Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Vibration Control on SB or power supply
NewBuyer, i believe in this product and yes, it works as an isolation between my Transporter and glass shelves of my support table quite well. 520 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow 0141-221 0221 72 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh 0131-555 3963 [EMAIL PROTECTED] give Iain a call and find out more. dennis -- dennis55 dennis55's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8884 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47786 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Vibration Control on SB or power supply
I've found Stillpoints to be effective with a wide variety of kit. My SB+ is a two box version of the SB3, with the PSU in one box, the other components in the other. My testing showed there to be no significant benefit from using Stillpoints under the PSU. Having said that, it was definitely worth the effort putting them under the control box. -- Mr_Sukebe SB+, Bel Canto Evo2i, Impulse Ta'us, Coherent system cables, Stillpoints Mr_Sukebe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47786 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Vibration Control on SB or power supply
dennis55;303102 Wrote: Black Ravioli.that's what it looks like!. it was developed by an acoustician for sound control in underwater situations i.e.submarines. I wonder how close it is to the stuff they use in subs. The Navies of the world are very serious about keeping subs quiet, but most consider it national security technology. Which means you can't export it. Of course, you could make a 'civilian' version that is not quiet as quite, and could cost less. Even audiophiles can't spend money like a Navy can. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47786 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Doh! Now we need 24-bit/176.4kHz on the Transporter!
amcluesent;254838 Wrote: http://www.stereophile.com/news/010508ref/ Reference Recordings, the Bay Area-based audiophile label, is releasing DVD-R with music content as .WAV files for music server playback. The HRx format is a digit-for-digit copy of an original Reference Recordings 24-bit/176.4kHz digital master. RR has done some nice recordings. (The ones with Eiji Oue are musically dull, though technically spectacular.) SO HOW DO WE PUSH the HRx music into the Transporter. Will there be an upgrade? -- dantheman dantheman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12969 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41824 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Doh! Now we need 24-bit/176.4kHz on the Transporter!
Eric Seaberg;255374 Wrote: Can I ask a question here... why do you want 176.4kHz playback? You are QUADRUPLING your storage requirements (more than that being 24-bit), not to mention DSP time to handle SRC down to 44.1kHz. Are your speakers capable of 88kHz HF playback to make everything else worth it? Can you hear 44kHz playback from an 88kHz source file? I've been in the recording business for over 36 years and have been through all of the stories with the old 'classic' recording consoles where engineers claimed they could hear the 'air' above 25kHz, and maybe you can... but that's a lot of data pushing through your DSP. If the new 'standard' would shift to 24-bit from 16-bit you'd hear a LOT more of an advantage for the extra data throughput. I got one of RRs new discs as a gift and would like to figure a way to get it into my Transporter. -- dantheman dantheman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12969 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41824 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC on a Mac with iTunes - CAN DO!
It's been a while since I lasted posted or even had time to read this, my favorite Community Forum. But I found something that may be of interest to the Mac users out there. If you're like me you've been waiting for Apple to include FLAC capabilites in iTunes ( QuickTime). Apple has eschewed FLAC for it's propriatory ALAC and 10.4 didn't add FLAC, nor did 10.5. I just discovered TwistedFLAC. TwistedFLAC and it's subordinate helper program, MacFUSE, allow FLAC files to be read as WAV files. When you install MacFUSE, MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X (10.4 and above). yadda yadda... it allows you to create a virtual disk. When I say you in this instance I mean Twisted. Twisted uses this virtual disk as a virtual repository for alias files - your FLACs now as WAVs - without taking any real disk space. I just started working with setting this up and I wanted to offer up the idea as well as get your Mac insight. Here's what I did: 1) install both programs 2) point TwistedFLAC to my FLAC folder (the highest level folder, not each subfolder). 3) Pointed iTunes to the virtual disk image Twised made on my desktop and turned off Keep iTune Music folder organized and Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library. 4) Dragged the disk image to iTunes. 20 minutes later iTunes had added all of my FLACs to itself without taking any more disk space. AND it plays all of my music as if they are WAV files. Have You Cake and Eat it to! The only problem I am having, and I'm sure it is because of step 3 somehow, is that I have duplicates of nearly every song in iTunes. But again, it didn't actually copy anything so no hard drive space was used. I like it. It was easy, free, and I didn't have to convert or duplicate any files. Now, why couldn't Apple have done that for us? -- kphinney SB3 Rotel RCD-1070 CIAudio DVA-2 w/ VAC-1 PS JoLida 102B Omega Grand 6's PowerMac Zhaolu D2.5 with headphone amp mod. AKG K501 kphinney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10409 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47878 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC on a Mac with iTunes - CAN DO!
The developer site keeps stalling out. I found a mirror here: http://mac.majorgeeks.com/download6552.html -- kphinney SB3 Rotel RCD-1070 CIAudio DVA-2 w/ VAC-1 PS JoLida 102B Omega Grand 6's PowerMac Zhaolu D2.5 with headphone amp mod. AKG K501 kphinney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10409 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47878 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Doh! Now we need 24-bit/176.4kHz on the Transporter!
dantheman;303537 Wrote: SO HOW DO WE PUSH the HRx music into the Transporter. Will there be an upgrade? Of course Sean is the right guy to answer this question, but I rather suspect that the answer will be no. If the Transporters hardware was able to handle 192K sampling rates, then I'm sure it would have been advertised as such. The fact is, it handles 96K, and with the new firmware releases, will handle 88.2K, so you'll have to down sample your HRx music to that rate. -- DCtoDaylight Zero Distortion, Infinite Signal to Noise Ratio, and a Bandwidth from DC to Daylight DCtoDaylight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41824 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] FLAC on a Mac with iTunes - CAN DO!
That's very interesting. I will give it a shot later in the week when I have time. There are two other options available. 1) mp3fs: Works similarly to the way your method does i.e. creates a virtual filesystem based on MacFUSE. But instead of WAVs, the files are converted to mp3s at a bit rate that you decide. It is useful if you want to sync parts of your flac collection with a portable audio player. The mac patch for mp3fs can be found here http://www.uwe-arzt.de/patchmp3fs . The original mp3fs page is http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/ , and of course MacFUSE is a google project http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ . As a side note, MacFUSE also serves as the base for NTFS-3G which lets you finally Read Write windows partitions on a mac http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html 2) Firefly media server: This is a DAAP server http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/ which can be built to transcode from FLAC to WAV in realtime while presenting metadata in the iTunes interface. Build instructions for transcoding on a mac are in this thread http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?t=7353start=0postdays=0postorder=aschighlight= . Your entire FLAC collection will show up as a shared drive. I've used this for a few months now - works great, but you can't burn with iTunes (which is not a big deal). -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47878 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
