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Comment Re: Mandarin dependency and homophone confusion (Score 1) 196

If you write it with long vowels spelt out, Toukyou is clearly different than Kyouto, though the Kyou in both cases is the same, Kyoto being the former capital. On the subject of Chinese being able to understand written Japanese, it is only partially the case, as Chinese characters are not always used for their meaning in Japanese. Sometimes they were used for their (Middle Chinese) sound.

Comment Re:worst quality in the history of broadcasting (Score 1) 574

I've done A-B comparisons with the FLAC samples from Pono's store (including some at 44k1/16 that supposedly come from the CD masters) vs. my own FLACs ripped from CD. It is clear that the music on Pono, like "Gold CDs" and other audiophile snakeoil that has come before it, gets its "better" sound by remastering, not because of the higher bitrate or bit depth. I put better in quotes there, because it really is a matter of opinion, and these types of products tend to aim at the type of audiophile who listens to their equipment, rather than listening to the music, so they tend to have a different opinion of what is a better sound.

I don't know about his hardware player, but I did try a similar snakeoil player from Meridian, and found that compared to a standard DAC on the same files, it was doing some DSP processing to "clean" up the sound, which ended up sounding quite nice on jazz and other sparse "audiophile music", but downright awful on noisy rock that is supposed to have a continuous wall of guitar noise.

Comment Re: that's it...thanks (Score 1) 154

With 3500 servers, its probably worth setting up your own package archive. Then the command to patch all the servers would most likely be pushing your tested and approved package to your local archive to be pulled by all the production servers on their next poll for updates.

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