[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Linear psu question (another!)
You would be better off buying one of these from RS: Part no:173-1604 http://tinyurl.com/nr9ul -- Heuer Heuer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2543 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24314 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hope for serious SB tweaks
John Swenson, a well known expert and tweaker just got his SB3 and started to tweak it. He made a power supply and is looking for I2s connection to a DAC and for clock tweak. Maybe his tweaks will be of some interest for the SB audiophile community. http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/12621.html BTW SB is gaining more and more visibility on the audioasylum. Chris -- krzys krzys's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24354 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Linear psu question (another!)
Heuer Wrote: You would be better off buying one of these from RS: Part no:173-1604 I would love to try this PS out. But I am a complete electronics dummy. This box seems to be a DIY type job, how much soldering/adjusting do I have to do? Has anyone tried this box with the SB2/3? -- agentsmith agentsmith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24314 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Linear psu question (another!)
Heuer Wrote: You would be better off buying one of these from RS: Part no:173-1604 http://tinyurl.com/nr9ul So with one of those, do I need anything else? Complete noob at this. Does it need to be put in a seperate case or anything? Cheers... -- davidcotton davidcotton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24314 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Dac for SB3 - Benchmark vs. Lavry vs. ...?
Anything known about this DAC here? -- 325xi 325xi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24200 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Is there a Red Wine Audio/Bolder Equivalent in the UK?
Hi, Just thinking I may start looking down the DAC road, but if the internal DAC can be upgraded and other bits maybe... Any thoughts? PS I'm ok with a blow torch, but have a bit of trouble with a soldering iron. -- Deaf Cat Deaf Cat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=515 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24360 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: A photo of your Squeezebox setup (please)
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19817 Question: Should there be a new forum for photos? - yes - no - maybe Hi All, Took me a while to get a decent photo. I've got various zones running (one upstairs on a 7.2 surround) but this is the one thats closest to pure audiophile. SB3 (no modification) Classe CP2100 (integrated) PMB OB1 +---+ |Filename: Classe_Small2.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1384| +---+ -- ajmitchell ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19817 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Is there a Red Wine Audio/Bolder Equivalent in the UK?
Thank You! -- Deaf Cat Deaf Cat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=515 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24360 ___ 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?
Phil Leigh Wrote: -cut- 3) My wiring is very good so obviously my imagination must also be good. Let's try the converse argument - if you can't hear any improvement, your system (or ear/brain interface) must be defective... 4) Amongst many other things (too boring to discuss again) DB testing doesn't discriminate between better and different. Anyway, beyond entry-level all CDP's, DACs, amps are rather good these days...the two biggest audible impacts will be in changing speakers or applying room correction. Without RC you're not hearing anything like what the artist intended anyway, so no amount of tweaking cables or even major components will help. -cut- ... Of course DB testing discriminates between different! It is a basic scientific procedure to ensure perceptive bias does not enter into a result. better is in the mind of the receiver - but often times that better goes away under DB conditions. Mr. Fredrickj is exactly correct - this is why audiophile reviews will not touch this. They rely on suckers who don't understand what a second year EE student does, namely that anyone who pays big bukcs $$ for power cords or cables is a fool. The circuitry doesn't care how the power is transported anymore than your care engine cares what kind of hose the gasoline came in. The only thing to worry about with cabling are capacitance, resistance and inductance. For longer runs a heavier guage cable is required and shielded cables for noisy environments. Very simple. However, Mr. Leigh is correct in my view on one point: it is indeed about the ear/brain interface. As you all will know, the ears are rather clunky mechanisms that send electrical signals to the brain where they are interpreted and invariably that mechanism falls off in effectiveness as we age. In other words, hearing is in the brain. This is the same brain that decided to purchase $5,000 cables in a fancy presentation box, so if that brain is alredy convinced it will hear a difference it will! That same brain will not be willing to participate in a double blind test of that same cable because it will find that the sound cannot in all probablitiy be distiguished from run-of-the mill zip cord for 19 cents a foot. Believe what you want, hear what you want if it makes you happy. Believe that the world is 6000 years old and that the president is a great man. Whatever floats your boat. Just understand that there are people out there that take advantage of ignorance or delusion in the marketplace and in politics and people get taken for their money every day. BB P.S. The power supply is just fine for the little box fer cryin' out loud. Just as designed. Help me out here Slim Devices! Jeez! -- buddhabreath buddhabreath's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5743 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 feel that SB3 with a linear power supply, played through a full range (30-30k or better) very dynamic speaker/amp combo is hard to beat. You won't hear the benefits of the PS upgrade unless your system is transparent and dynamic enough to allow the greater dynamic range of the upgrade to show through. But this is the audiophile forum, and so some of us do actually have systems sensitive enough to reveal a large improvement by canning the stock wart for a 5V/3A linear PS. If you have a mid-fi rig like a good receiver, the improvement you will hear will be in the smoothness and more natural sound on acoustic instruments. The dynamics and ultra lows will not be evident and so that diminishes the value of the upgrade for some people. It doesn't mean that the upgrade is not improving the quality of the input signal though. SB is vastly better than my $250 Samsung universal player on CDs, but the Samsung does sound pretty darn good on SACDs. I can only imagine what a decent SACD player is like. Rich -- richidoo richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 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] SB/Tact/NuForce
Some guys came over this weekend to listen to a variety of tube amps and cables, typical audiophile waste of time listening to the same song over and over while swapping parts. Yuk! So this time I had a surprise in store for them! Nobody, including me had ever heard a modern design high-end class D or analog switching amplifier, thogh we had debated the merits on several occasions. Time for reality to intrude on speculation. I invited the local NuForce dealer to come over with a pair of brand new (100 hours) Reference 9SE amps and while he was coming, he brought a TacT RCS2.2 room correction preamp. We connected the SB to Tact with digital coax and to the NuForces with anticable single ended interconnects, then to Legacy Focus speakers with Anticable speaker wire. Running the room correction impulses took about 2 minutes and got people talking. Some said my speakers would be damaged by the 1/2 watt gunfire sounds. Some of it was why can't we just listen to music, this is a waste of time, some said, This digital shit is a parlor trick, it is not high end audio. Others were asking questions and intrigued by the GUI on the laptop displaying the frequency response of my speakers in my room, which was very ugly, BTW. The Tact dealer, Hometheaterdoc.com, Shane Sangster was knowledgeable and met each question with confidence while he ran the calibration. At the location of the sampling microphone placed in the listening sweet spot, freqs below 300Hz were up and down by 10dB+! It was like an evil roller coaster. Above 2k was not too bad, a couple of suckouts but most of it at +3 to +6dB. We selected a target frequency response curve to simulate (close to flat), and dragged it around on the screen so that all frequencies would be attenuated instead of boosted. We uploaded the filter to a preset in TacT memory via RS232 cable and then I hit the SB play button. Everyone was listening hard to hear just how fake and unmusical it would sound. The sound that appeared in the room was not coming from the speakers, there was an invisible ghost of the orchestra right in the room. The Nuforces revealed every vibration of the singer's throat, and every individual voice in a choir. Hard to reproduce tones like cello, low brass and accordion sound as beautiful and musical as on my Cary tubes but the resolution, dynamics and the power down low is far superior. Add in the room correction of the Tact preamp and it makes everything ultra clear, ultra detailed, but not harsh - you know, the same old blablabla you have read in a magazine 1000times but somehow never able to actually hear it from any system, ever. I have read about it, but never heard it until Sunday. I could hear details in the lows that were very musical, like the low end of the recording venue's ambiance of bass violins that was too muddied up to hear without the room correction. I just never knew it was there on the CD all along. Some people took a while to come around. Some hard core tubers in denial were switching the Tact remote back and forth from Bypass to Preset 9. Over and over the room sounded like shit and then back to nirvana. Standing anywhere in the room, even 15 feet diagonal behind the sweet spot against a wall with granite counter top and a steel refrigerator the improvement was very noticeable when processing was engaged. One by one over the next hour, everyone commented on how good it sounded. The SB digital coax out was more than up to the task of sourcing this incredible stereo system. Unfortuately, we never did listen to SB analog out to tact preamp. Since it sounds great on my regular system, I assume it would still be great after room corection. While I had previous been leary of having to rip guests CDs before they could listen to music, it turns out they were fascinated by the whole music on the network process, and a few watched me rip tracks with EAC to the network drive. Some even walked upstairs to see the noisy NAS and talk networking, etc. Only one guest of all 8 was vaguely familiar with SB, but had never seen or heard one. He loved the sound, and the interface w/remote. My room is very large, a rectangular odd shape open plan, a dozen tall glass windows, lots of bare sheetrock, tall ceiling, wood floors and some carpet. The tact overcame all of those acoustic challenges and made my listening room sound like the actual recording location, you feel like you are really there. With the custom equalization, the whole freq range is now audible, nothing muffled or hidden in a bad node, it makes the processing sound louder compared to the bypass. It is actually just clearer, and the front of the soundstage (soloists) seems to come forward out of the speakers toward you, while the rear falls farther back. The NuForce delivers the detail and dynamics of a real performance and really brought out the best in my sensitive full range speakers. Everything was just better. It is amazing to think that all this music is actually coming off
