Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Sunshine
actually the tube idea will give a more warmer sound plus mor definition to the sound spectrum. this way the sound that is reproduced is a natural sound and not colorized by any dsp processing. the concept of the tube/valve idea is that withthe sound frequency's this will help define the sou

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Brent Harding
My turtle beach Montego DDL sounds quite good compared to the SBLive I had in my old machine. It has optical in and out, a mic in, line in, line out, and a couple other jacks I'm not sure what for. I think those are surround, wouldn't it be nice if one could just have an extra wave device in Win

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Brent Harding
I thought I found that online somewhere that the valve thing is just what the British call tubes. I thought Adam Curry's idea on his shows in the earlier days when he said he used a "stereo valve processor" litterally meant the name of the device, when in fact, all it is was a generalization of

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Brent Harding
Well, I do notice that if people do Internet shows using on board sound cards, you can really hear the hiss from the mic out jacks. The cheapest solution to that problem is probably a USB headset mic, but then you get too much breathing in. You probably would need a higher end card to get better

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread djdoctorp
Hello all, Just as I promised in my last post, here is the link to that USB vacuum tube amp that I was telling you all about. http://www.neuhauslabs.com/amplifiers/ I am wondering something about this though, can you record from this unit? I will call them and ask them about that tomorrow. My be

RE: Problems Playing WMV and MOV Files

2009-11-01 Thread Ray
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RE: Problems Playing WMV and MOV Files

2009-11-01 Thread Ray
Caroline, I'm not surprised the Beeb isn't making it easy to play downloaded files in other media players because, after all, the licence you're granted to play these does in the normal way of playing them expire in 28 days or something like that. I wonder though if there is an extra DRM module or

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread djdoctorp
Hello all, I have been doing some digging on vacuum tube sound cards, and this is what I've found. I found a tube amplifier that has a USB inter face that bypasses your computer's sound card. It has a 24 bit 156 kHz DAT converter. But it is kind of pricy. This unit sails for $750 I will get bac

Re: Total Recorder Products

2009-11-01 Thread Norma A. Boge
Hi Dane, I'm a big fan of Total Recorder Pro, as I've been using it for audio work for several years. Thanks for the tips on the video capture info, I'll go to the TR site and check it out. Regards, Norma At 02:51 AM 11/1/2009, you wrote: Hi! I've got what perhaps may be an easier optio

RE: New member with some questions

2009-11-01 Thread David Halliwell
Thank you for these Ray. David -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Ray Sent: 01 November 2009 19:15 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: New member with some questions David, as you want the video as well as the

RE: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread André van Deventer
Speaking of high sound quality - I would be in the market for a very good digital to analog converter simply to use my computer connected to a good stereo system. Is there anything better than the xitel for example? Andre -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:

RE: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread André van Deventer
I have heard though that they are quite OK when using them with computer speakers but that they are not that good when hooking them up to high end systems like NAD and Rotell. Andre -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Brian Olesen
Hi, Well actually there are many factors to consider when bying a sound card, of higher class. In my opinion you should really try to get it away from the noisy and electro magnetic pc itself, and out in the free air. smile Any way a firewire, or a USB solution, where the data remains 100 % digi

RE: Problems Playing WMV and MOV Files

2009-11-01 Thread Caroline Ford
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Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Andy
Hi Tim. This device sounds like something I'd be very much interested in. I've been using the Soundblaster for several years to take the optic from my computer to my Arcam AV. Not too bothered about recording at this time, so an output device would seem to meet my needs. Dio you know if thi

high-fi soundcards

2009-11-01 Thread Joe
Wow. A lot of good advice on sound cards. When I was looking for a good card about a year ago, I decided on the creative x-fi stream music. Unfortunately it was discontinued at about $60 in the US. and I don't think creative ever came up with anything as good to take its place. If you have an o

RE: New member with some questions

2009-11-01 Thread Ray
David, as you want the video as well as the audio I guess replies here are going to be fewer than if you wanted simply to extract audio. I have found a Wiki article listing quite a few programs handling straight ripping some restricted to unprotected formats, others claiming to be able to deal wit

RE: New member with some questions

2009-11-01 Thread David Halliwell
Thanks Ray, I'm actually looking to rip DVDs to my PC rather than burning them. The zen idea is a good one though, thank you for that David -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Ray Sent: 01 November 2009 03:05 To: PC Au

RE: New member with some questions

2009-11-01 Thread Christopher Chaltain
The iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano can be self voicing, bugt you need to set that up on your PC or Mac with iTunes. Audio clips are copied via iTunes to the iPod to voice the menus, folders and files. The iPod Touch includes Voice Over, so once you get sighted help or use iTunes to turn it on, it'll h

SV: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Bue Vester-Andersen
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Re: A very special and exciting announcement, plus more about the pen friend, and an interesting new concept in internet radio on Innovations thisweek

2009-11-01 Thread dan thompson
What is the link to the Innovations page? - Original Message - From: "Steve Pattison" To: "Access L" ; "PC Audio" ; "CUG Members" Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 5:08 AM Subject: Fwd: A very special and exciting announcement,plus more about the pen friend,and an interesting new conce

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Ray
An interesting thread and plenty of interfaces to go and take a look at. Still, I have one question: these may do what we want in terms of multimple inputs or outputs, but how usable is the interface that comes with them? I think myself that for multi-input work we really need an external mixer

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Crawford
Hi Bue, I'm using a little device here called the UD10.1 audio converter from Trends audio. It connects to your pc via usb, and has a variety of outputs including both optical and coaxual s-pdif, XLR, and BNC. The 3.5mm headphone socket also doubles as a line output, and provides phono out b

RE: New member with some questions

2009-11-01 Thread Ray
Thanks Christopher for this. So am I wrong thinking the latest IPods - or some of them - are entirely self-voicing? I've not dipped as much as a toe nail yet in the world of IPods. Ray Christopher Chaltain wrote: The iPod Touch has Voice Over included. The iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle both nee

Re: Playing Live Audio Streams

2009-11-01 Thread Vítek
Hi, the URL you posted is just the address you fill out in the address line but doesn't have anything common with live stream. In this case the radio is played in the background of a cite so it's necessary pulling it out using some utilities designed for this. The live stream 32kb/s mpeg2 here

Re: Recordijng From Radio On Line

2009-11-01 Thread Vítek
Hi, the Screamer-radio core itself doesn't have, but there is separately-built programe that gets attached to the mentioned core Screamer-radio called Screamermenu. There's supposed to be some help file there or something but it seems to be quite intuitive and easy. It's important to stress tha

Fwd: A very special and exciting announcement, plus more about the pen friend, and an interesting new concept in internet radio on Innovations this week

2009-11-01 Thread Steve Pattison
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RE: New member with some questions

2009-11-01 Thread Christopher Chaltain
The iPod Touch has Voice Over included. The iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle both need iTunes to copy audio clips over to voice the menus, folders and files. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]

Re: Goldwave recording question

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Crawford
Hi, Many thanks for the response. I've encountered a problem though, in that when I select my recording device, which is an external usb audio interface there doesn't appear to be a line-in option available. I'll try it on another pc and see what happens. Cheers, and thanks again. Tim. --

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Robert Nelson
This thread made me wonder just what audio interfaces are available these days. Browsing the page shown below shows that there are quite a few audio interfaces available but they are not necessarily hi fi sound cards. However, it seems that most hi fi sound cards these days come with

Re: Playing Live Audio Streams

2009-11-01 Thread Vítek
Hi, the URL you posted is just the address you fill out in the address line but doesn't have anything common with live stream. In this case the radio is played in the background of a cite so it's necessary pulling it out using some utilities designed for this. The live stream 32kb/s mpeg2 here

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-01 Thread Les Gordon
for a soundcard like this, most likely part of the card might be a external box. unless they make something that would fit into a large tower case that offers more bays. i am using creative soundblaster xfi. and i get a nice warm sound out of that. it gives a million options for the sound. but t

Re: Total Recorder Products

2009-11-01 Thread Dane trethowan
Hi! I've got what perhaps may be an easier option for you than Total Recorder, will cost a little more but will probably do a better job. There are "DVD/VCR combo" units available from brands such as Panasonic which both play and record DVD'S and video cassettes so therefore it follows yo

Re: Total Recorder Products

2009-11-01 Thread Norma A. Boge
Hi Dane, When you write further about using TR to record video, would you please include a primer on what one would need to transfer, for example, VHS to DVD using TR. I really need to do this but am not sure how to begin. Many thanks, Norma At 09:04 PM 10/30/2009, you wrote: For those wh

Re: New version of Amadeus Pro Available

2009-11-01 Thread Atlasonic Productions
Thanks Dane. With the Amadeus Pro good news and ProTools accessibility forthcoming, the other excellent news, I am definitely getting ready to embark on the Mac route. Best regards, Hatch. - Original Message - From: "Dane trethowan" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Saturday,

AVS Video Format Converter

2009-11-01 Thread Dane trethowan
Hi! For those who record video or the odd TV broadcast on their TV tuner then you may be interested to know that I've found a reasonably accessible application to convert from one video format to another, its available at http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Converter.aspx?sct=inc&ct=google&cid