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Linn to make 'major strategic announcement' on 19th November

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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 10:20 PM

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Re: Linn to make 'major strategic announcement' on 19th November

JohnDuncan:
"It claims that a CD recorded onto a hard disk can achieve a higher quality than one played on a CD player."

See? See? I always said Ivor was a genius.

Though that was actually the case, as I recall, with CD/HDD recorders from Pioneer and Yamaha several years back.... 

[EDIT - beaten to it!] 

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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 10:20 PM

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Re: Linn to make 'major strategic announcement' on 19th November

please educate me how is that ever possible?

Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 10:23 PM

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Because, put simply, a hard disk drive doesn't have to error-correct in real time like a CD player does.
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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 10:29 PM

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Re: Linn to make 'major strategic announcement' on 19th November

When are they going to start putting larger capacity SSD's into these gizmos instead of old-tech hard-drives with all those nasty moving parts (and noise).


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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 10:32 PM

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When 250gig doesn't cost 500 quid...
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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 10:34 PM

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Re: Linn to make 'major strategic announcement' on 19th November

also what about fans/cooling etc surely this must have an effect of the process


anyone spending an afternoon uploading music on to a computer after an hour or so the discs are coming out red hot and your computer is vibrating across your desk (little exagerated but you get my meaning) 

Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 10:37 PM

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Re: Linn to make 'major strategic announcement' on 19th November

is that going to be the next massie growth area - devices like the arcam ms250 (i know far more recent options but first thing that jumped to mind) - quite like the idea of having all in one unit instead of using a computer or sending the music wirelessly ect but not at that cost

Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 10:40 PM

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Mebbe's it's just me but I don't know of ONE single friend or work colleague who streams music files ...many play files on their pc (as I do via a wired connection to my hifi) ....many have Mp3 players ..all have CD players (inc a couple of hifi minded folk who run NAIM based systems) so I reckon streaming music is miles away from being a main"stream" hobby (sorry) but mebbe's Linn never had the average consumer in mind anyway?
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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 10:48 PM

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jetjohnson:
Mebbe's it's just me but I don't know of ONE single friend or work colleague who streams music files ...many play files on their pc (as I do via a wired connection to my hifi) ....many have Mp3 players ..all have CD players (inc a couple of hifi minded folk who run NAIM based systems) so I reckon streaming music is miles away from being a main"stream" hobby (sorry) but mebbe's Linn never had the average consumer in mind anyway?

Even I stream these days and I'm a Tricerotops.

I do use a CDP far more tho'.

 

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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 11:02 PM

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So what about Blu-Ray & DVD?

Linn already make a couple of multi format (CD,SACD,DVD) players so are they going to dump those too?

If instead, they make a new range of multi-format machines that play Blu-Ray, then they will play DVDs and CDs too.

 

 

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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 11:05 PM

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No, it seems the Unidisks carry on, which makes it even more of a non-story, really...
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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 11:06 PM

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Maybe Linn has had a sex change and is now called Dave.

 

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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 11:09 PM

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So it's only going to stream endless Top Gear repeats in the future?
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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 11:15 PM

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Andrew Everard:
So it's only going to stream endless Top Gear repeats in the future?

Free Hamster with every purchase.

 

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Posted on Nov 19, 2009, 11:16 PM

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Just watched BBC Scotland's Business Editor on News 24 - again repeating the 'Beatles studio-quality download' line. And many other gems in a fabulous piece of PR for Linn, obviously recorded earlier today, complete with factory footage. Bravo Linn and your PR  for making headline TV news - shame some of the message got a tad mangled Hmm
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