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1. OS SS 29 ae PIE E AT a O player direct bridge direct HDD i sound backup eer er FFF a player network i bridge network LAN system 4 lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt a a TETTE S maid i ibas qiu w w ZO EK HDD hard disk drive ODD optical disc drive DAC digital to analog converter local area network 3 Glossa Tablet NAS network attached storage NAS DAC to analog Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com The terminology solution Direct Input direct attached disk digital out Network Input from LAN digital out Combo Input from either disk or LAN digital out Direct Input from direct attached disk analog out Player Network Input from LAN analog out Combo Input from LAN analog out The new terminology is necessary and sufficient here are 28 pro2. UA previously unreleased studio recordings including the rack of the most sought after of all of Hendrix s commercially unavailable recordings The tracks on Valleys of Neptune were largely seli produced by Hendrix and received extra posthumous production from Janie Hendrix 00 6 Kramer and John McDermott for Experience Hendrix Recorded mostly in 1969 following the release of ecinc Lacy ano the album predominantly features the original lineup of Jimi Experience vocalist and guitarist Hendrix bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell The eac single released from the album was Valleys ee abn i 4 A ON Metadata Wikipedia Details THANK YOU
3. AP WA fa m A uc HR j DE E a V E a a ff u M 44 sa 4 gt 3 4 N lt 9 A A I 3 uv WA Z u a 5 __ a 2 EN EN Y y SZ 2 4 s QN XN w SA 4 1 4 Y p nw u Pp uu b 4 SR P 4 2 N d 3 i uui z Sk E Ms 4 NA N P KE D ER 4 4 y Sag MARE 1 complete system for playing creating and maintaining a collection of digital music Simple to set up and operate Powerful custom cataloging software A Classical Music Lover s Delight 2015 Editor s Choice Award The Absolute Sound m Why 3beez 2 Why Wax Almost as simple as setting up CD player Setting up a one box solution is simple A One power cord Optional USB DAC One audio cable Wax Box One network connection one box solution simplifies many things One box 15 easier to purchase set up configure and learn than multiple boxes Asingle software package provides a unified interface for performing all the
4. VJ 1 o E o p J gt a gm wee A ae r 7 Moza Symphony No 27 evint gt 29 Ate AT P 4 4 Symphonic Classical Mode Options o composer w Work conductor viozart Missa Solemnis Cleobury Item 17 40 Queue 44 17 Requiem Ducloux Requiem Marriner Serenade Marriner Symphony No 25 Klemperer wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sympho V Symphony No 35 Allegro con brio Andante Minuetto Allegro a zg Queue Search Export Move 7 Having all your music with all the metadata you want available at the tap of a finger adds perspective and depth to your music collection Wax sets a new standard for music lovers Wax Uses Genres to Organize Your Music Count Electronic Instrumental Vocal Concerto Baroque Classical N Symphonic Romantic Complete Library Anthol Vocal Instrumental Blues Ragtime Dixieland Big Band Bebop Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Genres make finding your music fast and easy Wax uses genres for structure not as tags With genres it s easy to find recordings simply by surveying no need to scroll through pages of cover art to find your selection no text string searching Surveying is usually quicker than searching Simply
5. Advanced features are hidden until you need them Automatic metadata and cover art retrieval and auto complete typing make ripping faster easier and more consistent Legacy files with metadata liner notes and cover art can be imported directly to the Wax Box no need to re rip New purchases can be downloaded directly to the Wax Box no need to use your PC in a game of file ping pong Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Catalog your opera collection with ease h i VYU conductor 5 orchestra singers Options Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro K 492 Georg Sott Lorenzo da Ponte London Philharmonic Orchestra Kin Renews Pupp 24 Wad Son meet H hamma len Mort w Ih ihartu LA ND GEORG Kiri te Kanawa Countess Almaviva Lucia Popp Susanna Samuel Ramey Figaro Frederica von Stade Cherubino Jane Berbie Marcellina Kurt Moll Doctor Bartolo Robert Tear Don Basilio Yvonne Kenny Barbarina 1981 Act Aria Non so pi cosa son cosa faccio Cherubino Metadata Wikipedia BIZ Catalog your jazz collection with ease Miles Davis Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary Collector s Edition Julian Cannonball Adderley alto saxophone John Coltrane tenor saxophone Bill Evans piano Paul Chambers bass Wynton Kelly piano Jimmy Cobb d
6. Antipodes AURALIC Auraliti Aurender Ayon Audio Baetis Audio Bryston Cambridge Audio Wax Box 2 Music Management System DX Music Server DXe Music Server DS Music Server ARIES Wireless Streaming Bridge L1000 Music File Player PK100 PCM and DSD File Player S10 Music Player W20 Music Player X100S Music Player X100L Music Player S 3 Network Player S 5 Network Player NW T Network Transport Reference Media Server Reference NAS Ripper XR2 Media Server BDP 2 Digital Player Stream Magic 6 v2 Upsampling Network Music Player amp Preamplifier Minx Xi Digital Music System NP30 Network Music Player olayer direct bridge direct bridge direct olayer direct bridge network bridge network bridge network bridge combo bridge combo bridge combo bridge combo player network player network bridge network bridge combo server network bridge combo bridge network player network player network player network roduct table with summary of features storage outputs sound backup DAC digital Salient features of 79 products from 36 manufacturers Download the complete table from TAS http bit ly 1Rp76bS Universal block diagram for a digital system OS OS OS gt SS
7. Digital Music Systems for Music Lovers Jeffrey Barish President of 3beez WWW 3beez com Part 1 Understanding Digital Music Systems Better than Hi Res Meridian s Breakthrough Universal block diagram for all digital music systems JADIS DARRS INTEGRATED gt zy Asimple set of terms that accurately categorizes digital music systems A RE Additional questions and issues Young Everything You Need to Know Duke Ellington The Best Rowland s Avantgarde Hi Res Downloads Continuum S2 Kharma and Estelon TAS 253 May June 2015 Lr PSB s 1295 Moon 430 Understanding Digital Music Systems Tower Speaker Amp The terminology problem Different terms refer to the same thing e Many terms are imprecise Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Components of an analog music system Record player Tape player CD player Receiver Tuner Preamplifier Integrated amplifier Power amplifier Speakers Universal block diagram for an analog system integrated amplifier preamplifier power amplifier Components of a digital music system CD player ODD Computer Hard disk drive HDD e Network attached storage NAS Internet connection Tablet Monitor DAC Amplifier Speakers se
8. Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Listen to recordings in different formats to help you decide which encoder to use How do I evaluate software for ripping cataloging and playing digital music Try out as many options as you can iTunes Windows Media Center JRiver Media Center Foobar VortexBox Album Player Wax etc Consider these questions Is the software user interface inviting or intimidating How hard will it be to learn the software Is there a user manual videos or a help forum Does the company provide remote support Does the software perform all the operations I need Try ripping CDs on all the systems you are considering and evaluate the results Can I rip CDs using the system or I do I need to bounce sound files back and forth between my desktop and the system Can correct or edit cover art metadata in situ e Can organize my catalog a way that makes sense to me and that makes it easy to find a specific recording Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Engineering requires tradeoffs A high res recording 24 96 consumes about three times the disk space of aCD so it must sound better right In audio it is not always true that bigger is better and too big is just right That might work for trucks or power tools but not for music files What matters far more than the bit depth
9. Keep a backup at some other site your office or a friend s house so that your collection will survive even if your house burns to the ground blown fire bottle Stuff happens A digital music collection with proper backups is more secure than CDs or LPs even though HDDs may fail Even with proper storage LPs and CDs Can warp and develop clicks and pops e CDs can develop disc rot and become unplayable A melted CD TAF IE Wi I m 3 3 Z Streaming Fees Subscription fees for streaming services TIDAL premium Lossless 1411 Kbps 240 year Spotify premium Ogg 320 Kbps 120 year Software fees for enhanced metadata Labs software adds additional metadata to your music 119 year 495 for a lifetime subscription 999 for a planned Pro lifetime subscription for home automation systems If youre a classical music lover you wont be Satisfied with metadata from Roon TIDAL or Spotify See June 2015 NPR Music Blog http 1 1 Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Streaming Other considerations Streamed music is ephemeral and wrapped in DRM protection Spotify music and playlists stored on your HDD for offline playback expire in 30 days unless you reconnect When you q
10. Stores your music with liner notes and cover art for a complete archive of the work Allows access to Wikipedia for additional information Facilitates new music discovery using streaming services such as Tidal or Spotify Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com What is the classical music problem SERLIN 7 PHI RMONIKER MB Lys EL TILSON E MOZART iLE NOZZE DI FIGARO Kiri Te Kanawa Lucia Frederica von Stade DE Samuel Ramey Thomas Allen Kurt Moll London Philharmonic Orchestra SIR GEORG SOLTI Wax Solves the classical music problem Store whatever information you want for each recording orchestra soloists cast etc in a format optimized by genres and subgenres Store tracks that belong together an entire CD part of a CD or multiple CDs as a work Group tracks that belong together e g the acts of an opera as a track group to save screen space and facilitate selection Distinguish multiple recordings of the same work easily Use automatic completion to minimize typing and for consistent spelling of names especially ones with foreign characters Easily enter character names with diacritics e g a 6 N without obscure keyboard combinations contact 3beez com Browsing by cover art doesn work Black White Yerba Buena 2 43 4 50 22
11. 10 kbps 10 7 P a 47 Paa u ZE 7 Ma eb 1 iu m E A w f s s LN r u d je r e 2 a s sf tan 4 A h n 1 An Diewe 22 BB 124 SSS ANS Pad gt M a Ak 3 lt 4 lt d z 4 2 E u d gt amp Ad is s s B zm gt al 16 gt CEL ma 7 LL contact 3beez com It s hard to appreciate how enjoyable Wax 15 until you experience it Mh pa Ze s nell spi 1 o SVTIDNIC V INO Z If lu MINOT A as 4 a i ENT i uana ar c w 02 c E P e ALLO AR F a Symphony No 25 Levine Cay 1 PA symphony No 25 minor 183 L s i 4 1 Fi
12. a collection you ve curated over decades Ripping reconnects you with forgotten recordings amp Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com How many files can I store 1 HDD WAV FLAC Ogg 2600 CD 1300 CDs EE 3600 CDs 2 1 lossless compression quality factor 10 compression 3200 Classical CDs 2 5 1 lossless compression A high res recording with a sample rate of 96 kHz and 24 bit resolution consumes about three times the disk space of a CD so only about 430 recordings will it ona1TBHDD without any compression rv IDOGOT Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Which encoder should I use to rip my CDs WAV no compression j A good choice if you hear a difference between compressed lossless and uncompressed lossy files or if you expect to subject the recording to processing e g converting to another encoding WAV No metadata or cover art with file which doesn t matter in Wax Incompatible with many portable players D FLAC lossless compression 2 1 compression for most recordings 2 5 1 for classical Compatible with many portable players Ogg lossy compression For a given bit rate Ogg sounds better than MP3 for a given sound quality Ogg compresses more Supported by most platforms Anathema to some audiophiles
13. and sample rate Is the mastering the care and expertise of the recording engineers A Really Big Truck How can get the support I need A digital music system requires a different level of support than an amplifier Does your dealer provide help with networking hardware software etc after you ve left the showroom f not who provides the support and is it adequate for you High resolution audio Listen to the marketing claims critically Download some high resolution files to determine whether you can hear enough of a difference to justify the premiums 192 kHz cost and file space Bats 176 4 kHz 24 bit Pono Music Quality Spectrum 2L music store 96 HDTracks De AIX Records RealHD Audio 88 2 kHz Hedgehogs Racoons 48 kHz 24 bit 441 kHz 24 bit Humans 44 1 kHz 16 bit Caveat emptor MI kops 129 320 kbos Marketing hyperbole abounds e Some high resolution downloads don t meet the specs for the hi res These frequency rangos won t aatioty one logo Waldrep http bit ly 106112 McElhearn s parody of Pono s marketing Up sampling isn t high res hyperbole http bit ly 3KuW3vS amp Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com What makes a recording high resolution Definition of Hi Res Audi
14. ducts that already use the correct term in the product name so the new terminology is well short of radical u i PR a PAY EE VA IVA la PR PR T PR MS Jerrre y Barish www 2beez com contact 3 beez com more term What should we call the product category Computer audio Digital music systems How about Music management system The term focuses on the function music management rather than the technology digital or computer The Wax Box Music Management System makes music it manages the music by storing it cataloging it and playing it and it is a complete system like the last one best Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com A FEW FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Ripping my entire CD collection is too hard The end result amply rewards the effort Itis hard to appreciate without experiencing it how the convenience of having all your music with all the metadata you want plus liner notes cover art and Wikipedia available at the tap of a finger transforms the listening experience A well cataloged collection removes barriers to your exploration and enjoyment of music With the right software i e Wax ripping is not onerous and you can organize your library the way you want it with any metadata you want Enhance the value of
15. o Product to adopt Hi Res Audio Logo 1 Minimum specifications to be satisfied Microphone Microphone response performance of 40 kHz or above during recording Recording Capability of recording using the 96kHz 24bit format or above Decoding convention 2 Listening evaluation process Listening evaluation process is added and final decision as Hi Res sound product to be proved according to each company s sound evaluation standard File playability of 96kHz 24bit or above FLAC WAV required Japan Audio Society 12 June 14 A CD stores music as 16 bit PCM sampled at 44 1 kHz What matters most is the music mastering DSD makes everything more complicated DSD uses pulse density modulation to store audio as a sequence of 1 bit values witha Sample rate of 2 8224 MHz 64 times the Sample rate of a CD Performing signal processing on a 1 bit stream is impossible many conversions and modifications are required DSD recordings are more expensive Some DSD files dff have no metadata DSD files consume lots of HDD space 2 5 GB hour for DSD vs 0 6 GB hour for a CD DSD requires a special DAC and special drivers DSD requires many conversions DXD DSD DXD digital DSD converter sound _ converter mastering analog DSD analog zes sound converter mastering PCM digital sound mas
16. rums Miles Davis trumpet 1959 So What session date 26 May 1958 Details Mode Options MILES BAVIS kins of Bu Catalog your blues collection with ease Mode Options group Eric Clapton title 461 Ocean Boulevard band Eric Clapton vocals piano amp guitar George Terry vocals piano amp guitar Yvonne Elliman vocals amp guitar Dick Sims organ Carl Radle Jamie Oldaker drums 1974 Liner notes 461 Ocean Boulevard remastered Motherless Children Metadata Wikipedia Details Catalog your rock collection with ease Pop Rock Mode Options MNOP QR 5 WX Y 2 group 14 n Item 2 26 34 Queue 2 26 34 Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship ET Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix Experience Hendrix The Best of Jimi T Voodoo Child The Jimi Hendrix Col Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune Jimi Hendrix Exper BBC Sessions Jimi Hendrix Exper Electric Ladylanc Jimmy Buffett Meet Me In Margaritaville The Ultima Joe Satriani surfing With The Alien gt Studio 18 gt Live various locations 12 Queue Search Export Move Find more information at Wikipedia Valleys of Neptune Mode Options Valleys of Neptune is a posthumous album by American rock musician m ona Released in the United States on March 9 2010 the album boasts 12
17. select the genre subgenre scroll through the list of recordings and select the one you want Searching requires that you remember details about the recording and that you type those details into the search fields Surveying presents alternatives multiple recordings of the same work that may prove preferable It helps you reconnect with recordings that you may have forgotten Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Quickly find the recording you want to play even if you have multiple versions Show Woman White Wonderful Town Prologue Jet Song Something s Coming Dance atthe Gym Tonight w composer Bernstein Bernstein Bernstein Bernstein Bernstein Schwartz 3 4 PF 747 E m Bernstein lyricist Sondheim Sondheim Sondheim Sondheim Sondheim Schwartz Zippel amp omden Mode Options Item 1 05 11 a West Side Story Leonard Bernstein k Stephen Sondheim Queue 1 05 11 Queue Search Export Move The Wax software simplifies many things All the software you need for ripping cataloging and playing no additional purchases are required Edit metadata any time with Wax after ripping from a tablet without playing file ping pong with your desktop PC The user interface is simple uncluttered and easy to learn Three clicks and you are playing your music a single track or a complete work
18. tasks involved in building and enjoying a digital collection One box fits easily in an audio system especially when compared to a stack of components from multiple vendors Would you buy car parts from different looks good especially when compared vendors and expect them to work together to a desktop computer and is quiet perfectly and cool What is the advantage of multi box solutions contact 3beez com Simple does not mean hobbled Control the system from a tablet smartphone or desktop system regardless of operating system or use a connected keyboard pointer and TV monitor or projection TV Play using built in DAC or connect an external DAC using either USB TOSLINK Connect to the LAN using either Ethernet or Wif Increase storage capacity by connecting external HDDs Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com General features Stores your entire CD collection in a box the size of a CD player Requires no other computer components to play music from your collection Provides exemplary sound quality with either digital or analog outputs Permits access to your recordings using a tablet from the convenience of your favorite listening position Stores and plays downloads as well as CDs Purchase music using the Wax Box for maximum efficiency Automatic backups keep your music collection safe from disaster and the ravages of time
19. tering _ reverb requires one conversion PCM digital sound PCM converter mastering f 3 3 L lt 7 002 uzna nw Mr AR a a Wa NR T NEUES CI e Q ry e CYTIT AC lt 2 ca 7 COV W y JCA 1 21 I VV VV lt 2 I I LV l ILGNL Y CU I I From technical standpoint DSD is a strange choice for an archival format Processing 050 signal even an operation as simple as volume adjustments is impossible Dithering is impossible Limit cycle oscillations 050 requires special device drivers High frequency noise can produce IM distortion DFF format provides no metadata DSF provides only ID3 at the end of the sound file DSD was a commercial failure when it was released in the late 19905 It is having a revival now but will it succeed this time Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Why put my entire music collection at risk by storing it on a HDD that might fail Singling out hard disk drives as the source of all woe displays a curious bias Even analog systems have failure points Speakers fire bottle amps solid state amps etc Back up your digital music collection regularly
20. uit your contract you dont own any music Be careful if you have a capped data plan Streaming lossless music for a couple of hours will gobble a gigabyte of data Jeffrey Barish www 3beez com contact 3beez com Musical interlude 5 minutes of music before Part 2 Audiophile humor LET GET THIS STRAIGHT You SPEND 2000 ON SPEAKER CABLES BECAUSE You CAN HEAR THE 7 DIFFERENCE BUT You CANT NN HEAR ME CALLING YoU FROM THE KITCHEN p 3 7 gt Now hear this Audiophile humor INDUSTRIALS WERE OFF AND UTILITIES WERE UNCHANGED THE LONDON GOLD MARKET CLOSED 435 AN OUNCE 1 40 PURE SILVER INTERCONNECTS AND SPEAKER CABLE CLOSED AT 271 UP 3 85 PER METER FROM YESTERDAY Audiophile humor The two things that really drew me to vinyl were the expense and the inconvenience N U W 4 U 4 U 4 A 7 N 4 Ed B y WJ ES ATE ZZ a gt d ZE corum E PR A ED 4 PES Ex t s um p m E Ww A a NICI A a 4 M Y r 4 SH W 4 A m 4 ES 47 A j a amp E N
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