This is what 3rd World is about. I'm paying about 57 euros/month for this crap, and what's worse, no company can give me higher speeds. Cable company doesn't cover my street. And I live pretty downtown the capital, not the suburbs
Good luck Jacob. 33% wage increase for about the same work load is a great deal.
Dinny, get well soon. Or not, staying at home, if you're not feeling dying sick, is nice too. Take care mate
We'll see Al, I wouldn't be that enthusiastic about it. Some external HDD manufacturers have recently released USB 3.0 drives but nothing about Thunderbolt. I wish you're right, it looks a better interface, but USB's universality is a factor.
I made some transcoding experiments with dBPoweramp some time ago. If my memory isn't failing on me (which is quite likely lately) somehow the thing manages to fit 24bits from a lossless file into mp3. Don't ask me how, nor if the result had indeed any extra info resulting from the 24 bits source. The file was bigger than the one made previously processing to down into 16 bits. I can't recall if I tried making V0 and 320 or only 320 files.
In any case I see no point at all in using a "higher information" source for the 24 bits, if you're fitting them into a lossy format which is discarding information to begin with.
I could consider purchasing Hi-res lossless files from Apple if price is more or less sensible in the HDTracks range, but not at a silly high price. Not that I see much benefit to those 24 bits if they don't come with some extra sampling rate. Sound-wise 24/48 doesn't make much of a difference (and depending on the systems for worse) compared to 16/44.
x2 On first listening it's been kind of "deja senti". Very Radiohead, not very original, and can't find the "experimental" vibe here. We'll see what happens on repeated listening
So, they design crossfeed and all sort of tricks, digital or analogue (as in the Phonitor) to get your headphones sounding like speakers, then this guy designs a trick to get your speakers sounding like headphones, which supposedly improves 3D imaging. Amazing