A friend of mine who knows the guys at bel canto saw the unit a little
bit ago, he says it's very good, and the USB input is the best way to
get sound out of it. (no pesky jitter correction needed) I was going
to try and check out the unit while I was in town, but ran out of
time.
The big thing
I had very bad experience with early (5 years ago) Maxtor NAS units.
They were Windoze NT based and the software failed repeatedly.
Not sure about reliability of individual hard drive units though.
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It's very compact, and is under 2000. The separate versions are getting
great reviews. I've got a McCormack DNA .5 and Classe 5 that I've been
using for years, and I'm planning on ditching them and getting the bel
canto when it comes out (probably the one with the built-in dac, since
it isn't much
Nope, not Maxtor, but I don't think we have any of those. As I alluded
to in my original post, it's WD. It's surprising to me, because Seagate
and WD seemed to have reversed in the last several years, in terms of
reliability.
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dean blackketter wrote:
> (My money's on Maxtor, that's the brand I've had the worst experience
> with.)
Yeah, me too. I've had loads of them fail.
In fact, that reminds me, I've got an RMA to create ...
R.
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On Jun 11, 2006, at 5:09 PM, ezkcdude wrote:
Just to put my comments in context. I work in a biology research
lab as
a postdoc. We have a 7 TB (not a misprint) server (always online)
in the
lab, and a ton of offline storage, as well. A typical experiment of
mine
(time-lapse digital microsc
jbm0 Wrote:
> Too much of a generalization.
Just to put my comments in context. I work in a biology research lab as
a postdoc. We have a 7 TB (not a misprint) server (always online) in the
lab, and a ton of offline storage, as well. A typical experiment of mine
(time-lapse digital microscopy)
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Jack
You don't say where you are, but if you're in the UK you're welcome to
listen to my SB+ which I'm confident would address your 'complaints'
with the standard SB.
On the ripping, if EAC is ripping in secure mode, and it says it has
ripped with no erors, you shouldn't have to do anything else
Roy2001 Wrote:
>
> 1. Don't run HD for music 24/7. No HD would last forever, if you are
> not listening to music, find out way to turn off HD you are not using.
> In that way, HD's would last almost forever.
Actually quite the opposite. It's powering up and down which puts the
most strain on a d
Hi Azinck
You make your point very elequantly and I agree technically... there
should be no difference in sound, a bit is a bit and if delivered
properly 'should' sound the same regardless of the delivery method. But
it doesn't sound the same. I have QED , Ixos and VDH digital ic's and
they all s
Lyonesse Wrote:
>
> 4. modern interconnects are like the tone controls of yesteryear imo,
> the VDH carbon fibre interconnects will hopefully allow me to keep all
> this wonderful resolution that the SB3 delivers without the ear frying
> sibilence.
>
There's absolutely no technical support for
hi opaqueice :)
Im a musician btw with zero technical knowledge when it comes to bits
and bobs.
Im not knocking the SB3 in any way, I just want to find a way to
integrate it into my system better so as to kick back and chillout with
my new toy ;)
Jack.
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All this deglitch program does is looking for typical forms in the
waveform that may sound like a digital glitch. It can´t tell you it
really is a glitch. Try this deglitch with dynamic synthesizer music.
It will be fooled all the time and will detect many glitches that
really are sharp dynamic so
Lyonesse Wrote:
>
> Im anxious from reading your post JJZolx that im making a pigs ear of
> my CD rips! Do you know of a good EAC setup help file for accurate
> rips? what is your configuration?
>
> Do people here really get no glitches?...
Yes, people here get no glitches. There's a Wiki ent
1... Music coming from my hard drive instead of my cdp has proved to be
a big improvement...when using foobar, with the SB3 this has been
compromised by brightness.
2... But from reading through numerous positive threads here and SB3
reviews in Stereophile amongst others I have to assume that the
About switching to a new digital coax - I'd be very skeptical that that
will make the sound less bright... about all it can do is change the
jitter spectrum, which can have unpredictable effects if any, but it
shouldn't do anything so simple as damp HF.
JJZolx Wrote:
>
> I've never heard of
With hard drives, you only care about noise, heat, and reliability. Only
certain model of certain brand, namely old IBM glass disc drives, has
higher than average failure rate. WD, Maxtor, Hitachi/IBM, and Seagate
all have similar failure rate nowadays. If someone claims some brands
are not good,
I've used a mix of Seagates and Western Digitals over the years, and
none have ever failed. Luck, I guess... the fact is, any manufacturer
can make a bad drive, but most drives made are fine. So this kind of
anecdotal evidence is pretty useless for making an informed decision.
Personally, my s
ezkcdude Wrote:
> I use Seagate. Definitely do not go with Western Digital, if you value
> your music collection.
Too much of a generalization. The Raptor series from WD is both
blazing-fast and quite solidly reliable; but their smallish maximum
size makes them a suboptimal choice for the big-
ezkcdude Wrote:
> I use Seagate. Definitely do not go with Western Digital, if you value
> your music collection.
I generally use Western Digital drives in my computers, and have only
had one fail over the years. I used to have Seagate's fail at work all
the time, but that was primarily due to
Lyonesse Wrote:
> What Im really talking about here is the subjective enjoyment of music,
> a difficult thing to quantify... To sum it up.. I want to listen to 4
> or 5 albums in a row rather than the 1 or 2 at present before the
> dreaded digital wearyness sets in. Music stored on hard disk rath
blah509 Wrote:
> OK then...from a reliablity standpoint. What are the boards picks?
I think it goes in cycles. Anyone remember Seagate's old problems with
sticktion? IBM has been mentioned, they actually made great drives
until the deathstar line.
I'm seeing lots of dead Maxtors these days (I
snarlydwarf Wrote:
> Guess I should explain jitter for grins and cause I'm bored :P
> QUOTE]
>
> Great explanation!
>
> I wish I could go back in time and tell those early audio digital
> designers to check out what the computer industry was doing - a) error
> correcting codes on data streams a
Hi
Thanks for all your thoughts and advice on this issue.
What Im really talking about here is the subjective enjoyment of music,
a difficult thing to quantify... To sum it up.. I want to listen to 4 or
5 albums in a row rather than the 1 or 2 at present before the dreaded
digital wearyness set
I ditto the DVD solution. I have a relatively cheap Toshiba DVD player
that I use for the occasional CD that I "can't wait" to rip in order
to listen to. However, IMHO, the SB beats the pants off any other
"transport."
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A lot of the higher-end units have a CD/Preamp feature. There is a MF
PRE-Cd 24 on Audiogon that looks nice:
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlplay&1155219922 .
I'm assuming you don't already have a DVD player near the stereo setup,
but that might be a cheap transport option. One that mi
nelamvr6 Wrote:
> You should really do some A/B comparisons for yourself. MP3's can sound
> quite good, if you encode them VBR with high quality presets (I use 0,
> but anything 2 or less).
>
> The file size when using VBR vs flac is much (*MUCH*) smaller. You give
> up a little bit in SQ, but
I wonder if maybe Foobar2000 is applying a gain adjustment and the SB3
is not? Both playback systems can apply replaygain, but the gain tags
have to be present in your files.
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You should really do some A/B comparisons for yourself. MP3's can sound
quite good, if you encode them VBR with high quality presets (I use 0,
but anything 2 or less).
The file size when using VBR vs flac is much (*MUCH*) smaller. You give
up a little bit in SQ, but you gain a LOT in storage spa
It seems to me there is one advantage of computer equalization which
hasn't been discussed here, namely that the processing is not done in
real time on an isynchronous audio signal, but instead in faster than
real time on the audio file on the computer.
One advantage of that is that it eliminat
I just paid the $480 , but will probably get a duty bill sometime soon,
the other cost was the courier in the UK £28.30
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Ali-M Wrote:
> Do you know if there's a "hack" to enable FLAC's on iPod?
You can install Rockbox ( http://www.rockbox.org/ ), but then you loose
the nice apple interface.
Lack of flac( and ogg) support and the dependency of iTunes are the
major reasons that I didn't choose an iPod.
Tom
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tomsi42 Wrote:
> Right!
>
>
>
> In that case you need lossless. You should consider a 60GB model
> though. You can't get enough disk space on those players...
Do you know if there's a "hack" to enable FLAC's on iPod?
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Ali-M Wrote:
> And the sound quality is the same right? I mean, like "ezkcdude" said;
> loseless is loseless. Right?
>
Right!
Ali-M Wrote:
>
> I'm very picky when it comes to sound reproduction, and frankly, I
> think my SHURE in-ear-phones deserves better than MP3's, no offence. I
> don't c
tomsi42 Wrote:
> If I remember correctly, ALAC (Apple) compressed a little better that
> FLAC.
>
> Have you thought about players from other producers (iRiver, iAudio,
> etc) ? They have models that support FLAC.
>
> Finally, do you need lossless on your player ? They eat up diskspace
> very qu
Ali-M Wrote:
> Another stupid question:
>
> I'm currently doing a back-up of all my music. As you already have
> guessed I'm using FLAC compression. However, I plan to buy an iPod in
> the near future and it got me thinking: wouldn't it be more convinient
> if I ripped my music to Apple Loseless
Totally off the general line of discussion I know, but just a way off
thought, have you any other digi coax's just to swap over see if that
makes any difference...
I was not impressed when I first pluged in my SB, but I eventually
found that upgrading my IC between pre/power (it was a basic
Another stupid question:
I'm currently doing a back-up of all my music. As you already have
guessed I'm using FLAC compression. However, I plan to buy an iPod in
the near future and it got me thinking: wouldn't it be more convinient
if I ripped my music to Apple Loseless instead of FLAC? That way
I've had a Lacie external for the last 2 years and its been replaced
once and repaired twice and its still playing up. So I'm looking
elsewhere now as I'm a little disappointed to say the least with it's
reliability.
I'm looking at the ReadyNAS NV now which I think uses Seagate hdd's,
which I thi
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