Quad wrote: > Maybe I should see a doctor. I always try to be loved by everyone. :-) > > I think it is time to say thank you to some of the forum members who > constantly point out scientific arguments against audiophile myths. This > saved me money and energy. Here is what I stopped doing because of you: > > - Buying expensive RCA cables. While I can't say they all sound the same > to me, the price rarely correlates with my joy listening to them. Some > surprisingly cheap but solid cables subjectively often beat their highly > praised and expensive counterparts. > > - Buying hi-res stuff. Some of my all-time favorite recordings are > standard 44.1/16bit. No need and no possibility to improve (eg some > re-masters by MFSL). On the other hand there are quite a few hi-res > recordings that are a rip off (eg Hotel California, Come Away With Me, > Supernatural, Rumours,...). And on top of all, some of my all-time > favorite music is recorded quite poorly anyway. And I still love it. > > - I didn't and I will not hop on the DSD train. Basically for the same > reasons as above. And ironically, those labels who offer DSD are often > the ones that already care about sound quality. For these recordings the > difference is minimal if any. And for those companies who don't care > it's worthless to buy their recordings in DSD anyway. > > - I gave up on JPlay. It's not worth the effort. Its most purist setting > asks you to manually drag & drop music files into their player. Then you > have to wait a couple of seconds or even minutes to let them be loaded > into memory. Finally your computer goes into hibernate mode and you can > start listening. No seeking, no browsing, no cover art, no multi-room. > This is a complete and obsolete anachronism in the age of music > streaming. It is almost the same royal PITA as vinyl, but without the > nostalgia. And it doesn't sound better to me, there is no reason why it > should. > > Cheers > > PS: But remember, I passed a properly designed ABX test for MP3@320kbs > vs. FLAC with a recording I own physically, ripped and converted by > myself. I would be more than happy to reproduce the result for you at > any time. Sorry couldn't resist. :-)
squeezelite sounds pretty awful out of the box, have you tried jlp which is a modified portaudio/squeezelite. HDMI into the m51 is not the best either, better results from say a J Kenny Cuinas + coax or mf vlink 192 aes/ebu. I guess you got win 2012 via msdn otherwise how do you justify £600 on an O/s + £100 for the optimiser. The problem with HDMI is that it's designed for encrypted signals so there is a bit of processing going on which can be heard in comparison to sp/dif, AES/EBU. Touch optimisations http://touchsgotrythm.blogspot.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SBGK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101084
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