[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking for advice on sound quality
The ones that you rip in non-secure mode will potentially not sound as good as the ones that you do in secure mode. In secure mode, they are guaranteed to be an exact copy of your cd. It depends on whether you actually sit in front of your pc whilst it's ripping. I did my 300 odd albums in secure mode over a month or so. I'd put a new cd in whenever I noticed that the old one had finished, then would go off and do whatever else needed doing around the house. The difference between 3 minutes and 7 was therefore fairly irrelevant. The nice thing about the combination of secure mode and flac is that you know you will never have to rerip. With anything else, you're not quite so future proof. Max Mike Anderson Wrote: OK, well I set up EAC/FLAC on my PC according to all the instructions, and it seems to be running OK. However, it's still taking somewhere between 5-10 minutes to rip most of my CDs. I've got hundreds of CDs, so it's a major undertaking. Question: What am I losing by not running EAC in secure mode? Doing so substantially cuts down on the ripping time. So how much difference does it really make? Can I use secure mode on those CDs I really care about (about 20% of them) and unsecure mode on the rest of them, or would that present problems? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking for advice on sound quality
max.spicer Wrote: The ones that you rip in non-secure mode will potentially not sound as good as the ones that you do in secure mode. I guess my question is, how potential is potentially, and how bad is not as good? I should add that I'm using a Plextor 740A to do the ripping, and I don't seem to encounter many errors. I frequently work on my computer too, but for whatever reason, it's a pain to do with EAC running. For one thing, the EAC window always wants to be on top. -- Mike Anderson ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Amp? solution for my squeezebox2
Thiis is a pretty cool low wattage valve amp - it sounds pretty good too as far as I can tell. http://www.impamp.com/ I'm a sucker for the glow :-) -- CardinalFang ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Looking for advice on sound quality
The problem I've found, is that whilst CDPs use 'concealment' to conceal any errors they detect but cannot correct, ripping s/w doesn't. So any ripping errors you do get, tend to be very annoying on playback; pops, clicks - that kind of stuff, whereas a good CDP will still sound like music. A lot depends on the care you have taken with your CD collection (looked-after CDs tend to have fewer errors IME), and how much you value you peace-of-mind. I'd hate to sit down to listen to something only to find it had ripping errors and I needed to dig the CD out and rip it again, so I'd rather just spend the time doing it 'right' in the first place. YMMV -- Patrick Dixon www.at-view.co.uk ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: optimal sound level squeezebox2?
Mike Anderson Wrote: I can get the sine wave tone, but how do I adjust the volume on it? Player settings - Audio - Preamp Volume Control After entering the setting you need to hit volume up on the remote for it to take effect. The main volume control is not applied to the sine wave test, only this preamp control. Note that you can still play music in this mode - it just plays the sine wave (instead of nothing) when there is no music playing. -- seanadams ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: optimal sound level squeezebox2?
For those of you interested I did some quick tests that show the new volume control mapping. Please excuse the primitive Excel graphs. :) http://home.comcast.net/~dreite/SB2/SB2outputlevels.xls For those that use the analog outputs and the volume control as their primary I think this is a nice improvement in useability. Cheers, Davey. -- Davey ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: optimal sound level squeezebox2?
Yeah, sorry. I'm such a wizard with Excel graphs. :) Take a look at it again. The 0-40 settings refer to the volume setting on the graphical display on the player. I didn't make any change to the preamp volume control settingit's at the default setting of zero. Cheers, Davey. -- Davey ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
