[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: pc server v sb3 ?
Lyonesse Wrote: Hi Im thinking about buying an SB3 but wondered about the levels of jitter that may be introduced by the length of ethernet cable, 20 feet in my case. I intend to use my Belcanto dac2 into a Valve amp. Ive had fantastic results using my pc and foobar2000 with coaxial digital out from soundcard to dac. How far do you feel the sound will be compromised by using the lan? Jack. Most people use the wireless version of the SB so as to avoid the inconvenience of running long ethernet cables everywhere. For the same reason as stated above, there is no jitter induced by this, and the transmission is bit perfect due to TCP/IP error correction (unless your network doesn't have enough bandwidth, in which case the sound will stop or stutter - but it won't be a subtle effect like jitter). Think of it just as a way of copying the audio files stored on your computer over to the SB - it has nothing directly to do with audio, and the copies are perfect essentially always, just as any file copy over a computer network is. By the way, there will of course be some jitter induced during the transmission from the SB to the DAC, but jitter at the SB digital out has been measured and is very low (almost certainly much lower than the jitter induced by a soundcard out going through 20 feet of digital audio cable). -- opaqueice opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23982 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Benchmark DAC1, the next step ?
Have on order a dac for mine, a Digital Storm DO2, my system is for headphones only. Check out the links. Highly rated over on the Head-Fi forums, even over the DAC-1. Can't wait to get it. http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=168113 http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=178814 -- King Saul HOME: 1.) Squeezebox 3 Storm Digital D02 (ordered) Grado RA-1 Grado RS-1 King Saul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5551 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23871 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Lite Audio DAC-60 thinking about getting one..
crooner Wrote: It's a great DAC for the price. I recommend it! I have had my lite dac60 for a few weeks now (shipped direct from HK to the UK) and I must say I'm impressed with the build and the sound. With no UK dealership service may be a problem, but then it is half the price of other comprable offerings. It's a little hard to do direct A/B comparisons with a naked SB3 as I found SB's analog volume to be quite low, making it hard to do A/B's with a CD too. As best I could I compared the Dac60 to the SB and must say there was much more atmoshpere with the dac60, and I did (sorry cliche warning) find myself tapping feet and fingers. Do you leave yours on all the time?, if so what's the expected lifetime of the tubes?. Regards, Derek -- DerekDenyer DerekDenyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20789 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB mod on not mod, what to expect vs CD player?
I'd go along with that Azur comparison - maybe even a bit higher up the food chain for older CDP's. -- Phil Leigh Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23948 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SB mod on not mod, what to expect vs CD player?
I'd been using an all marantz combo (66 KI SIG amp and matching 63 KI SIG cdp)quite happily, but the amount of discs overtaking my room was starting to irritate me, which is why I went for the sb3/qnap combo. I've been using an m-audio superdac between amp and sb3 and just sent that off to have some mods done to that (all the basic op amps and circuit board upgraded basically!). I'd love to send off the sb3 to somewhere like bolder, but not sure of the shipping costs from here in the uk, plus theres something like an 8 week waiting list anyway! Cheers... -- davidcotton davidcotton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23948 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SqueezePower final design Power supply
mark-e-mark Wrote: That's the only info Jabberwockie gave me. I seem to remember Fry's being mentioned by Jabberwockie publicly. Anyway, I stopped by there today and got the model number. It's Context Engineering (Santa Clara, CA) #4012H-6B. Fry's (or Outpost- the Web division) model # 2090830. 6x4.12x2.45 I prefered the look of the 'N' (natural) enclosures to the 'B' (black anodized), but they didn't stock it. Cost was $18, but is listed for $23 + shipping at Outpost: http://shop2.outpost.com/product/2090830?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG -- Skunk Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23227 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Signle FLAC/APE/CUE
While waiting my hardware to arrive, I'd start to play with the slimserver. 90% of my music are classical, so I prefer than to be a single image file, which also plays fine in foolbar or winamp. I have been reading the forum, looks like there is lots of problems with cue file handling. I really want to keep the existing images, and still have the flexibity to pick tracks easily within the image. What's my best solution? I don't mind doing some bit of covertion jobs. (sorry for the double posts. no idea how to move between forums. people suggested I might get more replys in audiophile forum for this question) -- lovemov lovemov's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5528 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24003 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Signle FLAC/APE/CUE
lovemov Wrote: While waiting my hardware to arrive, I'd start to play with the slimserver. 90% of my music are classical, so I prefer than to be a single image file, which also plays fine in foolbar or winamp. I have been reading the forum, looks like there is lots of problems with cue file handling. I really want to keep the existing images, and still have the flexibity to pick tracks easily within the image. What's my best solution? I don't mind doing some bit of covertion jobs. (sorry for the double posts. no idea how to move between forums. people suggested I might get more replys in audiophile forum for this question) You mentioned that you're going to start playing with Slimserver. Have you installed it? Are you having any problems with your cue files? Slimserver is supposed to support them--it should all work fine. Let us know if you have any problems then we can start troubleshooting real problems rather than hypothetical problems. -- azinck3 azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24003 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Signle FLAC/APE/CUE
BTW, reread my post...didn't mean to sound short with you. Just that a lot of questions can be easily answered by just trying it! Slimserver's a free and easy install, and don't forget to try out softsqueeze. Even if your box doesn't arrive before the weekend you can have a good old time this weekend just playing with those two pieces of software. -- azinck3 azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24003 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: pc server v sb3 ?
Thanks both for putting my mind at ease. Jack. -- Lyonesse Lyonesse's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5496 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23982 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: SqueezePower final design Power supply
Thanks for the info skunk, and to the others that replied! -- Mikem53 Mikem53's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4904 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23227 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Signle FLAC/APE/CUE
I installed both, haven't figured anything yet. -- lovemov lovemov's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5528 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24003 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Lite Audio DAC-60 thinking about getting one..
Hi, I am glad you like yours. Mine keeps getting better and better. I upgraded the coupling caps with Sonicaps and added a pair of Amperex 6DJ8 Bugle Boys from the early 1960s. Sound quality improved considerably. I usually power mine up two hours before any serious listening. I only left it running 24 hours at the beginning to break it in. -- crooner crooner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3379 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20789 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Tube Pre-Amp or MF X-10 Tube Buffer?
I find it interesting how many people buy the Benchmark due to its razor sharp resolution and then spend lots of cash to tame it down. I auditioned several dacs and the Benchmark has a great transparency but left me cold. I'm not sure that tubes will ultimately fix your problem but a used X10D would be a cheap way to find out. You might also try the Tubalizer. -- Horizons Horizons's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2576 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23741 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Tube Pre-Amp or MF X-10 Tube Buffer?
Actually, overall, I'm VERY pleased with the Squeezebox paired with the Benchmark. The Benchmarks razor sharp resolution was exactly what I found lacking with the stock SB. Together, they bring out the best in 95% of my collection. However, the remaining 5% are older or poorly recorded redbook CD's, with an exceptionally harsh digital sound. It's probably foolish to think the X-10 will make those 5% more listenable without deleterious effects on the other 95%. I'm looking forward to an extended listening session this weekend, and will report back. -- sleepysurf squeezebox2 (with elpac linear psu) to benchmark dac1, direct to sunfire cinema grand 200 ~five (vertically bi-amped) driving ml aerius i's, blue jeans cables. 'click to see my system' (http://www.martinloganowners.com/~tdacquis/forum/showthread.php?t=732) sleepysurf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23741 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
