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It all seems a bit pushy even for MS. Collusion with the silicone folk? Let the lawsuits begin....

What ever floats your boat I guess...:rolleyes:

There was a time when CES was all about Audio...Then came Video. Now it's...Well it's not what it used to be, it needs to die and go away.:(

While many consider the Nyquist calculations to be the end all be all of compression the methodology is not without it's flaws...Not saying it's all bad but it does assume a lot. Take a few moments and read this little bit of info, it explains a lot and also explains where some of the...

It's funny, the term "Audiophile" gets tossed around a lot and for as long as I was in the business I never did figure it out. That said I do know what a Hammond B-3 organ sounds like in person and I know what a Steinway Grand piano sounds like in person and I'd like my home system to...

I might as well toss this in the mix as part of the stuff you have never heard of: Saskia Reference II Turntable. This product is designed and built by a now no longer active forum member and even at that price he can't keep up with demand all 253 pounds of it. Most are sold overseas where...

You are more then welcome to read the opinions of Gene DellaSalla and Floyd Toole but can you sit down with them and actually do the listening?...I don't think so. The difference is I allowed people to make buying decisions based on what they could hear and of course budget. Why do you...

The Telarc digital master converted to vinyl was the only album to not only cause the stylus to jump out of the groove it actually broke a few as well. A totally harsh recording but it had unbelievable dynamics for the time but the rest of the sound was a bit grungy. Stan Ricker (Now passed...

No need. Only one of us learned from guys like Harmon, David Hafler, Bob Carver, Henry Kloss, John Curl, Mark Levinson etc. and I'm pretty sure it wasn't you. Only one of us had their own audio (and later audio/video) stores and actually sold the gear and got training from the guys who knew...

Well, not all DACs, not the good ones anyway. Why do you think there has been a huge resurgence in Vinyl recordings? Vinyl recordings have the ability to record up to and over 80khz...Some people want to hear all the music. Sidney Harman was the first guy to develop the high current AMP but...

Yes, there are limits to what the ear can hear but you are forgetting that almost all musical instruments and the rooms or studios they are played in are subject to harmonics. Yes, those harmonics go way beyond the ear's limits but being harmonics they bounce around and return as artifacts that...

Pretty close for sure, usually the highs are the first to go during compression. Now go back and listen to the bass lines, I think you will find a lot of missing bass as well. Next, on a good recording of course, listen to the vocals, lotta lost info from the vocals. That said a lot...

You do realize, if you know what to listen for instrument wise, repeating the test just makes it easier? After 3 tries it just got boring, but I hit it all three times 1/4 way through each piece. Compressed, the music sounds like you're listening through a curtain, many of the details are...

Yup, I agree: Never take advice from a guy worth 22.2 billion with more coming in every day, a good bit of it still from MS. Clearly there are people right here on this forum much brighter than Ballmer:rolleyes:

Why can't you import your favorites into Edge? Yes, it has it issues but that's not one of them.

You might want to take a look at the Sonos "Connect" and or "Connect:AMP" line of products. Full WIFI and they support pretty much all formats.

Five in five correct, fantastic! You have an ear for detail and a good audio system, it’s for people like you that we have created the service. You deserve TIDAL for 30 days. SHARE YOUR RESULT I passed the High Fidelity Test, will you? Test here if you have the audio system and ears for...

It is an interesting alternative to using drones....

Memory prices (of any type) have come a long way. Back in 1985 I had a need to use a program in FoxPro and my then new Zenith 286/6 needed RAM...Unheard of amounts of RAM at the time, 2 megabytes. The only way to get that much RAM in that day was add on cards filled with 256k chips. I need...

VHS blanks hit the market back in the 70's and started at about $30.00 a pop. If you wanted to buy an actual movie to watch they were $60.00 and up which is how the rental business started, nobody would buy a pre-recorded movie at that price.

Didn't Iron Man use one of those?:)

Oh I don't know, looks to me like Windows 10 is still in Beta, why not a matching Anti Virus?;)

I think you are a little late on that one. This is but one of quite a few...

$127.00 They really cut the price plus only 2 year factory warranty....

Maybe the government should hire some real IT people? Security experts might be a good idea. Just a thought...

Also very true. I was one of the first to get my ISF-Certs and pay the money for all the gear and cables. First issue, when done to spec most people didn't like the picture... Second issue it cost money calibrate a TV and again, most people won't spend the money. Even in the so-called...

Aside from your very valid point you can add in ROI. None of this will work without customers for High End TV as well as the proper source material. Look at the market place in home electronics for a moment. MP-3 is fine for what, 90+ present of the market place so true music reproduction...

There was a time that TV was ONLY live, you missed it.

Here is a little easier to understand article on the subject Link

OOps. no Verizon support...I'm out

First problem, they are SATA-2 and were sold as laptop drives and the newer drives are faster. SSDs just don't buy you much in RAID-0 and with the newer models it buys you even less. Depending on hours used you might want to check them with Samsung's software and try to determine how much...

Interesting subject those wiper blades but how many of you adjust your wiper arms? I've yet to see a wiper arm that placed the wiper blade absolutely perpendicular to the windshield from the factory. This is the biggest cause of chatter and blades that won't flip flop properly. The trick is...

In my zip it looks like a Sprint Map...doesn't get much worse than that. I see no mention of phones or phone pricing either. The whole ad is like watching a news person ask a politician a question and getting the usual no straight answer. A bit to vague as presented.

How did Apple miss this one?;)

It's really hard for me to believe some of you actually think the cable companies actually own or control the programing. THEY DON"T!!! The cable companies provide the wire to your home; they spend millions to purchase programing from other big companies to sell to you, the customer. Go...

Yes, but it will make you very popular at the dog park...Unless some Pitt Bull tries to bite you a second butt hole;)

Look for this driver on your driver disk: AMDA00_Win7-8-8-1_V1010 Nobody seems to have a really good answer about what it does (seems to be an ACPI driver) exactly but it should make your error message go away. If you do a search on the driver you will find all sorts of comments... I...

Why not grab a real amp/receiver from eBay? Case in point this Harmon Kardon. It has a real amp section, it's high current (current drives speakers not watts) and it's surround to boot. It has a great headphone section as well. Lot's of other good choices there for the budget buyer as well...

Board level repairs like that are pretty straight forward if you have the tools. You need a soldering station, a hollow soldering tip that is hooked to a vacuum pump. Heat each pin, suck away the solder remove the socket. Stick the new socket back in place, re-solder each pin. Figure an...

Agreed. run it stock or use all the overclocking features to take it to the max. There isn't much in the BIOS you can't adjust and all the drivers are mature and work. It also got the [H] Gold rating. Hard to beat for the bucks.