Dusty Chalk

Atom™, Music is Better than Pussy

I'm not familiar with Macs, but I can hazard a guess: look in your settings for ... audio out? digital out? See if it's hard set to 96. See if there's a setting in ...ac3 filter? Are you using that? Looks like it's under the main tab, "output format", set to "AS IS"? Looks like there might be a couple of settings there, if you're using it: I would love to help, but really need to be looking over your shoulder, alas. Look at the settings under SPDIF on the same tab as well, unclick the "restrict" rate if you're using it. EDIT: Assuming you're not using ac3 filter, it looks like the settings you need to be looking at are your audio settings. It should look something like this: ...only you want to set your output device to your SPDIF. If you can do that and take a screen shot, I'm sure I or someone here can tell you what to look for next, assuming you haven't figured it out yourself by that point.

No, but now that you've said that, I have to consider it. Also, since you made me look, I did find a couple that are designed to be more "open": Howard Leight Another one

Gas, "Microscopic", 9:54 of electronic bliss (recommended to everyone except those that have an aversion to synthesizers) -- free mp3 from last.fm

Hey, I did allow for the possibility of magic... EDIT: And I didn't think of this until later, but source might also have been an issue.

Alpacas are silly looking creatures, especially when freshly shorn:

It's a great quote, but you needn't credit anything to me, I didn't say it. You may want to say something along the lines of "paraphrased of Louis Armstrong, etc." And do you realize: we're asking, and we're never getting to knowing (what the quote was).

Yeah, I saw that, but wikiquote also says, "Exact wording varies", and that sounds like a grammatically correct-ified version of what he said originally. He may have said it multiple times, which may make it impossible to determine for sure.

I can't take full credit for it, only its use in this context (and a little fun with language). Can't find the exact correct phrasing of the quote, so you'll have to settle for my memory (which, admittedly, is faulty): And: thanks.

Dude, it's kind of like jazz. If you have to ask the question, then yes, you are.

Good luck!

I realize it wasn't a bike in Snowcrash, but that put me in mind of pizza delivery being superior for a reason.

This basically confirms what I am saying, I.E. that the answer is no, it's not bit perfect, unless you have all processing turned off:

I doubt it. If any software manipulates the signal at all, the first thing to go would be bit perfection. I'd use hdcd.exe (or equivalent) to decode the HDCD encoding in software, then use that as your input file.

Well, couldn't tell from your original post in this thread. Didn't seem very specific. If I could fairly generate the top 20 questions asked by a newb or a troll (the latter being only a small variation on the former), yours would fit right in.

See, that's the problem right there. You (and other newbs), expect the answers to be handed to you, rather than trying to learn them on your own. It's your responsibility to figure that out, not ours to explain it to you.

I caved and looked: Demians, Mute -- definitely a winner: Here's to hoping I haven't screwed up "the streak".

Did you really lurk, or did you sign up a year ago, and wait until now to start posting? 'cause there's a difference. If you had actually lurked, you would have noticed that we've had bad luck with threads that seem to be started for the sole purpose of "breaking the ice" as it were (trolls, douchebags, asshats, and retards, for the most part), and you would have known what sort of response to expect ahead of time. Your best bet is to go back into lurk mode. Don't know if you're an asshat or not, but if you're not, really, take my advice, read more, post less.

"Hegh, 'et 'o uh ah uh."

Plus, you got to keep your now discontinued color (IIRC). Win.

Would have been the 840's (as that is the only thing I remember bringing to the meet). Might also have used whatever was plugged into the machine (Senn HD650's?). Might also have been Colin's Thunderpantses. Don't remember.

Is that the same amp that was at the Virginia meet a while back? Sorry to be the lone voice of dissent, but I was fairly underwhelmed by it. Maybe there's something magical happening with the LCD-2's, but I just couldn't get it to sing. I think I tried it with my Shures.

Me, now, not in car: Pieter Nooten, Here is Why -- not his first album since Sleeps with Fishes, but first one I'm aware of. Going to have to go back and find the other two.

Eat a lot of asparagus.