That's it. Hi-End rules. I agree that artworks like Harman Kardon, NAD or Cairn are great. Especially I like the 'mountain' series from Cairn.... Damn heap of cash, man:) Compared to them all those thingies from Daewoo and Samsung look like 5 yr old boy's toys. Or like Windoze:) However, MP3 itself lacks of quality and it seems to be even weaker than Audio CD. There's a Hi-End magazine I like very much, Stereo And Video. I have a Russian version issue that covers differences amoung contemporary DAC/ADC and compression formats. If anyone interested- drop a note and I'll try to translate it for you.
Well, all that is true. I've been there, really. But.... With Linux which has a bundled free compiler you still have a choice to fix the problem yourself or find someone who is able to do this for you. In most cases all problems compiling Linux sources are pretty minor, unless you get a 2.2.x thingy and try to run it on 2.0.x or do alike nuts. And it's much better to have a free program that you can put your hands on instead of spending a heap of money on a commercial to realize later that this freaky beast won't work with this and talk to that and sends a bunch of HTML crap attached to your e-mail etc etc. Again, in Linux you still have a chance to bring it up, otherwise you have to decide whether to call a support or to bite own a*s. Just IMHO
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That's it. Hi-End rules. I agree that artworks like Harman Kardon, NAD or Cairn are great. Especially I like the 'mountain' series from Cairn.... Damn heap of cash, man :) :)
Compared to them all those thingies from Daewoo and Samsung look like 5 yr old boy's toys. Or like Windoze
However, MP3 itself lacks of quality and it seems to be even weaker than Audio CD. There's a Hi-End magazine I like very much, Stereo And Video. I have a Russian version issue that covers differences amoung contemporary DAC/ADC and compression formats. If anyone interested- drop a note and I'll try to translate it for you.
Sorry if off-topic
Well, all that is true. I've been there, really. But.... With Linux which has a bundled free compiler you still have a choice to fix the problem yourself or find someone who is able to do this for you.
In most cases all problems compiling Linux sources are pretty minor, unless you get a 2.2.x thingy and try to run it on 2.0.x or do alike nuts.
And it's much better to have a free program that you can put your hands on instead of spending a heap of money on a commercial to realize later that this freaky beast won't work with this and talk to that and sends a bunch of HTML crap attached to your e-mail etc etc.
Again, in Linux you still have a chance to bring it up, otherwise you have to decide whether to call a support or to bite own a*s.
Just IMHO
Exactly...
:) (Hi-End audio manufacturers left, OSs- right). And Samsung is really a Muzzide of audio industry!
McIntosh - Macintosh
AudioNote - AS/400
Marantz - Unix
Just kidding