Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter to pre- or poweramp
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64028 Question: To what is your Transporter connected - Preamp - Poweramp Pulled the pre-amp out and max volume is fine through the P1's. I will be testing some ATC SCM50A's in the near future but I am not sure it is worth the cost to upgrade. Currenty the configuration is outstanding in accuracy to the point that recordings I use to listen to sound a bit dirty compared to better recordings. (just plain bad engineering in the studio). My impression so far is that the TP is everything I had hoped for and more. 24/96 recordings through the TP are a great improvement over my single disc transport at 16/44. The next item to address is getting the 12v trigger to work for the amps. I am looking at just taking the fast way out and going with the Niles MSU250. This would let me use the IR off the TP to the Niles and then connect to the 12V trigger. Does anyone have a preference for controlling the TP? I use my iphone when at home but my spouse wants to be able to see all the music and make playlist etc without having to go to the server. I was thinking of using RDP from a small laptop (with SSD drive and no fan) in the listening room. I have not looked at softsqueeze so I am open to ideas for an easy user interface with full function and a readable size. Thanks -- Ozz 2 Channel listening Room: Transporter, Arcam C31 and Arcam P1 Mono Blocks feeding ATC SCM19s Cable and interconnects are both Kimber. HP media server with 4TB of storage connected to the whole house GB network. (in media closet) Media Room:Sony 70 SXRD, 4 NHT VT-2 Biamped (running all 4 subs) 4 NHT VS-2. Outlaw 990 6 Yamaha MX-2000 amps 4 NHT SA-2 amps (Sub amps) PS3 with 500GB onboard and 4TB external storage. Master BR: Sony 56 XBR4 and Yamaha YSP-4000 sound bar fed from media closet. Ozz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31687 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64028 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC?
Give a Beresford 7520 a try. They have a 30 day trial period right now, so you don't have any risks. The little guy is only $249 shipped and I prefer it to many pricier DACs out there (including a Benchmark, of all things). If it does not make a difference in your system, simply send it back. At that point you would know that a different DAC is probably not the way to go and you can focus on a more resolving pair of speakers instead. -- deutscherhififan Primary: QNAP TS109II BPT CPC Modwright Platinum Signature 'Truth' Transporter with 6N30P DR 'Super Tubes' + EML 5U4G Mesh or Oppo BDP-83 Maxxed Woo Audio WA2 with TungSol 5998's, Amperez Bugleboy 6DJ7's, and Mullard EZ80's Audio Mirror 45W SET Monoblocks Piega P4XL II + Piega PSub4. AKG K701 Headphones, all Kimber cables Secondary: Monster Signature Power Conditioner Duet Beresford 7520 DAC Vista Audio i34 Integrated Tube Amp Epos M5 Speakers + sub deutscherhififan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23272 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65771 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter 3 word clock
wayne325;420007 Wrote: I'm not doing parallel DACs in my current design, although I am using the same DAC chips and fully balanced (2 chips per channel). I want to become successful with my first foray into this before I get really tricky and start laying down FPGAs and have to learn how to do digital filtering and cubic splines and such. Listened to the DAC today for the first time - running off my CD player. Now I better get going on the power supplies. And I guess I'd better buy a Tranporter now to test and listen to ! THe DAC is a home-grown one... I use a CPLD for input switching, clock switching, decoding the C-channel data and the like. Use a DIR9001 receiver, SRC4192, and dual PCM1704/K DAC chips per channel - I run full balanced. The analog portion is all discrete. Planes are split - 2 analog and 1 digital. And there are a dozen or maybe 15 regulators. I can't count them all !!! Here are my quick notes - it's my new DAC compared to a decade-old Classe CDP.3 CD player that also was the S/PDIF source for the DAC: --- First listen 7/22/09 ! The first impression is quite good. Its smooth, sounds a bit rolled off in the highs although the highs are definitely there and sound clearer and crisp but quieter. Its difficult to do critical listening with the fans of the power supplies going. Also AC units and TV in the other room. Output voltage is down maybe 2 or 3 dB compared to the Classe CDP.3 Ive had for many years. Maybe I can adjust it a bit higher. Compared to the Classe, it sounds more rounded, smooth, mellow. Also very detailed hear sounds Ive never heard before, and some sounds Im very familiar with sound quite a bit more clear less . Muddy perhaps. The thing is dead quiet, at full volume there is absolutely no sound coming from it whatsoever and its not even in a case and has wires hanging all over the place. The Classe sounds more etched, strident, or grainy in comparison and is definitely more noisy like hissing sound and ghosts of the music ie noise that is correlated to the signal and the DAC has none of that. Im really surprised at how different this DAC sounds from the Classe CD player. Also must keep in mind this thing is nearly new. It ran in for 6 or 8 hours on the bench today and I didnt give it any warm-up time at all before I started listening just powered it up and started to listen. -- wayne325 wayne325's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29916 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62747 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] LP-Digital Conversion?
So, what's the state of the art today? I'm sure there are some folks here who rip LP's. I'm thinking about dipping my toe in the water, since some of my music interests seem to be increasingly only on LP. I'd prefer to do 24/96. What turntables are good? Are any of the USB turntables decent? I have an iMac. Anyone here have suggestions for that, too? What software do you use? Basically, I am soliciting pretty much any feedback, as I really don't have much of a clue. As some of you may know, I have been primarily a digital-analog guy, not the reverse. -- ezkcdude There are 10 kind of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't. SHINYMETAL '*Site*' (http://www.ezdiyaudio.com)| '*RSS*' (http://www2.kumc.edu/students/ezamir/rss/ezdiyaudio.xml) |'*Forum*' (http://ezdiyaudio.informe.com) ezkcdude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65876 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
