ks. The router is almost
certainly not the cause of your crackling. My suggestion is to
experiment with different settings for the software buffers via TT.
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> Good luck explaining that in Cork.
...not to mention Delhi, Sydney, Lagos, etc etc. The sun never sets on
"colour with a u".
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sounds like it would be much better to do it as an ABX test, which
would provide more conclusive results than Tom saying "I hear these
differences". I understand that Tom won&#x
e to put up with a computer in your listening room. Sometimes
that's not a problem, sometimes it is.
Finally, if sound quality matters to you, the soundcards of most
netbooks are vastly inferior to the audio components of a SB, so your
sound quality wo
ueezebox-touch-toolbox-20.html),
specifically:
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Open the setting menu on the Touch:
1. Audio settings
Crossfade: none
Volumeadjustment: No volume adjustment
SoundEffects: None
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x27;ll carry on listening to flacs.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that!
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ot of people find it helpful in sub-optimal listening
rooms. And sub-optimal listening rooms are often critical for
maintaining domestic harmony :-)
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standard 100Mbps equipment. The real question,
of course, is whether michael123 is really getting 60MBps, or only
60Mpbs. Huge difference.
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darrenyeats;629849 Wrote:
> Spotify is available for Squeezebox now.
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bitrate, but it's not available in the US yet. Rhapsody does
192kbps. There are various internet radio stations that do 192kbps or
better, including Radio Paradise.
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case, losing bits because of attenuated gain would be the least of your
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magiccarpetride;625617 Wrote:
> OK, let me ask you this: are you, or have you ever been able, to hear
> ANY differences in the sound quality when comparing two systems?
Most definitely. Again: what's your point?
ound
before and after soundcheck's mods. I _can_ say with certainty that I
did not hear the '\"staggering improvements in the sound quality\"'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=602233#post602233) that
you and others report hearing (and yo
27;t do extensive comparisons, but I'm not
even sure I heard 'something'. So far the best I can give the mods is a
'maybe' for audible improvement under my current conditions (system,
room, ears, etc).
The one definite plus is that it finally p
snottmonster;625526 Wrote:
> So in all seriousness, please point me to any such measurements - I'd be
> very interested to see them and the conclusions drawn.
Start around post #329 in this thread. Note that those are Phil's
measurements on the analog outpu
ducing an "unassailable proof". According to the
myth, aerodynamics engineers could "prove" that bumblebees couldn't fly
because they applied the wrong principles, because they didn't know any
better. Now such proo
like the internet radio better.
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No, not at all. They are three different things. Power off puts the
system in standby. Factory reset restores all user-controlled settings
to the factory defaults. Xilinx reset re-initializes the processor.
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That setting supposedly
synchronizes alarms and other settings between mysb and local SBS,
although in my experience it just messes them up! That setting has
absolutely nothing to do with sync'ing of streams to players.
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were listening to that or standard redbook 16/44.1
then downsampling wouldn't be an issue and wouldn't explain the
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adamdea;621719 Wrote:
> Having analysed out your system quite carefully, I reckon your problem
> is that you don't have any speakers.
Some audiophiles end up overdoing the "transparency" and "blacker
blacks&q
rsion involves a lot of compromises, so those floorstanders
likely wouldn't achieve their true potential anyway.
Paradigm makes some good in-wall speakers, as do Tannoy and many
others. But without a price range it's hard to say a lot mor
I don't have a Transporter to test, but I'm pretty sure that anything
that works with cat5 or cat5e should work with cat6.
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it is exposed as a placebo. At least that's
the case in medical settings -- the literature on audio placebos isn't
as vast as the medical literature. (Many would say it's only
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Fwiw, I am also usually interested in how a meal is prepared.
Especially if it's from friends or family and especially if I like it.
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soundcheck;610140 Wrote:
> Even by leaving out Jive2/Buffer and server based flac decoding on the
> SW side,
Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks to me like FLAC _was_ decoded
on the server:
-3) track was streamed to Touch as PCM from sbs 7.6 on XP sp3. via
Ethernet.-
ey are correlated somehow it wouldn't make a
huge difference in the incremental effects.
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est 5. I'm just asking if maybe the effect for each
incremental step may depend on what steps preceded it. (I'm not an EE,
but that would be a natural question in statistics.)
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Personal attacks or a "hijacking". Seems that the author has one of the
other definitions of "support" in mind for this "support thread".
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I have no idea how much shipping would be to the other side of the pond,
but Seattle-based Blue Jeans Cable (www.bluejeanscable.com) do a great
job of high-quality and relatively inexpensive cables, with no snake
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error checking. It's not exactly rocket science.
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The TP SE (no knob) is available at Logitech's US site. Other than that
I can't think of a place better than the three you mentioned.
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appears that the same variable calculations are done with or without
the mod. The only difference is that with the mod, after doing the
calculations, whatever is calculated for the variable is replaced by
the constant 2^16.
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I'm probably not understanding something here, but if you want to avoid
the wireless on the SB Receiver why not just configure it to use the
ethernet port instead?
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2 (A2, see
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upgrade path to a surround system, but it may be the best fidelity
you'll find for your budget.
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ut the Mac Mini to sleep and
switch the TP to mysb.com. Or you can have that happen automatically
after the TP has been idle for a user-specified period of time.
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Mnyb;600649 Wrote:
> On this forum ?
LOL. Sorry, I forgot.
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Mnyb;600475 Wrote:
> If we want to speculate and be positive, TP SE could be a stopgap
> solution before a delayed TP2 ;)
Careful. Somewhere there is a line dividing speculation and delusions
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o raise your price
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oy the paintings
as much, even though the paintings are still the same objects in the
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magiccarpetride;582373 Wrote:
> Listening to music is like making love. You have to be in the mood.
> Otherwise you leave disappointed.
...though the ABX tests for lovemaking can get a lot more complicated,
especially double-blind
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difference compared to component Y, and then be unable to distinguish
the two objectively in a blind ABX test. If a listener cannot
objectively tell the difference, but is happier knowing that component
X is in his rack instead of component Y, that is something different.
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it, but I don't see how it would improve the quality of the lossy
stream being sent by Pandora, because it would only be making up any
"information" it would be adding to the audio stream.
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Lefatshe;581241 Wrote:
> This whole thread and no one mentioned looking on Audiogon.com for a
> used Transporter?
I'm a step ahead of you Chumza. See 'post #2'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=579793#post
The SB Touch is very good, or you could look for a Transporter on
www.audiogon.com. There's a second-hand one available there now, with
an asking price of US$1200:
http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlconv&1290465670&/Slim-Devices-Transporter--exce
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Search these forums a little and you'll see that this has been analyzed
more carefully by others and discussed at great length, and the
consensus seems to be yes. Based on my own side-by-side non-blind
testing I think so, too.
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2008. It wouldn't surprise me at
all if in a few years time the pricier earphones disappear from the
line, with Logitech choosing to focus on the mass market sub-$300
models, or even sub-$150 models.
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e Logitech web, that
doesn't necessarily mean anything, because their web site is a
disaster. Or at least the SB part of their web site is.
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ir of ESS Tempest LS8 with Heil AMT from my
college days -- still sound great after all these years.
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t all like the old b/g
mixed network problems. See, for example, this thread:
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I've seen good reviews of the Trends Audio T-10 amp
(http://www.trendsaudio.com/index.php), but I've never heard one. The
Parasound Zamp v3 may also fit the bill, although it's more of an
in-rack design than a bookshelf desig
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the 0s and 1s is by an error-correcting protocol like TCP/IP. I am not
denying that you're hearing differences. But the source of the
difference is not which machine you are using for the server. Let's see
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servers (and server software), just sending 0s and 1s to your router,
with the network protocol (TCP/IP) guaranteeing that what gets sent is
what gets received, and then passed on to your Tra
replay gain (under
Player > Audio > Volumne Adjustment), and the actual player volume that
is set in SBS. I know it seems obvious, but explaining the measured
volume difference isn't easy -- unless it's _very_ easy because of one
of t
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consider that route, even though it will require converting
those WMA Lossless albums to FLAC.
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h the vortexbox software AND SBS preinstalled.
...and to clarify a little further, there are *two* different vortexbox
appliances. The original is based on MSI hardware, and the newer micro
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arent, and a supercomputer won't "lift a veil".
Most of the NAS discussion is over in the 3rd Party Hardware forum,
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ed. I have a hard
enough time choosing what subset of my MP3 library I want to put on my
portable players. Deciding in advance which ones I wanted to convert to
MP3 would only add another step to process -- disk space and CPU cycles
ote:
> unless someone can point me to an automated method for transcoding,
> adding to, and organizing a separate library I think it's more of a
> hassle than it's worth.
Meanwhile, the OP has gotten plenty of responses
easier to use a FLAC native device.
Set up flac2mp3.pl to run periodically via cron or whatever the
Scheduler-du-jour is in Windows.
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less space than having that FLAC library
*plus* a MP3 copy of the library. You two are in vehement agreement on
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a chance of hearing the difference definitely get some good
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AlAz;498059 Wrote:
> Anyway, I heard once the effect of a demagnitizer for discs. The effect
> was real - small, but real.
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it today by sending it out before the software is ready. You need more
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.0Vpp. And so far I'm not curious enough to go buy a SPL meter to
equalize the volume levels. After getting the volume level squared away
I can deal with (a) and (b). (Interestingly, my wife was listening and
liked the SB3's sound better, and
pfarrell;484570 Wrote:
> We know he likes cars. Long ago there was a photo posted of a nice big
> expensive German car, triple parked in a no parking zone. I forget if it
> was a BMW or MB. Ferraris are nice, as are Maserattis.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15540
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What's your budget? I don't know those speakers, but you probably
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pablolie;443134 Wrote:
> However, it seems "smartgain" in the squeezeboxes can not dynamically
> correct/address very significant differences between tracks
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I've never tried using it on existing FLAC files. But I don't think
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timequest;425441 Wrote:
> I just read about Wi-Fi being limited to 16/44.1.
Where did you read this?
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2 Signature are top
candidates and I will definitely give them a serious listen. Thanks to
you and others for the other suggestions -- it really helps to narrow
down a couple things before walking into the store.
Any par
0 -- I don't feel obliged to spend that much,
but I could exceed it by a little and be okay. I'm fine with going on
the second-hand market such as Audiogon. And I should say that I'd be
open to active monitors or amp+passive speakers.
Thanks i
er converting my few dozen iTunes lossy tracks to
FLAC is that I find the FLAC/Ogg tagging much more straightforward than
ID3 tags. It seems that whenever I have a tagging/slimserver problem
it's with the 3% of my
. One supposed blind test
with N=5 is it. Why not *do* some of the tests that have been
suggested, such as recording and comparing the digital output, post the
data here, and then we can discuss the issue. If you can't back up your
claims with real data
hearing the results of your *blind A/B* tests.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think the same applies to the Bose Acoustimass
speaker line as well.
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lar networked remote. My guess is you'll be much happier with
another SB, simply from a convenience standpoint. And the bonus is that
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a script for testing flac vs.
wav, but a subsequent post has an amended script for creating the files
to test lossless (I think it might be wav) vs. MP3. See:
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converting the
MP3s to FLAC, just to simplify management, although I haven't done it
yet. Of course, years from now I'll probably forget that the original
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usual options (browse artists or browse albums, etc.).
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wiki indicates that's do-able.
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and apparently not as well-publicized
as it might be, but it is already out there:
http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_ripping.html
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a piece
of that action. Yes, it's still much cheaper to make an alternative from
scratch, but I don't think they were aiming for the 'enthusiast' market
that hangs out in the forums.
And the real beauty is that each company is continuing to do what
believe that FLAC
> produces the same audio signal as WAV, and for me the bandwidth issue
> (I'm running wireless) makes it a no-brainer.
The validity of the zip analogy is that both zip and flac are lossless.
So there won't be any pixels, decimal points, or anythin
ezkcdude Wrote:
> In fact, I'm not really sure what Apple is thinking with this.
Certainly not "thinking different". Looks like the same theme followed
by a number of other vendors' offerings for amp+speakers for the iPod
(Kloss, Bose, JBL, you
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