s and 0s are the same !  |
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Post by clausdk on Feb 25, 2011 23:12:39 GMT
What would the cost be if we went for the full ape ??
I know I would like a bigger one better..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2011 23:46:27 GMT
For me the mini-ape is more attractive and fits my needs/wants well.
1) Can omit the PC from the playbck chain.
2) Is small enough to move around at will.
3) Is able to o/p to an external DAC for improved SQ
I cannot see it or its big brother replacing good quality DACs etc at this stage, as Alex stated earlier in this thread. The future may bring something else.
This is a cheap, thanks to Mike, versatile unit that will currently fill a niche. I cannot see any reason to buy big-bruv until it is further down the development road.
All, of cousre, IMHO.
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Post by dicky on Feb 26, 2011 18:33:50 GMT
Hey Mike, just stumbled across this thread. This little fella looks interesting and will be ideal at work. Count me in for one.   |
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Post by PinkFloyd on Feb 26, 2011 22:14:13 GMT
Hey Mike, just stumbled across this thread. This little fella looks interesting and will be ideal at work. Count me in for one. Sure thing  |
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Post by JohnnyBlue on Feb 27, 2011 9:12:31 GMT
Mike
You have PM.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2011 12:25:46 GMT
Mike you have PM!
Thanks for sorting this.
Chris
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Post by dicky on Mar 3, 2011 17:08:52 GMT
Hi Mke, you have PM.  Oh, and your bear looks a little peaky! |
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Post by PinkFloyd on Mar 3, 2011 20:08:04 GMT
Ok.... everyone who wants one should receive a paypal invoice from hifidiy within the next couple of days... I have sent your addresses to Candy and trust she will process things quickly |
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Post by freddypipsqueek on Mar 3, 2011 20:37:30 GMT
PM sent with my details
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2011 21:02:12 GMT
Ok.... everyone who wants one should receive a paypal invoice from hifidiy within the next couple of days... I have sent your addresses to Candy and trust she will process things quickly . Ok, thanks a lot Mike. Mick. |
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Post by chris1967 on Mar 3, 2011 21:40:04 GMT
Thanks Mike!!!
I really appreciate this!!
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Post by skp on Mar 4, 2011 10:36:22 GMT
thanks Mike for this!
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Post by dicky on Mar 4, 2011 19:40:14 GMT
Ditto, thanks very much Mike. Just need to think about optical or coaxial now  |
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Post by PinkFloyd on Mar 4, 2011 22:42:38 GMT
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Post by chris1967 on Mar 5, 2011 9:49:48 GMT
Received paypal request and just paid!!
Wow! anxiously awaiting!!!
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Post by PinkFloyd on Mar 5, 2011 10:10:20 GMT
Received paypal request and just paid!! Wow! anxiously awaiting!!! Nice one... let us know when it arrives and what you think of it |
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Post by PinkFloyd on Mar 5, 2011 10:11:07 GMT
Freddy, what is your Paypal address? I will need it to send to HiFiDiy Mike. |
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Post by PinkFloyd on Mar 5, 2011 10:13:04 GMT
Hi John, Can you PM me your Paypal address and I will send it over to HiFiDiy. Mike. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2011 10:44:56 GMT
Ok.... everyone who wants one should receive a paypal invoice from hifidiy within the next couple of days... I have sent your addresses to Candy and trust she will process things quickly Payment request received and funds sent. Thank you Mike. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2011 13:25:34 GMT
Mike,
Ignore my text ..... The message just arrived and now paid.
Many thanks for going to all this trouble. It's really appreciated.
Ian
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2011 13:54:29 GMT
...and another!
Thanks again Mike.
Chris
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Post by dicky on Mar 7, 2011 20:50:49 GMT
OK, so my Mini APE is hopefully knuckling its way to me as we speak. As far as I can tell, the only 2 credible options for quality playback are WAV (downside = large files) and lossless compression (FLAC) with smaller files and no loss of quality. It would, therefore, seem to be a no-brainer to go down the FLAC route. Or am I making a stupid assumption?  So, here comes the Noob question, what's the best software to rip CD to FLAC/WAV - there seem to be dozens of programs that do this (it doesn't have to be free). I'm also mindful of trying to future-proof any music (I'm already stuffed with a load of music that I can't play outside of iTunes). So would WAV be a better choice as it could be used in, say, a music server at a later date - I don't want to have to re-rip! Also, would there be any difference using coax or optical output? Thanks, Dicky |
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Post by joethearachnid on Mar 7, 2011 21:40:33 GMT
Dicky, If you're looking for the BEST software, you probably want EAC: www.exactaudiocopy.de/It's a fairly terrifying bit of software to look at, and not totally intuitive to use, but it rips CDs very accurately by adjusting settings to suit your drive, and then checks the rip against a library to give you a % accuracy - normally in the 99.9-100% range. It can take longer than other rippers though - usually about 20 minutes for an album. FLAC has two main advantages over WAV: it's a smaller filesize and it's taggable. The first is self-explanatory, but the second is actually much more useful - especially in the Mini-APE situation. A WAV file can only have basic tags: A track name and a track number, I think. FLAC can have those and artist, year, genre, disc number etcetera - EAC can retrieve this data for almost all released CDs from a database if you tell it to. From what I can tell, this is what the Mini-APE displays on its screen. I personally can't hear a difference between FLAC and WAV, and the added versatility is very useful. The only issue (as you hit upon) is that iTunes doesn't like FLAC, and the APE doesn't like Apple Lossless. Perhaps a future firmware update could help? As for coax and optical, as I understand it optical has far higher 'jitter' (if you believe in jitter). Coax provides a much cleaner digital signal and the only real reason to use optical is to electrically isolate your digital source from your DAC to prevent a ground loop. Or perhaps you just want optical because the idea of your music as photons is inherently cool. -JoetheArachnid |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2011 22:09:08 GMT
Joe
With optical you are inserting an extra stage. The conversion to the optical format for transmission, and then an optical receiver, which may have bandwidth limitations (they vary between those of the same nominal bandwidth) ,which then converts back to the original format again ! At the DAC the Optical receiver is more than likely sharing it's PSU with some other device too.The potential for increased Jitter is there too from both ends of the chain when Optical is used.
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