Recent content by AndyU

A couple of studio engineers from Present Day Production have recently designed their own modular upgradeable monitor using plate amps and digital active crossovers. They have posted lots on YouTube about their design; you may be able to glean some useful ideas from them. They just got a decent...

You might also want to check out the Qobuz feature that lets you store files locally for playback offline. This is useful for your phone when you are travelling, or for home if you have a flakey network. Probably also worth knowing that once you have played something, Qobuz will in any case...

I can’t believe this is taking so long and causing so much aggravation. 14 years ago I bought a Squeezebox Touch. It, and subsequently a secondone, worked faultlessly over Wi-Fi in a large flat with whatever crappy router I had in those days, Only thing that would knock it off was the microwave...

The Italian intercity trains are superb. Very quiet, fast (though you wouldn’t know unless you looked at the speed as they are so smooth), comfortable and civilized. You have a choice of seats in a group of four with a table between, or pairs of seats with individual tables like on a plane. USB...

Not as far as I know. You choose a reserved seat on Trenitalia and Italo Treno as part of the booking. Your tickets are usually checked at least once.

Florence is a good bit easier than Rome - there’s less of it so it’s easier to walk most places and a fair bit is now pedestrianised.

Florence is busy and hot in the summer and if you have Anglo-saxon concepts of personal space you might find it oppressive, especially with kids. All the nearby places are more humane - Pisa is fun, Lucca has a wonderful wall to saunter round - and there‘s a huge stretch of beach slightly more...

Just to say - I live in Italy and, contrary to what you might expect from a country that in many other respects is a shambles, the trains are fantastic, clean, nearly always on time and bike-friendly, so do come if you can. Sure, three days isn’t a lot, but itll give you a wee taste, and you’ll...

3800 alleged hate crimes have already been reported since Monday. https://news.stv.tv/politics/nearly-4000-hate-crime-complaints-reported-to-police-scotland-since-monday

The Scottish Police have just said that, despite complaints, J K Rowling will not face action under the new law for her recent remarks. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-government-backs-jk-rowling-scottish-hate-crime-law-challenge-2024-04-02/

Calling someone an “idiot” is offensive, and were I passing a sex-shop in Glasgow I might well report you, anonymously, for hate crime. ”The terms idiot, imbecile, moron, and their derivatives were formerly used as technical descriptors in medical, educational, and regulatory contexts. These...

I can highly recommend Ian Bostridge’s book, “Schubert’s Winter Journey - Anatomy of an Obsession”. And his versions of Winterreise are compelling. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0571282814?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Wouldnt whether you could hear those artefacts be one of the points of making a comparison?

You could take a copy and downsample it to whatever resolution you fancy and see if you can hear a difference. Maybe the 1957 tape-hiss, print-through, wow and flutter, hysteresis and other distortions will be affected.

You certainly without doubt have very little understanding of the design and implementation of digital audio devices. What single digital audio device have you ever designed? What single qualification in digital audio engineering or any related discipline have you achieved?