USB Audio card

Bruce B · May 14, 2010

A new USB Audio card has just been introduced by First Impression Music. This is the first USB card to have 24/176.4 music files! Instead of using optical discs which have errors, this new card has a bit perfect copy of the original master file!

No price has been set yet as this is the first release, FIM DXD 066 Super Sound I. Plans are in process for folks who purchase these cards to have access to the higher rez DSD/DXD download.

amirm · May 14, 2010

Oh, I thought this was a sound card. But instead, it seems like "pre-recorded" music on a USB Thumb drive. Is that right?

Bruce B · May 14, 2010

amirm said:
Oh, I thought this was a sound card. But instead, it seems like "pre-recorded" music on a USB Thumb drive. Is that right?

That is correct. Winston is now offering his music in hi-rez!

amirm · May 14, 2010

Very good. I assume there is no copy protection and you can just copy the files to the computer hard disk. Yes?

Steve Williams · May 14, 2010

Bruce B said:
A new USB Audio card has just been introduced by First Impression Music. This is the first USB card to have 24/176.4 music files! Instead of using optical discs which have errors, this new card has a bit perfect copy of the original master file!

No price has been set yet as this is the first release, FIM DXD 066 Super Sound I. Plans are in process for folks who purchase these cards to have access to the higher rez DSD/DXD download.

Now that's news. Can't wait to get those

Any price set yet

Bruce B · May 14, 2010

amirm said:
Very good. I assume there is no copy protection and you can just copy the files to the computer hard disk. Yes?

No copy protection. Just drag the files to your computer. I deleted my card and loaded the files back and it works. Takes about 1 minute (depending on your computer's buss speed).

Winston wants to package them in a nice acryllic case and such.

MylesBAstor · May 14, 2010

Bruce B said:
A new USB Audio card has just been introduced by First Impression Music. This is the first USB card to have 24/176.4 music files! Instead of using optical discs which have errors, this new card has a bit perfect copy of the original master file!

No price has been set yet as this is the first release, FIM DXD 066 Super Sound I. Plans are in process for folks who purchase these cards to have access to the higher rez DSD/DXD download.

Isn't George Cardas doing the same thing too?

Bruce B · May 14, 2010

MylesBAstor said:
Isn't George Cardas doing the same thing too?

Yes, but not at 24/176.4 and no offers of downloading the master files.

MylesBAstor · May 14, 2010

Bruce B said:
Yes, but not at 24/176.4 and no offers of downloading the master files.

Thanks for the clarification Bruce! I see now its 24/96.

Steve Williams · May 15, 2010

Bruce B said:
No copy protection. Just drag the files to your computer. I deleted my card and loaded the files back and it works. Takes about 1 minute (depending on your computer's buss speed).

Winston wants to package them in a nice acryllic case and such.

Bruce

you indicated you have a copy of these but I can't find them anywhere on his site.

I am interested in price of each of these USB cards

FrantzM · May 15, 2010

Hi

Allow me to be quizzical.. Bruce you stated this :

Instead of using optical discs which have errors, this new card has a bit perfect copy of the original master file!

. I would like to fully understand your statement. Are you implying that copies made on Optical discs are not be bit-perfect? Is that a general statement or does this just apply to the particular process of transferring recording on certain Optical disc ?

Frantz

Frantz

Bruce B · May 15, 2010

It is fully understood that optical discs have C1, C2 and CU errors. Now... C1 and C2 are usually correctable through redundancy and error correction, but not CU, which is an unrecoverable error.

I have received discs from a couple labels with hi-rez files that had these errors. If they had sent a hard drive, USB drive or something, these errors wouldn't be there, especially if they used checksum.

Nicholas Bedworth · May 29, 2010

Bruce has some good points, and of course some drives are better than others in recovering from the various classes of errors. To learn more than any human should want to know about this, one can start with www.exactaudiocopy.de.

markc2 · Jun 7, 2010

how big are these? I get a sense of them fitting in the palm of your hand. I would love these for a car, just plug them in and go.

Mark

Steve Williams · Jun 7, 2010

Does your car have the ability to play HiRez files?

Bruce B · Jun 7, 2010

Actually, there are a few car audio systems out now that you can just plug in the USB devices and play from them.
It's the size of a credit card.

Regards,

Steve Williams · Jun 7, 2010

I am aware of that. My car has a USB port but doesn't the car system need a DAC for HiRez files

Bruce B · Jun 7, 2010

Steve Williams said:
I am aware of that. My car has a USB port but doesn't the car system need a DAC for HiRez files

Not what I've been told...

Regards,

amirm · Jun 7, 2010

Steve Williams said:
I am aware of that. My car has a USB port but doesn't the car system need a DAC for HiRez files

Actually you need two things:

1. Ability of the player to read and understand high-resolution files. These files can be uncompressed wave, or various forms of lossless compression. Chances of either one of these being there in a standard car audio player is next to zero.

2. Ability to render such files at original resolution. This is also a very remote possibility although due to dobly digital tracks being 20-bits, and it being nearly impossible to fund just 44.1Khz, 16-bit DACs these days, the hardware capability will be there. But likely no software to actually drive it.

Steve Williams · Jun 7, 2010

amirm said:
Actually you need two things:

1. Ability of the player to read and understand high-resolution files. These files can be uncompressed wave, or various forms of lossless compression. Chances of either one of these being there in a standard car audio player is next to zero.

2. Ability to render such files at original resolution. This is also a very remote possibility although due to dobly digital tracks being 20-bits, and it being nearly impossible to fund just 44.1Khz, 16-bit DACs these days, the hardware capability will be there. But likely no software to actually drive it.

precisely my point

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