Re: MQN
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:38 pm
Sorry DaveF, I thought that "F" it's from your "fuckwittery" word, which I'm still trying to find in dictionary! ;-)
Foobar alows you to convert from .flac to .wav. Its free.tony wrote:Does anyone know a freebie Flac converter? Why can I never find the free ones?
Dave, I formerly was a CMP + cPlay user. (not sure if you have heard of this playback software?)DaveF wrote:
As for my "opinion", I have enough technical knowledge to know that its highly unlikely that placing files in the root etc could change sound quality. I'll try certain things if I think there is a technical explanation/reason behind no matter how small but this file thing is stretching it a bit for me.
I said that I won't comment on this any more, but I have to clarify something here. I certainly tried it, and I can hear no difference. I can blame either my ears or my equipment not being able to distinguish that kind of difference. All I know about computers, and technical matters tells me that it should no be any difference, but I will continue to believe to anything related to computer audio.sima66 wrote:I apologize if I was misunderstood or unintentionally offended anybody! That was never my intention.tony wrote:I guess that all of you who are making fun of the PFM, are nothing better than them!Sima66
Ouch that hurt. Hope nobody has got to that point. There are 16k+ punters on PFM and lots of nice people.
But if you read the threads on computer audio on that forum 5-7 people descend and mayhem ensues.
If anybody 'laughs' at that here that is instead of going mad with frustration at the carry on.
Very much hope you are not taking that vibe here. My answer was honest but I do agree with you everything should be tried before either condemning or passing an opinion.
My honest view is that it is the cumulative things being discussed that work. There are some big hitters I just passed a remark that I think it is possibly at the low end.
Don't forget Marcin waxed lyrical about the Musica Ibuki dac and various other things. We all change our minds over time and with new info or direction truisms can change.
My point is that this same guys who are commenting on this matter without trying it, where laughing at PFM for doing the exact same thing (commenting on MQn without trying it).
sbgk wrote:uploaded 4 x 2.64 versions, bit of an experiment, don't know what they sound like. rather than use the assembly code I used something called intrinsics which can have an advantage over assembly, I then used some of the instructions that the intrinsics generated on the 2.63 version.
Tonytony wrote:Does anyone know a freebie Flac converter? Why can I never find the free ones?
did you try the sse2 version ? that was my intrinsic version of no buffjesuscheung wrote:sbgk wrote:uploaded 4 x 2.64 versions, bit of an experiment, don't know what they sound like. rather than use the assembly code I used something called intrinsics which can have an advantage over assembly, I then used some of the instructions that the intrinsics generated on the 2.63 version.
prefer:
1st. 2.64 sse4 intel xmm ptr.64 xmm ptr
2nd. 2.64 sse4 intel intrinsic.64
3rd. 2.64 sse4 intel eax sub -128 dec rax.64
am not too interested with eax sub -128.
-xmm and intrinsic are very revealing, yet somewhat mellow. on some level, they are the most revealing of all versions.
-xmm has very good focus. but heard better.
-stage needs to be bigger. stage is close to ears. surprisingly ears not hurt at all. stage needs fix.
-xmm might have the best piano sound. not the best in every little thing. but certainly a all around best
these versions has some breakthroughs!