Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Why Reclock If Using Low Jitter DAC
NewBuyer;427826 Wrote: But if your taste is that you think it sounds subjectively better, than obviously you should buy it and enjoy it! I agree with Newbuyer, but I'd point out that an A/B dealer demo is absolutely the worst method of choosing (top-end) gear. You need an extended home demo. Our brains and our senses are tuned to identify tiny differences - that's what kept the species alive to-date. Difference!=better. Difference=different. You can easily detect differences in an A/B of some gear. Only by living with the gear over time can you decide if it really is better to your taste. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63796 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone tried a 96k 24 bit download
I have tried a few 24/96 downloads, including one I paid for from http://www.gimell.com/catalogue.aspx?filter=Studio+Master My best 16/44.1 rips from CD are as good. As noted before, more depends on the quality of the work by musicians and sound engineers than on the potential technical differences between, 24 and 16 bit sources. -- Labarum Brian Squeezebox 3 Classic and Virgin Cable Box Beresford DAC TC-7510 MK6/4 - Quad 405-2 refurbished by 405man Quart 980s Speakers Boom in kitchen. Labarum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19963 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63908 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter for Hi Bit Radio Streams
Among those who claim a Transporter betters an SB3 + External DAC, do any of you judge it makes a better job of Hi Bit Radio Streams? I find myself listening to these more and more. At this present moment AVRO Klassiek Beste NL MP3 256 but here is my list Bartók Rádió (Hungary) http://212.92.28.75:2008/ MP3 at 320kbps AVRO Klassiek Beste NL MP3 256 http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s55517Formats=mp3,wma,realusername=sampletimePartnerId=16 BBC R3 WMA 128 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wm_asx/aod/radio3.asx Venice Classic MP3 128 http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=4975filename=playlist.pls D-dur (Czech Republic) http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/download/ddur_maxogg.m3u OGG at 224kbps Vltava (Czech Republic) http://radio.cesnet.cz/cgi-bin/cro3-256-ogg.pls OGG at 224kbps Devín (Slovakia) http://live.slovakradio.sk:8000/Devin_256.ogg OGG at 256kbps NRK Alltid Klassisk (Norway) http://media.hiof.no/streams/m3u/nrk...sk-172.ogg.m3u OGG at 172kbps Radio 4 (Netherlands) http://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8106/listen.pls MP3 at 192kbps Baroque Ottawa MP3 128 http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s65422Formats=mp3,wma,realusername=sampletimePartnerId=16 Classical Quebec MP3 128 http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s96897Formats=mp3,wma,realusername=sampletimePartnerId=16 Radio Swiss Classic MP3 128 http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s25582Formats=mp3,wma,realusername=sampletimePartnerId=16 -- Labarum Brian Squeezebox 3 Classic and Virgin Cable Box Beresford DAC TC-7510 MK6/4 - Quad 405-2 refurbished by 405man Quart 980s Speakers Boom in kitchen. Labarum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19963 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63923 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] USB to Optical adaptor
Phileas;427947 Wrote: Or a Benchmark DAC1-USB, or a different soundcard, or just not worry about it as the background noise from the PC is probably doing more to 'spoil' the sound. I don't see how background noice in a PC is going to affect an external sound card, especially when we are talking about the digita output of said soundcard. -- funkstar my collection: *1*x boom *2*x controller, *1*x receiver *2*x sb3 (sliver/black, *1*x sb2 wired (silver), *1*x sb (black) *1*x slimp3 (with rear shield) interested in any others if you have them! funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63913 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone tried a 96k 24 bit download
DanH;427817 Wrote: You can get them from HDtracks and Linn records. That is the main reason I would buy a transporter. Crutchfield has a deal right now for 1800 you get a transporter and a squeezebox controller. It is very tempting. I just wish I knew if you can hear a difference in higher sample rate audio. I have tried some of the special event recordings from Blue Coast Records - they sound excellent to me. http://bluecoastrecords.com/ -- Mike69 Mike69's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7507 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63908 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] USB to Optical adaptor
funkstar;427959 Wrote: I don't see how background noice in a PC is going to affect an external sound card, especially when we are talking about the digita output of said soundcard. I mean the ambient sound of the fans etc. masking low level sounds from speakers/headphones. -- Phileas Phileas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20367 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63913 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone tried a 96k 24 bit download
Do you want to hear some Hi-res magic? Try http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html Download the DXD 24BIT/352.8kHz versions, as well as the 24BIT/96kHz Flac files. You can play the DXD tracks with Windows Media Player 12 (comes with Windows 7 RC). Gorgeous stuff, and a good introduction to 2L. -- kesey kesey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63908 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone tried a 96k 24 bit download
kesey;427982 Wrote: Download the DXD 24BIT/352.8kHz versions, as well as the 24BIT/96kHz Flac files. You can play the DXD tracks with Windows Media Player 12 (comes with Windows 7 RC). Gorgeous stuff, and a good introduction to 2L. I know some of those tracks in 24/96, and I'm sure also these are good. But the sampling rate of the DXD tracks is just ridiculous. There is no reason to sample at 352. Almost all the arguments for using, say, 24/96 over 16/44 are no longer valid in the case of 24/352 over 24/96. Moreover Lavry's paper on digital sampling makes it clear that its not technically possible to utilise all bits and samples in 24/352. Sample at 352 and loose bit-precision. -- bhaagensen bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63908 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone tried a 96k 24 bit download
bhaagensen;428020 Wrote: I know some of those tracks in 24/96, and I'm sure also these are good. But the sampling rate of the DXD tracks is just ridiculous. There is no reason to sample at 352. Almost all the arguments for using, say, 24/96 over 16/44 are no longer valid in the case of 24/352 over 24/96. Moreover Lavry's paper on digital sampling makes it clear that its not technically possible to utilise all bits and samples in 24/352. Sample at 352 and loose bit-precision. No doubt you are perfectly correct, but the music still sounds lovely - and it was free. It is there to be downloaded and tried if you wish. If you don't, then there's no cause for a coronary, or a world wide ban. 2L has some excellent stuff. I tend to take the view that if they wish to make it available, good for them. I enjoyed the tracks; admittedly not over my sound system: just over my computer speakers. To tell you the truth, I've also often enjoyed music played over my kitchen radio, ridiculous though that might be also. I'll get over it. The 24/96 tracks I played via my Squeezebox 3 through my Nautilus 802s. Strangely I enjoyed them also, even though the music is downsampled by Squeezecenter/Sox. -- kesey kesey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63908 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone tried a 96k 24 bit download
bhaagensen;428020 Wrote: But the sampling rate of the DXD tracks is just ridiculous. There is no reason to sample at 352. Almost all the arguments for using, say, 24/96 over 16/44 are no longer valid in the case of 24/352 over 24/96. Moreover Lavry's paper on digital sampling makes it clear that its not technically possible to utilise all bits and samples in 24/352. Sample at 352 and loose bit-precision. Sorry, but can you provide a link to the Lavry paper? I can't imagine why it's not technically possible to utilize all the data. It may not be worthwhile, or economically challenging, but I'm not aware of any reason why it's not technically possible FWIW, I agree that the sampling rates of the DXD tracks are insane, but if the hardware is available, why not use it in the recording/mastering phases of production? The only downside of the higher precession is higher cost Cheers, Dave -- DCtoDaylight Audiophile wish list: 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=63908 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone tried a 96k 24 bit download
Try http://www.itrax.com/ They have some good recordings from AIX , he has basically recycled the recordings made for DVD-A as Hirez downloads. http://www.aix.com -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63908 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
