Posts by Barbarian887

Anyone recommend a good free program for making error-free copies of CD's?

My lack of technical knowledge causes me to fall back to an emotional standpoint rather than a rational, educated one. So with this topic for example, I tend to think of it like an organism, that it responds to its environment by...

Can a highly compressed, ****** digital sources like MP3 damage components, particularly the DAC? I'm not familiar with the engineering behind most any electronic equipment let alone the technical operation of a DAC so please bear with...

I have an m-282, new, and the sound it puts out is so bright that it is distorted, for example the guitar intro to stairway to heaven sounds just...wrong. It's so tinny and high-pitched that i almost can't believe what i'm hearing. and...

Quote:Originally Posted by olyteddy  If your source is DVD and you don't crop or scale it it will be at most a 720X480 image. I doubt that's what you want. VLC is actually pretty flexible when it comes to scaling and zooming and...

Quote:Originally Posted by Will2007 No, this is just fantasy. Well at least it isn't caught in a landslide, is it?

Quote:Originally Posted by edoggrc51 At that bit rate the file is much too compressed. So much so that it can spontaneously combust inside the DAC. Did they happen to be Justin Bieber records?? I heard those were SUPER compressed...

Quote:Originally Posted by Scott Simonian Not quite that! Even iTunes mp3's can harm a DAC. I've fried two already with albums downloaded from Apple. What? This doesn't make any sense to me, just, what? explain how this works

Quote:Originally Posted by edoggrc51 Only if its a 64kbps file. How does that work?

Like imagine opening an image in an image viewer, zooming in until the resolution is dot-fordot, notice how it maintains the original image, cropping any excess off of the sides that's what i want in my video, so it isn't being scaled.